The Whispers - Rock Steady (video)

Walter and Wallace Scott helped found and lead this LA-based quintet for over a quarter of a century, and they have amassed a string of R&B chart hits, as well as some level of crossover appeal, mostly during their years on the Solar label, from which their most known hit, Rock Steady is taken, and for which this eminently cheesy video is made for.

Rock Steady is not a deep song. It's not even a very romantic one. It is largely just lucky enough to have pop hooks catchier than SARS, powered largely by the swelling doo-wop meets new jack swing attack of the Whispers. The video is mostly performance footage at a soundstage cum dancefloor, where the Whispers strut their limited dance moves --and boy does the cinematography milk as much mileage as possible from that-- and unlimited collection of badly-cut suits, looking like a Temptations knock-off band playing to an empty crowd in Vegas. Interspersed is random dancers, all female, doing their thang. As videos go it is pretty nondescript compared to some of the faire that was out during the late 80s.