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What Have I Done to Deserve This? with Dusty Springfield
[album Actually, 1987]

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link youtube: https://youtu.be/Wn9E5i7l-Eg

You might not know the name Allee Willis, but you know her work: She co-wrote the "Friends" theme tune "I'll Be There For You," "September" and "Boogie Wonderland," by Earth Wind and Fire, and the Pointer Sisters' "Neutron Dance." The last of these even led to her being declared the world's most dangerous woman by the Russian newspaper Pravda. "She's damn near written half my memories," Questlove said of her. And that's before we even mention her Broadway triumphs, design work for MTV and Blondie, and invention of the Metaverse. Here's @Salon's review of a new Hulu documentary, "The World According to Allee Willis," which tells the inspiring story of her phenomenal talent and creative life. Willis died in 2019; minutes into the film’s opening, she is on screen saying, “I’ve always known that my final art piece would be someone putting together the trail I’ve left behind.”

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"In 1991, Allee Willis became one of the first music artists to recognize and evangelize the Internet as an upcoming new form of mass entertainment following radio, television, and cinema. She came up with an idea of willisville, a visual collaborative network and interactive, story-driven online social world. Preceding modern social networks by at least a decade, willisville was supposed to combine traditional media, commerce, and virtual games by allowing Internet users to connect with each other to share ideas, collaborate, and exchange information. Mark Cuban (who later owned NBA team Dallas Mavericks and pioneered online streaming for sport events) became a CEO, while producer and multimedia artist Prudence Fenton (Grammy winner for Peter Gabriel's Steam video) joined Allee as one of the chief engineers and designers of the project.
Several showbiz and tech giants, such as AOL, Microsoft, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., and Disney recognized a business potential of the concept, while Intel Corporation sponsored a creation of willisville prototype in 1995. The project turned out to be too innovative for the mid-nineties, though, and was abandoned several years later."—Discogs [Unsourced]

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The World According to Allee Willis – Watch the trailer for the new documentary https://bit.ly/4ezdwnG

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‘The World According to Allee Willis’ Review: The Songwriter Who Stretched From ‘September’ to the ‘Friends’ Theme Song Gets a Lively Doc
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https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-world-according-to-allee-willis-review-documentary-1236210559/

Yes, I do want to watch a film about a cool songwriter and fellow kitsch collector which features interviews with #PetShopBoys and Mark Mothersbaugh from #Devo!

https://youtu.be/zvBSldpFFcc?si=raVLfi0Ap3zdCqyM

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