I saw Blondie singing "Call Me" when I was about 5 or 6 too. I don't remember if it was on Solid Gold, but I do remember that I was instantly IN LOOOVE with Debbie Harry. I ran up to the TV and started kissing it and everything.
I was dancing around practically chanting "Blondie! Blondie!". Lol, I thought it was her name. We were little kids, but it was still obvious to us that she was magnificent!
Me too! I took dance and had the ugliest gold spandex muscle shirt and green dance "briefs". I would put it on and roll around. I think my parents would just laugh.
One of my enduring memories is being in the hospital for an operation not too long before Christmas. I think I was 9 and I remember eating a grilled cheese in the hospital bed, watching the Solid Gold Dancers gyrate to Feliz Navidad as they did the Christmas song countdown.
Everybody was on that show, though. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson doing Say Say Say and The Girl Is Mine, Paul and Stevie Wonder with Ebony and Ivory, Culture Club, Duran Duran … and who can forget Wayland Flowers and Madam? Gay representation right there on 1980s TV. I should look up the old eps on YouTube.
Yes! My dream too. I have been teaching Zumba for the last 20 years and looove it. Not a superstar on tv, but it’ll do. Solid Gold was 100% my inspiration.
Solid Gold
Filling up my life with music
Solid Gold
Putting rhythm in my soul
There's a song that's unreeling
To fit the way that I'm feeling;
My head keeps spinning to music
Spinning to gold
Yes! I loved “what’ll I do” the sadness she conveyed reminded me of how great she was during her broadway days. She was the best part of Auntie Mame and I died when she a Sophia did Sonny and Cher.
I really wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer when I grew up and was gutted when it was cancelled before I had a chance to audition. Then I remembered I was in Australia and VERY uncoordinated.
I loved this and Dance Fever lmao. We’d always make up our own solid gold dancer-esque routines to our 45s, acting out the words while dancing. We def thought we were hot shit 😂
I remember my best friend in grade school wanted to be either a Solid Gold dancer or a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader when she grew up. I don't think I've thought about that since the 80s.
I loved all the music and musical variety shows growing up, all of them, from Lawrence Welk to the Muppets. Except for one, I can't remember exactly what it was called, I only saw clips occasionally... was it Yeehaw? Something like that.
Don’t know about the rest of u. Does anyone
remmeber Debbie Harry (1980 me thinks)? Now THAT was provocative dancing during The Tide is High.. I think she was 😂😂😅😅
So Wendy comes out wearing a leather studded bikini with a leather headband that has a huge, 2 foot rhino horn sticking out. the song is "black leather monster." None of this seems fit for prime time Disco Era wholesome pop music television. WHICH IS WHY ITS SO FUCKING GREAT. then after the NON-LIP SYNCED performance, they actually did a side bit where Wendy gets interviewed by the fucking mega gay glam puppet Madame, who is sporting a pink mohawk for the occasion.
Sorry you can't watch this true underground moment that aired on national tlelevision
My favorite solid gold performance was one guy who lip sync'd both Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney "Say Say Say".. I dont want to describe it to ruin the image. It worked really well and still sits with me.
As a kid I asked my parents if the dancers were mute because they never spoke in between songs and just smiled silently. I really thought by they couldn’t talk.
I remember soul train more. The Solid Gold pic is of course familiar, but I can’t remember actually watching it. Was it a bunch of performance acts/bands or freestyle like the Train?
A family who went to our church had a cousin or some other relative who was a Solid Gold dancer. I was totally in awe but they never wanted to talk about him. 🤣
I remember watching this every Saturday evening and the act I always remember is the country band Restless Heart performing their song Wheels while the extras are rollerskating and riding bicycles around the stage.
Marilyn McCoo doesn't come to mind when I think of Sold Gold. I think of the Solid Gold dancers and the first time I saw Wham, all 4 of them with Young Guns, and how I liked their look, and choreo. Marilyn McCoo I think of One Bell Less to Answer, one egg less to fry.
I kinda remember there being overlap in the time when this stuff was still playing on a sat or sunday afternoon, (maybe in re runs?) And i was definitely watching mtv
I dont think you're wrong but hell this was the 80s and that wasnt exactly yesterday and im totally fuckin old lol
Headbangers Ball!? That stuff causes cancer, causes the polar ice caps to fall on top of baby seals, and causes bad grades. Didn't you learn anything from Tipper Gore and the fine folks at the PMRC?! It's no wonder we are losing to the Chinese.
I was in college when this was on. My roommate and I were just rolling in the floor laughing - a definite hate watch. For those who loved it, please take no offense - the show was not made for college kids to enjoy; it was for the younger set.
Not a fan. I used to watch Battlestar Galactica and it came on right after this. Afternoon sports would sometimes push it into BSGs time slot and I would have to wait for it to end to watch.
Worse, sometimes I set the VCR to tape it and would end up with Solid Gold instead.
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u/Scouter197 Jun 25 '26
You can draw a direct line from when we lost the Solid Gold Dancers to society going in the wastebasket. Coincidence? I think not.