One-hit wonder Toni Basil might have topped the charts for the first time in 1982, but she was in the industry for decades ...
Elvis Presley showed off his expert dance moves in the 1964 film hit, Viva Las Vegas, but they weren't all his own. They belonged to an 80s icon who rose to fame with a cheer-ful song.
'Dancing has always been my drug of choice': Toni Basil in 1977 - Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Fifty years ago, in June 1974, Toni Basil found herself in a New York rehearsal room with David ...
Austin Butler heads into Oscars 95 with a good chance of winning the Best Actor category for portraying Elvis Presley in the feature film Elvis. Much ado has been made about the actor’s physical ...
Basil no longer wears the cheerleading outfit from the video of the 1980s hit, which shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts in December 1982 thanks to exposure on MTV, but Basil is being cheered by ...
Rooms filled with art depicting dancers always pack a punch, especially when the bodies are at different scales, range from still to slow to frenetic, and include entertainer and recent guest judge on ...
“Because I danced in the ‘60s, and I still can dance, I'm probably the only one alive that did dance in the ‘60s and can coach it,” chuckles Toni Basil — who, long before she had a huge ‘80s hit with ...
Toni Basil was already a 38-year-old showbiz veteran when her bouncy hit “Mickey” was released in the U.S. in May 1982, and in many ways the song was just a blip on her dizzyingly lengthy résumé. The ...
Owing to her 1982 smash hit song, “Mickey,” Toni Basil often finds herself included in lists of one-hit wonders, a term that carries a whiff of derision, suggesting an artist fell short of achieving a ...