[ghporter]

I saw part of a video today, and heard much of the lyrics, but it was a busy place and it was hard to hear. The video ended without any notation of who was singing or what the song was.

The video's setting is a 1930s women's prison exploitation movie. The singer is blond with relatively short hair. There is a LOT of dancing. Much of the lyric content of the video is done by the singer in front of a very old style studio mic with a backdrop of newspapers with sensational headlines. The video ends with a failed "run for the gate" by all the women, with the singer getting through the inner gates but being stopped before she got to the outer gate.

I liked the music, the delivery and the style of the video, and I liked the singer a lot. Given that I don't often see music videos at all, I am completely clueless about who the singer is and what the song is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[- - e r i k - -]

…any lyrics at all would be helpful

[ghporter]

Good point, but that's the problem...It sounds like the singer's talking about "Betty Lou" but I haven't managed to catch any other lyrics distinctly enough to even guess at them. I saw the video in a department store electronics section (a Sears, in fact), and there was enough hubub and background noise for the volume level to be just above inaudible...

[Sherman Homan]

I suspect that the reason no one has posted an answer yet is because they are still busy going over the google hits when they typed in "prison girls dance"...

[ghporter]

You're probably right...