Wow. I only vaguely remembered watching as a kid on the weekends in 1980, along with "dance fever". But it lasted until 1988? Jeesh, the show must have been a laughable anchronism on the airwaves. Well, that is if they had the dancers still on.
I like hearing about stuff that's available way past its prime, like Radio Shack still selling 8-track tape players.
This show is almost iconic to those of us born in the 70s. Not everyone had MTV in the 80's and it was the only way some people got to see their favorite artists.
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"laughable anchronism"??? Maybe you need a spelling lesson, you silly goose!
shareWell, I was 19 when this show first aired and most of my friends here in Hollywood who REALLY were good dancers laughed at this schlock! The lip syncing was bad, the performances truncated and was just really considered a joke by most Hollywood insiders. However, outside of So-Cal they loved it...but like most of the people here this show was as phony as a three dollar bill. The dancing and gaudy costumes were over the top even by 80's standards! I only saw male prostitutes wearing spandex in 1980-83.
shareI Rather watch solid gold over this trash they put since 1992.
especially today's garbage.
I too remember "Solid Gold" from the 1980's................
The syndicated variety-musical show had two hostesses.....
One was Marilyn McCoo from the "Fifth Dimension"
The Other was Dionne Warwick.
The show ran for eight seasons in syndicated and was seen on Saturday Nights
opposite "Hee Haw",and "The Lawrence Welk Show" not to mention that other variety show "Dance Fever"(who remembers Danny Terrio)
Solid gold was television compared to the tv crap we have to put up with today.
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I watched this program - along with "Dance Fever" - with my folks every Saturday evening in the early 80s, though not after '84, as I recall. The show was definitely cheesier than Kraft Singles, but, hey, I was 13 year-old TV junkie when it began, and not an especially hip teenager at that. It's good primarily for a laugh, now. Speaking of which, I remember seeing Adam And The Ants in late '81, and thinking, "WTF?" Also, Marilyn McCoo's plastic smile after The Plasmatics performed. Priceless!
shareBut I Rather watch it today then watch crappy current shows on TV.
Excuse me, but you are so caught up in the past, that you don't know which of today's shows are crappy and which are good. If you can figure out that, send me a message and let me know-I want a complete list! Until then, keep this little bit of urban etiquette in mind: If you're going to talk *beep* at least get your facts straight.
shareIf it lasted until 1988 then why did it not last longer than that?
I remember a radio shack where I live that was not too far away from my house where I grew up at. They closed that store down and now the only one left here where I live at is all the way across town on the North side. I have gone in there and complained about it but they said that business was not all that good on the East side of where I lived at.
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It didn't last longer than 1988 because as one person said, it was a laughable anachronism-actually it was that when it premiered in 1982. There were better shows on in the 1980s than Solid Gold, like The Tube, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Midnight Express, Top Of The Pops and Soul Train. Even American Bandstand was better than this show (the '50's to early-80's version that was on network TV, NOT the later syndicated version.)
shareNo Solid Gold did not last longer than 1988 because if it had it would have been much more comical to watch. Yes I have to agree with you that American Bandstand was great to watch when I was a kid up until I became a teenager right after 1985. I even remember some of the disco shows from the late 70's that use to be on the weekends when I was a kid. I did not turn 13 until 1985.
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