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Thursday, November 25, 2004

"Who's Johnny," El DeBarge (7/12/86)
After two previous #1s with his siblings in DeBarge, El hit the top for his first (and only solo) time with the theme from, yup, Short Circuit. I was dreading writing about this, but was shocked to realize that this isn't an awful record. In fact, it's awfully entertaining in a "Sussudio" kind of way, all all-too-perky-'80s for its own good, with somewhat bizarre lyrics. And musically, the intro and bridges are perky in a good way. Not great by any means, but likely not as bad as you think you remember. B-

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