Shelley in a promo pic
for Single Bars, Single Women, 1984
Shelley starred in the TV movie Single Bars, Single Women in 1984. Shelley starred as Frankie, a truck-stop waitress looking to move on from her former flame Gabe (Paul Michael Glaser). The film explored the bar scene as seen in the eyes of women. It was a time when gender roles were evolving and the rules of dating were changing... fast. No longer in need of escorts and chaperones, women could now go bar-hopping alone to meet the men they wanted to meet. Women were becoming more confident in going out on their own and looking for love and companionship. Tony Danza, Keith Gordon, Christine Lahti, Mare Winningham and Kathleen Wilhoite completed the cast. It was directed by Shelley's future hubby Harry Winer.
The Basil Poledouris Collection - Vol. 2
compact disc included music from the TV movie
Single Bars, Single Women
The TV movie was further enhanced by the musical scoring of American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores Basil Poledouris... whose work includes scores for the films Conan the Barbarian (1982), Red Dawn (1984), Iron Eagle (1986), RoboCop (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993), Starship Troopers (1997) and Les Misérables (1998). Poledouris was a Primetime Emmy Award winner and was a four-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award. Music from the TV movie Single Bars, Single Women have been complied in The Basil Poledouris Collection - Vol. 2 compact disc (released in 2017) along with the music from another TV movie Prison for Children, which was also scored by Poledouris. The tracks used in Single Bars, Single Women that were included in the cd are as follows:
track # 17 - Main Theme
track # 18 - Elsie Departs
track # 19 - Going Home
track # 20 - Frankie and Gabe
track # 21 - Reconciliation
track # 22 - Finale/End Credits
track # 23 - Last Call
