she recorded this as the intro to the movie "Mary And Rhoda" in 1999 (which aired in 2000). The hope was that the movie would do well enough on TV to jump start a "Mary and Rhoda" TV series picking up on their lives in New York as single parents in their 50's. Sadly the movie didn't do as well as the net work hoped and they did not greenlight a series. But for those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend you go watch it. One last hurrah with Mary and Rhoda playing those classic characters over 20 years later❤
This just kicks a**. I feel like she was straight on top of her game for this. When she looks at the camera (yes, she's winking at her hero), you can just feel the Love and raw power she brought this night.
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There was also a produced video for the studio recording of "Love Is All Around" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, which was only released as a single (never on a studio album) and on a later greatest hits compilation. From what I read, Jett was persuaded to record the tune (to which she also added a verse) as a positive message about women's participation in sports, I think motivated by the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The video was in regular rotation on MTV back in 1996-97 (when MTV still aired actual music videos, the "M" in MTV). I know I have it on a VHS tape somewhere. But it would be a major task to find it now. Let's hope Miss Jett or someone will eventually upload a good copy of that video for "Love Is All Around" sometime soon, in honor of the recently deceased American television icon Mary Tyler Moore. Also, Jett was not the first to record a rock version of "Love Is All Around." That honor goes, appropriately enough, to the defunct Minneapolis band Hüsker Dü , who recorded the tune as a B-side to "Makes No Sense at All," the A-side the sole single from the band's 1985 album "Flip Your Wig."
Great post. About 16 years ago I was looking for this cover before I knew who Joan Jett was. I heard the theme on ESPN for a woman’s college basketball commercial with North Carolina Tar Heels in like 97. I looked for it heavy. Then looked for “Love is all around” and I just followed the bullet. But it was that ESPN commercial that made me love this song because it went perfectly with the clips shown
@j0138 IMDB: Episode dated 20 May 1996 . RU-vid; FULL EPISODE(Singing at 37 : 24) ... LATE SHOW with David Letterman 20 Years Ago Today! Fran Drescher Brian Regan Joan Jett FULL SHOW
IMDB: Episode dated 20 May 1996 . RU-vid; FULL EPISODE(Singing at 37 : 24) ... LATE SHOW with David Letterman 20 Years Ago Today! Fran Drescher Brian Regan Joan Jett FULL SHOW
