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Go-go Goddess on 1970’s ‘The Now Explosion’ TV show
05.18.2011
04:31 pm
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Nothing groovier than go-go dancing. And Linda Rogers is sublime in this 1970 video from Atlanta-based TV show The Now Explosion.

The Now Explosion broke new ground for broadcasting music on television, programming music in a free-flowing style and experimenting with video in a format that pre-dated MTV by 10 years. Check out their website. It’s a gas.

The special effects used in The Now Explosion were crude but state of the art for the early 1970 era. Video was shot with heavy, non portable studio cameras on large rolling tripods. The music videos were recorded on two inch magnetic tape. The video editing required the use of 3 massive and costly “quad” tape recorders allowing only simple transitions such as cuts and dissolves.

Most performers were young amateurs recruited from the Atlanta audience. Many appeared with home-grown costumes - often after midnight when station facilities became available - and were recorded dancing extemporaneously as rock rhythms were piped into an almost bare and darkened studio. The lighting often placed performers “in limbo” so that only the illuminated dancers were seen against darkened studio walls. Extensive special effects were added in post production as images were combined and distorted to form what production people often called “eye candy.”

Linda Rogers (Albritton) went on to have a career as a dancer and dance teacher. She continues to teach dance to this day. 

In this segment from The Now Explosion, Rogers is simply dreamy as she does a sultry go-go to Bread’s 1970 hit “Make It With You.”
 

 
Linda and Grand Funk get the trippy treatment:

 
R. Metzger, always ahead of the curve. Previously on DM: The Now Explosion: The Original MTV. 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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05.18.2011
04:31 pm
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La Danse A Go Go: Women in cages
04.03.2011
07:56 pm
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The wild world of dancing to recorded music, the discotheque! The newest dance sensations today are the Frug, the Watusi, the Dog, Swim, Bird and the Mosquito.

The bizarre concept of phoning in your dance requests must have been a Chicago phenomenon and a short lived one. Today’s world is perfect for reviving this idea: tweet a dancer and request the Mosquito or the Bird. Now that would be groovy.

Music by The Squires.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.03.2011
07:56 pm
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