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Longlost Music Video: Miles Davis "Decoy" 1984 — DeepCutsArchive
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Longlost Music Video: Miles Davis "Decoy" 1984

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Longlost partially computer-animated 1984 music video for "Decoy" by Miles Davis, which features contributions from keyboardist Robert Irving III and guitarist John Scofield. The BetaGems channel also has "Miles Davis Septet 1959 with John Coltrane performance footage," "Night Music 11-11-89 Miles Davis, Hank Ballard, Phranc" and "Miles Davis 6-14-89 late night TV performance." BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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Hank Ballard (born John Henry Kendricks; November 18, 1927 – March 2, 2003) was an American singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of the Midnighters and one of the first rock and roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s. John Henry played an integral part in the development of the genre, releasing the hit singles "Work with Me, Annie" and answer songs "Annie Had a Baby" and "Annie's Aunt Fannie" with his Midnighters. He later wrote and originally recorded (in 1959) "The Twist" which was cove...

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