Now THIS is what pop music used to look like! Today, it's certain TRASH to us oldsters, but the modern pop music is great for the younger generation! Long live the '80s!!
Only could dance if true Live performance - old standard for TV taping of music UNLESS if crowd dancing was essential to Live song. Midnight Special tried doing that for their late 70's Disco Theme shows but had to kabash or else pay crowd in addition to band's appearance. Also not having audience to dance may have been show's attempt to 1-up American Bandstands use of audience members (where they actually contributed but yet did not get paid even when contributing show dialogue. See Chuck Berry's Solid Gold truly live act and be amazed - people be dancing.
I've really enjoyed watching this video with Johnny Mathis as co-host, but was sorry to read below that a whole duet between him and Dionne Warwick has been cut. It would be really lovely to see that sometime.
They wouldn't do a show like this now. It wouldn't make it in the ratings. Back in Solid Gold's time the music industry was a HUGE part of our culture, the Solid Gold dancers were a phenomenon (no other pop music show on TV at the time had dancing like the Solid Gold dancers), celebrity culture was very different, and there were far fewer TV channels. Unlike shows like American Bandstand that were specifically produced for teens, Solid Gold drew a mixed audience that included a large adult demographic. People waited all week in anticipation of the next episode of this show. Pop music is no longer as big a part of American culture as it once was. Kids don't care about Top 40 charts anymore. The big dance clubs and block parties where people used to get together to dance and have fun are all gone. Now young people go to clubs to stand around and watch DJ's pretend to mix and scratch vinyl records to electronica or hip hop, or they hang out in hookah bars to drink and smoke. Its not about just having fun anymore. Its about image and self-indulgence. What is more, today's music industry is garbage...way too little talent and way too much sleaze. And today's 'stars' are mostly, vulgar, foul-mouthed, common trash who believe that they have the right to tell people what to think, which god to worship, and who to vote for. And they are always trying to shove their perverted and overindulgent lifestyles in everyone's face. You never have to wonder about these so-called stars. All you have to do is go on social media. They are all on there desperately trying to get attention. An updated version of Solid Gold today would automatically be WOKE. It would be more about politics and skin color than talent. The hosts and dancers would all be anti-American, anti-Caucasian, anti-male, and LBGT. The premise of the show would be ghetto, and the dancers would be mostly nasty butt shaking ho's. People who are interested in this type of WOKE content have no need to wait around all week to watch it on TV. They can watch it everyday all day on RUclips.
John Doe, you are absolutely right. With today's TV shows such as "The View", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert", it's mostly one sided: Liberal. They have guests on with all my favorites and political angeda. Mostly to the left.
Also John Doe, I remember watching "Solid Gold", along with "American Bandstand", "Soul Train", "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", "The Midnight Special", "Sha Na Na", "Friday Night Videos", and "America's Top 10" every weekend. VH1 used to air reruns of "American Bandstand", "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", "The Midnight Special", and "Solid Gold" weekday afternoons back in the late 1990's along with original shows such as "8 Track Flashback", "Pop-Up Videos", and "VH1 Archives" until they took out the music and went and change their format focusing more on reality shows.
Johnny Mathis set the record for being on the album charts the longest, was on through about 1983, then Pink FLoyd's Dark Side of the MOon ended a 14 year streak on the Billboard album charts in 1987.
their charts never matched Billboard or Cashbox...there were some songs on occasion that never made the top 40 and they would be in their top 10 sometimes..
You mean (USTH)#12🤪. Because of H&O musicianship they should have been to pick up addl writer/composer credit as the killer ARP strings almost makes it a new song. Actually when they later performed a live remake of the Temptations song they helped breathe life into the Temptations..H&O were definitely on a roll.
Never Be the Same peaked at #15 on Billboard, but hit top 10 on the SOlid Gold charts. Quite a few songs peaked in the 10s, 20s, or even 30s on Billboard Hot 100, that hit top 10 on Solid Gold's countdown. THey'd stick the song in the top 10 in some cases when the artist was appearing on the show.
Solid Gold's charts were more for fun than a true reflection of reality. And they got away with it every week because people really liked to see all the attractive celebrities on stage, and they liked Dionne Warwick,...and most of all, they LOVED to watch the nearly naked Solid Gold dancers gyrate and strut to the hits.
I've been looking for this for so long.. thank you so much for sharing. But...I was devastated that the full duet of their hits by Johnny and Dionne was not shown in it's entirety. Do you have this....and could you upload it? You would make this Mathis fan a very happy lady!
I agree, but it depends on what you define as a hit. Solid Gold's producers used the old R&R ratings to determine their weekly Top 10. R&R was an industry trade newspaper that ranked pop songs based on how much airplay the radio DJs gave them, not on how many copies of the record actually sold. Many of the songs that were featured on Solid Gold didn't really earn 'gold' status but they got a lot of airplay on radio stations that catered to 'adult contemporary' and other non-'pop' listeners. Some of them became popular enough to crossover into Billboard territory (which actually ranked hits based on sales), but many of them did not.
Now THIS is what pop music used to look like! Today, it's certain TRASH to us oldsters,
but the modern pop music is great for the younger generation! Long live the '80s!!
I miss watching Solid Gold every Saturday night 🌃 ❤
Bring back the 80's please!!
OMG!!! This is the day before I was born!!!
they edited t e e n A's performance that really ticked me off !that was my favorite song of hers r I.p. lady T!
What was the song that got muted, Sable?
How are they sitting still? I am dancing at my desk for Pete's sake!!! We were so uptight back then!
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Only could dance if true Live performance - old standard for TV taping of music UNLESS if crowd dancing was essential to Live song. Midnight Special tried doing that for their late 70's Disco Theme shows but had to kabash or else pay crowd in addition to band's appearance. Also not having audience to dance may have been show's attempt to 1-up American Bandstands use of audience members (where they actually contributed but yet did not get paid even when contributing show dialogue. See Chuck Berry's Solid Gold truly live act and be amazed - people be dancing.
Teena Marie was so pretty . And what a voice!!
I've really enjoyed watching this video with Johnny Mathis as co-host, but was sorry to read below that a whole duet between him and Dionne Warwick has been cut. It would be really lovely to see that sometime.
This show needs to be brought back, and would be perfect for primetime. I'm hoping for a revival of this show sometime in 2017 or 2018.
Today's music people (I cannot call them artists) are crap.
Same and still waiting in 2020 we need it more then ever with this pandemic of the coronavirus ☹️
They wouldn't do a show like this now. It wouldn't make it in the ratings. Back in Solid Gold's time the music industry was a HUGE part of our culture, the Solid Gold dancers were a phenomenon (no other pop music show on TV at the time had dancing like the Solid Gold dancers), celebrity culture was very different, and there were far fewer TV channels. Unlike shows like American Bandstand that were specifically produced for teens, Solid Gold drew a mixed audience that included a large adult demographic. People waited all week in anticipation of the next episode of this show.
Pop music is no longer as big a part of American culture as it once was. Kids don't care about Top 40 charts anymore. The big dance clubs and block parties where people used to get together to dance and have fun are all gone. Now young people go to clubs to stand around and watch DJ's pretend to mix and scratch vinyl records to electronica or hip hop, or they hang out in hookah bars to drink and smoke. Its not about just having fun anymore. Its about image and self-indulgence.
What is more, today's music industry is garbage...way too little talent and way too much sleaze. And today's 'stars' are mostly, vulgar, foul-mouthed, common trash who believe that they have the right to tell people what to think, which god to worship, and who to vote for. And they are always trying to shove their perverted and overindulgent lifestyles in everyone's face. You never have to wonder about these so-called stars. All you have to do is go on social media. They are all on there desperately trying to get attention.
An updated version of Solid Gold today would automatically be WOKE. It would be more about politics and skin color than talent. The hosts and dancers would all be anti-American, anti-Caucasian, anti-male, and LBGT. The premise of the show would be ghetto, and the dancers would be mostly nasty butt shaking ho's. People who are interested in this type of WOKE content have no need to wait around all week to watch it on TV. They can watch it everyday all day on RUclips.
John Doe, you are absolutely right. With today's TV shows such as "The View", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert", it's mostly one sided: Liberal. They have guests on with all my favorites and political angeda. Mostly to the left.
Also John Doe, I remember watching "Solid Gold", along with "American Bandstand", "Soul Train", "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", "The Midnight Special", "Sha Na Na", "Friday Night Videos", and "America's Top 10" every weekend. VH1 used to air reruns of "American Bandstand", "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", "The Midnight Special", and "Solid Gold" weekday afternoons back in the late 1990's along with original shows such as "8 Track Flashback", "Pop-Up Videos", and "VH1 Archives" until they took out the music and went and change their format focusing more on reality shows.
Johnny Mathis set the record for being on the album charts the longest, was on through about 1983, then Pink FLoyd's Dark Side of the MOon ended a 14 year streak on the Billboard album charts in 1987.
I’m Happy that Love Has Found You should have been huge. There is a second song by Rocky Burnette?
would have loved to been able to see Dusty Springfield's performance, which is missing :(
the elderly couple lip-syching is just adorable!
Hall and Oates Feeling cover peaked at #12 on Billboard.
their charts never matched Billboard or Cashbox...there were some songs on occasion that never made the top 40 and they would be in their top 10 sometimes..
You mean (USTH)#12🤪. Because of H&O musicianship they should have been to pick up addl writer/composer credit as the killer ARP strings almost makes it a new song. Actually when they later performed a live remake of the Temptations song they helped breathe life into the Temptations..H&O were definitely on a roll.
Get it Teena! LOL!
Never Be the Same peaked at #15 on Billboard, but hit top 10 on the SOlid Gold charts. Quite a few songs peaked in the 10s, 20s, or even 30s on Billboard Hot 100, that hit top 10 on Solid Gold's countdown. THey'd stick the song in the top 10 in some cases when the artist was appearing on the show.
Solid Gold's charts were more for fun than a true reflection of reality. And they got away with it every week because people really liked to see all the attractive celebrities on stage, and they liked Dionne Warwick,...and most of all, they LOVED to watch the nearly naked Solid Gold dancers gyrate and strut to the hits.
I was 6mths old lol wow
i have solid gold a Audio Cassette i think( i got it in 1982) from 1980 ,which i convertred to mp3
I've been looking for this for so long.. thank you so much for sharing. But...I was devastated that the full duet of their hits by Johnny and Dionne was not shown in it's entirety. Do you have this....and could you upload it? You would make this Mathis fan a very happy lady!
Got any shows when Andy Gibb was hosting?
Hi... is there no sound?
what's the point of posting this if all the music is edited out?
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luk Dionne flirting w/ johnny,no business! lol
A lot of these songs they're introducing weren't even hits.
I agree, but it depends on what you define as a hit. Solid Gold's producers used the old R&R ratings to determine their weekly Top 10. R&R was an industry trade newspaper that ranked pop songs based on how much airplay the radio DJs gave them, not on how many copies of the record actually sold. Many of the songs that were featured on Solid Gold didn't really earn 'gold' status but they got a lot of airplay on radio stations that catered to 'adult contemporary' and other non-'pop' listeners. Some of them became popular enough to crossover into Billboard territory (which actually ranked hits based on sales), but many of them did not.
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Not good sound and corny.