It's He Can't Love You by the Michael Stanley Band was a regional success in the midwest during the seventies and eighties. Nobody outside of that area really cared about them except for a few minor singles they had, the biggest of the bunch being this one, which reached #33 on the Billboard Charts in 1981. . I don't know why - they were quite good and they recorded Lover, a song that should be considered an all time classic, if only for the line "Thank God for the man who put the white lines on the highway." That's one of my favorite lyrics in any song ever. It's just fantastic.
Anyway, the video...
So we got blue collar guys working in some kind of warehouse, eighties hair and a guy getting hospitalized because his dumb ass wasn't paying attention to the forklift coming up behind him with big boxes because he was busy dreaming about his band leader making out with a sexy nurse. That's how workplace accidents happen. Then his bandmates come in and revive him with guitar and saxophone. Then a bunch of nurses are dancing and... It's just a music video. It doesn't have to make sense.
For the record, the singer on this song isn't Michael Stanley, it's the band's keyboardist, Kevin Raleigh. For the record, Michael Stanley is the leather jacket wearing guitarist with the beard.
Things to look out for - the guy wailing on the saxophone like it owes him money. That guy's not playing that saxophone. The sax on this song is played by the late great Clarence Clemmons of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band.
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