Paula Abdul in "Barbie Dance Club"
Barbie Dance Club is a 30-minute direct-to-video promotional VHS tape released in 1989. The video featured a Dance Club consisting of kids, ranging from 8-12 years of age, essentially giving promotion to outfits for the Mattel Barbie doll.
From the back of the cover:
Dance along to six hot songs written exclusively for Barbie.
Learn to do the Barbie dance created by Paula Abdul. (Yes! Paula herself!) She takes you step by easy step... you’ll love it! Try to guess the winners in a dance contest!
See Barbie in her own music videos and a sizzling fashion show video.
Watch interviews with the Barbie Dance Club DJ... all on home video. So put on your dancing shoes and join the fun!
Includes the following songs:
*Doin’ the Barbie
*Our Game
*Dreamin’
*Everybody’s Dancin’
*Boppin’ Away
*I Like It
Special guest appearance by pop mega-star Paula Abdul.
Singer/songwriter Stacey Piersa who would later write “Didn’t I Say I Love You” (from the Paula Abdul single “My Love Is For Real”) with Elliot Wolff appears in the video as a dancer. Elliot Wolff wrote Paula Abdul's hit songs, "Straight Up" and "Cold Hearted."
Approximate running time: 30 minutes.
Includes clips from Barbie® commercials.
Executive Producer: Ken Kauffmann
Supervising Producer: Clark Dugger
Hosted by: Dawn Merrick
Original music written and produced by: Jerry and Cheryl Caglese
Released by Mattell, Inc. 1989