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Post by Shalamar on Oct 6, 2012 12:04:12 GMT -4
Seeing the picture of grown up Aileen Quinn, who played Little Orphan Annie, in the "you're not famous anymore" thread reminds me of seeing a 20/20 special about the movie over 30 years ago. I liked the show so much, I ordered a transcript, because those were per Internet days.
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Post by Coffeecakes on Oct 6, 2012 12:05:27 GMT -4
Reminding me of Soul Train, I think the reason kids these days are so spoiled is because of the 24/7 access to cartoons. I remember on Saturday morning when Soul Train started that meant ALL cartoons were over for the day.
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Post by carrier76 on Oct 6, 2012 13:40:18 GMT -4
My brothers and I used to watch this before school in the late '80s/early '90s. It was kind of awful, but for some reason we loved watching the Grand Prize Game, when they would throw ping pong balls into a line of buckets? I think the big prize at the end was a Schwinn bicycle? I rarely saw anyone win the Schwinn. We would mock the loser kids that couldn't even make it into the first bucket that was basically right under them. My brothers and I are also assholes. Friday Night Videos was totally awesome. After Saturday morning cartoons we'd turn on Bandstand and then America's Top 10 on NBC. I remember Maneater being #1 a lot. The CBS station in St. Louis had a Saturday night video show on for awhile as well, after the news. I can't remember what it was called, but one of the DJs would broadcast from some booth (?) with a smoke machine (?) to make it look cool ( ). I remember Thriller being on that show a lot, and I hated the part when he turned towards the screen at the end, wearing the animal contacts. Ugh. You all mentioned Solid Gold, which I liked okay, but I LOVED Dance Fever. Anybody else? Mom would go grocery shopping sometimes on Saturday afternoons, and I would hope she'd hurry so we could get home and put on Dance Fever.
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Post by kateln on Oct 6, 2012 14:32:18 GMT -4
I remember Bozo's Circus.
I have a scar on my cheek from dancing to Solid Gold (I was 3).
Finally, my niece--who's 8--asked me what was on my iPod when I was her age.
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Post by chitowngirl on Oct 6, 2012 15:44:24 GMT -4
How about The Midnight Special?
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Post by ikmccall on Oct 6, 2012 18:03:38 GMT -4
How about The Midnight Special? I used to watch that and something called Supersonic(?)
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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Oct 6, 2012 23:16:11 GMT -4
You all mentioned Solid Gold, which I liked okay, but I LOVED Dance Fever. Anybody else? Mom would go grocery shopping sometimes on Saturday afternoons, and I would hope she'd hurry so we could get home and put on Dance Fever. Yes! Deney Terrio was the host. My memories of that era are hit and miss and a little fuzzy, but I remember watching cartoons and then either Soul Train or American Bandstand. Can't remember if we switched off watching the two or if they came on at different times, but that was definitely the ritual.
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Post by kostgard on Oct 7, 2012 0:13:54 GMT -4
Reminding me of Soul Train, I think the reason kids these days are so spoiled is because of the 24/7 access to cartoons. I remember on Saturday morning when Soul Train started that meant ALL cartoons were over for the day. Hee! Oh, yes - when Soul Train came on, that was my cue to actually change out of my PJs and go outside and play because cartoons were over. And we always listened to Casey Kasem's countdown. And I LOVED "Dance Fever" ( Hee.) as well as "Solid Gold" - which show had Waylan Flowers and Madame? Solid Gold? That dude was buried with that puppet. I remember when MTV played videos (and my older sisters begging our mom for cable so we could get MTV and my dad thinking MTV was awful and from the devil or something). Then that stopped and we had to rely on VH1 to play videos. Now that doesn't happen anymore, either. I have only vague memories of Friday Night Videos. They were on past my bedtime and I only saw them when I could sneak down and watch them when my sisters were watching them when they were babysitting me and tried to decide what I was mature enough to handle and what I wasn't (they ordered me to hide my face under the throw blanket during the sex scenes in "Purple Rain" - the movie, not the video). Speaking of videos - I do remember when video stores actually existed and weren't just a kiosk outside of McDonald's or something mailed to you and the store was divided between VHS and Beta (one half of the store devoted to each format). And we rented a VCR from the store. It was kind of a big deal when we got our own VCR. And hell - I remember when TLC was actually educational programming and not just DIY (That was the step before the "Look! These people had a shit-ton of kids!" shows) and they always had shows on tornadoes and shit like that (and okay - UFOs. Not exactly educational on that point). I always had it on in the background when I wrote my papers in college. Then it went to DIY so I had to rely on the Discovery channel. Now I'm pissed that Discovery is all reality shows about people who build motorcycles and shit. The History channel used to be good, now it's all reality shows about people who pawn shit or dig through piles of shit looking for antiques. History International used to be good, but now it's H2 and it's nothing but stupid "Ancient Aliens" and "UFO Hunters" crap. Now I just have my beloved Science channel left, and while I enjoy "Oddities" I'm getting kinda pissed at how often they show it and how it already has a spin-off. I need my educational programming, dammit!
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Post by Neurochick on Oct 7, 2012 7:51:50 GMT -4
Anybody else spend a significant amount of time on Saturday mornings listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 and watching American Bandstand and Soul Train? Yes, in NYC Soul Train came on at 11am and American Bandstand was on at 12:30pm. Mom used to watch Bandstand when it came from Philadelphia, she said it used to come on twice a week. And I do remember the Midnight Special, but on the east coast it came on at 1am, after the Tonight Show, which used to be on for 90 minutes.
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Post by divasahm on Oct 7, 2012 9:42:59 GMT -4
Anybody else spend a significant amount of time on Saturday mornings listening to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 and watching American Bandstand and Soul Train? Yes, in NYC Soul Train came on at 11am and American Bandstand was on at 12:30pm. Mom used to watch Bandstand when it came from Philadelphia, she said it used to come on twice a week. And I do remember the Midnight Special, but on the east coast it came on at 1am, after the Tonight Show, which used to be on for 90 minutes. Ah, Midnight Special--the staple of Friday night sleepovers! Pizza, eaten while huddled around the TV watching the Partridge Family and the Bradys, then hijinks until the Tonight Show (but only if someone interesting was on), and then some serious jamming to Midnight Special. I used to record my favorites on a videotape that I treasured--and then my brother loaned it out to our friend, whose older brother played shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays, and the tape came back with a double-header recorded over it.
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