Ahhhhh….the 80’s, where nearly every hit song was featured on a movie soundtrack! Wasn’t it awesome?! Today’s Forgotten 45 at 3:45 is from the Pointer Sisters with “Neutron Dance”. The song was featured on the “Beverly Hills Cop” Soundtrack was the 4th Top Ten song from their album “Break Out” which also featured “Jump (For My Love)”, “Automatic”, and “I’m So Excited”. Neutron Dance reached #6 on the US charts.
The music video stars the Pointer Sisters as discontented theatre ushers, and also features future star Bronson Pinchot as their boss and actor Gary Burghoff, best known as Radar on MASH, as the cinema operator; the setting was a cinema where Beverly Hills Cop was screening, allowing for the promotion of the movie via many clips from it being displayed in the video. Pinchot himself plays a minor role in the film as “Serge”, a salesman in Jenny Summers’ art gallery.
You can hear the song again Saturday night at 9 on Absolutely 80’s with Nina Blackwood on 105.7 KOKZ!
