PRETTY IN PINK was one of my favorite films when I was young and watching whatever late night movies TBS and USA played on Friday and Saturday nights*. Never one to mature, PRETTY is still one of my favorite things to watch on the rare wasted day. The scene above is easily one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure scenes.

This being a website about music, I feel it necessary to mention that the song actor John Cryer performs is called “Try a Little Tenderness,” sung and recorded by late, great soul singer Otis Redding. On a related note, one of Redding’s all-time classic albums, OTIS BLUE: OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL, was recently given the mondo DELUXE EDITION treatment. I know I just called the ”Duckie Dance” one of my all-time favorite scenes, but believe me when I tell you that OTIS BLUE is one of the very best soul albums ever recorded.

 *But only during the NBA’s off season.