(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Here’s a multi-purpose video, appropriate for Halloween, but also for many other occasions and purposes. It’s a suspenseful, but entertaining love story, complete with the requisite dark and stormy night, fashion and home decorating ideas, song and dance, a rags to riches tribute to Horatio Alger, and a reminder to atone for the excesses of this weekend, beginning on Monday (serving as a valuable trial run for your upcoming New Year’s resolutions).
If you enjoyed Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, you will surely want to check out K. T. Oslin’s performance in the following…
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K. T. Oslin rose from relative obscurity in 1987, at 45 years of age, garnering Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards in the categories of Top New Female Vocalist and Video of the Year, for her rendition of “80’s Ladies”, which also resulted in her becoming the first female songwriter ever to win the Country Music Association Song of the Year award (in addition to their Female Vocalist of the Year award). Her accolades also included three Grammy Awards in 1988 and 1989.
Ms. Oslin’s sudden ascent to stardom marked a significant turning point, since prior to that time, the country music field was probably unprepared to embrace a forty-something female performer who exuded a feisty, feminist persona. As described on the Country Music Television website, “Her worldly, distinctly modern persona was quite unlike any of her peers…”
Ms. Oslin’s career demonstrated the power of persistence and determination, as described here, here and here.
The following video is not in keeping with the Halloween theme, but as well produced, and, I’m guessing, may strike a responsive chord with some of our female Docudharma readers, who, I might presume, may wish that their male acquaintances and/or significant others might understand the video’s message as well. The song “80s Ladies” has been described as “anthemic.” So, without further ado…