David Bowie - Rare - Dinah Shore 1975 - Stay - clip 1

[annacramful]

Look at those legs go!!!

[HuntersMoon73]

His band was incredible! So very funky.

[DBCrowns]

@HuntersMoon73 One of the best bands he had in my opinion. Very funky.

[TheThinduke01]

the ravages of coke and the desire to crack the American market more like

[BostonHomer]

I saw his concert Boston Garden (about 1975). The stage is dark and then you hear this guitar just doing a little strumming and it just builds and builds up into the most incredible shredding on the guitar by this kid for about 5 minutes. Volume at max and he just let it go! Bowie was watching from the side of the stage in the dark, then walks onto center stage an busts out into the song. Bowie gave props to the kid after the song . The place was blown away! ! A true Professional!

[DBCrowns]

@BostonHomer I was there but are you mistaken? Is it March 76? Remember the guitar player?  wow!

[tunstead88]

He's an actor... he knew exactly how to present his music.... reinventing his theatre perfectly every time. Fantastic !.... too smart - the thin white line... do you know where is the line? what's next David Bowie?

[if66was99]

WOW!!! That clip is just TOOOOOO much!

[pinkydogbear]

Did he like men and women? Putting out - best song ever!! This song - just okay..

[DBCrowns]

@pinkydogbear one of my favorite songs.

[SuperDalton2008]

That man is the sexiest guy in the world. Seriously.

[CherieBombx]

I can't find the studio versian anywhere on youtube. ;-; any leads?

[CCRider100]

I originally HATED when Bowie disbanded The Spiders From Mars (Mick Ronson was a great guitarist and song arranger), but overall the 1975-1979 phase had perhaps the best musicians of Bowies career. This band was so tight and funky but still rocked.

[MYHOLLANDGIRL]

GREAT moves and still current to this day! Fun to watch, very nice giy too, I met him, very polite in person, sweet!

[missleslie66]

shutup



[ocelot1771]

......timeless cool......

[nmichaels71]

Oh man you love the green amoeba eating up the whole screen. I forgot about that camera effect in the 70s, what a flashback.

[TheRecordplayers]

Get down David !!

[jacobocaj777]

Can anyone say "Plastic Soul" ?

[cubbus09]

Who is the guitar player?

[awizardatruestar]

@cubbus09 Earl Slick

[stewballs7]

@awizardatruestar no mate its Stacey Hayden

[SuperStrik9]

Whoops meant Stacey Heydon. Typo'd his name lol.

[SuperStrik9]

Stacy Heydon was/is a wicked guitarist! Check out Nassau '76 on the reissue of Station To Station to hear Stacy rip it up live! Dude is BY FAR the most underrated guitarist to ever play with Bowie, and without question one of the best!

[fraink7]

I think this is one of his best

[lnoxe5]

love the work tony! keep it up you saucy devil. ;-)

[LornaEGL]

12 people don't want to stay.

This song rocks!

[critsick1]

HE IS HOT!!!!

[Shapersofthe80s]

Sorry, but didn't we all dance like this in '75? You pretty well had to in bell-bottoms... ok ok we didn't all have that voice.

[studiorecordingtools]

Cocaine is a helluva drug!

[lisalucian]

maybe the start of the thin white duke/

[kickstart225]

The guy on keyboards looks like Todd Rungdren

[mikemanitou]

Very sick...but damn...Dave looks like he's "Rick Rollin" at the start!!

[starkweather444]

One of the best bands ever.

[katoklzmk]

oh,it'sNile Rogers and Carlos Alomar.....

[katoklzmk]

Ah, I hooked school to watch this, good times111 Andthe band playing beacme Chic,soyes, that's Carlos Alomar

[joadjaboy]

*Gets up, tries to dance, rolls ankle*. Why are the rest of us mere mortals?

[xslugx]

@joadjaboy maybe bc we dont' have magic bellbottom pants. shrug. :)

[thoostorm4]

@joadjaboy heisokaybutnot a god sheeit

[pypower]

This band is on fire!! what a line up fantastic!! great version..

[MaddZzee350]

His band is pure funkadelic!

[timmybeam2000]

Anyone know who's doing the leads on this? Alomar?

[pypower]

@timmybeam2000 The guys name is stacey hayden from canada.alomar is on rhythm guitar...

[rwzal]

i'm not his fan but i admire him so much !

[harwicke]

cocaine is a hellava drug.

[mrmusicclassics]

"maybe ill take something to help me"

[juliaricketts]

what a flirt! a natural born performer...

[wheaten66]

the fanboi attitude in these comments is rather nauseating.

[outsidethepyamid]

that is just superhuman genius. that dancing is incredible like just seriously phenomenal.

I tried to do it and crashed into my pc. :P

[SirReal1958]

The king is dead. Long live "The Thin White Duke!" ( throwing darts in lovers' eyes ).

[LornaEGL]

I love Bowie, and this song, he looks like he is doing the charleston dance XD

[BowiesDog]

the most underated song ever by Bowie ! This flat rocks and his dancing....yes,yes indeed......

[andreasjacke]

LET'S DANCE - for the first time

[LeonRussellisGod]

the appeal of this musical genius will always.........Stay...

[doublemandala]

I am impressed, Bowie is a pretty good dancer.

[Zeuszgrl]

When I was 14 and totally in love with David Bowie, I wrote him a letter inviting him to my home,

for months after that every time the door bell rang, I ran to check to see if it was him !, LOL , the beautiful mind of youth :-)

[Galadriel167]

@Zeuszgrl that is just amazing

[WindQuartet]

cool one!

[ARTtheFACT]

Bowie in the seventies was a God!

[mashamorgan]

Isnt that Earl with the white suit on and Carlos with the black pants and red guitar and Dennis Davis on drums?

[Tedisntakidanymore]

@mashamorgan Nope....Carlos Alomar -- in the white suit -- was lead guitarist on this part of the tour. While Earl Slick did the lead on "Station to Station", with Alomar doing rhythm guitar, he didn't tour with Bowie in '76.

[CCRider100]

@Tedisntakidanymore

Actually the guy in the white suit playing the funky lead guitar is Stacey Hayden from Montreal Canada. Earl Slick recorded the album version, but was not playing with Bowie on this 1976 tour. Alomar is still playing rhythm guitar though

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Great & rare video of a 1976 sound check in Vancouver Canada with Stacey Hayden playing blistering licks on this song

[Tedisntakidanymore]

@CCRider100 I checked it out; and you're right! Thanks for setting me straight!

[Earnshawful]

That minor key backup by Dinah Shore, the fragile, beautiful presence of David Bowie, his strange lyics, the p-take ironic dance steps, backed up by some of the most cooooool soulful Black musicians of the era, it all equals a frantically good time. Thanks for posting.

[Earnshawful]

@Earnshawful PS Carlos Alomar was definitely on Station to Station but don't know if this was him or Earl.

[MsJanesta]

Woaaaaah so amazing, he dances like a duck in it !!!!

No offense, i love David, he's my God, but i couldn't not help saying it, he's so funny (but I fear it was not done on purpose... :-()

[saw1261]

Wasn't he hanging out in NY and going to clubs in the Bronx and Brooklyn during this period of his career?

Love DB as I do some of his white soul is a little weak. He seems enamored with his impression of his authenticity but it misses the mark here.

[NAIVADA]

this much taste, talent and class is the bomb!

[The096757]

the synthesizer outer space sound is incredible.

[KaptSonic22]

The fantastic Earl Slick on guitar

[ChasBeauregarde]

This was from the Station To Station LP, right? And I think Carlos Alomar was one of the guitarists in this clip. I know Eno produced Station To Station so he may be playing along here.

[radioanydaynow]

he is Tony Kaye.

[LeRadu]

Is that Eno on keyboards?

[radioanydaynow]

I think that is Tony Kaye, but I can be wrong.

[jehouse]

Absolutely revolutionary for 1975. For today, even. Wow.

[dejahthoris]

@jehouse the music sucks ass today in comparison

[soulchosen]

Super cool! At that time, so many of my friends tried to emulate that hairstyle and succeeded rarely. I myself went for a more Bryan Ferry look as I had dark hair.

[kaahpires]

dance bowie, dance

[nonaverageblonde1260]

fabulously sexy and beautiful man

[snakey319]

he was such a pretty thing

[1sababoy]

Damn! :-) :-)

[BobbyA1985]

One of the musicians looks like Donald "Duck" Dunn.

[U3X6785]

Wow Funky Dave.....

[JarethTheGlitterBoy]

Oh my god he was soooo cute!!!!!!!!!!! The dancing was adoreable!!!! Please someone show me one thing David cannot do! He is just plain genuis!

[Tedisntakidanymore]

@JarethTheGlitterBoy Lord Lichfield, the official photographer to QEII and a lot of European royals, called David Bowie "the most photogenic man on earth."  He could have been a male model, if he wasn't a musical genius!!

[StavrosIII]

@JarethTheGlitterBoy He can't breathe in a vacuum.

[feolindo69]

50 years ahead of his time 35 years ago. We should be catching up to him but I'm not so sure. Bless you mr jones.

[mooneepondskid]

Imagine if this was the first time you had seen David Bowie on television. You would have been spellbound.

[PockyBebop]

The dancing blew my mind when I watched it for the first time. I know I'm the umpteenth person to comment on his dancing, but it's just too awesome. Is there anything this guy can't do?!?

[ulysses1904]

Pardon my nitpicking but I think this was in 1976 not 1975, probably in March when he was on the Station to Station tour.

[ziggy99]

I think (s)he's dancing, what do I know?¨

This is a great version

[GANGARENE]

Brilliant...love it...is that a merging of the Charleston and the Samba?...didnt know Mr Bowie had it in him!...knew he could bop but that was impressive...oh what a dream boat....

[Eblanc]

Thanks for posting!

But I couldn't recognize any of the backup musicians... And that guitar player was pissing me off, out of time, cranked up the volume on his amp halfway through the show... and moving around the stage like a jumping bean was funny... Anywho, I like the newer version way better. With the set of legendary musicians. Earl Slick, Mark Plati, Gail Ann Dorsey, Mike...

[bakshay]

Not backup musicians.. his band...

Carlos Alomar (g) George Murray (b) Dennis Davis (dr) maybe Mike Garson (keys)

[luvsxjs]

so if someone is having an amp problem they should be criticized for it!?!?

[CCRider100]

@Eblanc

The guitar player is actually one of us Canuckheads named Stacey Hayden from Montreal. I though he did a great job, and the sound mix was very good for live TV. Keep in mind that amp modeling did not exist back in 1976, so to get a good singing guitar tone from a tube amp, you had to up the volume, plus he had to overcome a lot of clutter in a busy song.

[dejahthoris]

@Eblanc get a life, this was live tv in 75

[Demondodge318]

at the start looks like M.J. moves with the feet....who was first? rip M.J

[abaltazar9]

Such a funky great song, all of Bowie's seventies material is great and god-like untouchable but it;s hard to view his blue-eyed soul performances and gaunt appearance during his Young Americans-Station to Station period with anything more than an ironic slant Like Rick James said "Cocaine is a hell of a drug"

[loiraso]

Thick white magic!

[BowieGirley]

sweeeeet! Staaayyyyy.................

*gets up and starts dancin' to the song trying to immitate the legendary dance moves*

[soulchosen]

Class performances and he had some great moves!

[jilson24]

Otimo David bowie é Lindo !!!!

[squizcarter]

pure class

[mloaks]

love the hammond organ sound this version

[looksdirty]

Bowie and Duran both took Roxy Music's sound...Bowie even admits it...

[evelyneverettgreen]

Deep joy-: the combination of the funkiest band in the world and the Bowiest Bowie ever, Just be-a-utiful!

[nouveauxdecadence]

OH YEAH!

Everyone goes on about Siggy Stardust, yes Ziggy was sexy and AMAZING. BUT, "The Thin White Juke" is I think his BEST era. That skinny body and orange.blonde hair. And his funkyness is just GOLDEN. Positively STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dejahthoris]

@nouveauxdecadence i saw him live then- go ahead and hate me. yes your are right, I saw twice b4 then and twice after but this was the best

[54spiritedwill54]

i feel like dancing! :)

[LadyScreaming]

Station to Station is one of my favourite Bowie-albums. Great songs.... :-)

[timandang625]

i found this vid while i was looking for steely dan doing peg on dinah shore in like 1978, but boy im so glad i looked at this vid. WOW!!

awesome! thanks for getting this vid here.

and yea, i do hear a tad of D.D. .. =)

[TechNoir1970]

Godamn, I love the 70s. This is great, David's voice is gorgeous and those are some groovy dance moves, man. Can you dig it?

[pennytomei3]

I was a senior in '75,I remember this vividly,I skipped school that day just to watch this show entirely so as not to miss a single minute....wow,what a great era in my life.....

[tonyperini]

mesmerizing performance...... takes my breath away !!

ran home from school to catch this show back in 1975.

had the pleasure of waiting on him in malibu ca. 1989...

i was walking on clouds that night and gave him a dozen sterling roses (for the ladies when check is presented). he gave me his autograph and a warm

handshake.....i kept his crumpled marlboro cigarette

box and butt's. he was the most charming man and the time with him flew by so fast that night, it felt like i was in a trance !!!

[anthonydevito]

If you listen closely, you can actually hear Duran Duran being born somewhere during this performance. ;-)

Seriously, this is from 75, and Bowie is basically inventing the New Romantics right before our eyes...

[nouveauxdecadence]

What an AMAZING cxomment. And yes I agree. Duran definately did take this sound and added their own unique twist. He is FLAWLESS, major respect *****

[rolzyc]

he pklayed this tour in europe in paris june 76 and it was a great show!

[Slopies]

OMG

If I don't listen to the music, this is David at his worst :|

[mchelo18]

I'm loving these comments with people saying they want to dance like him, and he looks "relaxed". Isn't it great to be innocent! Everything shines!

Sniff a truckload of snow and you will certainly know how to dance like that, too stiff to even release your fists!

Gotta love Bowie, particularly because he survived.

[7beers]

Your comment is very thought-provoking. (If you will allow me, also a bit condescending: assuming that someone is a good dancer because they are a good dancer hardly makes them "innocent".) Anyway, I'm curious as to why you assume that his dancing skills are the result of drug influence, and not because he is a good dancer?

[mchelo18]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I think he's a great dancer, and he dances very well here too.

What I'm talking about are certain moves, particularly in the minutes 2:08 to 2:16, in which his hands are assuming a repeated motion of their own, insisting in going back to his chins, and when he clenches his fists and forgets to release them..... Cokeheads are always repeating motions like this.

Besides, this was his worst coke period, he did it all day every day, so that's why I'm assuming this.

[dbdolan]

This is wild. Dinah Shore daytime TV? America was cool then, more than I thought. I was 9 then and already a Bowie fan (I have 8 older siblings) but I never got to watch him on daytime TV. Amazing.

[Griff1319]

Damn we are the same age hah rew up with great music and the future great music of the 80's

[Auswurfling]

Thank you for posting these vids. :) <3

[eliseandnicky]

does anybody else here really want to touch his hair, it looks so soft and smooth.... :D love David, he is so hot!!!

[MPG350]

Cool song, its used in riding giants.

[sazzleskank]

SEX OVERLOAD.

Seriously though. Why don't they make them like this anymore?

[b1a2n3k]

wow...found out there was an instrumental version on one of his albums. cool. great.

[rickjamesiscool]

Dennis Davis lays down the groove extraordinarily well.

[soulchosen]

Nice moves!

[PompadourSamurai]

Gotta love that dance

[cryptsub]

This would be David's "Philly" phase I believe.

[80spreppysteve]

ahh the 70s what a great time to be a kid

[Bodacea1]

I meant he ain't hot like Bowie is.

[mawhinney2]

These clips of his years living in America are staggering.The UK most have been starved of this stuff in 74/75.Once again he is light years ahead of the rest,dance,funky music,hair cuts,the baggy strides,the band.Everything!

[MagellanOfBass]

Well according to Bowie himself (during the Scary Monsters era) he pretty much dreads this time of his life, and he totally dreads LA. He still says today that it was one of the hardest times he's ever been through.

I'm not talking about music or creativity btw. This song is fucking great.

[YZippy]

Spot on. I recall looking at him in the mid 70s with curiosity. Great, cutting edge music, but a bizarre look. I was dressing just like that by 1983! Pleated wool, gaberdine, linen or cotton slacks. Short hair...we thought he was boffo...This guy was so far ahead of the rest of us. Brilliant artist who never conformed to the trends, but predated them.

[twister5960]

Bowie fan for 35 years and never seen this!! His dancing during the long intro was brilliant.

Mind you, he took a lot of coke back then.

[annsheldon]

35 years? So where were you when this was on TV? I watched all of his TV appearances in the '70's. This is quite nostalgic.

[twister5960]

Don't think this was ever shown in the UK baby.

[bowiemott]

It wasn't. This was the Dinah Shore show, which was US only. Also recall that his previous tour, the Diamond Dogs tour, never made it to the UK so by the time he got around to touring Station to Station in the UK, the demand was huge !

[twister5960]

As a teenage Bowie fan, I was devastated when he only played the Usa with that tour and its sets, etc. Still made a scrapbook of it though. Ha ha.

Mind you, caught the Station tour in Bingley Hall.

PS my last message was to some pompous twat who slagged me off for not having seen this video before. But thanks for your reply man.

Love on Yah.

[angelinaconcerti1971]

One of the best pop songs ever written, but with a heaping dose of funk -- classic, wonderful Bowie

[Zigaldiam]

The Thin White Duke,at his BEST.ffs everytime i hear or see this song being performed i get goose-bumps and the hairs on the back of my neck stand-up....truly amazing song.

[plushlush]

Bowie is cool and all, but heck, he STOLE my dance moves. I'm pissed.

[meerkatvaginagoddess]

i love my bowie.

[Mirrorsonic]

i feel like dancing!

[MagicAyrtonforever]

Wow! I'm still learning about Bowie!

[Josenismyname]

There's no end to what could be learned about Bowie. That's one thing I learned about him.

[kittyfreek]

Lol hiphopkid2 - you don't say? Thin White line - I mean Duke...

[julieswahn]

Gah, I just love this guy.

[fengze]

so that's where Ian Curtis got his dance moves from... so cool

[djromtom]

Yeah ,that was exactly my first impression.so cute & satiric happy.have fun with their serious acts. like the artful dodger,they both are.REMEMBER IAN and spastic plastic d-reams Welcome to the good old style -MAKERS no fakers

[cwegers]

if you don't have 'station to station'....get it

[femaleBowie]

that is sooo true, my fave album ever.

Get it...now...

[TVC17]

this is awesome....

[juliano66]

David looks like he's fronting The Commodores here, still pretty good stuff-- his Doobie Bros phase.

[marcusjknight]

What a great band - what a performance.David 75-79 rules.......

[hiphopkid2]

he was on cocaine during this performance

[CaptainMoofish]

................so?

[Josenismyname]

But wait a sec! Aint Stay from Station to Station, 1976 ???

[DerVampyrEngel]

Yeah it is as I have Station to Station Josenismyname

[Josenismyname]

I have it too DervampyrEngel

[DerVampyrEngel]

:) Cool

[Josenismyname]

all people I know thinks Im really weird for calling this cool, but it still is.

[beeb1992]

ive gotta learn how to dance like that, its so kool

[tomcatfoxy]

Everything about this performance oozes cool.

[beeb1992]

it sure is!

[luangu]

So very stylish, his hair looks so un-70s & progressive.  A style maverick.

[danikaOT89]

OMFG I have to learn to dance like that!!!!!!

God he's so freakin H-O-T

[manarfd]

yes, yes i do

[gunsanddrugs]

yes i love this tour, but more so when they hit europe... real bad coke lol, and i do prefer stacey on guitar to earl .. the bass and drums combo are great but look at their pedigree,, infact look at the band as a whole..

[fanomiahamm]

handsome man

[kitki18]

I love the "funk"-y feel to this song. It's so fun

[kitki18]

ha! so cute watching him boogie like that! :P

[TheGoblinQueen18]

I love the way he dances! Great legs!