February 27, 2006

Homefires: Southern Music XV (Action Edition)

(Bumped for write-up.)

Showing we can sometimes be misguided, two Southerners are associated with the following songs. What are the songs and who are the people?:

(1)AK-shon
(2)Get the action goin'

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Congrats to Hookhead for guessing the first one as being Atlanta's Alicia Bridges and "I Love the Nightlife."
One down, one to go.

Hookhead comes back and gives the knock-out punch in the second round with Nashville girl-gone-bad Andrea True and "More, More, More."
Mike gives her name almost at the same time, a bit too enthusiastically, I might add.

That was some good work. One-hit wonder Southern disco divas whose songs prominently feature the word "action" was not enough to stump you.

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Spare a heart for the North Carolina-born, Atlanta-raised Alicia Bridges. A genuinely talented singer and songwriter, her first offering to the public was her composition "I Love the Nightlife," a disco song that became a world-wide hit and forever typecast her a disco diva. When she followed up with her true style of music, the critics' praise couldn't change the public's disappointment. Two more albums made it clear: it was the disco or the highway for Alicia. She bowed out. Last heard from, she was DJ'ing in clubs in Atlanta, and presumably collecting songwriter royalties for her disco classic.
The song hit the charts once more when a remixed version was featured in the 1994 film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."

Which city's skyline is it on the cover of "I Love the Nightlife"? None other than Atlanta's:


Nashville native Andrea True went to one of the best Catholic schools in town. Bit by the acting bug, she went to New York where she quickly revealed her thespian talents to the world as a porn actress. A career was born.
In Jamaica to film a commercial, political turmoil made it impossible for her to leave the island with her earnings. With the help of friend and music producer Gregg Diamond, she used the money for studio time to record a song: the Diamond-penned "More, More, More" was the result. It cost $1,400 to make and was a smash hit.
Engineer Tom Moulton, who mixed the very rough track, was unaware of Andrea's background and later said, "It wouldn't have come out so pretty if I had known what it was about." Tom Moulton's pretty work was heard by the public once more in 1999 when it was sampled by another one-hit wonder, the group Len.

Though she released another album, vocal chord disease ended Andrea's brief musical career, so she perservered with porn until time ended that career as well.
She's now a drug and alcohol addiction counselor at a rehab center in Florida.


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Previous postings:
Homefires: Southern Music XIV
Homefires: Southern Music XIII
Homefires: Southern Music XII
Homefires: Southern Music XI
Homefires: Southern Music X
Homefires: Southern Music IX
Homefires: Southern Music VIII
Homefires: Southern Music VII
Homefires: Southern Music VI
Homefires: Southern Music V
Homefires: Southern Music IV
Homefires: Southern Music III
Homefires: Southern Music II
Homefires: Southern Music

Posted by floridacracker at February 27, 2006 11:51 AM

   



Comments

Dang, lady. Sometimes you just outdo yourself with such restraint. :) But I will be back.

Posted by: Trambo at February 26, 2006 09:13 PM

I'm on a tightrope here info-wise.

Posted by: Donnah at February 26, 2006 09:19 PM

k..I got to number 2 or 3, and realized how bad my memory was...moreso, how smart you are, Donnah, and I give. you win.. Even about Duane....but can you play slide ?

Posted by: Owen Crosby at February 27, 2006 09:43 AM

Gotta be Alicia Bridges. Word is she loved the nightlife, if not disco records particularly.

Posted by: Hookhead at February 27, 2006 10:30 AM

Good job, Hookhead.

One more to go.

Posted by: Donnah at February 27, 2006 10:36 AM

A two-parter? You mean you want more? More, More, More?

Posted by: Hookhead at February 27, 2006 10:48 AM

LOL. Spit out action-girl's name.

Posted by: Donnah at February 27, 2006 10:54 AM

...Andrea True. 'Action-girl' indeed. Can't wait to read your take on her and Alicia.

Posted by: Hookhead at February 27, 2006 10:58 AM

Andrea True, baybee!

Posted by: mike at February 27, 2006 10:58 AM

wait a second...I should've used the 'weekend' excuse...I was in Georgia doin' the 90 year old
Aunt Leona birthday thing...NO FAIR.

Posted by: Owen Crosby at February 27, 2006 11:39 AM

Can't help the enthusiam! Got the dual disco earworms. Now, where's my mirror ball.....

Posted by: mike at February 27, 2006 12:00 PM

"Nightlife" was popular the summer I graduated high school and started college. I was at Stetson, and during me and my girlfriends' forays over to the "big city" (Daytona ;)) our rallying cry was "AK-shon!"
Of course, all we ever did was eat in restaurants and see movies. We were a tame bunch.

Posted by: Donnah at February 27, 2006 02:27 PM

I should have gotten that, since Alicia Bridges was born just a few miles up the road from here. Oh well, looks I've been a little (well, more than a little) slack lately. But, I gotta give credit to Ms Cracker for keeping it interesting.

Posted by: Trambo at February 28, 2006 12:11 AM