Tiempos en los cuales no era necesario decir cosas con tendencia sexual ni movimientos claramente sexuales para promocionar la buena musica la cual era un exito mundial.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
The performance used was a recycled performance as she had appeared on the 5/1/82 show performing the song. They just used a diffrent intro as Rex Smith had replaced Andy Gibb as host by the time the year end show aired.
first 6 months of 1982 were not good for music. this was probably the best song out the first half of 1982 and one bright spot for dance-type music back then along with kelly marie's "feels like i'm in love"
@bhuio. She was hardly a one hot wonder. "Midnight Blue" hit #6 in 1975, "Don't Cry Out Loud" hit #10 in 1978 and this one was #5 in 1982. Maybe a 3 hit wonder, but not 1 hit. Also, no one did cheese as well as Solid Gold in the late 70's and early 80's. ha ha
Love the song. Reminds of where I worked in 1981 and 1982. One woman on the job named Betty was a big gossip and all she did was talk about everyone in the office. We'd say the song was about her. Musically, songs like this will rip apart the junk and image of Lady Gaga, Beyonce` and others who rely on immorality, weird costumes and special effects.
REAL talent like Melissa and Laura Branigan could never make it today, considering the age group buying most of the music. No slut-wear, no obvious sexual displays, more (classy) clothes than skin showing, less than a pound of makeup, no fireworks, no video references to ugly, badly modified expensive cars ...nah, not a chance! Shame, but at least I'm fortunate to have had (and still have!) this great music to listen to!
I really really really wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer!!!!!! Loved this song. I remember playing it on my tape recorder, over and over and over and over until the tape was so stretched it wouldn't work ever again.....love you Melissa Manchester :)
Actual lyric(after listening many times is) If your scared her love is for real. Almost meant as reassurance for the subject of the song is that its ok. Also Solid Gold used the old Radio & Records charts for their countdowns which were radio airplay only. Billboard also used sales at that time. This song actually charted higher in Radio & Records as it finished #18 on the Billboard year end chart.
Melissa Manchester is such a talented woman, that´s not in discussion, she has a great voice and she had a sophisticated look, I like her a lot. By the other side, Lady Gaga is a very talented woman... she is not only a singer with a great voice, she´s a dancer, she sings her own songs, she is a worldwide renowned personality, who don´t know who´s Lady Gaga??? she has its excentricities and this fame craze but if you leave that behind you´ll discover an artist in all the extension of the word.
The kids of today wouldn't know music if they fell over it. Any music produced after 1996 or so other than death metal is pure bull shit. Early eighties was the shit the chicks were hot and wanted to look hot. Great time to be in college. Believe it.
@JerryM1964 Gosh you are so right. the girls just looked way more healthier and naturally gorgeous!
1996 was def the last great year of REAL music. Right after tha,t rap and boys bands took over along with the dj/producer phenom : Moby, DJ Shadow, Fat Boy Slim etc. No wonder I still listen to grunge, 70's metal, funk, easy rock, brit pop, james brown and 80's music.
This was such that early 80's pop sound. Yamaha Dx7 in effect, lot's of hand claps, sax solo's, synth bass, backgound singers, modulation in the middle of the last chorus. It's still fun to listen to it.
@MrVeesworld This son is defenitively a pionner in its rhythm and beat! And the chorus breaks! Fantastic..... After this song came Madonna,Cindy Lauper and many others!
@MrFacebookhater You are right. Well one good thing about the Reagan years was the fantastic art and music of the 80's, but the fashions, well....that's another topic all together.
Starting with perms, jeri curls, designer jeans, and shoulder pads...ugh!!
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
Tom Snow also wrote for The Pointer Sisters, Yvonne Elliman, Cher, Jennifer Warnes, Valerie Carter. I like the flanged guitar, wonder who the session guitarist was on this. A much better record than "Physical" was it the same year?
@BarkleyConners It was Steve Lukather, also Jeff Porcaro is on drums on this and most of the album. I love the 2:18 Jeff bassdrum lick on "Hey Ricky", that's a great tune for me. Michael Landau is on this record too, together with lots of other session cats.
@Smoothness4Music Since you mention the session cats, how about my friend Tom Salisbury who was her musical director/arranger and piano player who hired the session cats...`Tom's piano work and arranging style on this is something to behold...He was also the musical director for the Pointer Sisters before signing on with Melissa. ..I met Tom at the 1ST Army NY Band in New York in the early days . He is teaching and still performing and arranging. He is also a wonderful singer himself. .
This incredible woman is a hell of a trouper. Her history in music, sexuality, and health seems to have made her better, stronger and all the more enduring.
I love this song! It was certainly popular in the summer of 1982. This song, and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Sammi Smith always make me chuckle.
@19nisey69 Did you ever see the spoof of the Solid Gold Dancers on SNL? It was VERY funny. (Remember how the dancers used to do a little dance to a snippet of all the songs in the Top 10? In this spoof, they danced to "What You Need" by INXS, gyrating wildly and shaking their heads.)
Lady GaGa and other female artists from this past decade and this new decade should take a lesson from Melissa Manchester. Not only is this lady just pure beautiful and talented, but she gave us all great music, while doing with it with class (lot's of class). I keep watching this video over and over again and listening to the soul, the strength and the heart that Melissa put in to it. I'm not sure I'm even touching upon the correct words to describe how good this song is.
@Rkerekes13 LADY KAKA and all those cheeseburger whores that sing these days don't have an idea what is to be sexy without showing an young ass on the camera....... Look at Melissa She is sexy from top to bottom......
@kptrojans I agree 100% with you! This woman with one song did win over ladies with big musical carriers like Linda Ronstadt, Laura Branigan, Olivia Newton John and Juice Newton......
Could this song be the best pop song of 1982 or maybe the best pop song?
@kptrojans You're completely right. Todays singers are terrible. If they have a good voice (like Christna Aguilera) just doing horrible songs. Anyway, 80's gone but it was the best pop.
I love it! Those were truly "Great" times in music, television and of course movies!.....Solid Gold was a really cool show!........Boy, I'd give anything to be 15 years old again.
Seeing all these comments about people hearing this for the first time in 25 years and instantly remembering it in a 'wow, what ahonestly fantastic song' sort of way (even if they weren't intimately familiar with it back then) makes me wonder... think anyone will have that way about, say, a Katy Perry song 25 years from now? Oh, I forgot - we're not supposed to. It's disposable 'music' (in the way that the great pop of the '80s and prior never was).
@jensmusicfaves Well, I think you're somehow right. Anyway, some of the stuff on this album is really cool, with great songwriting and musicians backing up. Most of the stuff that is popular (or has been made popular) today is far lower in quality.
For sure not all music was great back then, but there still was a bigger apreciation for some skills. However, the big audience generally tends to simply follow what's hip, I believe. So I've thought about that you mentioned many times hehehe
I heard this song today on DIrecTV's '80s channel and I froze still where I was standing. I hadn't heard or even thought about this song in 20 years or more and I have never stopped listening to '80s music and I ALWAYS listen to the '80s station on satellite radio. Brought back memories. Good stuff.
I remember the Miss America Pageant in 1982 having this for an opening song as the girls appeared on stage. I can't believe I even remember this but I know i'm right!!
first time I heard this song I was 8 years old back in 1983, & I was in the 3rd grade & we used to listen to it all the time, I know it was in the top ten not sure it made it to number 1 with as good as it was it should have made number 1
@meathead2001 you obviously did not grow up in the 1980's & you would not know about good music, so show a little appreciation. Besides this song rocked the roller rink back in the day.
My deep condolence to the few people that have made bad comment about this song.... The Sun Cannot Be Covered With One Finger......
This is probably on of the best songs of AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY! I can listen to this song a million of times and I just cannot get tired of listening to it!
watching the video and hearing this song, makes me want to jump off the highest EFFIN cliff I can find this side of Dover and hit my noggin on every single rock on the way down! GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY ! that was horrible ! " you should hear how she talks about you..you should go suck my ass" and take those stupid dancers with her !
@seany722 You know what? Don't hate that song! Hate the bitch you call mother...That is why you are a jackass to leave negative comments on a great song and great dancers!!!
watching the video and hearing this song, makes me want to jump off the highest EFFIN cliff I can find this side of Dover and hit my noggin on every single rock on the way down! GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY ! that was horrible ! " you should hear how she talks about you..you should go suck my ass" and take those stupid dancers with her !
i was seven! How awesome our brain is to not forget the classics.Even as a teenager they still stuck around and to this day I even hear this one playing.Thanks for the post regards from Australia.
This song definitively opens a new era in the history of music.....
No song sounds like this one before 1982 and many songs after this one kept almost the same beat....... Madonna(Material Girl) Starship(We built this city on rock and roll), etc...
This song should be in "AMERICA'S MUSIC HALL OF FAME" representing "POP"
@westpalmbeach5 - '82 was a turning point in music for sure, finally shrugging off the 70's and starting that electric pop theme that set the style for the decade. I think the turning points in modern music were 1955, 1963, 1967, 1976, 1982, 1993. I'm wanting for the next and it better be good this time.
@germanicelt I am very interested in this take. I'd like to hear you go into detail. I love music. If you have the chance could you pm message me about the changes you noticed during those years and how it impacted music in that particular era. I'm a bit of a young buck.
oh my god, madonna completely copied the melody of the chorus of this song in her 1985 song "material girl". it's the part in "material girl" where madonna sings, "some boys kiss me some boys hug me i think they're ok if they don't give me proper credit i just walk away" has the similar melody to the chorus of this...bad madonna...bad...
@jeffreysalley Rex Smith!!! Soo cute! If you were a girl in the 80's you read FOREVER!!! Rex was on the cover...every girl fantasy!!! Then he came to life on Solid Gold!!!
I remember this song from when I was 7 or 8 (I'm 33 now). I'm sorry I don't hear any similarities between this and Material Girl. This came out way before Material Girl too, as I recall.
@reymatt76 The chorus has some tuning that is similar to Material Girl:
"she's 1/2 out her head" and you should hear what she says" from YSHHSTAY ="I think they're ok" and "But they can't see the light", etc. from Material Girl
i disagree: i think has the same "clapping effect" that songs from this era had, but is, at best, a third cousin to Madonna's "Material Girl". cool thought, though.
Not close enough to "Material Girl." I can see what people are talking about, but it's not a soundalike by any means (meaning, no one's going to mistake one for the other, like you can for some tracks out there). For a Madonna soundalike of an older track, check out "Miles Away" and a track (forget the name) of a Victoria Beckham track- the verses in "Miles Away" are sung EXACTLY like that from Beckham's track.
I know. I think it's a good thing though because this song, while it was a hit, is often forgotten about. Some of you retro 1980's-playing DJ's out there would be wise to start using this as a segue into "Material Girl" in the radio and clubs.
i have been on a youtube bender a/ll day..minus the booze..haha..and all the o/ld videos I've seen of shows, i.e. Bandstand, Solid Go/ld, etc, show big stars of the day LIPSYNCHING!!! why wasn't it a big deal/ then but now it's /like the wor/ld is gonna end if someone /lipsynchs...just wondering
Thanks for posting! This song got me interested in pop music back when I was a kid,and its still my favorite song of all time. A quality, happy, well written pop song.
Melissa you never had it better thsan when you sang this megahit yOU SHOULD HEAR WHAT SHES TALKING ABOUT YOU. a classic. i played it 1000 times i bet on cassette when it came out. pop but great pop. this doo wop rocknroll historian can tell you fans out there. THIS IS A GREAT SONG upbeat, catchy tune and will live on for years to come. Thanks Melissa . TOMK from a man who knows great music.
I remember being 3 years old standing in front of the tv singing along with her. My mama LOVED this song so she played it all the time so I learned the words. Plus I loved all the 80's dance shows like Solid Gold, Soul Train, AB,Dance Party USA, Kids Inc.
For everybody's information this wonderful clip of Melissa Manchester aired on 25th of September, 1982, on the Episode 3, Season 3, of SOLID GOLD. To remember is to live. THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS!!! Ovidio Davila, Utuado, Puerto Rico
cheesy GOOOOOD! HA HA! Fun song that stays in my head!
freckles3100 1 week ago
Tiempos en los cuales no era necesario decir cosas con tendencia sexual ni movimientos claramente sexuales para promocionar la buena musica la cual era un exito mundial.
susejal 3 weeks ago
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robertoamor2011 4 weeks ago
A Great Stripper song in it's day! Remember the Drake Showroom?.
visaman 1 month ago
They should bring Solid Gold back.
drjfh1970 1 month ago
I watched Solid Gold for the dancers. those girls were so hot.
Daehawk 1 month ago
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SylviaYork 1 month ago
talented and very pretty! make today's female singers watch this to see how it's done without all the gimicks and crap.
nissansentraglx 1 month ago
The performance used was a recycled performance as she had appeared on the 5/1/82 show performing the song. They just used a diffrent intro as Rex Smith had replaced Andy Gibb as host by the time the year end show aired.
paulsonj72 1 month ago
i heard her on the radio last night while out.
first 6 months of 1982 were not good for music. this was probably the best song out the first half of 1982 and one bright spot for dance-type music back then along with kelly marie's "feels like i'm in love"
The096757 2 months ago
@bhuio. She was hardly a one hot wonder. "Midnight Blue" hit #6 in 1975, "Don't Cry Out Loud" hit #10 in 1978 and this one was #5 in 1982. Maybe a 3 hit wonder, but not 1 hit. Also, no one did cheese as well as Solid Gold in the late 70's and early 80's. ha ha
bmoody4191 2 months ago in playlist 2
She's totally lip-synching here, but it's still a good song.
Sue71 3 months ago
Hoo! What she said, what she said! (I loved this song, but I used to laugh at it too - it was SOOOO campy...)
shmuli9 3 months ago
She had one good Song, a one hit wonder
bhuio100 3 months ago
One line sounds like she is saying, "Cheese comes out of her head"
Quandary2 4 months ago
@Quandary2 I think you mean "She's half out of her head." I am glad to see all the positive comments this great song, performance and performer gets.
shiroibasketshoes 3 months ago
@shiroibasketshoes I must have cheese on the brain. Behold, the power of cheese! but it still sounds like she's saying cheese comes out of her head.
Quandary2 3 months ago
@Quandary2 I used to mishear so many lyrics.
shiroibasketshoes 3 months ago
Cheesy host!
FatknackerMacca 4 months ago
brilliant I remember it well lol was actually singing chorus. it just came straight back into my head. good music never dies,
dibble2005 4 months ago 2
Love the song. Reminds of where I worked in 1981 and 1982. One woman on the job named Betty was a big gossip and all she did was talk about everyone in the office. We'd say the song was about her. Musically, songs like this will rip apart the junk and image of Lady Gaga, Beyonce` and others who rely on immorality, weird costumes and special effects.
primogennaio 5 months ago
REAL talent like Melissa and Laura Branigan could never make it today, considering the age group buying most of the music. No slut-wear, no obvious sexual displays, more (classy) clothes than skin showing, less than a pound of makeup, no fireworks, no video references to ugly, badly modified expensive cars ...nah, not a chance! Shame, but at least I'm fortunate to have had (and still have!) this great music to listen to!
Many thanks for posting!
SRB427 5 months ago 2
This song definitely served as an inspiration for Material Girl by Madonna, but I like Melissa's song better.
TheTalkeetna1 5 months ago
Back then songs and performances were just FUN! Simple and Delightful! Now it's all about Sex and Awards....Nobody is watching you...
soulboyy99 5 months ago
This is about kids.
grubeci 5 months ago
My favorite song from that summer. Classy, exciting performance on Solid Gold, one which I taped and watched over and over.
thatsmisterrobert2u 6 months ago 3
I really really really wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer!!!!!! Loved this song. I remember playing it on my tape recorder, over and over and over and over until the tape was so stretched it wouldn't work ever again.....love you Melissa Manchester :)
hellagood1967 6 months ago
@hellagood1967 i hope you're not a dude
top20modernrock 6 months ago
seeking mathematics on cd email me at hljakes@yahoo.com
Hljakes 6 months ago
Summer of 1982.
dmainfla 9 months ago 3
Actual lyric(after listening many times is) If your scared her love is for real. Almost meant as reassurance for the subject of the song is that its ok. Also Solid Gold used the old Radio & Records charts for their countdowns which were radio airplay only. Billboard also used sales at that time. This song actually charted higher in Radio & Records as it finished #18 on the Billboard year end chart.
paulsonj72 9 months ago
This song the beat of it always remind me of "Physical"
davidjeffersontull2 9 months ago 2
@davidjeffersontull2 yes they sound similar
gmansi 6 months ago
Melissa Manchester is such a talented woman, that´s not in discussion, she has a great voice and she had a sophisticated look, I like her a lot. By the other side, Lady Gaga is a very talented woman... she is not only a singer with a great voice, she´s a dancer, she sings her own songs, she is a worldwide renowned personality, who don´t know who´s Lady Gaga??? she has its excentricities and this fame craze but if you leave that behind you´ll discover an artist in all the extension of the word.
Caleiva 10 months ago
Looks like the dancers of solid gold love to dance this song too!
Thanks so much Melissa!
MrFacebookhater 10 months ago
The kids of today wouldn't know music if they fell over it. Any music produced after 1996 or so other than death metal is pure bull shit. Early eighties was the shit the chicks were hot and wanted to look hot. Great time to be in college. Believe it.
JerryM1964 10 months ago
@JerryM1964 Because they were sexy singing and sexy looking...... Now is all about skinny 18 year old asses on music videos! Is so disgusting!
MrFacebookhater 10 months ago
@JerryM1964 Gosh you are so right. the girls just looked way more healthier and naturally gorgeous!
1996 was def the last great year of REAL music. Right after tha,t rap and boys bands took over along with the dj/producer phenom : Moby, DJ Shadow, Fat Boy Slim etc. No wonder I still listen to grunge, 70's metal, funk, easy rock, brit pop, james brown and 80's music.
MrVeesworld 10 months ago
This was such that early 80's pop sound. Yamaha Dx7 in effect, lot's of hand claps, sax solo's, synth bass, backgound singers, modulation in the middle of the last chorus. It's still fun to listen to it.
MrVeesworld 10 months ago
@MrVeesworld This son is defenitively a pionner in its rhythm and beat! And the chorus breaks! Fantastic..... After this song came Madonna,Cindy Lauper and many others!
MrFacebookhater 10 months ago
@MrFacebookhater You are right. Well one good thing about the Reagan years was the fantastic art and music of the 80's, but the fashions, well....that's another topic all together.
Starting with perms, jeri curls, designer jeans, and shoulder pads...ugh!!
MrVeesworld 10 months ago
the good old days of Solid Gold...I miss this stuff...
allang1968 10 months ago
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robertoamor2011 10 months ago
early eightys in saretoga springs new york at a club called the rafters love this song many fun nites beautiful women happy song i love melissa
grandmasterww1976 11 months ago
Tom Snow also wrote for The Pointer Sisters, Yvonne Elliman, Cher, Jennifer Warnes, Valerie Carter. I like the flanged guitar, wonder who the session guitarist was on this. A much better record than "Physical" was it the same year?
BarkleyConners 11 months ago
@BarkleyConners
physical in 1981 this song is from 1982
iucoltsfan 10 months ago
@BarkleyConners It was Steve Lukather, also Jeff Porcaro is on drums on this and most of the album. I love the 2:18 Jeff bassdrum lick on "Hey Ricky", that's a great tune for me. Michael Landau is on this record too, together with lots of other session cats.
Smoothness4Music 10 months ago
@Smoothness4Music Since you mention the session cats, how about my friend Tom Salisbury who was her musical director/arranger and piano player who hired the session cats...`Tom's piano work and arranging style on this is something to behold...He was also the musical director for the Pointer Sisters before signing on with Melissa. ..I met Tom at the 1ST Army NY Band in New York in the early days . He is teaching and still performing and arranging. He is also a wonderful singer himself. .
lclaughton 10 months ago
I just love her!!!
bajk49 11 months ago
4:17 YouTube video: Melissa Manchester singing "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" live at Solid Gold, 1982.
February 15, 1951: birth of Melissa Manchester, American singer.
mkworkman 11 months ago
Ella es única nadie se compara, eran otros tiempos cuando se apreciaba la calidad de su presentanción y arte escenico, excelente voz y dominio.
jbv27860 1 year ago
Eres única nadie se compara a ella
jbv27860 1 year ago
This incredible woman is a hell of a trouper. Her history in music, sexuality, and health seems to have made her better, stronger and all the more enduring.
MrVideogreg 1 year ago
i have no idea how this is in my favorites
ZO6 1 year ago
What kind of goober would dislike this?.....Must be a complete loser.....lol
gatorfan6471 1 year ago
why does cheese taste good with tomatoes?
maha77 1 year ago
I love this song! It was certainly popular in the summer of 1982. This song, and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Sammi Smith always make me chuckle.
shmuli9 1 year ago
Another perfect definition of an artist with true talent along with Carly Simon, Janis Ian, Carole King and many other singer/songwriters
Aries1980100 1 year ago
This really took me back. Thanks for posting! Love the dancers lol!:)
flyinthebug35 1 year ago
I loved the dancers too! I'm glad to see them again.
Honeywood2000 1 year ago
@Honeywood2000
My uncle used to watch solid gold just for the dancers. Great old time vid!
19nisey69 1 year ago
@19nisey69 Did you ever see the spoof of the Solid Gold Dancers on SNL? It was VERY funny. (Remember how the dancers used to do a little dance to a snippet of all the songs in the Top 10? In this spoof, they danced to "What You Need" by INXS, gyrating wildly and shaking their heads.)
shmuli9 1 year ago
she has a beautiful, strong voice!!
TheLafemmegamer 1 year ago
Lady GaGa and other female artists from this past decade and this new decade should take a lesson from Melissa Manchester. Not only is this lady just pure beautiful and talented, but she gave us all great music, while doing with it with class (lot's of class). I keep watching this video over and over again and listening to the soul, the strength and the heart that Melissa put in to it. I'm not sure I'm even touching upon the correct words to describe how good this song is.
kptrojans 1 year ago 34
@kptrojans Yeah, forget Lady Gaga and all those other think-they're-so-hot female singers of this decade. Melissa Manchester's the real deal!
Rkerekes13 1 year ago
@Rkerekes13 LADY KAKA and all those cheeseburger whores that sing these days don't have an idea what is to be sexy without showing an young ass on the camera....... Look at Melissa She is sexy from top to bottom......
And she is dressed up!
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
@kptrojans God I feel the same way! This song is an" adiction" I just cannot get tired of listening to it......
This is the song any 80's reunion should play!
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
@kptrojans I agree 100% with you! This woman with one song did win over ladies with big musical carriers like Linda Ronstadt, Laura Branigan, Olivia Newton John and Juice Newton......
Could this song be the best pop song of 1982 or maybe the best pop song?
MrFacebookhater 10 months ago 2
@kptrojans brilliantly put ! She is a class act!
spongeworthyvideo 9 months ago
@kptrojans You are 100% right. The same can be said for the male artists out there.
Cavillier1970 9 months ago
@kptrojans You're completely right. Todays singers are terrible. If they have a good voice (like Christna Aguilera) just doing horrible songs. Anyway, 80's gone but it was the best pop.
camilintgomery 8 months ago 2
@kptrojans Amen to that , I couldn't agree with you more
bigwillietheb 5 months ago
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kptrojans 1 year ago
I love it! Those were truly "Great" times in music, television and of course movies!.....Solid Gold was a really cool show!........Boy, I'd give anything to be 15 years old again.
wlt777 1 year ago 2
Seeing all these comments about people hearing this for the first time in 25 years and instantly remembering it in a 'wow, what ahonestly fantastic song' sort of way (even if they weren't intimately familiar with it back then) makes me wonder... think anyone will have that way about, say, a Katy Perry song 25 years from now? Oh, I forgot - we're not supposed to. It's disposable 'music' (in the way that the great pop of the '80s and prior never was).
jensmusicfaves 1 year ago 2
@jensmusicfaves Well, I think you're somehow right. Anyway, some of the stuff on this album is really cool, with great songwriting and musicians backing up. Most of the stuff that is popular (or has been made popular) today is far lower in quality.
For sure not all music was great back then, but there still was a bigger apreciation for some skills. However, the big audience generally tends to simply follow what's hip, I believe. So I've thought about that you mentioned many times hehehe
Smoothness4Music 10 months ago
I heard this song today on DIrecTV's '80s channel and I froze still where I was standing. I hadn't heard or even thought about this song in 20 years or more and I have never stopped listening to '80s music and I ALWAYS listen to the '80s station on satellite radio. Brought back memories. Good stuff.
BaltimoreColt 1 year ago 3
Wow... you just killed me.
I haven't heard this song in a minnit yo...
Dope.. good work.
Thanks for this.
DJEvillincoln 1 year ago
Whatever Happened to Melissa Manchester?
WCD73 1 year ago
Before there was Prozac, there was top 40 to make us feel better!
Charliecomet82 1 year ago 19
@Charliecomet82 now we've got to take Prozac to deal with Top 40;
JoeNJ2 1 year ago 2
Went to #4 on the Hot 100 in September 1982.
wagrailroad 1 year ago
I remember the Miss America Pageant in 1982 having this for an opening song as the girls appeared on stage. I can't believe I even remember this but I know i'm right!!
trinitylancer 1 year ago
first time I heard this song I was 8 years old back in 1983, & I was in the 3rd grade & we used to listen to it all the time, I know it was in the top ten not sure it made it to number 1 with as good as it was it should have made number 1
bigwillietheb 1 year ago
Love this song and she's HOT!!!
jdunn85 1 year ago 2
What a great voice. I wish someone had a copy of her singing "I got Eyes".
mickeygal1958 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
If Celine Dion recorded this song, it would sound a million times better than this crap.
meathead2001 1 year ago
@meathead2001 Yeah and if Maria Callas recoeded it, it would sound 2 million times better. Grow up.
rellenoz 1 year ago
@meathead2001 You're kidding, right!!?? Celine can't come close to matching the depth, fullness and quality of Melissa's voice.
sandiegotrojandawg 1 year ago
@meathead2001 you obviously did not grow up in the 1980's & you would not know about good music, so show a little appreciation. Besides this song rocked the roller rink back in the day.
bigwillietheb 1 year ago
What the HELL are those background dancers doing??? I love Melissa, but these two queens look like they escaped from a calisthenics marathon.
tinagetmetheaxe 1 year ago
This song is a musical adiction............
I cannot stop hearing it, singing it and dancing it!
I love you Melissa with the Strongest Strength of my heart!
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
If I don't like something I just forget about it......
Why some people come to this page to talk bad about this song?
Is that called JEALOUSY?
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
My deep condolence to the few people that have made bad comment about this song.... The Sun Cannot Be Covered With One Finger......
This is probably on of the best songs of AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY! I can listen to this song a million of times and I just cannot get tired of listening to it!
Should I say more?
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
watching the video and hearing this song, makes me want to jump off the highest EFFIN cliff I can find this side of Dover and hit my noggin on every single rock on the way down! GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY ! that was horrible ! " you should hear how she talks about you..you should go suck my ass" and take those stupid dancers with her !
seany722 1 year ago
@seany722 You know what? Don't hate that song! Hate the bitch you call mother...That is why you are a jackass to leave negative comments on a great song and great dancers!!!
fagarass 1 year ago
watching the video and hearing this song, makes me want to jump off the highest EFFIN cliff I can find this side of Dover and hit my noggin on every single rock on the way down! GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY ! that was horrible ! " you should hear how she talks about you..you should go suck my ass" and take those stupid dancers with her !
seany722 1 year ago
i was seven! How awesome our brain is to not forget the classics.Even as a teenager they still stuck around and to this day I even hear this one playing.Thanks for the post regards from Australia.
JOSEPHDANCE75 1 year ago
What a great song! Takes me back to my youth. Loved Solid Gold, too.
rrose328 1 year ago
Sounds like an ABBA song so much. It's a great tune though.
drkam6 1 year ago
wow, 9 people don't like this song, a very small minority who have shitty taste
myfeeling4you 1 year ago
Just down the M6 from Belinda Carlisle, Billy Preston and Michael Bolton!!
PadSpin 1 year ago
She always was, and always will be, a total babe.
driftwoodviking 1 year ago
This song is a gem.
primogennaio 1 year ago
This song definitively opens a new era in the history of music.....
No song sounds like this one before 1982 and many songs after this one kept almost the same beat....... Madonna(Material Girl) Starship(We built this city on rock and roll), etc...
This song should be in "AMERICA'S MUSIC HALL OF FAME" representing "POP"
westpalmbeach5 1 year ago
@westpalmbeach5 - '82 was a turning point in music for sure, finally shrugging off the 70's and starting that electric pop theme that set the style for the decade. I think the turning points in modern music were 1955, 1963, 1967, 1976, 1982, 1993. I'm wanting for the next and it better be good this time.
germanicelt 1 year ago 3
@germanicelt I am very interested in this take. I'd like to hear you go into detail. I love music. If you have the chance could you pm message me about the changes you noticed during those years and how it impacted music in that particular era. I'm a bit of a young buck.
bkstyle82 1 year ago
oh my god, madonna completely copied the melody of the chorus of this song in her 1985 song "material girl". it's the part in "material girl" where madonna sings, "some boys kiss me some boys hug me i think they're ok if they don't give me proper credit i just walk away" has the similar melody to the chorus of this...bad madonna...bad...
synthmusicisbest 1 year ago
I miss the 80's. I had a total crush on Melissa. Such a beautiful voice too.
zenmachinefilms 1 year ago
I loved this song and i loved solid gold! I use to dream of being a solid Gold dancer. Who was the host of this show? Rex...
jeffreysalley 1 year ago
@jeffreysalley Rex Smith!!! Soo cute! If you were a girl in the 80's you read FOREVER!!! Rex was on the cover...every girl fantasy!!! Then he came to life on Solid Gold!!!
tinytoes409 1 year ago
@jeffreysalley ......I used to dream of screwing Solid Gold dancers.
buldgingballs 1 year ago
it wasn't until around 1983 that a lot of effort was put into making videos.
this was a huge hit in 1982 and MM's voice was powerful and good for pop, dance or even rock.
madonna was sort of a gimmick--a white girl trying to have a baby-fied black voice.
i think if MM did a harder rock or new wave type album it would have been very good.
MM would have been a good canddidate to work with SAW in the late 1980s but she did a tribute album by that time.
The096757 1 year ago
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mallamoozoo 1 year ago
@mallamoozoo
Is that really necessary? Perhaps you can hop in.
ibreakchains 1 year ago
@mallamoozoo OK..wow...someone is hard up.
spongeworthyvideo 1 year ago
solid gold...great memories...I only wish the video quality was a little better...thanks for posting.
19hoops81 1 year ago
Awesome song
DragonzINXS 1 year ago
Totally HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great music.
alc1956 1 year ago 3
I keep mishearing the lyrics and it sounds like she is saying, "She said she would be lost without you, cheese comes out of her head"
Quandary2 1 year ago
Did she say, "She thinks scary love is for real?"
The song's protagonist sounds almost like a yandere (Japanese term for an extremely obsessed lover)
andyjay729 1 year ago
@andyjay729 I think you may be referring to the line "If you're scared her love is for real" :)
innocentmusiclover 1 year ago
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reymatt76 2 years ago
I remember this song from when I was 7 or 8 (I'm 33 now). I'm sorry I don't hear any similarities between this and Material Girl. This came out way before Material Girl too, as I recall.
reymatt76 2 years ago 3
@reymatt76 The chorus has some tuning that is similar to Material Girl:
"she's 1/2 out her head" and you should hear what she says" from YSHHSTAY ="I think they're ok" and "But they can't see the light", etc. from Material Girl
corrupt200 1 year ago
This was a monster jam on Hot Hits 98.1 WCAU back then. Life was simpler back then and music was just plain F-U-N.
philaman1972 2 years ago
One of the ten best songs of the CENTURY.
mustangcharger 2 years ago
i disagree: i think has the same "clapping effect" that songs from this era had, but is, at best, a third cousin to Madonna's "Material Girl". cool thought, though.
gluserty 2 years ago
great song, video and great singer
Freptboy 2 years ago
Not close enough to "Material Girl." I can see what people are talking about, but it's not a soundalike by any means (meaning, no one's going to mistake one for the other, like you can for some tracks out there). For a Madonna soundalike of an older track, check out "Miles Away" and a track (forget the name) of a Victoria Beckham track- the verses in "Miles Away" are sung EXACTLY like that from Beckham's track.
JimmyRAD9 2 years ago
Song man.Sing the song..
PimpThe478 2 years ago
Good song, but has anyone noticed that Madonna's 'Material Girl' has the exact same melody?
300drop 2 years ago
@300drop I personally think this tune and vocal delivery is much better than Material Girl and those of Madonna.
pwlmagic 2 years ago
Without a doubt.
300drop 2 years ago
Madge probably ripped it off. Wouldn't surprise me.
JohnoEAL 2 years ago 10
I know. I think it's a good thing though because this song, while it was a hit, is often forgotten about. Some of you retro 1980's-playing DJ's out there would be wise to start using this as a segue into "Material Girl" in the radio and clubs.
RocStarr913 2 years ago
This song was released in 1982......material girl 1985
yur1944 2 years ago
@300drop It also has hints of Kenny Loggins "Nobody's Fool" in it.
austenbosten 2 years ago
lol...........I remember watching solid gold on saturdays. Channel 11 ktvt the super ones, greenville texas baby.
jerbojones 2 years ago
the chorus is really catchy. i catch myself singing it to my kids. i remember my mom had this song on tape playing it through a panasonic jambox
jerbojones 2 years ago
Solid Gold was a shitty show , the lip syncing was even terrible. Hard to believe this turd lasted a few years, it sucked ass.
Bag0fRats 2 years ago
BRING BACK SOLID GOLD !
jste77 2 years ago 2
@jste77 i don't think I'm crazy about seeing today's singers on SG, so I'm not gonna write a letter to CBS Television.
corrupt200 1 year ago
cant believe theres people with no better job to do than backup dance on these shitty variety shoes - JHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
DocBrewster 2 years ago
Really? They probably got paid a lot more then than you do now.
reymatt76 2 years ago
i think even the presenter probably only got paid $100 bux a night - backup dancers probably got food vouchers LOL
DocBrewster 2 years ago
@DocBrewster LOL
Doreen075 1 year ago
Fell in Love to this one........Nice dancing too......
richmeister1 2 years ago
THE BEST FROM THE EARLY 80 "S !!
MRJAVIER196619862009 2 years ago
its only 70 years til the 80's come back - the 2080's ;)
DocBrewster 2 years ago
@DocBrewster roll on the 2080's
uridium64 1 year ago
but i don't think I'll be alive on january 1, 2080 (I'd be 99 going on 100)
corrupt200 1 year ago
then you can "party like you're 99" LOL ;)
mallamoozoo 1 year ago
@mallamoozoo you don't get it; I probably will have died by then
corrupt200 1 year ago
Duh! It was a joke - do you get irony or are you Amercian?
mallamoozoo 1 year ago
BRING BACK THE 80"S !!
MRJAVIER196619862009 2 years ago 2
Who's the compere?
oldmacisback 2 years ago
Lipsynching is cceptable on programs like solid gold and midnight special because they do not say "performing live" at anytime during the broadcast.
Lipsynching is not acceptable when one PAYS to see a "live performance" .
honypoboy 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
kind of sounds like papa don't preach...
love9boy 2 years ago
Except that this came out before Madonna was signed through Jellybean.
sandinyourshoes 2 years ago
and where is Rex Smith these days...
vivandav67 2 years ago
i have been on a youtube bender a/ll day..minus the booze..haha..and all the o/ld videos I've seen of shows, i.e. Bandstand, Solid Go/ld, etc, show big stars of the day LIPSYNCHING!!! why wasn't it a big deal/ then but now it's /like the wor/ld is gonna end if someone /lipsynchs...just wondering
vivandav67 2 years ago
love her:D
juanpaulajuan 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting! This song got me interested in pop music back when I was a kid,and its still my favorite song of all time. A quality, happy, well written pop song.
cbaker3122 2 years ago
I remember growing up with this song!................I absolutely love it!!
wlt777 2 years ago 2
Melissa you never had it better thsan when you sang this megahit yOU SHOULD HEAR WHAT SHES TALKING ABOUT YOU. a classic. i played it 1000 times i bet on cassette when it came out. pop but great pop. this doo wop rocknroll historian can tell you fans out there. THIS IS A GREAT SONG upbeat, catchy tune and will live on for years to come. Thanks Melissa . TOMK from a man who knows great music.
tomkes100 2 years ago
I named my daughter after Melissa Manchester after seeing Ice Castles -- My Missy was born in '82.
herasmarket 2 years ago 6
What a beautiful comment! And to think that Missy is... 27? Where does the time go?
Goodness, this lady always had such a powerful voice. And, best of all, it sounds so unique.
sandinyourshoes 2 years ago
Go Darcelle! My favorite of the Solid Gold Dancers!
RUDYNATACHA 2 years ago
wow! great post :-D
manabrau 2 years ago
One of the best.....
frfa974 2 years ago
Love it too!! great memories!!
carlosmiller 2 years ago
Never a hit in Britain despite radio play. Minster FM in York had it in rotation on launch in 1992.
franksmith109 2 years ago
3:23 to 3:30....holy hell that is some funny shit!! looks like mike meyers' "sprockets"
imxejn 2 years ago
Too funny! "Sprockets" is awesome! Dieter rules!!
Lyubov91 2 years ago
OHMIGOSH!!!
I remember being 3 years old standing in front of the tv singing along with her. My mama LOVED this song so she played it all the time so I learned the words. Plus I loved all the 80's dance shows like Solid Gold, Soul Train, AB,Dance Party USA, Kids Inc.
I miss the 80's.
I wish the styles and music would come back.
Thanx to whom ever posted this video.
lovelyjessie79 2 years ago 20
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ChristySully1 2 years ago
For everybody's information this wonderful clip of Melissa Manchester aired on 25th of September, 1982, on the Episode 3, Season 3, of SOLID GOLD. To remember is to live. THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIENDS!!! Ovidio Davila, Utuado, Puerto Rico
borikuado 2 years ago