Today's Jheri Curl June entry is the title track from Midnight Star's 1983 album No Parking on the Dance Floor. It has all the necessary ingredients of a classic jheri-curl track: a squealing synth line, bass that pops like crazy, and a camp-as-hell introduction that threatens, "if you don't get a move on that body, I'll be forced to give you a ticket--so get...WITH IT!" Plus, impossible as it might sound, the video is even better:
It's one of those great '80s videos that take the concept of the song and make it blissfully, absurdly literal. So a traffic jam turns into an impromptu dance party, with the nine members of Midnight Star--whose own spectrum of jheri-curl lengths and shapes is right up there with that of Jesse Johnson's Revue--serving as funky pied pipers, leading frustrated drivers to step out of their cars and join the fun. Then, at 1:35...is that...is that Prince? Well, no, of course not, though they sure took pains to make it look that way. But this is one party that doesn't even need a random breakdancing Prince-alike to make it awesome. Midnight Star, I'll get stuck in traffic with you any time.
Check out the Jheri Curl June Spotify playlist after the jump!
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