Little Richard and Cindy Crawford team up for a television perfume commercial broadcast in October 1992. The BetaGems channel also has "1992 Little Richard for Taco Bell Make a Run For the Border," "Little Richard 2-15-89 television performance," "Mickey's Rock Around the Mouse 1987 Little Richard," "Little Richard 5-15-97 Curly Shuffle 3 Stooges tribute," "Little Richard 8-5-72 festival performance," "Little Richard 6-19-90 late night TV performance, 3 songs & intvw," "Little Richard meets Pee Wee Herman 1988," "Cindy Crawford & Michael Richards 1994 Pepsi ad," "1997 Revlon Cindy Crawford & supermodels TV commercial," "Michael Jackson Fragrance June 1993 TV commercial," "1988 Designer Imposters perfume TV commercial," "1989 JC Penney perfume television commercial," and "1994 Designer Imposter Fragrance television commercial."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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