Yesterday, I shared the first music video for Madness’s first single, The Prince, which was just the band performing the song on Top of the Pops in 1979. That video didn’t have Madness’s signature nuttiness so, over 40 years later, the band released a new, official video for the song.
This video is made up for footage that was taken from 1981 Madness film, Take It or Leave It and it features the band in the studio, on stage, and generally having a good time. The film was directed by Dave Robinson, who was the president of Stiff Records and who directed all of Madness’s early music videos.
Our first music video of the day for 2024 is also the first video to be released for Madness’s first single, The Prince. This song was a tribute to Jamaican ska performer Prince Buster and it was a big enough hit that it led to Madness signing with Stiff Records and releasing a cover of Prince Buster as their second single, One Step Beyond.
(The band’s name was even taken from a Prince Buster song.)
Though the band did not have the resources to shoot an official video for the song, they did perform the song on Top of the Pops and they thought enough of how it was filmed that they subsequently purchased the rights to the performance. The performance was often used as a promo for the band, making it technically Madness’s first music video.
I once had a friend who owned a guitar and this was the only song that he ever sang. That got old pretty quickly but this is still a very effective, well-directed, and well-acted video.
Today, we wish a happy birthday to singer, songwriter, and actress, Yvonne Elliman!
Along with playing Mary Magdalene in both the original stage and film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, Yvonne Elliman also performed the best version of my favorite song (and today’s song of the day), If I Can’t Have You!
This is one of the few songs that I can actually sing all the way through without losing the tune but Yvonne’s version is definitely superior to mine.
I don’t know why I’m surviving every lonely day When there’s got to be no chance for me My life would end, and it doesn’t matter how I cry My tears of love are a waste of time
If I turn away, am I strong enough to see it through? Go crazy is what I will do
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah
Can’t let go, and it doesn’t matter how I try I gave it all so easily to you, my love To dreams that never will come true Am I strong enough to see it through? Go crazy is what I will do
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah (I’m in love with nobody)
If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, oh If I can’t have you, I don’t want nobody, baby If I can’t have you, ah-ah-ah, no
(Lyrics by Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb / Barry Alan Gibb)
Today’s music video of the day is here to help you to get in the mood to party on New Year’s Eve. If you don’t have plans to visit a castle and dance with Austin Powers and Taye Diggs, why don’t you?
Enjoy and here’s hoping for happiness (for Britney and all of us) in 2024!
Today’s music video has a dream-like and somewhat ominous atmosphere to it. Watching this video, you get the feeling that you’re watching a world that’s on the verge of ending.
Let’s start the final week of 2023 with Jennifer Lopez playing seven different characters in the video for Get Right. This video was directed by Francis Lawrence, who famously worked with another Jennifer when he took over directing duties on The Hunger Games franchise.
