Originally published at: Watch Alfonso Ribeiro's stellar 1985 video advertisement for his book on breaking and popping | Boing Boing
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He’s always been able to dance well.
Also, I must:
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Shit, I only wish I could do the Carlton to Tom Jones that well.
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It sounds like a lot of bang for your buck there until you calculate for inflation. It ends up being $54.30 (if I did it right) for a book, fancy cardboard, LP, and poster that a kid is likely to lose interest in quickly.
He taught Ricky Schroeder everything he knows about breakdancing.
I remember seeing those commercials and going, “The kid from the Pepsi thing with Michael Jackson?”
I actually owned this. This must have been a later airing of this ad, because it was the only thing I ever purchased C.O.D. (cash-on-delivery)
The double album, Rap Attack—on cassette, obviously, because boombox—was fantastic. The poster was great too. To this day, I can easily identify a B-Boy based on that poster.
I prefer to not comment on how good I was at breakdancing.
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