{"id":1248,"date":"2006-09-10T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2006-09-10T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T01:27:55","slug":"let-the-music-play-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Let the music play (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> was\"Shannon\"<\/a> going to add a bunch of other entries to the ‘Past the Bridge’<\/a> category, but decided to postpone anything after I discovered Shannon’s ‘Let the music play’ video at YouTube<\/a>. If you feel so obliged, a sample can be found right here (600K, 40s<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

There’s not much I can add to Wikipedia’s entry on Shannon<\/a> (and particularly that song): That particular entry smells like it took some text from an older NYT article<\/a>. Yes, I remember it was a big hit and yes, the song was pretty popular with breakers. I keep wondering though, if she was in ‘Beat street’<\/a>, that campy Eighties movie about rap and that. I’m also unsure if she’s still around, since searching our overlord ‘Google’ only returns pointers to the predictable CD resellers. Yes, I noticed she was also on ‘Hit me baby one more time’<\/a>, a show where ‘one time hit stars’ duke it out against other ‘one time hit stars’. That doesn’t sound like a fun concept but, surprisingly the following reviewer was most likely too young<\/a> to remember the singer:\n<\/p>\n

She did her hit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let the Music Play.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I have never heard this song, which means a lot considering I am a music expert.\n<\/p>\n

Right, you’re not a music expert. But then, so once in a while, 1983 sounds like the Stone Age to me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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