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Solid Gold Dancers vs Hot Gossip
Those of us of a certain age (okay, in our 30s) remember spending our formative years fantasizing about what was lurking beneath the spandex of those incredibly sexy Solid Gold Dancers. As the most exciting part of Solid Gold, they commanded the airwaves with their weekly pop music countdown from 1979-1988 (though the dancing heyday ended in 1986, when most of the dancers quit the show).
But wait, you say you grew up across yon ocean in England-land? Well, then in that case you probably had the same exciting thoughts about Hot Gossip, the dance troupe that scandalized the average televison viewer and launched the career of Sarah Brightman.
Thanks to the seemingly omnipresent YouTube, you can now relive those Solid Gold and Hot Gossip moments, which have previously been locked tightly in the vaults of your memory.
First, let's meet the Solid Gold dancers. Quicktime movie (21mb) or YouTube link.
Okay, the jazzercise work-out tights, flashy clothes, poofy hairdos, and vaguely informative song trivia (provided by legendary Los Angeles DJ Robert Morgan) are pretty dated. And it can be painful trying to watch the dancers attempt moves for even the most un-danceable 80s hits (The Miami Vice Theme, Starship's We Built This City). But my heart is with the Solid Gold Dancers, as it takes a certain kind of skill to keep things fresh and new - and they did it every week of the year (with a two hour end-of-year wrap-up to boot).
Everyone has their favorite dancer, but for me the real allure of the Solid Gold empire was embodied by impressive lead dancer Darcel Wynne. Her flowing straight hair and cat-like ability to slink across the stage made her a stand-out, and her presence is the definition of commanding. Darcel was not a trained dancer, but just happened into the profession by landing a television gig at the tender age of 14 (she lied about her age). Solid Gold was the highlight of her career - though she is also one of the muses in Xanadu - and she unfortunately retired after leaving the show, settling in with Temptations singer Glen Leonard and finding God (always a showbiz career crippler).
Here's a collection of dances that focus on Darcel - starting with one of my favorite Solid Gold scenes, an Snakes on a Plane version of Living In America. Quicktime (22mb) YouTube
And here's another Darcel-heavy collection featuring her rather sexy version of West End Girls. Quicktime (20mb) YouTube
There are tons of other Solid Gold clips on YouTube, including the musical acts and the Solid Gold workout video, some of which I have collected here. Oh, and while we're at it, here's the Solid Gold Theme Song.
MP3
Update: Don't miss Mark Allen's personal reminisces about the Solid Gold dancers on his blog!
The Solid Gold Dancers became a worldwide sensation, but Hot Gossip were first. Organized by disco choreographer Arlene Philips, the Gossips were featured as a part of DJ Kenny Everett's music-video and comedy TV series in the late 70s. They were not confined to each week's top hits, instead picking from whatever full-length songs and pop artists they felt like highlighting. Their dances were risque, wild, over-the-top, and immediately popular, as you can see in this dance to The Flying Lizards' Money. Quicktime(9mb), YouTube.
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Sarah Brightman joined the group at the tender age of 18, and became the breakout star thanks in part to her resemblance to Kate Bush (both in look and dance style). Sarah moved behind the mic with a wonderfully cheesy Euro-disco track (a genre you know we love) that was inspired by the urge to cash in on late 70s Sci-Fi mania. I Lost My Heart To a Starship Trooper not only dropped inaccurate Star Wars references ("Flash Gordon's left me, He's gone to the stars/And evil Darth Vader he's been banished to Mars"), but was immensely danceable and cracked the UK top ten in 1978. See the video Quicktime(15mb) YouTube, or just play the song and make up your own dance.
With stars in her eyes, Brightman immediately left the group (who weren't really involved in the song anyway, other than lending their talents to the video) and formed "Sarah Brightman and the Starship Troopers". The rest of Hot Gossip hooked up with members of the Human League to make an all covers album (mostly Human League and Heaven 17 songs, though they also did a version of the Talking Heads' Houses in Motion). Both projects flopped. Brightman went on to be a musical stage star, marry and divorce Andrew Lloyd Webber, and eventually have a successful recording career (though I would argue that her output today is almost as cheesy as her Hot Gossip years - and not nearly as fun). Still, you can remember those glory days with more Hot Gossip clips, catalogued here.
Oh, and here's a little bonus. While searching "Solid Gold" on YouTube, I also stumbled across this amazing clip Franken & Davis on the show. Yup, that's Air America's Al Franken doing a pretty darn sweet Mick Jagger impression - though I'm sure Rush would say otherwise. Quicktime(11MB) YouTube
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Serge Gainsbourg Drunk Says He Wants to Fuck Whitney Houston 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
Serge Gainsbourg Drunk Says He Wants to Fuck Whitney Houston 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
Rencontre mémorable entre Whitney Houston et Serge Gainsbourg
Champs Elysées - 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
20591 vuesMichel DRUCKER présente Whitney HOUSTON à Serge GAINSBOURG, quelque peu ivre, qui lui bafouille quelques mots en anglais avant de lui avouer (en anglais) qu'il aimerait bien "la baiser". La chanteuse est très choquée et déclare que GAINSBOURG doit être ivre. Michel DRUCKER, très ennuyé, essaie de rattraper la situation. Serge GAINSBOURG finit par marmonner quelques excuses.
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Memorable encounter between Whitney Houston and Serge Gainsbourg
Champs Elysees - 05/04/1986 - 03min23sMichel Drucker has Whitney Houston to Serge Gainsbourg, a bit drunk, who mumbles a few words in English before he confessed (in English) that he would like "the kiss". The singer is shocked and declares that GAINSBOURG must be drunk. Michel Drucker, very tired, trying to catch up with the situation. Serge GAINSBOURG finally mumbled a few apologies.
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Serge Gainsbourg Drunk Says He Wants to Fuck Whitney Houston 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
Serge Gainsbourg Drunk Says He Wants to Fuck Whitney Houston 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
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Rencontre mémorable entre Whitney Houston et Serge Gainsbourg
Champs Elysées - 05/04/1986 - 03min23s
20591 vuesMichel DRUCKER présente Whitney HOUSTON à Serge GAINSBOURG, quelque peu ivre, qui lui bafouille quelques mots en anglais avant de lui avouer (en anglais) qu'il aimerait bien "la baiser". La chanteuse est très choquée et déclare que GAINSBOURG doit être ivre. Michel DRUCKER, très ennuyé, essaie de rattraper la situation. Serge GAINSBOURG finit par marmonner quelques excuses.
Retrouvez cette notice dans les dossiers suivants : * Imprévus et dérapages à la télé | 14 vidéos - 9171 vuesProduction
producteur ou co-producteur:
Annonceur, Paris : Antenne 2 , DANY ET MICHEL DRUCKER PRODUCTIONS
Générique
réalisateur:
Boulain, Françoise
présentateur:
Drucker, Michel
Memorable encounter between Whitney Houston and Serge Gainsbourg
Champs Elysees - 05/04/1986 - 03min23sMichel Drucker has Whitney Houston to Serge Gainsbourg, a bit drunk, who mumbles a few words in English before he confessed (in English) that he would like "the kiss". The singer is shocked and declares that GAINSBOURG must be drunk. Michel Drucker, very tired, trying to catch up with the situation. Serge GAINSBOURG finally mumbled a few apologies.
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(#mp3) Jacques Hourdeaux Sings Red Sovine's Teddy Bear in French - Teddy Boys from Ceci n'est pas un blog
Teddy Boys
I was always simultaneously repulsed and attracted to Red Sovine’s ballad weeper Teddy Bear. If you’re not familiar, it’s a classic CB era country tune about “a young paraplegic boy whose semitrailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB radio to keep him company.” (Source Wikipedia.) While at a Salon de disque in Paris, I ran across the French version! I once did a radio show where I alternated between French songs and various Americana, mostly country, songs as an experiment in tolerance for the listener and as a challenge to see if I could make the two go together. If only I owned this 45 back then.
Not a whole lot of information to find on the “singer” Jacques Hourdeaux. It appears that he penned several tunes for the likes of Brassens, Sacha Distel, Dalida and Sheila. More info on him if I find it.
The other plus is that it is on the Pink Elephant record label.
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(#video) Red Sovine's classic Teddy Bear sung in French by Jacques Hourdeaux - Le petit garçon et le routier
Jacques Hourdeaux - Le petit garçon et le routier (Teddy Bear)
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Red Sovine Le petit garçon et le routier (Teddy Bear)
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Not a whole lot of information to find on the “singer” Jacques Hourdeaux. It appears that he penned several tunes for the likes of Brassens, Sacha Distel, Dalida and Sheila. More info on him if I find it.ET LA ROUTE
Le petit garçon et le routier was always repulsed and attracted to Red Sovine’s ballad weeper Teddy Bear. If you’re not familiar, it’s a classic CB era country tune about “a young paraplegic boy whose semitrailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB radio to keep him company.”
L'OURS Red Sovine
ROUGE FRANÇAISE TEDDY BEAR
GARÇON ET LA ROUTE
Le petit garçon et
LITTLE BOY ET LA
Red Sovine LE PETIT
Sovine THE LITTLE BOY
TEDDY BEAR Red Sovine
* * SOVINE RED
* AND * THE
* CATALAN TEDDY BEAR
* D'UTILISATION * LITTLE
* D'UTILISATION LITTLE BOY
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(#video) Red Sovine's classic Teddy Bear sung in French by Jacques Hourdeaux - Le petit garçon et le routier
Jacques Hourdeaux - Le petit garçon et le routier (Teddy Bear)
Red Sovine's classic most maudlin of Trucker tunes gets the treatment by an unknown Belgian/French chanteur. This is mainly an excuse to hear one of the strangest cross-language covers you can imagine...and you also get to peek into my Picture Photo Folder from my Computer as lagniappe!
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Red Sovine Le petit garçon et le routier (Teddy Bear)
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Le petit garçon et le routier was always repulsed and attracted to Red Sovine’s ballad weeper Teddy Bear. If you’re not familiar, it’s a classic CB era country tune about “a young paraplegic boy whose semitrailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB radio to keep him company.”Not a whole lot of information to find on the “singer” Jacques Hourdeaux. It appears that he penned several tunes for the likes of Brassens, Sacha Distel, Dalida and Sheila. More info on him if I find it.ET LA ROUTE
L'OURS Red Sovine
ROUGE FRANÇAISE TEDDY BEAR
GARÇON ET LA ROUTE
Le petit garçon et
LITTLE BOY ET LA
Red Sovine LE PETIT
Sovine THE LITTLE BOY
TEDDY BEAR Red Sovine
* * SOVINE RED
* AND * THE
* CATALAN TEDDY BEAR
* D'UTILISATION * LITTLE
* D'UTILISATION LITTLE BOY
* LITTLE BOY *
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Karl Straub: bob quine, richard hell "PINK PANTHER"
BARNEY KESSEL AND JULIE LONDON, "CRY ME A RIVER"
Here's the classic studio version, a high-water mark for sultry jazz-influenced pop. Obviously Julie London is the main event, but this is a guitar site, damn it! So check out Barney Kessel's hip guitar accompaniment. and here's a TV version from 1964 with the Bobby Troup Quintet. I'm not sure if it's Kessel on this version, but it's pretty much the same arrangement. In fact, it may be Julie lip-syncing to the original. I keep getting distracted by her shiny dresshttp://betaplayer.dailymotion.com/video/x2za71_lou-reed-et-robert-quine-1-5
"Time" from Destiny Street (Richard Hell & the Voidoids), "Oh" from Beyond Cyberpunk (Richard Hell & the Voidoids 2001 reunion), and "Martial Law" from Live In Italy (Lou Reed). —Anonymous
I will listen to: "Blind Love" from Rain Dogs and "Love Comes In Spurts" from Blank Generation. —Mitchell W. Feldstein As a moment to honor/remember Quine, we have decided to extract the guitar solo from "Waves Of Fear" as a sound wave into a Pro Tools recording system, reverse it and loop it from 9 to 10 p.m. I hope Robert finds peace in the guitar-sonic journey. —Chuck Hammer / Guitarchitecture Quine playlist: "The Day John Kennedy Died" from The Blue Mask (Lou Reed) and though probably everyone is mentioning these songs: "Blank Generation", "Love Comes In Spurts", "Walking on the Water" (Richard Hell & The Voidoids) and any any any! thing he did with Marianne Faithfull. —Deobrah Olin For this evening's memorial, I'm choosing to play the track "Once Upon A Time In The West" from John Zorn's The Big Gundown. My set for the 31st will be "Love Comes In Spurts" (Blank Generation), "Holy War" and "Nothing Lasts" (Matthew Sweet), "She's A Girl And I'm A Man" (Lloyd Cole) "Blank Generation", "Time", and "The Blue Mask". Quine was a huge inspiration to us. The Blue Mask, Live In Italy, Blank Generation and Destiny Street Not sure what time that'll be here in the UK, but I'll play the Live In Italy "Heroin", obviously. And probably be crying. —Stephen, England I will be doing this. My playlist will be Lou Reed's Live in Italy and The Blue Mask. Cheers! —Rob Skane
I really like the solos on "Home of the Brave", "Make Up Mind", "Betrayed" off Legendary Hearts. * "Love Comes In Spurts"
Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
* "Waves Of Fear"
The Blue Mask - Lou Reed
* "Reminiscing In Blue"
Reminiscing In Blue - Chip Stern & Friends
BOB QUINE WITH RICHARD HELL, "BLANK GENERATION"
If you're not already a fan of Richard Hell or Bob Quine, this so-so quality live footage probably won't win you over, but for fans like me even a murky snippet of the original Voidoids is a sacred artifact. Quine reintroduced the Lou Reed electric guitar style to an audience that was a little more ready to hear obnoxious noise than the youngsters of 1968 had been. He then kept the faith for years, showing how to play a rude counterpoint to singers of different colors-- barking and monotone drama (Lou Reed, Tom Waits) or bubblegum powerpop (Matthew Sweet). He was something of a thinking man's rock guitarist; hardly academic, in a humorless, ivory tower sense, he was nonetheless almost priggishly intolerant of bullshit and mediocrity. At his best, he resembled Richard Thompson-- another guitarist who plays very beautifully, but without sacrificing passion or weirdness.
Ultimately, Quine reminded us all of something that people too often forget-- the notion that the chief business of rock music is sound, not hair and clothes.JOHN C. MCCAIN, "PINK PANTHER" SOUNDTRACK EXCERPT
Here's a little tidbit of solo guitar from my friend John C. McCain. It's a piece called 'Meglio Stasera" from Mancini's "Pink Panther" soundtrack. John used heavy strings, tuned down a whole step, to get this great tone.and here's the clip from the film.
George Barnes.
"Hot Guitar Rag," from the super-rare "Country Jazz" lp.
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D.C. picker Jim Stephanson told me that Danny Gatton learned every lick from this album. I sell this for $15.00, because it's 3 minutes of all guitar. A guitar lesson in every bar. (for the uninitiated-- Barnes is one of the most prodigiously gifted electric guitarists of the 20th century. He's virtually unheard-of, even in the guitar world, but rarely did a guitarist have more technique and command of the fingerboard. On top of that, he was a beautiful lyrical player. I appreciate his technique, but his invention and creativity are the real reasons to listen to him.)
This track is a fascinating blend of country and jazz guitar, and Barnes was pretty comfortable with all of it.
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