Jayzik Azikiwe (the "Skateaway girl") May 1958- 31 January 2008
Kris Baker
made Dire Straits' "Skateaway" so memorable, died of
cancer last year at age 49.
Late obit, to be sure - but although she was famous in
Gambia as "The Phenomenal Woman", her name wasn't
well-known in the US or UK. I see only one obit on Usenet,
in a reggae group.
Obits:
http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/2/8/jayzik-azikiwe-phenomenal-woman
http://www.snwmf.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=156621&t=156621
Skateaway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3HKRnR2Cw
Everyone Loves the Gambia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc1D81q7PAI
(Still beautiful in the early 2000s)
Kris
La N
"Kris Baker" <paralle...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jayzik Azikiwe, the rollerskating, dreadlocked girl who
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc1D81q7PAI
> (Still beautiful in the early 2000s)
>
Awwwww ... what a sweet video ... makes me want to go to Gambia. And she
*was* beautiful. I had never heard of her until you posted this, but I am
reminded when I daily scan the world online newspapers, I often run across
obits of people who are wildly popular in their own country, but whose names
would be meaningless to the typical a.o. audience.
- nilita
Kris Baker
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Toro Toro Taxi!
I might not have even read her obit, without something
other in the subject. She was "just" one of the more
beautiful women who appeared in 1980s videos, and
one of the more memorable for us. It's just because
I rewatched the video this afternoon, and saw a comment
that she had died, that I researched.
Actually....I should have called her "Rollergirl", and said
Toro Toro Taxi!
Kris
Matthew Kruk
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> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:46:45 -0600, "Kris Baker"
> <paralle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Skateaway:
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3HKRnR2Cw
>
> Wow, thank you for that. I'd certainly heard the song a million
> times, but never knew there was a promo for it. (Can't bring myself
> to say "video", given the vintage.) Pretty elaborate for being
> pre-MTV!
Gary Numan, Cars (1979):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw
Devo, Whip IT (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw
Even Buggles, Video Killed The Radio Star (first video played on MTV) is
from 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8
Promo videos were fairly common pre-MTV. Quite a lot of good ones. Hard to
track down ...
Kris Baker
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Remember Night Flight on USA? It was on weekend evenings.
Here's one that Night Flight would show, but never on MTV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYibOaLGOh8
Kris
Matthew Kruk
Sigh. The good old days.
NickCC
> "Kris Baker" <parallelcoo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "Matthew Kruk" <Inaga...@da.vida> wrote in message
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> >> "Terry del Fuego" <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>news:squc65thgr3qdf2v8...@4ax.com...
> >>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:46:45 -0600, "Kris Baker"
> >>> <parallelcoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>>Skateaway:
> >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn3HKRnR2Cw
>
> >>> Wow, thank you for that. I'd certainly heard the song a million
> >>> times, but never knew there was a promo for it. (Can't bring myself
> >>> to say "video", given the vintage.) Pretty elaborate for being
> >>> pre-MTV!
>
> >> Gary Numan, Cars (1979):
>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw
>
> >> Devo, Whip IT (1980)
>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw
>
> >> Even Buggles, Video Killed The Radio Star (first video played on MTV) is
> >> from 1979:
>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8
>
> >> Promo videos were fairly common pre-MTV. Quite a lot of good ones. Hard
> >> to track down ...
>
> > Remember Night Flight on USA? It was on weekend evenings.
>
> > Here's one that Night Flight would show, but never on MTV:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYibOaLGOh8
>
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> - Show quoted text -
IMHO "Making Movies" was Dire Straits' best album.
Brad Ferguson
Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:10:32 -0600, "Matthew Kruk" <Inag...@da.vida>
> wrote:
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> >Devo, Whip IT (1980)
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw
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> Devo (or DEVO) were filmmakers from the beginning.
>
> >Promo videos were fairly common pre-MTV. Quite a lot of good ones. Hard to
> >track down ...
>
> Every once in a while someone will claim that Michael Nesmith or the
> Beatles or...whoever..."invented the music video", but that ignores a
> big old pile o' history going back arguably to the pre-"Jazz Singer"
> Vitaphone days.
The later seasons of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet always ended
with Ricky lip-syncing a song. Ozzie Nelson once insisted he'd
invented the video because he'd spliced in travelogue shots of the
cities Ricky was singing about in Travelin' Man.
There was a show in the '50s called Continental Miniatures that
featured nothing but then-contemporary videos made in Europe -- usually
Italy, as I remember. It was on Channel 11 in New York, so you know it
was cheap.
Later on, around 1968, there was a syndicated thing called The Now
Explosion that was nothing but wall-to-wall videos. It ran for hours
and hours on the weekends.
Jane Margaret Laight
> In article <lo1e659jvou1al2c2ejhu96jjcc509e...@4ax.com>, Terry del
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> Fuego <t_del_fu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:10:32 -0600, "Matthew Kruk" <Inaga...@da.vida>
> > wrote:
>
> > >Devo, Whip IT (1980)
>
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw
>
> > Devo (or DEVO) were filmmakers from the beginning.
>
> > >Promo videos were fairly common pre-MTV. Quite a lot of good ones. Hard to
> > >track down ...
>
> > Every once in a while someone will claim that Michael Nesmith or the
> > Beatles or...whoever..."invented the music video", but that ignores a
> > big old pile o' history going back arguably to the pre-"Jazz Singer"
> > Vitaphone days.
>
> The later seasons of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet always ended
> with Ricky lip-syncing a song. Ozzie Nelson once insisted he'd
> invented the video because he'd spliced in travelogue shots of the
> cities Ricky was singing about in Travelin' Man.
>
> There was a show in the '50s called Continental Miniatures that
> featured nothing but then-contemporary videos made in Europe -- usually
> Italy, as I remember. It was on Channel 11 in New York, so you know it
> was cheap.
>
> Later on, around 1968, there was a syndicated thing called The Now
> Explosion that was nothing but wall-to-wall videos. It ran for hours
>
> - Show quoted text -
The Now Explosion (for you folks who remember it--I was a mere child
at the time [snicker]):
http://www.thenowexplosion.net/
JML
also a note about Jayzik--her father was one Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
who was the first president of the country of Nigeria; he is treated
as a god in Lagos--here's his wiki entry:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Nnamdi+Azikiwe&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10
Matthew Kruk
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...
The Now Explosion (for you folks who remember it--I was a mere child
at the time [snicker]):
http://www.thenowexplosion.net/
JML
...
Wow, thanks very much for that Jane. Never seen the show myself but remember
similar in nature shows (usually half hour to hour weekly). Wow, my eyes
hurt.
Matthew Kruk
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> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:02:07 -0400, Brad Ferguson
> <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote:
>
>>There was a show in the '50s called Continental Miniatures that
>>featured nothing but then-contemporary videos made in Europe -- usually
>>Italy, as I remember. It was on Channel 11 in New York, so you know it
>>was cheap.
>
>
>>Later on, around 1968, there was a syndicated thing called The Now
>>Explosion that was nothing but wall-to-wall videos. It ran for hours
>>and hours on the weekends.
>
>
> Then there were the Scopitones:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopitone
> http://scopitones.blogs.com/
Fabulous! Thanks for the links. Never heard of them.
Brad Ferguson
<01508e55-763f-4b93...@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Jane Margaret Laight <jml2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Now Explosion (for you folks who remember it--I was a mere child
> at the time [snicker]):
>
> http://www.thenowexplosion.net/
>
Ah. Thanks for that!
Allen Abel
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> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:02:07 -0400, Brad Ferguson
> <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote:
>
>>Explosion that was nothing but wall-to-wall videos. It ran for hours
>>and hours on the weekends.
>
>
> Then there were the Scopitones:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopitone
> http://scopitones.blogs.com/
There was also the Panoram:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundies
Matthew Kruk
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They don't make nurses like that anymore.