Real-life All About Eve on SOLID GOLD

And to those who may say Solid Gold was an irrelevant, old-fashioned program built around corporate recording contracts, look who Dionne Warwick and Barry White introduce at 7:20, none other than perennial hitmaker at the dawn of her storied career, DL legend Terri Gibbs.

I LOATHED Rex Smith. The arrogance just dripped off of him. Oversinger extraordinaire.

[quote]The arrogance just dripped off of him

Due, no doubt, to what was bulging out of his pants.

R1 I love you!!

I loved him back in the day.

Rex in the coveted cohost role, singing a medley of 1982 Grammy-nominated songs.

The Donald Fagen cover is surpringly charming.

Eye of the Tiger and Ebony and Ivory are just awful songs beyond repair.

Toto’s Rosanna won.

KAREN: (stunned) "To co-host a top-of-the-pops digest television show with Marilyn McCoo... you'd do all that, just to co-host a top-of-the-pops digest television show with Marilyn McCoo..."

EVE: "To co-host for a top-of-the-pops digest television show with Marilyn McCoo THAT good, I'd do much more than that..."

Marilyn was (is) beautiful.

Is he the one that made the porno?

I think I saw Rex Smith in a Broadway production of Grease when I was a kid or am I misremembering that?

Datalounge dream cast for Grease.

Danny Zuko. Broadway, 1978.

I'm obsessed with the look Rex Smith is serving here.

Andy was talented, sexy as hell and a hot mess.

He had no one to blame but himself.

The Solid Gold countdown was essential year end viewing. Here's the top 40 of 1981:

Marilyn McCoo is a jazzy name!

Oddly, that song isn't from Pirates of Penzance. It's from Ruddigore, but for some reason they took it and put it into the film version of Pirates. Never knew why,

Countdown 1982, w/ Melissa Manchester's big new wave hit:

Marilyn McCoo did her own All About Eve on that show when she took Dionne Warwick's place.

The full 1984 countdown, with Pointer Sisters, Cyndi, Laura Branigan, and Culture Club.

Can anyone here guess the biggest hit:

- Michael Jackson - Prince - Madonna - Bruce Springsteen - Tina Turner - ???

Sorry, r11, if Joanne Whorley ain't in Grease, or anything for that matter, we will not approve!

Caftans, unite!

Marilyn is looking a little animated and glassy eyed in these clips as well.

You may be on to something, R19.

Dionne & Andy's excellent duet:

Dionne covers Barbra:

Dioone brings the funk:

Superstar duet from 1982:

with Boy George, still healthy in 1985:

They were out of control!

Why did Solid Gold decline in popularity in the late 80s? Many good videos here.

R28 yes but he got real ugly there

As a small child, Solid Gold was my fave TV show. It came on every Saturday evening.

But Andy's teefs!

Mary McGoo was such a fun white girl. Too bad she dead.

OP's video cuts too soon, before the good part.

Great look

Rex Smith is hot in some pics but his face is so pointy.

He's a prime example of exceedingly tacky and very hot.

Didn't realise the Gibbs were so posh.

OT but 'Young Turks' is Rod's best and most underrated Top 10 single imo. Probably blasphemous to you elders, but I got to know it via the videogame GTA: San Andreas.

I miss the 80s....

Whet Rex Smith?

Are there nudes out there?

Solid Gold was must-see TV no matter who hosted.

Gibb did the LA version of Pirates of Penzance with Pam Dawber. Gibb was fired from solid gold for missing too many tapings, sometimes canceling at the last minute. The same thing happened later that year when he did Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat on Broadway.

Pam Dawber. There’s a name you don’t hear much anymore.

^ Not everyone can be a Joyce Bulifant.

Joyce really was something special, alright.

Loved Irene Cara. Too bad she was blackballed.

Irene Cara was blackballed?

Yes, blackballed for what?!

[quote] Andy’s side is clearly fueled by cocaine, Rex Smith’s by savage ambition.

Rex Smith looked and sounded coked-up as well.

R48 and R48, Irene was blackballed after she sued her record company for royalties. She won, but she was persona non grata after that.

I meant and R49.

It was basically an updated version of Your Hit Parade, the old radio show (that starred Frank Sinatra and Doris Day) and later the TV show with Dorothy Colins, Snooky Lanson, et al.

Andy and his "very special friend" - Victoria Principal.

On March 5, 2023, Principal shared an Instagram video which showed the bouquet of roses she'd left on the beach near her home.

The flowers were placed next to the letters "AG," which stood for Gibb's initials, that had been written in the sand. The commemoration, which she did yearly, was done in honor of Gibb's birthdate and the day of his death, with all the roses being red but one that was white.

AG didn’t have lips

Andy Gibb was very attractive to me and, I thought, was very humble, and everyone seemed to like him. It was a shock to a lot of people that he had such a bad drug problem.

Does Marilyn have any breasts?

Victoria: I'm a little nervous.

Andy: Have some of this.

Loved Andy. Tragic ending

Victoria: Performing while coked-up goes against all my principles.

I spent a lot of time with Rex back in the day. He was gorgeous everywhere.

R28 I miss THAT Boy George.

Rex Smith was not my type at all, but even I could see he was sex on a stick.

Solid Shit

My 5yr old gayling self proudly went to school and named all the 1981 Solid Gold dancers by memorization to my First Grade teacher.

Wonder if she knew I'd grow up to be gay?

DARCEL WYNNE!

Performing one of my many classics.

R13 that look being DUHHHH

R56 who needs lips when you have the glorious hairy chest Andy had.

Andy was a small guy, wasn't he. Everyone always towers over him in photos.

R71 Five feet six and one half inches, according to Celebrity Heights.

Magnificence.

Solid Gold didn't go for booze and DOPE!

[quote] Andy was talented, sexy as hell and a hot mess.

It wasn't "All About Eve," it was more "A Star Is Born."

I don't like body hair but he was cute regardless.

Who was the hairiest of the Gibb brothers?

And was Andy’s chest hair reddish?

I wonder how hairy his ass was.