DevilsJim89 Posted September 15, 2013 Report Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) Club MTV....1991 Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Ring My Bell. Not an actual performance nor were they there live but its cool to see how Ring My Bell was such a banger. I think its one of JJFP's most underrated tracks. Edited September 15, 2013 by DevilsJim89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 I have this on VHS somewhere when I recorded it off TV. This is one of those songs that was a legit hit at the time, but hasn't been remembered for being as big as it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsJim89 Posted September 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2013 AJ, was club MTV just music playing or did artists ever perform? Seems pretty cool. I was only 3 at the time...LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted September 17, 2013 Report Share Posted September 17, 2013 Club MTV was mostly people in a huge studio/club dancing to current music. It was MTV's version of Soul Train with brighter lights, more TVs, and MTV top 20 hits playing for a broader audience. Often times they'd work short clips of the music video into the program. They often had music performances and I feel like JJ+FP was on it during And In This Corner... It ran from 1985ish to 1992. It stemmed a tour featuring Paula Abdul, Tone Loc, and Milli Vanilli. Cathy Dennis dropped out of the tour when one of the guys from Milli Vanilli sexually harassed her. The show also sparked the MTV Party To Go albums. In 1992 MTV abruptly cancelled it, partly because they stopped supporting club/dance artists so strongly. The same year (and through 1997), the ran The Grind, which was essentially the same show but with one of the Real World guys hosting it and a closer focus on urban music, rather than club music. It was a bit racier than Soul Train, featuring sexier dance moves and occasionally "up skirt" shots...lol Around 2005 VH1 ran a Club MTV marathon, saying new episodes would be taped, but that never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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