National Call Your Mother Day
Once upon a time, Dick Clark Productions would have various TV specials like ones called, Superstars and Their Moms. That's what this -- aired in 1987 for Mothers Day -- is from. It's part of a longer clip which, despite the heading, is pretty far from being all that interesting a "punk" and Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad's mom. (Unless your definition of "punk" is -- "Here, mom, we want to sing one of your poems that we had underscoring put to.)
However, the portion at the end of the clip is fun in an odd, offbeat way -- sports stars of the era singing a rewritten version of the Stevie Wonder song, "I Just Called to Say I Love You," to their mothers, and what keeps it from being too cloying is that it is indeed offbeat, and often off-key.
If I've edited this correctly, it should start at the song. If not, you can just jump to the 5:51 mark
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