'Laura Ingalls' danced very well! Let us not forget she did very well on Dancing With The Stars, so Ms. Gilbert always had rhythm. I actually like the disco arrangement of this show tune classic. This may be a slice of 1970s cheese, but I love cheese!
This posting always makes me laugh. it's so cheesy and fun. It's not something that is high art. She WAS doing those steps. She didn't stumble. She got them all right. Many people don't realize how much it takes to put on a show - even one that is cheesy. It's not easy to sing, dance, look like you are doing it easily and look like you are having fun. You go Melissa. You were really stretching and living.
I saw this on TV-- I was 11. Why did I look it up now, at age 52? To see if it was just as corny as I remember it. Yep, sure is. (BTW, Thanks for posting--RUclips is a national treasure).
I don't know how anyone who grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie" could NOT love this! Sure, she sang like Laura Ingalls, but she had some good moves and was absolutely adorable. I'm 54 and I've NEVER looked that good dancing. Well, except that one time, but no one was around to see it.
All the big entertainment critics commenting below have so much to say. The girl was 14 years old, people. How many 14 year old's do you know who could do a 4 minute dance routine like that?? Please consider her age, very few of us were professionally complete at age 14. That routine was amazing. Can you imagine how much practice went into that?
That's nice of you to say, but every 14 year old that's on Drill Team or dance production or ballet or cheerleading has to learn routines like this. Don't underestimate our kids!
Half Pint. How different you are and yet, the face, the hair and the voice are the same. You have such great energy and I am so glad that I found this video. I think I'll watch some more. Love you!!!
I remember watching Melissa dancing on this show when I was 12 years old in '78 it really cracked me up didn't know she was a dancer & singer too but Melissa really was the teen idol in those days from lhotp
I grew up in the 1970s watching Little House On The Prarie, I would never miss it, and I would have been glued to the TV set watching this, how could I not? I was an American kid from that era.
This is at once utterly delightful and extremely painful in that way only '70s variety shows are. I'm sure Ms. Gilbert is mortified by this clip, but at the same time, it does demonstrate that she was a decent enough hoofer. The singing, well ... she could dance. She's not out of tune, but it's a kid voice.
For those saying, Melissa Gilbert couldn't dance, they should take some ballet lessons because one can see that she was able to make sweeping lifts and pirouettes. You need to know how to do splits to lift your leg high and fix your eyes on a selected point as you spin around to avoid getting dizzy. I saw Melissa's eyes fixed on something in front as she turned around just like what a ballerina would do.
Yes, people who DO dance can see obviously that Melissa had solid training. She is spotting her turns, and her quality of movement & her lines are those of a dancer, even in a fast, jazzy piece & a disco outfit. She’s hitting every move in a lovely way, all while singing live (or lip sync’ing well to her own voice), and largely keeping her space in between two grown male dancers. Not to mention, spinning and turning with her hair down and long. All while smiling and giving her joy to the world. Brava, litltle Melissa. You should be proud of your past self. I can’t imagine when she had the time to take dance classes regularly, but she is somehow trained. Good on her! Some commenters don’t know what they don’t know. Glad some folks here can see that she had real chops, which don’t happen out of nowhere; they’re built from training.
Because the tastes of the general public are fickle, and also because disco was completely overexposed when it was at its peak. My older friend says "everything was disco this and disco that." People just got sick of it.
I love that you’re curious ! Great question! Because there was always a musical competition between rock and disco. And rock continued on (morseo in the form of “pop”). Disco was fantastic, but it was more than just music, it was a style, and at the end of the day, musicians/bands/singers//song-writers couldn’t be limited to one genre of expression. Rock/Popular/Folk/Contemporary was more flexible and broader. Still, disco might return one day to some degree, as a mix of nostalgia and novelty.
@@JourneyBold Disco is already back. Recent disco songs from the U.S. and UK by artists including Chic, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jamiroquai, Bruno Mars, Luxxury, Patawawa, etc. all catalogued at the Disco Savvy website.
This is the same year the Star Wars Christmas Special came out. I am convinced there was a batch of some very wacky weed going around Hollywood at this time.
I love love love Melissa Gilbert my favorite actress of all time on my favorite TV show Little House on the Prairie singing If They Could See Me Now the disco song I love it the best ever!!!! I can dance and sing the song all day long!!!! Thanks for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!! I love the 70s!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!!
it always amazes me how styles that are so on point and loved at one point in time are considered totally ugly or ridiculous within just a few yrs. I am 2 yrs younger than Melissa Gilbert and I LOVED the clothes the Brady girls wore on their show, the clothes Marie Osmond wore on her show, and I am sure I would have loved this green outfit MG is wearing here. But a 12 yr old girl now would blind herself before she would put this on!
I loved the clothes the teen Brady girls wore,too. And I especially loved the super cute outfits/dresses that Mrs. Brady wore! SHe was one stylish mother! Melissa Gilbert and I are one month apart in age, and I definitely would have LOVED rocking this green satin outfit in 8th grade!!
She actually moves VERY WELL as a dancer, but the arrangement of that song was HORRENDOUS. It's a great song--it was used in the movie "Sweet Charity" with Shirley MacLaine--but yuck, setting it to disco. And disco's fine, but not with that song.
No word of snark, I am genuinely fascinated by the distinctively 1970s/80s habit of taking something countercultural and flattening it for the mainstream. It’s still happening today, of course, but the way they did it back then is astounding to me.
Strange comment. What specifically are you claiming is “counter-cultural” about this musical theater song? It’s not like they were singing and dancing to a Parliament/Funkadelic song or a Beatnik poem.
According to Kasey Kasem of American Top 40...Baby Face was the most recorded song since Al Joelson..."every decade since,has had someone record the song to the 80's.
@@kayumochi Exactly what I was talking about: watching something underground and counterculture as disco music getting swallowed up by the mainstream for a Sweet Charity cover
A master class in choreography for a non-dancing star. Notice Melissa is dressed to match the background while the two real dancers are in bright white. All difficult moves are done by the pro dancers. And it all works to make Melissa appear to be a dancer. Hats off to Melissa's commitment to the segment and kudos to the Choreographer.
Your comment is pretty clueless, overall. The choreography is indeed good for this segment, but Melissa is not a “non-dancer”. If you were a real dancer, you’d know that. You’d be able to see more closely what you’re viewing, versus spouting know-it-all nonsense. Also, your hypothesis about the costumes is weak and ridiculous.
There are TV & movie stars that have musical theatre on their resume's so this MIGHT not have been such a stretch for her. It's just something that many have never seen "Half-Pint" do before if she ever had prior experience.
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'Laura Ingalls' danced very well! Let us not forget she did very well on Dancing With The Stars, so Ms. Gilbert always had rhythm. I actually like the disco arrangement of this show tune classic. This may be a slice of 1970s cheese, but I love cheese!
She is one of the most charismatic actresses in the world. Melissa Gilbert i am fan of you!!!!!!!
This posting always makes me laugh. it's so cheesy and fun. It's not something that is high art. She WAS doing those steps. She didn't stumble. She got them all right. Many people don't realize how much it takes to put on a show - even one that is cheesy. It's not easy to sing, dance, look like you are doing it easily and look like you are having fun. You go Melissa. You were really stretching and living.
All those steps in those boots, as well! Couldn't have been easy, but she looks like she's having a blast!
I saw this on TV-- I was 11. Why did I look it up now, at age 52? To see if it was just as corny as I remember it. Yep, sure is. (BTW, Thanks for posting--RUclips is a national treasure).
I'm 54 now..did the same thing... I thought it was a dream...more like a nightmare.
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You said it!!♥️🤣
I don't know how anyone who grew up watching "Little House on the Prairie" could NOT love this! Sure, she sang like Laura Ingalls, but she had some good moves and was absolutely adorable. I'm 54 and I've NEVER looked that good dancing. Well, except that one time, but no one was around to see it.
Wayne Chapman nellie could prob. Outdo her. Completely tarded.
@@peggycreek449 let's not use the r slur, misspelled or not
@@peggycreek449 she’s more famous then you will ever be
She's just so versatile and so talented🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅👏👏👏👏
@@shannonlynn3811 Money does not make someone better than anyone else. she may have money, but girl can NOT sing. Loved her on Little House tho....
Oh my god melissa gilbert is so beautiful
Nellie Oleson gave this video two thumbs down...
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I just can't stop watching this
I either read or heard that she regretted doing this, but I have to say, I'm impressed!
I think the dancing is much better than the singing, although the singing is not that bad.
@@youtubeuser4181 The singing is pretty good. Can you imagine Batgirl singing this song?
So happy Laura lived long enough to discover disco... Little House in the prairie was probably the best show ever made.
With you on that
Melissa said in a TV Biography that she was embarrassed by this performance but I feel she held her own
Come on, Melissa Gilbert. You were great at it. I can even imagine Batgirl (BTAS) singing it.
I agree. I liked it. Really cute and it lifted my spirits.
Perfect dancing! My God! Melissa Gilbert was a very talented kid.
She had the cutest voice. Look how young. Aww
All the big entertainment critics commenting below have so much to say. The girl was 14 years old, people. How many 14 year old's do you know who could do a 4 minute dance routine like that?? Please consider her age, very few of us were professionally complete at age 14. That routine was amazing. Can you imagine how much practice went into that?
PC Music Radio yes sir i agree. 👍
That's nice of you to say, but every 14 year old that's on Drill Team or dance production or ballet or cheerleading has to learn routines like this. Don't underestimate our kids!
Moses Berkowitz My daughter danced for 14 years; two of those years she was on a competition team. It’s amazing what our kids can do.
anyone can do that if they practice at it
lol,, and they have a kid singing a song about prostitution yet,,, thats corrupt hollywood for ya
I've never seen this before. Great job Melissa!! you look like you had fun doing that dance with cute boys on your side......lucky girl.
Melissa Gilbert herself has seen this upload! Her response was: "OMG! Adolescence at its worst!"
eyeh8nbc she sucks. Look in like a Damn beaver. 👎 👎
fuck you
@@peggycreek449
Well, videos of adolescence at its best aren't permitted on RUclips.
I could see Melissa going on The Masked Singer.
There cant be adolescene at its best!
OMG this girl was so fun.
Half Pint. How different you are and yet, the face, the hair and the voice are the same. You have such great energy and I am so glad that I found this video. I think I'll watch some more. Love you!!!
WOW I remember watching this when it first ran. Can't believe it's on RUclips.
She could have also been a good dancer. She is so pretty and beautiful. I like her hairstyle and It really suits her
Dancing Great! Song OH HELL NO!
What do you have against this song ?
Mrs Olsen is having a heart attack.
Beautiful Melissa gilbert ❤️❤️ I love you so much ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
Que linda ! ❤💜💚
She’s a talented dancer! 💃🕺
I remember watching Melissa dancing on this show when I was 12 years old in '78 it really cracked me up didn't know she was a dancer & singer too but Melissa really was the teen idol in those days from lhotp
I grew up in the 1970s watching Little House On The Prarie, I would never miss it, and I would have been glued to the TV set watching this, how could I not? I was an American kid from that era.
I love her she was great on the show
God, the ‘70s was a wonderfully weird time.
Wow this is awesome! She was so cute! So funny.
Adorable ...love her!
This is at once utterly delightful and extremely painful in that way only '70s variety shows are. I'm sure Ms. Gilbert is mortified by this clip, but at the same time, it does demonstrate that she was a decent enough hoofer. The singing, well ... she could dance. She's not out of tune, but it's a kid voice.
For those saying, Melissa Gilbert couldn't dance, they should take some ballet lessons because one can see that she was able to make sweeping lifts and pirouettes. You need to know how to do splits to lift your leg high and fix your eyes on a selected point as you spin around to avoid getting dizzy. I saw Melissa's eyes fixed on something in front as she turned around just like what a ballerina would do.
Yes, people who DO dance can see obviously that Melissa had solid training.
She is spotting her turns, and her quality of movement & her lines are those of a dancer, even in a fast, jazzy piece & a disco outfit. She’s hitting every move in a lovely way, all while singing live (or lip sync’ing well to her own voice), and largely keeping her space in between two grown male dancers. Not to mention, spinning and turning with her hair down and long. All while smiling and giving her joy to the world. Brava, litltle Melissa. You should be proud of your past self.
I can’t imagine when she had the time to take dance classes regularly, but she is somehow trained.
Good on her!
Some commenters don’t know what they don’t know.
Glad some folks here can see that she had real chops, which don’t happen out of nowhere; they’re built from training.
She was adorable then and still is today
Now that alone would have one dancing with the stars. This is too cute.
I couldn't have done this at 14. I think it's impressuve.
I'm totally imagining the dancers are Patrick and Matthew Labyorteaux, aka Andy Garvey and Albert Ingalls, haha.
I was wondering why they weren’t!
OMG! This is like the most 70s video I've ever seen for today!
HALF-PINT!!!!!!!!!!! SHAKIN YOUR GROOVE THING!!!!!!!
😂😂😂
Cute! I liked it!
I love it, so cute!!
My favorite video on RUclips :)
That was great
Melissa de joven es recontra-hermosa 💙💙💙😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤❤❤
She was a great dancer too! She was such a cute and talented girl. Loved watching her shows and movies. Infectious personality!
Kyell. ❤️.
This is why I will always love the 70's!
I saw this when it aired!
Cool 😎
Laura sings here beautiful
this has to be somebody's fault.
yes,,i think its very corny ,typical 70s trash
i like corny
Was this like the '70s version of Dancing with the Stars?
@@kay8698 you are talking stupid Nonsense.
Wow this gal was very talented. I thought she did very well with this.
I love this!!!!!!!!!!
What a talented girl! Melissa Gilbert I am fun of you!
As the only kid nowadays that loves little house, I was so pleased seeing this and it begs the question, Why did disco die?
Because the tastes of the general public are fickle, and also because disco was completely overexposed when it was at its peak. My older friend says "everything was disco this and disco that." People just got sick of it.
@@TheMediaHoarder thanks!
I love that you’re curious ! Great question! Because there was always a musical competition between rock and disco. And rock continued on (morseo in the form of “pop”). Disco was fantastic, but it was more than just music, it was a style, and at the end of the day, musicians/bands/singers//song-writers couldn’t be limited to one genre of expression. Rock/Popular/Folk/Contemporary was more flexible and broader. Still, disco might return one day to some degree, as a mix of nostalgia and novelty.
@@JourneyBold Disco is already back. Recent disco songs from the U.S. and UK by artists including Chic, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jamiroquai, Bruno Mars, Luxxury, Patawawa, etc. all catalogued at the Disco Savvy website.
This is the same year the Star Wars Christmas Special came out. I am convinced there was a batch of some very wacky weed going around Hollywood at this time.
It was actually the Holiday Special, with the specific holiday being Life Day.
I love love love Melissa Gilbert my favorite actress of all time on my favorite TV show Little House on the Prairie singing If They Could See Me Now the disco song I love it the best ever!!!! I can dance and sing the song all day long!!!! Thanks for posting this video!!!! I love it!!!! I love the 70s!!! Can you dig it!!!!!!!
Hermosa!!!
Anyone ever seen the video of Michael Landon singing on one of these type of shows when he was on Bonanza?
He was on Hullabaloo in the 60s, and that episode is on the first DVD volume.
it always amazes me how styles that are so on point and loved at one point in time are considered totally ugly or ridiculous within just a few yrs. I am 2 yrs younger than Melissa Gilbert and I LOVED the clothes the Brady girls wore on their show, the clothes Marie Osmond wore on her show, and I am sure I would have loved this green outfit MG is wearing here. But a 12 yr old girl now would blind herself before she would put this on!
jungefrau 😂😂😂
I loved the clothes the teen Brady girls wore,too. And I especially loved the super cute outfits/dresses that Mrs. Brady wore! SHe was one stylish mother! Melissa Gilbert and I are one month apart in age, and I definitely would have LOVED rocking this green satin outfit in 8th grade!!
So true. I wouldn't want to have grown up in any other era. The 70's were the best!!!!
Every bad sound effect from 70’s music is all in this one song.😝
2020s is so bad efect! 😝 70s is best🕺🏼💃🏿🎶
She actually moves VERY WELL as a dancer, but the arrangement of that song was HORRENDOUS. It's a great song--it was used in the movie "Sweet Charity" with Shirley MacLaine--but yuck, setting it to disco. And disco's fine, but not with that song.
There was actually a wonderful disco interpretation of that song the same year, 1978, by Linda Clifford. ruclips.net/video/JB11xXzejZE/видео.html
OMG! This is so embarrassingly tacky 70’s!! And, I’m so here for it!!!
Unfortunately her voice is very much like a chipmunk... and sadly just like Annette Funecellos!
Melisa Gilbert what memories, she has always accompanied me almost all my life, since I saw her for the first time on television.
No word of snark, I am genuinely fascinated by the distinctively 1970s/80s habit of taking something countercultural and flattening it for the mainstream.
It’s still happening today, of course, but the way they did it back then is astounding to me.
Strange comment. What specifically are you claiming is “counter-cultural” about this musical theater song? It’s not like they were singing and dancing to a Parliament/Funkadelic song or a Beatnik poem.
According to Kasey Kasem of American Top 40...Baby Face was the most recorded song since Al Joelson..."every decade since,has had someone record the song to the 80's.
@@JourneyBold Not a strange comment at all. Everything was infused with disco then, and before it went mainstream it was indeed countercultural.
@@kayumochi Exactly what I was talking about: watching something underground and counterculture as disco music getting swallowed up by the mainstream for a Sweet Charity cover
She is amazing!
Who is here in 2020 🤣😂🤣😂
2021. I know, I'm late.
I am here 👍👍
The 2 dancers have just celebrated 38 years together as a couple.
Terry Prideauxn noooo? For real? And people nowadays get surprise about anything. Good old days!
YOURE JOKING- THE BACKUP DANCERS!?
@@lisette_coreas i know the couple. They live in NYC
aww little half pint
This is confusing. My brain simply can’t process 😂
YES QUEEN HALF-PINT! SHAKE IT HON! SHAKE IT!
A master class in choreography for a non-dancing star. Notice Melissa is dressed to match the background while the two real dancers are in bright white. All difficult moves are done by the pro dancers. And it all works to make Melissa appear to be a dancer. Hats off to Melissa's commitment to the segment and kudos to the Choreographer.
Your comment is pretty clueless, overall. The choreography is indeed good for this segment, but Melissa is not a “non-dancer”. If you were a real dancer, you’d know that. You’d be able to see more closely what you’re viewing, versus spouting know-it-all nonsense. Also, your hypothesis about the costumes is weak and ridiculous.
She did take dance, since she was 3. She is executing all her turns and leaps. You must not have knowledge of dance.
Gotta love the two queens flanking her
LOL!!!!
Did Dick Clark introduce her as Melinda Gilbert??
He said Melissa Gilbert
If this was me, expect voice cracks and wailing arms.
I'm a huge disco fan, but please shoot me.
Linda Clifford had the hit single!!
In an interview I just watched, Melissa Gilbert said she hoped no one would ever watch this.
How recent was it? Did she mention this specific upload?
Then she shouldn’t have gone on national television and done it duh 🙄
Loved this. But yeah....the moves were a bit provocative for that young age. Was done well though.
This is one thing I want side of Melissa Gilbert's we don't even know about we find out about
Half pint how adorable.
Laura!
Who are the boys... were they actors or just extras dancers?
This song was the go to for a disco remake during the 70's....😂
I forgot to took up bailey so she has great moves
This is just awful, love her, love LHOTP one of my all time favorite shows, but this is just awful,,,,,,When white people attack,,,,,,
I want to know where the 2 dancers are today.
me too
Gotta love all those dance breaks
Cool, Melissa Gilbert....Greeting from Berlin/Germany
Melissa and boys dancing very vell
Do this is what happens when you leave Walnut Grove for WeHo ! ❤❤❤❤
Melissa gilbert-laura ingalls
Not trying to be funny but I'm just wondering if she was contractually obligated to do this🙄
There are TV & movie stars that have musical theatre on their resume's so this MIGHT not have been such a stretch for her. It's just something that many have never seen "Half-Pint" do before if she ever had prior experience.
I can imagine Melissa laughs her bootie off when she watches this today
I hope y’all will reply to this were the male dancers some of the regular dancers on American Bandstand ??????!!!!
I love when they say "Woo" 0:25 1:49 😂
She looks so happy to get out of that prairie dress and show another side of her.
At Least She Was Looking Pretty . . .
Very cool ! Great thanks for this add ! :)
This is as cringy as it gets. Sorry I saw this again, I had forgotten how bad this really was……😢😢😢😢😢😢
Gotta move it! Gotta move on! Gotta move it! Gotta move on!! 🎶