The Rose (Starsky & Hutch vid)

The Rose by Kendra Hunter and Diana Barbour is one of the earliest songvids made with live action TV footage. It is also one of the earliest Starsky & Hutch fan vids. 
An example of how this song is imbedded in the Starsky & Hutch fandom is The Lucky and the Strong, a zine which gets its title from the lyrics.
==A Bit of "Rose" Cross Pollination==
* In 1978, Amanda McBroom portrayed the character "Lizzie Thorpe" in the "Starsky & Hutch" episode, "Discomania."
* In 1979, Amanda McBroom wrote the song, "The Rose."
* In 1980, Kendra Hunter and Diana Barbour created the "Starsky and Hutch" vid, "The Rose."
 
==A Single Clip and Technical Challenges==
In this vid, Kendra Hunter and Diana Barbour timed a single unedited clip from the episode "Starsky's Lady" to the song to the scene where Starsky & Hutch open the gifts left to them by the woman that Starsky had been in love with, one who had died two weeks before. It's a scene instantly familiar to fans of the show. 
Due to the technical limitations of the time (VTRs without flying eraseheads) or the ability to make edits to the tape without also distorting the audio, the clip had to run without interruption or cuts. Many fans who are used to more modern vids with faster editing have said the internal timing of the clip, which matches each line of the lyrics to an eerie degree, in connection with Bette Midler's emotional song, still has the power to affect them decades later. As reported by Flamingo who attended Sharecon 2000 where the vid was shown at the start of the convention vid show.
File:42 370.JPG|Kenneth Hutchinson - screencap from the scene in "Starsky's Lady" from Cindy's Starsky and Hutch Screen Captures
File:42 372.JPG|David Starsky - screencap from the scene in "Starsky's Lady" from Cindy's Starsky and Hutch Screen Captures 
==A SH Anthem==
Over time, the song used in the vid became an anthem of sorts to Starsky & Hutch fans and was sung by attendees at the end of the Zebracon Saturday night dinner. This vid is also shown at SHareCon. On occasion, the song was dedicated to the memory of those fans who had passed the year before. 
While most fans embraced this practice, others felt it reminded them of campfire or church singing and made them feel awkward and uncomfortable. From Morgan Dawn's personal notes, as she overheard fans talking after the dinner at Zebracon 1997, accessed April 16, 2011. 
At least one fan was mystified after being enmeshed in the communal sing of this vid at Escapade 1997. She tells Pros fans in Discovered In A Letterbox #1: "I thought this might interest you, as a description of an American slash con. Escapade is unusual in the wonderfulness of panels it has but ZebraCon would be much the same format with a play and a party on Saturday night (and a traditional group singing of "The Rose," which has some arcane S/H significance)."
==Some Fan Comments==
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==The Lyrics==
The lyrics were printed in the program book for ZebraCon in 1991 as well as in the zine Renascence .
Image:theroselyrics.jpg|lyrics printed in the ZebraCon 1991 program book
Image:therosepage.jpg|a fan writes about the importance of the song in SH fandom in Renascence
==References==
Category:Starsky & Hutch VidsCategory:Slash Vids
Category:1980 Vids