Fame News March 2023

 

Looking Back 40 years to March 1983 Lori, Debbie, Carlo, Geen, Lee and the Fame dancers were arriving in the U.K. to embark on their 2nd Tour. They appeared on the Russell Harty Show special filmed from rehearsals at the Blackpool Opera House. 

The Live Single "Friday Night" sung by Carlo Imperato entered the U.K. charts at Number 97 and initially struggled to climb any higher than 87 before it started going down. 

The Kids From Fame Live album reached number 29 this month on the U.K. album charts and then that too began to drop going down to number 82 by the end of the month. The fortunes of both the single and album would change dramatically in April but we'll cover that next month.

The cast were popular in the British media with covers and articles in Patches, Look In, TV Tops, Oh Boy, Loving and Jackie. The newspapers were also printing stories about the cast pretty much on a Daily Basis. Much was made about Valerie Landsburg and Erica Gimpel not being part of the tour.

   

In March Kids From Fame Media posts will be Celebrating:

Episode and Script of the Month: To Soar and Never Falter from Season 1

Song of the Month: Beautiful Dreamer

Cast Member of the Month: Janet Jackson  

Character of the Month: Cleo Hewitt 

Crew Member of the Month:  Ira Steven Behr

Magazine of the Month:  Look In

Merchandise of the Month: Coasters

The online Audience with Valerie Landsburg took place on Sunday 12th February, where Val spent 2 hours talking about her life and answering questions from fans. She also performed a new song written after her Mother died. 

She said she has 12 new songs in total including "Abundance" which she performed during the Reunion Concerts last September and is hoping to release new music within the next year.  

Lori Singer's latest movie was released last month, premiering at the Santa Barbara International film festival. Titled Rachel Hendrix it tells the story of a creative writing professor who experiences a relapse of grief one year after the death of her husband. 

Lori at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Irene Cara's cause of Death has been revealed. The news broke early last month stating that Irene died from arteriosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.

A trailer for the new Karen Carpenter documentary "Starving For Perfection" which features Cynthia Gibb has been released. The Premiere took place last month at the Santa Barbara Film Festival after the event Cynthia said: "Spent an emotional night with Randy Schmidt, Lee Norman, Donnie Demers, Paul Rosenbaum, Joy Rosenbaum at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last night seeing the Karen Carpenter documentary. This story hasn’t been told before. I wonder what KC would have created if she were still here. What a loss for us all. "

Cynthia attending the Santa Barbara film Festival 2023
 

Last Month Dutch Privé Magazine published a 4 page spread on the Kids From Fame to Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the show in The Netherlands, with a chance to in the Fame Live In Liverpool CD. Thanks to CD Licious for sharing the article. 

Back in January we had "I Still Believe In Me" as our Song of the Month. Since then we have found Cover Version:

In 1984 Satu Pentikäinen from Finland recorded "I Still Believe In me" for her album "Ota Tai Jätä".

The song was recorded in Finish and the title is "Tahdon Luottaa" also featured on a 1984 double A side single.

Irene Cara was remembered at the BAFTAs last month as part of the memorial for those lost in the last year.

Irene was also part on the Screen actors Guild Awards In Memoriam tribute in which the accompanying song was "Out Here On My Own".

   

Have a great month,

Mark