I was the director of this video. I came over from Australia as an exchange student to Glassboro State College. I was lucky to be chosen as the director of this clip. We had a budget of $150 to shoot and edit, so we had to do a lot of borrowing amongst the crew. Jade had an idea about a dream sequence, so I thought about exploring that with a wizard of oz like dream. By starting and ending in b&w it was cheaper also. Because the video is about night time we had to borrow a film camera.

@phillyhottest

7 жыл бұрын

We have Jade LIVE on WBTS-RADIO.com tonight at 9:30pm EST - Call in and say hello!

@briang.727

7 жыл бұрын

What Philly nightclub did you shoot parts of this in? If this is 1983 I'm guessing the from the mirrors, The Black Banana, The East Side Club, or the Kennel Club. Club Revival which was my all time favorite club back then wasn't around yet.

@vannjunkin8041

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this memory

@AtmosphereOfSound

3 жыл бұрын

It's beautiful ! Love the avant-garde / new-wave vibe.

@gregtuchin56

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtmosphereOfSound Back in the day, I used the new wave term for the band and they nearly bit my head off. We're techno funk! Musicians?

thumbs up if the 80's were the best

@Happy_HIbiscus

3 жыл бұрын

🙂

I thought the middle sequence where the tempo of the music changed, lent itself to a dance sequence. I met with a choreographer at school and she arranged the sequence and the dancers. We borrowed a special night shooting video camera for that sequence. Shot it 9 times and edited with dirge rent camera locations. Most of the video isthe same as 83. Some things added, looks like to cut out Whey, who featured more in the original. Had probs with some of the film footage, so had to borrow some,.

Pose retriggered this memory for me. We used to dance HARD to this at the under 21 clubs in Jersey growing up 😄😄😄😄

Have yall seen Jade lately?? 60 and looks even better than she did in the 80's!!!

@PC_TV_73

Жыл бұрын

Yea I could not believe it I swear she was in her 40’s. Just found out she’s 63 now (2023)

All these years later and this song still gets my pulse racing and I get up and jam like I'm still 23 and it's the 80s again!! This was a club cranker for sure!! So many dance floor memories!!

This is the original version of this song on the ep, which is so hard to find, I hate the remix version. They call this the Philly version because this is the version we heard on the radio in Philly. This was my song, back in the day!

OMFG!!!! I have been searching for this song since 1983 but could never remember who the hell sang it and tonight I found a totally different video and just by chance here it is FINALLY. John Coffey, you are GOD!! WOO HOO!!

Disappointed I couldn't find this version on ITunes. Ended up settling for the '88 Shep Pettibone version. It's great but I always liked this version more.

WDAS played the hell out of this song....

Damn 1983 !, it sounds very similar to the 1988 version..both good.

If I remember this was released in late 1983 or 1984...I first heard this in my state of RI on WRIU...The University of RIs radio station ....this was the only station to play this Freestyle type of music and hip hop and it was only aired if I recall on Sunday mornings..I think a newer version was released a few years later when Catch me Im falling became a hit....But this is a rare version.....LOL...I just read the comments and now im editing...Yes....this was released on 83 and was remade later....TY

This sounds beautiful and this video is beyond dope.

great vocals!

Way back in '83, PP played the East Side Club. Back then they often did a cover of Tuxedo Moon's "No Tears (for the creatures of the night)". Well, I played the creature onstage that night, complete with blood capsules in my mouth as Jade sang the song while "abusing" me before the enthralled crowd - Jade faking beating me, and me feigning being harmed. At one point, I was on the ground at the foot of the stage, fake blood trickling from my mouth, and the crowd down front lurched forward (apparently believing it was real torture) intent on adding to my abuse. Jade quickly grabbed me and dragged me several feet toward the back of the stage. Good times!

@Patrick3183

5 жыл бұрын

RHINOSAUR whoa

@lordjohnwharfin5397

2 жыл бұрын

I saw several of their shows at the East Side. They always rocked the place. Saw them at Grendel's Lair a few years later after they'd transformed from a punk band to dance/disco. They were still damned good.

Miss 80s clubs

Freestyle Mix 80's

I remember having having this hair style, over permed hair in perm rods too small to give that tight curl, then blow dry your hair up side down to get it to stand up and then spray the hell out of it with AQUA NET or VAVOOM hair spray and it would stay put all night long!! Ah the 80's......I miss em!!

I met Baby Jade & Whey in 86' 87' few shows back stage lucky me . They were so nice and it never went to their heads they have been very influential in the creation of what is now EDM & Electronica, Jade is still belting it out on stage in PA,NJ,NY,Area friends have confirmed shes still a lil hottie but miss the big crazy red hair,its tamer now ,there sound is still unique. Compared to todays electronic music theres is a raw electronic sound if there is such a thing.this song in the 80's club or at the shore or in Philly,at 2-3am nuts man id get in a trance,hehe.still do ...

Thank you very much for posting this! I got into Pretty Poison through hearing the original "Nightime" back in the day. (I also perfer the original single to the version they did for Virgin Records four years later.) I didn't know there was a video for the original version until now. I like this one a lot. Yay Jade!

This is one of my favorite dance songs ever. Catch me I'm falling another fave.

Just a great song.

80's Vibe

Sorry i meant 84' 85' Year, there from Philly i lived across the bridge NJ and the were always performing in Cherry Hill NJ,n Philly....

i swear this was the version they 'performed' when they were on soul train, after they performed 'catch me i'm falling'. i always remembered it, but never heard it again, i found what it was on spotify, but it didn't sound like how i remembered. this version is the one i'm sure i heard.

@RK3278

8 жыл бұрын

+goblinb There is this version (the original from 1984) and the 1988 remix by Shep Pettibone. The remix was on their album. This 1984 version was available on 12" single.

@nickfreshalive

8 жыл бұрын

+goblinb I wish they performed/danced to any version of "Nighttime" on Soul Train, but it unfortunately didn't happen. Maybe that's Bandstand you're thinking about? Such a incredible record. (I prefer this version as well - and that dub - so so influential in my formative years!)

@goblinb

8 жыл бұрын

+nickfreshalive No, I swear it was Soul Train. I didn't watch Bandstand that much(sometimes I did). The crowd loved it. I did too. I still do!

I was just thinking about classic dance music This brings back memories

My roommates Jim Carroll and Anita Oxendine worked at The Kennel Club then . Spend many nights there in the late 70's and 80's.

i was about 14/15 years old listening in my bedroom in the burbs on my boombox WUSL power 99 WDAS 105.3 FM Philly

Love love love this song. Thank you Jade!!

Pretty Poison hit #36 in Billboard, 5-21-88. God bless you, John, for postin' it. Thanx! Have a blessed week!

it's great hearing this original. I remember dancing to this in a club in 1984-85 when it first was released! LOL All the versions in youtube are the Shep Pettibone version, which I don't like!!! xD

I love this version better than their later version. But still a very good song.

She’s so AWSOME

Pose brought me here

brings me back I love it

Love you Jade!!

This is their best video and version of this track... lo-fi' ish , minimal and editi.g extradinaire!!! THEE FRKN BEST!!!!

God, this brings back fond memories of my youth.

First heard this cut at the" Library" in Bala Cynwood,PA.back in the early 80's.

Brings back memories of warm summer nights on the Wildwood boardwalk!

Yo! This kicks ass! Thanks for posting this. I knew my city was the shit way back then!

Very young in South Florida, this song very popular, along with Trinere & Exposé...I listened to Pretty Poison in Philly as a young adult...

This video was created by the Radio/TV/Film students at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University). It was shot at the Kennel Club & Penn's Landing in Philly. This version of Nighttime charted #14 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart in 1984 on Svengali Records (their own label). Catch Me, I'm Falling was originally released on Svengali as well. The band was from Merchantville, NJ - a Philly suburb. Before this record they were more of a goth, Siouxsie and the Banshees type band.

Jade was born about 1960 at the latest.

so correct. Whey became a friend of mine in the late 80's very cool peeps (him and Jade). Chris from Texas

At 0:21 is the pose stricken on prom night by every member of the senior class of St. Maria Goretti in South Philly in 1985 . . .

@skurlandaficionado

6 жыл бұрын

DaftSwank Hilarious, since I grew up in Philly in the 80’s. I knew a lot of girls who looked just like Jade, complete with fluorescent makeup and mall hair.

@freedomseaker1 Yes her and the band are from Philly according to my books "Billboard Top 40 Hits" and "Top Pop Singles 1955-2002".

This Right Here Was That Song That Got Everybody On The Dance Floor Whether You Could Dance Or Not 🎵 🎶 🎵 🎶

Super!👍👍👍

Brings back memories,....tried to break into the music business in philly starting at 16... played most of the clubs, just in the middle of the week...remember doing market research studies for extra cash and Jade was at one of the same studies I did, LOL...anything for a buck back then! (Still too LOL) miss those days.

Why the Fuck wasn't this one a hit like Catch Me Falling what the actual fuck?

Kennel Club, East Side Club, Revival, 2-4 Club. Philly never had it better. All that white can Aqua Net, it's amazing only one of them burned to the ground.

the ONLY true version of this song...

Damn solid jamz, never again

Fantabulous.

Who else boppin to this in 2020? Corona n all!

First time hearing this version im more familiar with the 87/88 version!!

Thank you for posting the original version of this record, it was quite interesting. But I prefer the 1988 version.

Классная песня и группа.

ATTENTION PEOPLE I JUST POST UP THE ORIGINAL 12" it's Nightime-pretty poison (1984)

Esta mujer me vuelve loco con esta música muy linda y serxual eso me hace recordar cuando yo la escuchaba en Cuba por la FMSterio que aquello tiempo

dude, this is cool !

Great vid :)

Actually I think they were from Camden, New Jersey.

Dance Club Hall of Fame Track….

COLEY FOLEY SAYS: IS THIS THE PIC THAT WAS ON THE 12-INCHER...? (NEVER SAW THIS ONE EITHER...)

1983? They were pretty early adopters of freestyle.

Hellos to Vince and Boddy

Peter Dello Buono in the video!

Hellllll yeeeea

Holy cow that outfit

Team Alvarez~~~~~~

@UltraPOPDJ was jane from philly? i lived there and some of the land marks in the video look like some places in center city philly.... just curious.......

1962

Like the 1988 version better...Not saying this one is bad. Just love the freestyle sound is all.

I guess this version doesn't have the delectably cheesy rap in it.

LOL! She meant 1960..lol

SOUNDS LIKE = I'VE JUST HAD ENOUGH = SONG; NOW IT SOUNDS LIKE MADONNA OR CINDY LAURPA

Anyone interested in this version hit me up ASAP

@joaquinalva200

10 жыл бұрын

***** yes i just uploaded seach under pretty poison nightime 1984

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I disagree I love the 88 version better I be jamming to it on the NYC Subway

Wow, Jade likes her fetishwear doesn't she? I love it.

Madonna stole the sound and the look....but couldn't fake originality, or the true essence of the genuine nightclub freakdom...forever a vanilla pedestrian copycat.

no wonder they only had 1 hit