Michael Nesmith - Cruisin' (AI upscale, alternate audio mix)

Directed by William Dear, 1981. This clip was included in "Elephant Parts," a Grammy-winning collection of sketch comedy and music videos.

Many people believed (perhaps still do) that Hulk Hogan played Sunset Sam, a fact compounded by Nesmith mistakenly telling people that in 1989 before eventually correcting himself on the record years later. In fact, the actor was popularly known as Steve Strong, wrestling under the names Strangler Steve Disalvo, Sadistic Steve Strong, Billy Jack Strong, & The Minotaur throughout his career.

Ramona was apparently played by Kim Silvers, who was literally plucked off the beach to audition and got the part. She revealed this in a comment thread on YouTube, which seems to have vanished, but was documented for posterity here: https://moviechat.org/tt0082316/Eleph...

Harry Perry played the roller-skating guitar player. He was a Venice Beach fixture at the time and made frequent TV cameos: https://peoplepill.com/people/harry-p...

I've seen it claimed that Deborah Pratt played Lucy. She did appear in "Elephant Parts" (credited on IMDB like most of the performers as playing "Self") and would go on to co-create "Quantum Leap" and become extremely accomplished in the entertainment industry. But why would she be the only person from this music video who got a credit, when even Steve Strong went uncredited? I think it's clear she was part of the comedy ensemble, but the identity of the person who actually played Lucy is still a mystery.

Finally, IMDB reveals that the uncredited role of "Propositioning inflatable hooker on park bench during the song: 'lucy and ramona and their brother sunset sam'" was played by Billy Curtis, who has 119 screen acting credits to his name dating back to 1932. He passed away in 1988.

The audio here is the alternate mix included on Nesmith's "The Newer Stuff" compilation released in 1989.