It's kind of embarrassing to watch a Rick Ashley video. That nerdy redhead bloke from the Stock Aiken Waterman days. Ah, but those days were good. Much much much better.

But I digress. In Afrikaans, that's, uh, South African Dutch, there's a saying, "dis nie die hondjie nie, dis die halsbandjie." It's not the little dog that attracts the attention, it's the little collar. Okay, I just realized the apt English counterpart, "It's not the singer, it's the song" but in this case, as The Raven, it's neither the singer nor the song... it's the lovely beach bunny in the pink outfit stripped off to reveal the yellow bikini.

Aw, when I play it now, oddly enough, Ol' Rick ain't quite as irritating as I expected him to be, but super schmaltzy sweet. Argh. Okay, back in the Eighties, I always thought, well, there you have it. Film Archie, with Rick as Archie Andrews, Kylie Minogue as Betty Cooper.

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