Home Town Talent

Friday Night Videos

Even though Dance Fever with Deney Tarrio came on Saturday evenings, I couldn’t resist adding it for this weeks installment of Friday Night Videos and hurtling you back through time and plopping you down in your iron on t-shirt (add your favorite character), track shorts with the white piping and matching tube socks on your shag carpet in front of your console tv complete with 8 track player. So get up and dance like you got the fever.



What are the chances that I would go looking for a Dance Fever clip to share with you today and that they would be home town talent? Go figure. The blog gods must be feeling especially generous. I hope you enjoy Denise and John cut a rug as much as I did. You know they were practicing for months in the finished basement (complete with mirrored bar) of Denise’s split level that she shares with hubby Paul out there in Inver Grove Heights. Denise must be John’s hairdresser and one day while she was giving him a perm and highlights they came up with the idea to audition for Dance Fever (besides they were running out of talent shows to enter in the Twin Cities and wanted to branch out nationally). John was hoping that this appearance would catapult his “acting” career into the big time. Unfortunately, after losing to a couple from Detroit (the score was close but I think it was the distracting shower curtains they chose to wear as costumes that ultimately did them in) they returned home to their guaranteed fan base. John did a few shows at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater before giving up his dream of acting. I think I saw him working at the Menards in Fridley. Denise now teaches cosmetology at Scott Lewis.