The Solid Gold Dancers. Of the eight original Solid Gold ’79 dancers, only four would join the Solid Gold series cast: Darcel Wynne, who would be the program’s principal dancer for its first five years and was often credited by her first name alone, Deborah Jenssen, Paula Beyers, and Alexander Cole.
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Usually airing on Saturday evenings, Solid Gold was one of several shows that focused on the popular music of any given week; other examples included the long-running American Bandstand and Soul Train.
Solid Gold was an American syndicated music television series that debuted on September 13, 1980 and ran until July 23, 1988. The program was a production of Brad Lachman Productions in association with Operation Prime Time and Paramount Domestic Television . Usually airing on Saturday evenings, Solid Gold was one of several shows
Who was the main dancer on Solid Gold?
Actor Grant Goodeve presided over a general grouping of the week’s hit songs, and a second roster of Solid Gold Dancers was employed for this series; regular Solid Gold Dancer Deborah Jenssen was the principal dancer of this roster. Additional Solid Gold Hits Dancers were Pam Rossi, Cooley Jackson, Raymond Del Barrio, Macarena Gandarillas, Flo Lyle, Debra Johnson, Tricia McFarlane, Wanja Mcyntire and Corky Cortez (appearing with Cooley in the opening dance numbers).
The movie, which premiered in November 1988 , was scripted and filmed before Solid Gold was officially cancelled.
About all Cox -owned stations at the time carried Solid Gold when it launched. As previously mentioned, Solid Gold was part of Operation Prime Time , which was more or less a joint between Paramount Television and Cox Broadcasting; Entertainment Tonight was also part of the consortium.
Usually airing on Saturday evenings, Solid Gold was one of several shows that focused on the popular music of any given week; other examples included the long-running American Bandstand and Soul Train.
When Solid Gold returned for its seventh season in September 1986 , several changes were made. Marilyn McCoo returned to the series after a two-year absence.
Gibb left Solid Gold in 1982 and Rex Smith replaced him, but he too would leave after one season. Following a season where McCoo hosted by herself, she left in 1984 and Rick Dees of the Weekly Top 40 radio show was hired. Arsenio Hall joined the series during this time as the in-house comedian in place of Marty Cohen.
From its debut in 1980 until the end of its fourth season, the show was taped at the Golden West Broadcasters studio facility. Beginning in September 1984, Paramount, who had previously owned the Golden West facility in the early days of television, moved production of Solid Gold to its studios with a redesigned set.
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