Today you know her as CoCo Carmel. Back then, you knew her as Honey B. Divine. Or, more likely, as Kim. She wasn't always married to Bobby Whitlock. In 1983, she was married to Peter Gorham, the very short guy with whom she formed a San Diego-based duo called The Coopers, who would later change their name to Swanky Modes. They got a bit of national attention when their well-made music video, "Teeny Men," made the cut for "Basement Tapes" (with your host, seen here, Martha Quinn). It was broadcast nationwide on the second episode of Season 2 on November 9, 1983, an episode which also featured a then-unknown Yanni making his national television debut as a member of Chameleon. Dumped into the don't-vote-for-this slot, suffice to say, nobody did. Why exactly they were in the don't-vote-for-this slot when they had one of the best songs and videos on the show up to that point, when the network that broadcast the program was blatantly rigging the October and December '83 shows for Southern California acts and when they went on to rig almost every episode in 1984 for females to win, is beyond me, but then nobody asked me to sequence the episode. It wasn't sequenced well, and let's just leave it at that.

After their crushing defeat, Swanky Modes became the house band at The Manhattan in the Santa Monica Mall from 1984 to 1985.

Kim and Peter later relinquished the band name to the 1988 picture, "Tapeheads," which incorporated some of their actual real-life history into the film's plot -- such as the fact that they were the house band at The Manhattan.

Swanky Modes were:
Honey B. Divine (Kim Carmel Gorham) - lead vocals, saxophone, flute, keyboards, bass
Peter Gorham - guitar, bass

"Teeny Men" written and produced by Kim and Peter Gorham. Video produced by Swanky Modes and directed by Marty Lopez.

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