You may recall that we ended last month’s Video Video by commenting on the fact that that VH-1, the “adult contemporary” counterpart of MTV, seemed to have had S a real hand in helping turn Simply Red’s ‘‘Holding Back The Years” into a national hit. The song, which came out last fall, had been considered dead by all the usual industry standards but, true to its lyrics, it did indeed ‘‘keep holding on”— thanks, in no small measure, to the fact that VH-1 kept the tune in its rotation months after its Release—and, eventually, the song caught a following and began its slow but steady rise to the Top 10.

| Now we were going to just leave it at that, except that a recent glance at the charts revealed that still another song that’s (■een around for ages—Jermaine Stewart’s ‘‘We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off” jjj-also has just entered hit territory, and damned if it isn’t another one that we noticed getting fairly regular video airings on VH-1 over the past few months. So it seemed to us that, in order to keep ourselves on tfiat proverbial cutting edge of video, we’d better check back in with a report on the latest doings on the mellow video trail. Now we all know that VH-1 is geared towards an older crowd. And, with that crowd apparently asserting itself, and in the interest of global peace, we pass along the following—conversational tidbits which you may want to draw on in case you find yourself watching VH-1 with your folks and want to impress them With how much of an ‘‘interest” you’re taking in their video world: