Solid Gold '79 Original Pilot - Part 1 of 3

[mrxenos]

This wasn't a "pilot." It was a one-time show called "Solid Gold '79." It was so popular they created a show based on it called "Solid Gold."

[TheMegnanimous]

Solid Go-Go in New York City is performing original choreography to these original music countdowns! Some (or one) of you may think MTV saved you, but now we're saving you from "music television" where music entertainment does not truly exist. We love these songs and we loved watching this show when we were just little girls. Oh and to that one guy who thinks this is a 70s show - wrong! Even this '79 pilot was shown in 1980 (a tv special for the new year, playing '79 hits) - it was all 80s, bud

[FLICKOFF1000]

I wonder if any of the dancers ever fell off the stage lol! :O

[Onewytlyter]

I NEVER noticed that ALL of the dancers are shaped the same. Male and female alike. Yikes!!! I mean, I loved the show, and very much appreciate this sweetly nostalgic experience, but, I mean, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME SIZE. Was the criteria to become a SG dancer that you be able to fit in and not visibly alter the costumes Wowwwww for real. Thanks for the look back. Blessings.

[JOLENE2008]

i remember after the show? i would run out to go get that one song i liked on a 45 lol :) for some reason solid gold made music seem so special :)

[fanismi]

apistefta xronia solid gold years!!!!!!!!!!!

[defnyung]

They should make a Solid Gold reunion. Same songs, new dancers of course, but also bring the old dancers to talk about how great this show was back in the day

[BricktownBubba]

Wow, the video quality is amazing for a tape this old.

[discooriginal]

Were these national charts?

[Alicia9745]

Don't romanticize the 70s too much: there was Nixon, Water Gate, Opec embargo which caused Gas Rationing and over 200% gas price hikes, Cold War, Race riots, bigotry, double digit inflation, Jim Jones cult murder/suicide, Prime rate was 15.97%, Chrysler got $1.5 billion bailout, and terrorism. Yes, there were good things too, but there were a whole lot of stressful things happening in the world too. No era is perfect. But it's fun to look back on the happier parts.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@Alicia9745 I lived through the 70s. Much of what your stating occurred mostly in urban areas with large dense populations. 80s = Reagan trades arms for hostages, cocaine wars cause crime to skyrocket, Libya, African genocide. 90s = Waco Incident, Rodney King beating, bombing of federal building with children as casualties, O.J, murders, John Bonnay, Ruby ridge, school shootings, twin towers attack by terrorists. Nothing in the 70s compares to the extreme dangers around the world today.

[katesgram]

Just listen to the variety of music! We have disco-we have music box dancer-we have pop-rock-all different sounds. Not like today where one group sounds pretty much like the next and all of them use synthesizers to change their voices. This was the last of the great music.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@katesgram You are so right. The only decade in which a TV and movie theme songs and classical music hit the top of the charts ( i.e Welcome back Kotter, Star Wars theme, and Beethhoven's 5th symphony )

[Diskoboy1974]

It's hard to imagine that this was all we had for music on television, that lone year before MTV saved us all.

And I remember that Music Box Dancer song... How that song got so much airplay still baffles me, 31 years later. It was so out of place for top-40 radio.

[WatchVenusSpa]

Damn, I never knew this season even existed! Even Jump the Shark listed SG as starting in 1980.

[SolidGold1980]

@WatchVenusSpa Solid Gold 79' was just this one pilot episode

[robfergusonjr]

@WatchVenusSpa No, its a 70s show ... I was suprised it lasted into the 80s after disco died.

[mrxenos]

@WatchVenusSpa The show Solid Gold DID start in 1980. This is was not part of the show. It was a one-off show that was so popular it spawned the series.

[lamareaton]

Remember how good the 70's and 80's were? I mean now people can't find work, lose their homes, oil spills and earthquakes...just seemed like the 70's and 80's were a hell of a lot better time to live. I feel sorry for any kids growing up in these days in times, people spend more time on the computer than chasing ass! I sure wasn't on youtube in the 70's and 80's when I was young had way too much to do.

[robfergusonjr]

@lamareaton Makes 'em fat too.

[cloverfield00]

WATCH DARCELL WYNN RIP IT TO SONG 'BAD GIRLS" BY DONNA SUMMER,SHE KILLED IT,I GOT THAT DANCE DOWN PAT,AND WHEN SHE DOES "RING MY BELL" I WOULD BATTLE ANY GRIND DANCER FROM THIS CLIP,AND TRUST ME THEY WONT WIN, I WANT TO BATTLE J-LO BEYONCE,AND MYA ON NATIONAL TV,THANKS FOR THE POST.

[cloverfield00]

LOG ONTO MY 1ST WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO ON B.E.T. "BABY BE MINE" THE REMIX WITH TEDDY RILEY AND BLACKSTREET,I WAS LEAD MODEL IN THAT VIDEO,LOG ONTO THE ROOTDOCTOR ABE "WINE ROOTGAL WINE" SEE ME DANCING,I'M WEARING A BLACK&WHITE TOP I HAVE A PONYTAIL IN MY HAIR,ALSO "MAKE IT HOT" BY SPACE,I HAVE A CAMEO IN THAT VIDEO,NEXT TO A CHRIS BROWN LOOKALIKE,IN THE BLACKSTREET VIDEO I HAVE LONG BLACK CURLY HAIR,WITH A CAP TO THE BACK,RUBBING ON CHANSEY HANNIBAL,CHECK IT OUT,I WAS INSPIRED BY DARCELL WYNN.

[cloverfield00]

AH SOOKIE SOOKIE NOW! LOOK AT DARCEL WYNN MOVE TO SONG "RING MY BELL"THIS LADY RIGHT HERE INSPIRED ME TO DANCE TODAY,I WAS ENROLLED IN "GLORIA JACKSON DANCE STUDIO" IN QUEENS NY,I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ON TV AND IN MOVIES LIKE DARCELL WYNN,WELL MY DREAM CAME TRUE,I WAS CASTED FOR "MTV THE GRIND" LOG ONTO Lil LOUIE ON MTV'S THE GRIND LATE 90'S AND MOVIE "AND THEN CAME LOVE" WITH VANESSA WILLIAMS,I'M SLOW DANCING IN THE TRAILER,I'M WEARING A BEIGE SWEATER AND BLUEJEANS WITH A PONYTAIL IN MY HAIR.

[fab367]

Good quality video. I remember seeing this. Awesome music.

[rastafairyann]

Holy Moly! I want the DVD collector set.

[SpankRamen2]

Solid Gold needs to be on DVD uncut, the way it was originally aired. I wasn't around in the 70's, but I remember this in the 80's & it was part of a complete Saturday!

Kung Fu Theater (Saturdays post midnight)

Wake up to Cartoon lineup & then:

3:00 - Soul Train

4:00 - Solid Gold

5:00 - Old folks watched the news, so I'd go outside & do something stupid like set my Barbie dolls on fire.

6:00 - Dance Fever

12:00 - Midnight Wrestling

1:00 - Three Stooges

I miss the 80's!

[Statuskuo75]

@SpankRamen2

Holy crap! You remember Kung Fu Theater too?! I was trying to explain to people what that was.

[junegloom2006]

i put my tape recorder up to the TV and recorded the whole show

[TheJoeyD27]

A lot of big changes happened right after 1979, and some were not for the better.

[dfs61]

my gosh, were we REALLY so disco, or what...???!!! there will NEVER be another era like the 70's...!!! thank god i was a part of the scene...!!! (i'm sad now 'cause i've now gotta find me a time machine to return to those good ol' days....) :(

[MrMusicman488]

A great time to be 19 yrs. those were the days!

[phillygrl69]

These were the days!! Ah! How I miss them!!! Thank you for the post!!!

[discomusic1966]

LOL!!! all the explosions!! Ilove Solid Gold Thanks for posting

[timmhg]

WOW! what kind of Sisters!!!!! mmmm pretties!

[PupuTheClown]

I use to call this show Solid Plastic, I don't remember it in the 70s though, only the early 80s and by then it was starting to get bad.

[jste77]

so are they going to bring solid gold back to tv anytime soon? i don't see why not, since most of the top hits today are pop-like dance songs.

[TTLTOY1]

hehehehehehehehehe.I can't stop laughing!-_)_)

[trojascal38]

just the best show of all times. Today's music baaaad

[njg2q]

bad girls! 4:38

[lakeboy4]

Who is the dancer who danced to Pop Muzik???

[nerdflanders8710]

it was yo mama

[Laurie0511]

this could have been filmed in williamsburg brooklyn yesterday for all i know....

[MrMusic83]

There is going to be a time when music is going to get good again, when it does they need to bring this show back! Right now today's music wouldn't be given the honor to be call music period! After Beyonce winning six Grammy's for a shitty ass album, I'm no longer going to hardly listen or buy today's Music!

[franklinfuentes]

i totally agree, i fear that we've seen musics' best.

[blakkone4000]

I'm hoping that there will be another of era of not just good but GREAT music. I find myself not that interested in today's music. I hardly have any of the stuff that came out in 2009. I did enjoy IASF. She did the ballads and the dance music was enjoyable. I know alot of people didnt think it deserved to have a win like that but there's also a large group who felt like Taylor Swift was not due the Album of the Year award so it begs the question "Who really deserved what they got?"

[djhugofunk]

i remember solid was solid music i was about 7 ,8 in 1980 in algeirs every thursday night i was so hungry to see that show on thursday night,great music forever, funkin algeriaaaaaaaa

[brendabaloyan]

Great Times! Great Music! Great Memories!

[Kimmell2009]

Did the dancers have re-audition for every season?

[reanimate280]

cool Dr Hook my dad has those cds

[damron13]

The outfits on the dancers were'nt that revealing during the first season. I think it was'nt until the 3rd season when the dancers wore sizzling hot outfits.

[kmichelle001]

I remember when this first came on the air (im old) I hated the dancers, i thought they were getting in the way of the performance, but this is actuallly the start the background dancing. You didn't see much before SG. Nice outfits.

[Spartacus217]

'79 was a good year. My friends and I used to troll the hookers near the Lincoln Tunnel on the NYC side. $10 BJs. Good times!

[craig1974]

Back then they were probably clean lol!

[JudyKhan500lbSlut]

@Spartacus217 You had to pay to get someone to blow you back in 1979?Whats the matter,your friends couldnt hook you up with some nice young chick to do that for you or are you one of these sick fuckers like Eddie Murphy or Danny Bonnaduce who pays ten bucks for a tranny to clean their clocks out for them?If you were getting blown under the Lincoln tunnel in 1979 for $10 than you sure as Hell aint getting blown at all nowdays.

[Spartacus217]

@JudyKhan500lbSlut Technically you can't get blown under the Lincoln Tunnel. I think you'd be in bedrock. Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

[corrupt200]

@Spartacus217 1979 was a good year for me too; that's the year my mom got pregnant with me

[cloverfield00]

this was my favorite footage of the solid gold dancers,i liked darcell wynne dancing to bad girl,and ring my bell,the lady with the short dark hair is an excellent dancer,her and darcell were the best on the show in my opinion,they both inspired me to dance today,you can see me dancing in the rootdoctorabe video "wine roootgal wine" and ox p video "lolipop" thanks for the clip.

[olon29]

I was born in 1979 and I didn't miss out I'm glad I was born in the 70's and lived through the 80's. these kids thesedays,I feel for them, they the ones who is missing out.

[ItsMeFawn]

I remember every one of these songs! I was so addicted to Solid Goldm I remember Dionne Warwick, Marilyn McCoo were host and that ugly puppet Madame

[nostalgiajunkie70]

I know I used to watch this all the time but the only time I remember is when Boy George was on because I remember asking my mom if he was a boy or girl. I think I have blocked out the rest. Too traumatic to remember...lol...

[tramdass1010]

This might seem like any colour shit you like, but back in the 80s we really enjoyed this stuff. We loved the music and the dance and we tuned in and turned on and sang aloud and tried to move the moves... and let me tell you this stuff kept me fit and in shape.

[oleold]

The 70's was the most diverse era in music period. That was a great era of music I'm happy I was born in that era because I got to hear such great music I make beats now and I notice I always have 70's like vibe in my tracks from wah wah pedals to strings flutes and fender rhodes.

[TimeBolt]

Well BOR I can't believe a shithead like you can operate a computer.

[collegegal79]

this is awesome i was born in 79 so missed out stuff like this

[blackshogun77]

college girl i was five years old in 79, but i remember the disco. The lat 70's was the Buck Rodgers era of solid gold.  Heres a seventies story for you. When I was in kindergarden, my teacher was convinced that the most important thing to teach us kids was how to make tie dye t-shirts. She spent days, weeks teaching us that S.

[heine71]

Is this from an edited version of Solid Gold aired on VH-1?

[bigwillietheb]

I remember when this show 1st aired , I just can't believe it's been 30 years ago & I was only 4 years old & i remember watching this original episode

[spiritchannel]

WOW! I remember this!! I was 11 and used to go to the local Roller Disco and skate to all these songs!

[TheJoeyD27]

Where was this show filmed? Los Angles?

[StLennyBruce]

This was awesome! Thanks for putting it up! I wouldn't miss Solid Gold when I was a kid-

Strange little moment trying to disco dance to Music Box Dancer...lol...

[1hass]

Those two guys in leotards are in heaven...

[collegegal79]

boy i missed out i love the 70s-80s stuff i was born sept 19 1979

[tmsan74]

i remember watching this. i watched it every saturday night with my family.great memories

[philaman1972]

This is pure gold... The Solid Gold dancers and the countdown... I was only 7 in '79, but my older brother used to play all of these songs.

[crack232323]

i was only 7 also & my big borther & i watched it every saturday night. they had

a lot of good singers & bands.

[tootie1009]

Actually, my brothers really loved it too, I thought they wanted to learn how to dance, then I overheard them say something about Camel toes and then... eeek!!!!

[tootie1009]

Hee Hee Hee this show was KITSCH, KITSCH, KITSCH, but boy did I love it, it showed me how to funky and get down....!!!

[crowgirl420]

Gosh I dont even rememeber this- I was only 10 in 79'  - I'd kill for those space boots though!

[gabullstud]

What were numbers 50, 41 and 26?!

[discomusic]

Music rights seems to be preventing Sold Gold or ANY other shows such as American Bandstand from being re-run on tv or released on DVD . Thanks for posting this what great memories!!!

[dj99surf]

in h.s. we used to watch this on sat. nite before we out. it's so campy to look at now!

[macro16]

It was campy to look at then

[fossegirl5678]

this is so ridiculous, i love it

[edward6000]

unfortunately one of the Sledges was taken out by one of the explosions

[tazma93]

Music Box Dancer...1:27

Funniest damn dance. Those dudes crack me up.

[charmedcripchic]

omg- look out world my big sister's jazzercize class has got a gig!

[rvhawkeye]

that show really sucked big time

[blklthrtn]

My goodness we had better moved in the mid 80s in Show Choir!!! Priceless

[nandoGdog]

This was the pilot show, the dancing did improve in subsequent seasons.

[dwightfartschrute]

Rock-solid proof as to why white people should be banned from dancing in public.

[tferg73]

the show was solid gold, but this clip is priceless!!! i was only 6 when this originally aired. thank God 4 youtube cuz this is a hot mess!!! porn inspired choreography, stick figure(might i add rhythmless)dancers, and two village people rejects. im in HEAVEN!!!!! all thats missing is a brother with a huge fro bumpin and grindin to earth,wind, and fire!!!

[derekmimi]

ru talking about the dancer to "pop muzik (by "m")". my god, there is more meat on good friday...

[DanceJudge]

I wanted to be a Solid Gold Dancer when I grew up! They canceled the show and I had to become a Latin , Ballroom & Disco dancer.

Watching these old videos I see where I got some of my style. I love these dancers still!

[yaywhewclips242]

How many fucking memories of 7th grade radio listening came back from this clip?? Thanx a lot for posting this!!! I cracked up at my personal 45s M and Music Box Dancer. i adored that song!!

[shortylongbacks]

thanks for posting these.i was 11 back in 1979.check out the moonboots on the dancers at the start of this video.

[derekmimi]

my god...the pointer sisters were so thin! there is more meat on good friday...

[navyboydjray]

People make fun, but this was a hit show back in the day. Me and my sister loved it. Of course this was in the days before MTV.

[70s80s]

I wish WGN would start showing "Best of Solid Gold", especially since "Best of Soul Train" is no more.

[uhsfan99]

i didn't realize that WGN stopped!!!!.. that's a shame i watched from time to time when i didn't work on saturday.. u know any reason y they stopped???

[buddyboy55]

Dear God, the 70's was such a great time to be a alive! We will never experience such a great era again.

[candlesburn]

Amen Brother!

[agt462]

@buddyboy55 i agree, HOWEVER the 80's was the DECADE of the Century!!

[Brekita]

@buddyboy55 totally agree !

[power54041]

@buddyboy55 , tell me about it .

[MissMinnieMousegirl]

@buddyboy55 Yes, I am fortunate to have grown up during those days! I remember all of this!

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@buddyboy55 70s = $1.00 - $1.50 movie tickets throughout most of the 70s, no political correctness, mechanical and digital arcades, drive-inn movies, hundreds of great movies and tv shows, dozens of great saturday morning tv shows, great music with hundreds of diverse songs, great toys, 1st home gaming consoles, 1st VCRs, 1st Video Discs, 1st personal computers, 1st CAT scan, 1st MRI, 1st cellular phones, 1st internet emails. These are just a few things introduced during the 70s.

[drnrg31]

They should really bring back this show. It's better than half the crap on tv nowadays. Can you imagine the Solid Gold dancers 2008 shaking it to Metro Sation or rocking out to Hinder? That would be priceless!

[derekmimi]

go darcel!

[raykeefe2002]

This brings back so many memories!!! If you don't like it, don't watch it! Don't comment on it and let those who want to enjoy it do so!!!

[midnightcaller77]

Agreed! You'll see these toads at every turn too. Counter attack and suckerpunch them every chance you get. Even if it's just you and me. Visiting material they can't stand. They slime their targets fast. Then disappear into cyberspace like the cockroaches they are! And beware...go too far and they cry "cop" like little girls.

[bubbaboytm]

In the 70's, if you didn't have sexy smoke and explosions, you were NOTHING! Patoooey! After this, I wish I would have kept my 70s' space suit... would come in handy in case of war or a hurricane.

[DENo1MatchGameFan]

Kind of reminds you of the CBS version of "Match Game" with the year at the end of the title.

[wagrailroad]

LOL at all the explosions!

[74sodapop]

Trip down memory lane.I remember this stuff.Music was still great better than the crap today.

[Edmonchuck]

how in the hell can you do pelvic thrusts to Music Box Dancer???????

[derekmimi]

i bet frank was mortified...

[Edmonchuck]

It is just hilarious!!!! I never thought MBD was sexual...unless you are into musical boxes...

[derekmimi]

I know.  It is exactly that...hilarious! Go Darcel! P.s. I live in Edmonton...Do you?

[Edmonchuck]

Yup...

[derekmimi]

let's go see miss tyler (bonnie)...

[aheady1969]

ha ha ha ha ha ha

[datura128]

Wow- who would have thought that 1979 would have produced so many classic hits? This was very entertaining... and hysterical too!

[monkeymanrobot]

Have you been living under a rock?

[derekmimi]

you're rude

[derekmimi]

i want solid gold back on t.v...even with miss warwick...rock on...

[derekmimi]

hee hee. funny saying huh? anyway, she moves gracefully and loves to get into it huh? did she only last one season?

[ronafer69]

She was only in the SG'79 pilot episode only.

[derekmimi]

i have found out her name may be paula beyers. is that correct? she was in staying alive also...if the same person...

[ronafer69]

NO, Paula Beyers is the other red head appearing in #39 along with the guy w/ the mustache.

[derekmimi]

thanks alot.

[derekmimi]

does anyone know the name of the dancer to song # 36? she is so thin. my god. there is more meat on good friday...

[cloverfield00]

I don't know who she is,Butt! your comment has made my Day,That is ajoke and comment all in one,However i have a friend that is smaller than her,People ask me if she eats.

[Kinnetik05]

that is paula beyer in 36.....she was also on season 1.....

[derekmimi]

okay, solid gold fans.  is it paula in 36 or 39?

[ronafer69]

Paula Beyers is the one in #39, not the thin one in #36. Paula Beyers then appeared in Solid Gold from 1980 - 1982. On the weekly series she then had shoulder length-hair w/ ponytail on the side.

[ronafer69]

No, No, Paula Beyers is the one in #39, not the thin one in #36. Paula Beyers then appeared in Solid Gold from 1980 - 1982. On the weekly series she then had shoulder length-hair w/ ponytail on the side.

[derekmimi]

thanks again. it's amazing how enthrawling this show can be/is...

[Kinnetik05]

does anyone know who those 3 unknown dancers were?? i have never heard of them.....the guy (that tony replaced) was a backup dancer/singer for tina turner after she left ike......

[ronafer69]

I also seen that same guy in the "Xanadu" video with Olivia Newton-John and also with fellow dancers Alex Cole, Darcel Wynne and Deborah Jenssen (w/blonde highlights). In the Xanadu video he's one of the male dancers in the back.

[bigroy38]

remember when this song(We are Family) was first sang on the Midnight Special.

[BennettBB]

thanks for another great SG clip! I thought it's funny, Alex was a great dancer, the unknown guy was somewhat stinky! Glad Tony replaced him in the weekly series!

[ronafer69]

Ditto!!!The same goes for the short-haired redhead & the black dancer (not Darcel). Thank god they were replaced by Pamela Rossi & Kahea Bright (episode 5) on the weekly series. And glad that Gayle Crofoot came on to replace Lucinda Dickey by November 1982.

[BennettBB]

LOL! We both thought the same thing pertaining to the original 8 dancers. The red head you mentioned also seemed to have big hips which slowed her dancing down.

Something else funny. Seeing Alex with the "80's big hair," that is a riot. He is still one of my favorite dancers though!

[ronafer69]

Nobody can't sport a bodysuit better than the Solid Gold Dancers can.

[smithraymond]

I remember getting "excited" by watching the dancers gyrate on t.v. And I used to watch this on a black and white set, mind you. I was 8 years old.

[bnotesounds]

Totally awesome!!! I remember watching the pilots, all big eyed as a kid...lol. It's so great seeing the pilot footage again, knowing what the show developed into. It's even more cool seeing some of our favorite Solid Gold Dancers in the early stages before some of the makeovers. Thanks for sharing!!!!

[figment1988]

hmm, not too many leotard clad dancers on this pilot.