Wednesday, June 21, 2006

video: Regina - Baby Love

Probably oene of my favorite one-hit wonders fo the 80s, this song was ubiquitous for a while, then faded quickly and has oddly been forgotten given how well it charted. It was the product of an alarmingly Madonna-esque sounding singer whose full name was Regina Richards. Well, alarming in that unlike Madonna, she could hold her notes better and her range was smoother. In terms of sound, this is largely the product of Breakfast Club (the band not the movie) member Stephen Bray, which has its own Madonna connections.


The video is what it is...very loud. Regina is very much near the top of my "Where Are They Now?" quandries.
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posted by theloniusfunk at 3:39 AM

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fun stuff. Kind of serendipitous too in that I recently purchased the latest Dannii Minogue "best of" album with the DVD that features her videos. Dannii Minogue did a cover of Baby Love in 1991 that I was wholly unaware of until the other night. But I couldn't get the feeling out of my head that I'd heard this track before and it wasn't Minogue's pipes that sang it.

So just now I got done doing some searches on allmusic.com for Dannii Minogue and found out who actually penned the music. Then when I looked through the list of all 216 songs called Baby Love, I found Regina in the list. Something there seemed really distantly familiar. I plugged in a bit more into Wikipedia and Google and hit your site after the Google search. Then I saw the video... and I was reminded of a Summer sometime in the 80s.

I was just barely out of Junior High and I remember hearing a whole slew of Madonna imitators. Suzie Q with Queen of Hearts a couple other more forgettable ones and also Regina with Baby Love. I also remember that Summer going on vacation with one of the highlights being access to cable since my folks didn't have it. That meant I stayed up way too late watching whatever music video channels were available no matter how lame.

I can't remember for sure, but it was either Chicago or Miami that Summer and there was a local (non-cable) station that was all music videos. All five of them. In endless rotation. With no DJ. I believe Baby Love was one of them. Somehow that memory (and I have an excellent memory for really odd little details) had escaped me until just now. I also remember hearing that track quite a bit on the trip while searching for the major pop station in each city we drove through. My parents were quite patient.

So thanks for recovering a trivial but quite valuable and innocent memory from 20 or so years ago. :) In all my searching so far, I find nothing about where Regina is today. Is she still writing songs in the background? Is she someone's mom? ISsshe a real estate agent (See Rex Smith, the Everlasting Love/Pirates of Penzance dude)? Is she a bitter feminist folk singer (I quite like them actually)? Whatever she is, I hope all is well with the world for her. t's a damn shame there's not more about her whereabouts today.

9:07 PM  

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