Was watching music vids....

One thing lead to another. Find a dude (Noblemania) who took the process to a new height. The 'Nobleman' channel is referred to as an "Entertainment / Nostalgia" and research channel that's creating an "oral history". His focus here is on, "The Girl in the (MTV) Video". No one ever did know at the time who they were, and mostly didn't care. But over time it apparently became intriguing to a degree to those who had been watching (or re-watching) classic 20-30 year old music videos from the 1980s.

One of the main specific and compelling areas of interest of this project was in somehow tracking down the whereabouts of all those mysterious, beautiful women guys fantasized about back in those MTV videos of the 1980s. ('Noblemania' shares the process as well). 27 MTV videos and 29 women are featured.

Conducted in cordial interviews (phone or email), he catches readers up on the 80s MTV videos girls' memories & experiences at the time as well as what they'd been up to since. (yes, photos included at his site). It appears most interviews were conducted @ 8-10 years ago). The vast majority seem pleased to have been remembered; a few were not interested in the project.

Here are just a few of those MTV video girls:

The Girl in the Video ('Summer of ‘69' by Bryan Adams (AND 'Run To You')

Summer of 69 (vid)

(The girl-now-woman: Lysette Anthony.)

quote:
How old were you when you appeared in the first one?

I take the 5th. Seriously, I have no clue—you’ll have to do the maths. [She was born in 1963 and the video came out in 1985. Readers, you’ll have to do the maths.] I’m still friends with Bryan. No matter how decrepit we all become I’ll always be his Reckless girl. That’s kinda cool!

How did you feel making the video?

I had fun apart from a massive silent crush on Bryan. I’d never met anyone like him. But I suffered in silence! I was soooo young.

Interview

The Girl in the Video: “867-5309/Jenny” (1981) by Tommy Tutone

(The girl-now-woman: Karen Morton.)

Jenny/867-5309 (vid)

What did you think of the video?

I would do shows and turn the TV on when I was getting ready and say, “There I am!” I always remember putting my hand on the table. I remember combing my hair in that mirror. I didn’t know I would have to kiss that guy.

quote:
What have you been doing since “Jenny”?

[i]I worked for Cosmopolitan. I can’t find the magazine. The pictures were very, very pretty. I did another ad for Cosmo in a negligee.

After that I got a job at a bank and got fired the first day. I don’t remember why! Then I went to Long Beach State and learned makeup.

Since 2006, I’ve had this rare disease. I was allergic to a sulfur medication and came down with something called Stevens-Johnson syndrome. It’s named for two doctors in the twenties who recognized this. It sometimes goes undiagnosed. You burn from the inside out.

(*Note: Karen Morton passed away in 2014)

Interview

The Girl in the Video: “Legs” (1984), by ZZTOP part (1 of 3)

(The girl-now-woman: Wendy Frazier. [FWIW, other 'Legs' girls' interviews -- Kymberly Herrin and Danièle Arnaud -- are in separate posts.])

This is the Introduction to series “The Girl in the Video” (including list of interviewees).

How I (the Author) found Wendy:

* “richlunt” posted she’s from Marlborough, CT.

* The high school for Marlborough, RHAM, confirmed she was class of ‘81 but would not say (or knew) nothing more.

*On the chance that “richlunt” was a man named Rich(ard) Lunt, I searched “Lunt” in CT phone directory.

*Luckily, one was listed in Hebron, a town next to Marlborough and one of the towns that feeds into RHAM.

*The person at that number is related to Richard and gave me his number. (That number matched a Richard Lunt on Zabasearch.)

*I called and Richard’s wife gave me his e-mail.

*I did not hear back so I checked with a town librarian; she came up empty but suggested I call the town tax collector, who gave me three names, but two actually did not know the Fraziers and one said she’d pass word to her daughters. I did not hear back.

*I searched the web for “RHAM class of ‘81” and searched some of those names on Facebook. One ‘81 led me to others via her friends list (there’s an option to view friends by high school). I contacted several and then randomly chose one and searched “Frazier” on that person’s high school list. No luck, but when I searched it on her whole friends list, Wendy Frazier came up.

Interview Excerpt:

quote:
From what I remember I was brought into the final audition [during which] only a few girls were being considered. I got the part. As excited as I was, I felt I would never be able to compete with the sexy ZZ Top girls, gorgeous playmates who “knew how to use it.” I say that playfully—I was in awe of them.

Interview

This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 5:05 pm