Tuesday, May 26, 2009

FUN TIMES TWO: Starlight Vocal Band, "Afternoon Delight"

A buddy of ours recently visited us here in Portland, and we continued our tradition of going out for karaoke.  For some reason--and these reasons haven't yet been sorted out--he and I chose to sing "Afternoon Delight."  He wasn't familiar with the song's lyrics; I wasn't familiar with singing falsetto.  It was a brutal combination.  Between laughing and grimacing, we mustered maybe a few of the sentences.  The rest was simply gibberish.

So I wonder what it must have been like for the members of Starlight Vocal Band to keep a straight face while they were singing the song three decades ago.  Did anyone at the time really know what they were singing about?  Look at some of the faces in the crowd in this video... they all look really confused.  Maybe they're daydreaming about Afternoon Delight.  

Whatever the case may be, the video is truly a delight.  And in case you don't pick up on the meaning of the original lyrics, I've posted Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 News Team's take on the whole thing:




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