Friday Night Videos

In light of this week's blogging about my Caribbean adventures, it seems only appropriate that this installment of Friday Night Videos feature Amazulu's "Montego Bay". Here's a little confession on my part--until a few days ago, I always thought this was a Madonna song. True story. When it came out in 1986, Madonna was putting out a bunch of singles from soundtracks, and her B-sides were getting copious airplay as well. And "La Isla Bonita" was just a few months from release, so in the midst of all this "Montego Bay" (which got quite a bit of airplay on Houston station KKBQ that summer) sounded just enough like a Madonna B-side that I made an easy assumption. The fact that I was vaguely aware it was a remake (Bobby Bloom hit the charts with the song back in the '70s) fed into my B-side assumptions. And that assumption stuck with me for 25 years. Goodness. Well, credit where credit is due, better late than never and all that stuff.



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