Showing posts with label American Bandstand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Bandstand. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Pac Man Fever...

South Park led me to write this post.  They played a clip of "Pac Man Fever", a musical homage to the legendary arcade game.  People of my generation loved Pac Man.  Now it's ridiculously primitive.


Buckner & Garcia sing their one hit wonder...  Holy shit!  They were on American Bandstand!

Pac Man had a hell of a run in the 80s.  I remember they marketed everything from breakfast cereal to Saturday morning cartoons with the little yellow guy and his descendants and "wife", Ms. Pac Man.  And, yes, there was even a hit song.  Man, oh man, does this song bring back some painful memories.

I am still hooked on video games, although now I'm playing them online and blowing too much money on them.  I'd kill for a game I could play for a quarter.





Back in my youth, we even had game shows dedicated to video games.  Of course, Pac Man was a big part of that.  This is Starcade, which used to air on TBS.

Yeah, this is one of those songs that came out at the right time and is now mostly faded from memory.  But the guys who made South Park are my age, so sometimes I relate even more to their show than I should.  

Monday, November 12, 2012

Solid Gold!

If you were around in the 1980s and fancied yourself a music lover, you probably caught Solid Gold on your favorite independent channel...


Solid Gold was known for its sexy dancers...


Lead dancer Darcel was also in the film Xanadu...



Solid Gold was also known for its many lip synching guest stars.




Stevie Nicks is apparently one of the only people who went on Solid Gold and did not lip sync.

I used to watch Solid Gold on Saturdays when I was bored.  I could have just as easily watched Soul Train, but I wasn't all that into soul back in the day.  I also thought Don Cornelius was a colossal bore.  It was pretty fun to watch the dance line, though.




American Bandstand was also pretty big, but I wasn't really into Dick Clark.


Nope... I liked Dionne Warwick and Marilyn McCoo... And Grant Goodeve (of Eight is Enough fame) and even Andy Gibb had a turn hosting.



I kind of miss cheesy music shows.