Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Solid Gold! Filling Up My Life With Music!

One of the coolest things about growing up in the '80s was the incredible music. If you weren't listening to Casey Kasem's long distance dedications every Sunday you were being introduced to the newest hits from Culture Club and Madonna, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, U2, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, INXS, Eurythmics and Duran Duran on one of the greatest television shows to ever grace the airwaves, Solid Gold.  Bands would lip synch to their songs while the Solid Gold Dancers (Hey Darcel!) swished and swayed like twerking gazelles in heat in sequined headbands in the background, the whole mess presided over by a who's who of "Who?"s like Dionne Warwick, Rex Smith, Andy Gibb and the fabulous Marilyn McCoo, who never missed an opportunity to crowbar one of her own songs into an episode .  I KNOW!  Next to Battle of the Network Stars this was some great shit!


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