Dionne Warwick | SOLID GOLD | “Fame” (11/2/1985)
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2021
- From our 6th Season of Paramount's hit 80s TV series, "SOLID GOLD", enjoy our host, DIONNE WARWICK singing "Fame", arranged and produced by myself (Solid Gold's musical director and theme composer, Michael Miller - aka "Mickle").
The members of my SOLID GOLD band are:
Michael Miller - synthesizer
Rocky Davis - keyboards
Stewart Levin - keyboards
George Doering - guitar
John Goux - guitar
Jeff Gerson - percussion
Michael Fischer - percussion
David Edelstein - bass
Mike Baird - drums
Background singers:
Jon Joyce
Joe Pizzulo
Kipp Lennon
Deborah Davis
Sunny Wilkinson
Beth Anderson
Gail Lopata
Mitzi McCall
Myrna Matthews 
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Dionne Warwick sang the hell out of this! And the outfit and gown - Just style! Dionne Warwick at 45 years old!
....crystal clear and exquisite....classy....stylish.....timeless......cinematic....platinum quality.....
"Fame" had an excellent composition and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. It still is Solid Gold(en) after 41 years!!! Dionne Warwick gave her Dionne spin and it spun into gold, in my opinion.
You better go Miss Warwick!!
Sounds so good in her voice n style😊 After all a class woman singing It!!!Big fan of Ms. Warrick from Bangalore, India
Yes, and Warrick is her real surname, but a misspelling to Warwick on an early contract helped create her show name.
Dang! She got down.
Sound quality is awesome in this performance and Dionne’s voice is front and center. Nice
Too bad I wasn't even born when she sang this. But too blessed to hear this now❤️
Great performance. Was a November "SWEEPS" show "Solid Gold Salutes the Movies" Part 1. SWEEPS shows were aired in November, February, and May and helped to set ad rates (tv ratings). The biggest shows usually aired during sweeps. After 2 weeks of the "movies" Stevie Wonder co-hosted for 2 weeks to finish out the month of season 6 special shows.
I remember the "sweeps." That is how the local stations would set their advertising rates. With performances like this here, the "Solid Gold" stations should have been able, to borrow a line from the song, "shoot (me) straight to the top" in the ad rates due to good ratings. By the way, July was also considered a sweeps month as well. I do not hear much about sweeps like back in the 1980s, 1990s. and 2000s. "Solid Gold" was a special show, so it was "sweeps" quality every episode.
@@jasonburger3533Part of the reason sweeps isn’t as big(more on the network level) is that networks now have year round data on ratings to help set ad rates. And February has lost some of it’s luster because every year one network gets a HUGE advantage as they are airing the Super Bowl which is the biggest TV draw of the year. And in 2022 NBC got an even bigger adv ant age as they had the Winter Olympics as well as the Super Bowl. On the local level sweeps are bit more important which is why you see big news investigative stories during that month.
@@paulsonj72 The sweeps months were November, February, May, and, to a lesser extent, July. The Super Bowl was traditionally in January until 2002, when it moved to February after the 9-11 attacks and have been kept there since. The Winter Olympics traditionally have been in February. I think that the additional streaming services in more recent years is a factor in addition to what you had mentioned.
@@jasonburger3533 May sweeps are still kind of a big deal on the network level as season finales are held then. In 1980 CBS (not by design though) had a HUGE sweeps event as the episode “Who Shot JR” aired in November. That happened though because in 1980 there was an actors strike that delayed the start of the season.
Better than I would have expected.
Magical voice and perfect performance.
I love this performance!!! I particularly liked The Solid Gold Dancers circling around Dionne Warwick toward the end of the song. I also noticed early on in the song that Dionne had that smile between verses as if she really enjoyed the song.
I do have to say that, lyrically, I prefer the versions where the phrase "People will see me and die." is often sung "People will see me and cry." I think it sounds softer. Anyway, well done!!!!!!!!!!
RIP IRENE CARA
I like how D always puts her neck onto it!
Awesome
It also was an Oscar winner for best original song
Fantastic! I wonder - and hope - if the producers of this program recorded the audio channels separately with the future intention of creating a studio-quality compilation. It would be incredible.
Season 6 Aired Saturday November 2nd 1985. Dionne singing "FAME." With Solid Gold Dancers.
I didn’t see this episode as I had a full Saturday that didn’t turn out to well. My high school football team lost a round of 16 playoff game in the afternoon and that night I attended a high school volleyball match.
@@paulsonj72I was in the 8th grade at the time and had missed this episode entirely. Thank goodness for RUclips. Dionne Warwick sang this, in my opinion, as a musical love letter to Irene Cara and Dean Pitchford, which is especially more poignant since the untimely passing on of Irene in November 2022.
@@jasonburger3533 I was too and our school calendar had us playing in a section football championship game that afternoon and I was a manager so I was there. And at the same time our district girls volleyball tournament was going on and we played there that night so we went there. Just a really long day with school events.
@@paulsonj72 Yeah, I did not have a VCR at the time. With that, setting the timer, and a blank tape, I could have had my own collection of episodes of "Solid Gold", although it was a popular belief then that tape degradation would eventually disintegrate the videotapes. It would have been something to find out if the tapes, if done and properly stored, would have lasted through to the present.
She sounds like whitney
Whitney sound like Dionne. She has bits from several family members in her sound
I love that she rewore the dress from her No Night So Long performance on SG just 5 years prior!! She’s a beast and i love her
Dionne was the queen of Solid Gold. Sorry, when Marilyn Macoo took over she did not have Dionne's charisma and style.
Marilyn had her own style when she hosted Solid Gold don't count her out!
Sometime the truth is sad, but you were telling us the truth
Why couldn't they have this for the 1985-1986 season of the show of the same name? Loretta Chandler sang on the new recording that year for that series.
Of course there is no comparison of vocal prowess between Dionne Warwick and Irene Cara, but this song fits Dionne really well.
Michael Warren That hit a sour note with me. Dionne Warwick has a different style than Irene Cara, but she put in an effort and made it her own. I found her version just as well.
@@jasonburger3533 obviously Irene did a great job, hence the Grammys and Oscar accolades.
But hearing Dionne, she could have very well recorded that song for the movie and did just as well if not better.
@@michaelwarren7962 I agree completely with your statement here. I am glad that you were able to reconsider and give Dionne Warwick credit as it is due. Those "Solid Gold" covers performed by all the variety of hosts and co-hosts on that variety show could have recorded them and sold a lot of hits. I do not know why they did not, since all the hosts and co-hosts on "Solid Gold" were famous and talented and were wonderful choices to host and sing songs, such as "Fame" in this clip. Dionne Warwick really gave her own version here and it shows. Dionne gave honor to Irene Cara and "Solid Gold" lyricist, Dean Pitchford, who won a major award for the "Fame" theme song, and rightfully so.
Irene Cara did a superb version of "Fame" and the "Flashdance...What A Feeling" theme as well, including the extended-length version, that had been performed on the 1983 countdown "Solid Gold" episode. It would have been interesting had Dionne sung that theme on "Solid Gold."
By the way, for the 1982-1987 television series "Fame," Erica Gimpel, who played Coco, the part that Irene Cara had played in the 1980 film, had recorded the theme that was used for the television series. The series creators and producers had wanted Irene to play Coco on the show, but had reportedly turned it down for movie roles. She could have done well on that show, but she chose the movies.
Incidentally, the line "people will see my and die" for the television series theme had been changed to "people will see me and cry," which I had not noticed until recently and still sounds better to me, a bit softer.
Thank you for your response.
Vocal prowess? Are you trying to say that Irene Cara is a better vocalist than Dionne Warwick?
@@bigzach1000I hope that’s not what he’s saying because Dionne is really one of the best when it comes to voice control & song interpretation
Sing Ms. Iconic Dionne!!! Big eeyzz. U went M I A on me. I did a friend request of FB. U didn't accept yet.
Could have been better if she recorded this as her cover.
excelent voice but Irene Cara version is unbeatable
It's a shame she did not take care of her instrument.