Music Video of the Day: Everything In My Heart by Corey Hart (1985, directed by Rob Quartly)


Yes, this song is from the man who gave us Sunglasses at Night.  Though Everything In My Heart may not be as well-known (or, at the vey least, it has yet to be included on a Grand Theft Auto soundtrack), the song was still a hit in Corey Hart’s native Canada.  It spent a week in the number one spot.

This video was directed by Rob Quartly, who did several videos for a number of acts.  (He also did the video for Sunglasses at Night.)  The performance clips were filmed over two nights at the Orpheum Theater in Boston.  The first night’s clip are in black-an-white while the second night’s clips are in color.  As for the outdoor scenes, they were filmed in the Boston Common.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Bang (Starting Over) by Corey Hart (1990, directed by Meiert Avis)


Corey Hart is best known for defining the 80s with Sunglasses At Night but, as the saying goes, he did have other songs.

Bang (Starting Over) is the title track from Hart’s fifth album, Bang.  Unfortunately, Bang only produced one moderate hit and it wasn’t this song.  I say unfortunately because Bang (Starting Over) is actually a pretty good song and it just had the misfortune to be released at a time when musical tastes were changing.  Both the song and Hart are better appreciated now than they were in 1990.

This video was directed by Meier Avis, who has directed videos for just about everyone.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Sunglasses at Night by Corey Hart (1984, directed by Rob Quartly)


That synthesizer.

Those lyrics.

And all the sunglasses.

No song epitomizes the 80s quite as much as Corey Hart’s Sunglasses at Night.  Though the song popularized the idea of wearing your sunglasses at night, the video actually portrays sunglasses as being the tools of an authoritarian state.  Hart is thrown in prison because he doesn’t wear his sunglasses at night.  Fortunately, Hart is released by a sympathetic female police officer.  The officer is played by future VJ Laurie Brown and the video was shot at the Don Jon Jail in Toronto, Canada.

This is a song that continues to live on because of its use in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.  There’s nothing like stealing a car in the middle of the night and going on a high-speed police chase while listening to Sunglasses at Night.