Who Bodied Their Verse On "We Are The World"??

This is my favorite thread title on ILM.

Said thread title has made it impossible to find.

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...

kinda feel like huey lewis sort of went beyond himself in this song, like the dude had no business being there, but had that 1984 chutzpah to just fuckin do it, u know?

And That's Why I Voted For Huey Lewis

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...

I take it you don't listen to much rap music

I've never seen "body" used as a verb...I take it you don't listen to much rap music
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier)

Spot on, old chap! While I have you, do you have any Grey Poupon?

this is gangsta musik if u can't hang u a herb imo

poor kim carnes :'(

If you watch the Carnes-Lewis-Lauper clip when they all sing STAND TOGETHER AS ONE it's pretty obvious that Cyndi and Huey fulfilled their silent vow to outsing and outbody Carnes.

carnes would've won if this poll was for foxiest watw singers. maybe. daryl hall could win too.

Daryl Hall's mullet was as hot as it was gonna be.

daryl hall could have had white dude dreads and goatee and he'd still be "the hot one" though

http://www.americanmustacheinstitute.org/images/oates_stache.jpg

Always a bridesmaid...

http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00108/world_108120c.jpg

What's Daryl scowling at?

the popularity of sweaters in the 80s

"How did 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' outsell 'Out of Touch?'"

maybe if Hall and Oates had gotten themselves featured on The Cosby Show

they could have tried to molest cockroach ala that very special diff'rent strokes

oates already has the mustache after all

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5p8vyWGrkO0/Rpe1aR1VuXI/AAAAAAAAAxA/T1d6FqNP4bw/s400/cosby-show2.jpg

Cliff and Claire are not having this.

"I'm out of touch and I need a refill"

Cockroach is incapable of being molsested :(

its so sad he was a cockroach

buried by Tony Montana iirc

Omg me and homie just had this convo irl

James Ingram going WE ARE THE WORLD
Ray Charles going YESSIR

Kim Carnes wuz robbed! You show me a more emotional "when we" in pop music history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATz8ZVTALo

that 'Making Of' VHS mentioned upthread is here by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGFcYLO0jg

Dylan looks hilariously uncomfortable throughout.

No problem with the results on this, except for Springsteen getting any votes whatsoever - he's so bad! He sounds like a parody act of Bruce Springsteen, and looks like Belushi doing Joe Cocker. And they keep cutting back to him! Whereas, like, Paul Simon's part is actually kind of convincing...undermined only by Kenny Rogers's bizarre facial expressions while they're overlapping each other.

Daryl Hall is the most disappointing - anybody could have done that - and Billy Joel is the most surprisingly okay, and I say that as a fan of his. Huey Lewis also sounding way better than I'd have expected, though yeah, uh, a little OTT. Ingram probably most underrated in the results here. Sort of by the numbers, but sounds great.

These things are such great windows into how, briefly, it can seem like Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable charity-driving star than Bette Midler, Harry Belafonte, or Smokey fucking Robinson.

Would be into animated gifs of each performer's "greatest" moments. Just saying.

Carnes (and Kenny Rogers) were clients of co-pseudo-organizer/agent Ken Kragen, hence their presence.

Ha, there you go then!

Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable

for years I've wanted to write about Carnes' post-"Bette Davis Eyes" career. She didn't even have a ride-along second top ten -- she collapsed, completely, not even visiting the top twenty again until 1985, no doubt greased by payola.

apparently moroder had a road to damascus moment over 'bette davis eyes'

epitomizes El Lay New Wave though

wonder if there's enough good stuff to make an el lay synth pop playlist - 'bette davis eyes', 'stand back', 'boys of summer'. there's probably some dave stewart stuff i'm forgetting though that's cheating kinda.

Motels!

At this point, I'm more likely to think of Kim Carnes via Tori Amos's "clone myself like that blonde chick who sings / Bette Davis Eyes," than via "Bette Davis Eyes" itself.

This thread title makes me thing it would be tight if world poverty had its own comeback diss track

My user name agrees with the Kim Carnes bashing.
Please continue.

Just watched the video for the first time in 20 years. Amazing how Cyndi Lauper's "oww wow ow ow" just defines the whole song. The only solo I could remember.

For the record, I prefer Canada's b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/27/we-are-the-world-30th-anniversary/22395455/

My favorite thing about this is from Huey Lewis on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:

SALIE: I have to ask you about something that I loved when I was a teenager, "We are the World."

LEWIS: Right.

SALIE: Can you talk about that day? I mean were you really like - were you guys standing at craft services with, you know, like Bruce Springsteen is on your right and Diana Ross is on your left.

LEWIS: Exactly.

SALIE: What was it like?

LEWIS: It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean, I'm talking to Willie Nelson about golf and Bob Dylan over here says are you guys talking about golf?

He said yeah. And Willie said, yeah, we put the clubs on the bus. And Bob says, man, that's outrageous. He says that's outrageous. I said no, Bob, "Nashville Skyline" was outrageous. This is just golf.

SALIE: In that room, were there like cool kids and not cool kids?

LEWIS: No, but Paul Simon said - it's probably not nice to say. I don't know. Paul Simon said if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.

lol

i legit enjoy this record, and feel a strong need to listen/watch from time to time

the more i do so, the more i appreciate michael jackson's solo chorus

Bruce really does bomb this, doesn't he? Kenny Loggins sounds great by comparison.

Michael Jackson	0

Wait, what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tZUg8onNg