Toni Basil
American singer and choreographerWikipedia
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Sep 4, 2026
Michael WolfeHOST
This punk CD compilation that had no punk music on it at all.
David YasHOST
It was called Punk, and it literally had Mickey by Tony Basil on it.
David YasHOST
And Huey
Michael WolfeHOST
Lewis and the New News.
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David YasHOST
No, these are all
Michael WolfeHOST
appropriate choices.
Michael WolfeHOST
There's no Tony Basil moment that's happened yet.
Michael WolfeHOST
Right.
Mickie JamesGUEST
And I was like, you know, I'd always wanted to do and be hardcore country and WWE had kind of pitched it, never got to, you know, tried to present it, didn't really understand what it was.
Mickie JamesGUEST
So I was like, at that point, I kind of, my ego, I suppose, among other things, but I was like, if I'm going to do this, I'm not going to be, Happy, skippy, bell-bottomy Mickie James coming out to some Tony Basil ripoff song.
Mickie JamesGUEST
I'm going to be hardcore country because that's who I am now.
Mickie JamesGUEST
I said, and I've had every time I come back, you know, to TNT and A's treated me so well.
Fred ToucherHOST
That is a first-inning home run right there in a game that you've just knotted up.
HardyHOST
He's quoting Tony Basil.
HardyHOST
Basil.
HardyHOST
Basil.
Jon WallachPANELIST
He went Mickey Mickey as opposed to, hey, Mickey, you're so fine.
Jon WallachPANELIST
You're so fine.
Lisa MolinelliHOST
And so,
Dustin MorrowHOST
yeah, I mean, and they're like, and there are a lot of one-offs too, right? Like Tony Basil's Nikki, like there's just, there were all these artists that were, you know, the video, what you could argue was maybe more responsible for the success of that song or that artist than, than the music at the time.
Lisa MolinelliHOST
Yeah.
Dustin MorrowHOST
So we were going to go through our own lists of our favorite music videos from the 80s.
David YasHOST
That's what I was looking for.
David YasHOST
Seventh bill, an actress was, uh, had a, a huge hit a- as a singer in the '80s I'm just gonna tell you, it's Toni Basil.
David YasHOST
Toni Ba-
Michael WolfeHOST
Oh, Toni Basil was in there
David YasHOST
... was in Easy Rider.
David YasHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Michael WolfeHOST
We had dinner.
Michael WolfeHOST
Yeah, she was lovely.
ShannonAUDIENCE
Is this hinting? That'd be my guess.
Molly AllenHOST
What 1981 Toni Basil cheerleading themed hit song repeated, uh, repeatedly chanted a boy's name? Remember Toni Basil-
ShannonAUDIENCE
Mickey.
Molly AllenHOST
Oh, yeah.
ShannonAUDIENCE
That'd be my guess.
Molly AllenHOST
What 1981 Tony Basil cheerleading themed hit song repeated, uh, repeatedly chanted a boy's name? Remember Tony Ba-
ShannonAUDIENCE
Mickey.
Molly AllenHOST
Oh, yeah, very good.
Menina FortunatoHOST
And that was the job, Skeleton Crew.
Menina FortunatoHOST
I did the same thing for Barbra Streisand with Tony Basil, Skeleton Crew.
Menina FortunatoHOST
So for dancers, you may not know, there's actually a job title called Skeleton Crew as a dancer where you don't actually do the job.
Menina FortunatoHOST
You don't actually dance it in the job.
speaker_3HOST
It's engineered for maximum earworm potential.
speaker_3HOST
In that video, Toni Basil, in her 40s, dressed as a cheerleader, doing incredibly sharp choreography with actual cheerleaders, It became one of the early MTV staples.
speaker_3HOST
This was when MTV actually played music videos, remember, and they played Mickey constantly.
speaker_3HOST
The song hit number one in 1982.
speaker_3HOST
Nothing even came close.
speaker_3HOST
But here's the thing.
speaker_3HOST
Toni Basil never stopped working.
speaker_3HOST
She kept choreographing.
John of HawthorneHOST
Please stay with us.
John of HawthorneHOST
When we come back, we'll hear from the family band The Barge, The Hollies as well, plus Tony Basil's only song to make it onto our local charts.
John of HawthorneHOST
Back in a tick here on 96.5 Inner FM.
speaker_7ADVERTISER
Peter Duffy is a counsellor with Men's Line, and Peter, I imagine it's a tough gig.
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speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Every night you still leave me all alone again.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I want you to look at
John of HawthorneHOST
That's Tony Basil.
John of HawthorneHOST
She was a singer, dancer and actress and she had a huge hit in 1982 with that song Mickey.
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