She's so cute here although she can't really sing.

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January 29, 2024 3:20 AM

Those are some amazing locks. With hair like that, who needs talent?

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January 27, 2024 2:27 AM

Gurl ! I mean GURL! Who the hell thought this was a good idea?????

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January 27, 2024 2:42 AM

Dick Clark’s Live Wednesday?

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January 27, 2024 2:49 AM

I have it on good word that, after this production, she came after the dancer on her right, enraged that he missed a "Whoo" lipsynch. He was traumatized by how badly she beat him with her shit training-bra.

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January 27, 2024 3:04 AM

Two bottoms bell bottoms?

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January 27, 2024 3:52 AM

Their oxfords tried to make a comeback in 2018 .

I prefer their more stovepipe legs to over flared stuff I see this season.

We could resuscitate jazzercise if we let older gents skip and prance. Probably a few broken hips. All for art and health.

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January 27, 2024 4:00 AM

You're not in Walnut Grove any more, bitches!

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January 27, 2024 4:00 AM

That's one very concealed shitbra.

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January 27, 2024 4:25 AM

Melissa Sue Anderson saw this and laughed. And laughed. And laughed.

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January 27, 2024 8:14 AM

Who's the tone-deaf leprechaun hanging out with Adam and Steve?

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January 27, 2024 8:20 AM

The choreography needs more gyration, a bit of tongue-flicking, and lots of crotch-grabbing, IMO.

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reply 17

January 27, 2024 8:45 AM

They really tried hard to make her happen post-Little House. But she just faded and got married.

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reply 18

January 27, 2024 8:50 AM

Triple threat, I wonder if this was her informal "audition" for the Annie movie

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reply 19

January 27, 2024 9:02 AM

I don’t know why she didn’t become the next Donna Summer.

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January 27, 2024 9:43 AM

I think I heard this at '54, or maybe that was the qualuudes taking.

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reply 21

January 27, 2024 10:04 AM

Well she's not as graceful as the two boys but she can move. Her singing sounds like a double vocal. And what's with the tie?

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reply 22

January 27, 2024 1:00 PM

Finally, a chance for her to put those stupid damn dance lessons I paid for to good use. Too bad I can't say the same about the voice lessons.

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reply 23

January 27, 2024 1:18 PM

Wasn't too she old to play Annie?

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reply 24

January 27, 2024 1:20 PM

Kristy McNichol and other "aging out" kiddie stars tried this route.

Results may vary.

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reply 25

January 27, 2024 2:10 PM

She had Tim Scott gums before they were cool.

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reply 26

January 27, 2024 4:26 PM

The Girl Scout vest paired with newsboy knickers was a popular fashion trend of the cocaine era, because it screamed, “SELL THOSE COOKIES! GO, GO, GO!”

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reply 27

January 27, 2024 5:33 PM

Did Kristy McNichol sing?

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reply 28

January 27, 2024 5:35 PM

Back to the prairie with ya!

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reply 29

January 27, 2024 5:42 PM

I’m glad you asked, R28.

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January 27, 2024 5:44 PM

[quote] Wasn't too she old to play Annie?

They were going to age Annie up to sixteen and change Miss Hannigan's orphanage to a bordello. The studio was fine with the update to hold onto Gilbert's untested but considerably major box office appeal, but balked at refreshed opening number, "Hard Cock Life." Of equal concern was Daddy Warbucks assuring Annie she was safe with him via his ode to masturbation, "I Don't Need Anything But Lube". The chorus to "We've Got Annie" was equally problematic ("Who Hasn't Had Her Already? *)

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January 27, 2024 8:11 PM

Still don’t know how she got Rob Lowe.

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reply 33

January 27, 2024 10:04 PM

<- She got MMF threesomes for him with guys who wanted to fuck Half-Pint.

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reply 34

January 27, 2024 11:05 PM

She loves the nightlife, she's got to boogie

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reply 35

January 27, 2024 11:08 PM

She certainly was a homely girl. And that voice! Yeesh.

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reply 36

January 27, 2024 11:09 PM

she sounds like she took a hit of helium

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reply 37

January 27, 2024 11:10 PM

I’m sorry but she’s no Danielle Brisbois.

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January 27, 2024 11:32 PM

Danielle's natural voice sounds pretty good, considering there was no autotuning going on like there is these days.

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reply 40

January 27, 2024 11:38 PM

Danielle was actually in the Broadway cast of “Annie,” as orphan #2, I believe.

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reply 41

January 27, 2024 11:41 PM

She (Brisebois) also had a successful songwriting career from the early nineties through 2010s.

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reply 42

January 28, 2024 12:00 AM

I thought Danielle was Phylicia Rachad in that clip.

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reply 43

January 28, 2024 12:02 AM

Kristy and Jimmy tried the sibling duet thing on their show.

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reply 44

January 28, 2024 12:05 AM

I learned all of those steps in Miss Ludie's basement, but I never thought I would see them done on TV.

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reply 45

January 28, 2024 12:08 AM

This is why Mary went blind.

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January 28, 2024 12:44 AM

R41, Danielle was the original Molly on Broadway, which I believe is what got her the gig on All in the Family/Archie Bunker's Place. She was a super cute kid. OP's post just screams, "I have an overbearing stage mother who will exploit her little angel as many ways as possible." I would have loved to see the rehearsals for this "number" as Half-pint's deer in the headlights expression through much of the choreography, suggests not a natural aptitude for dance to go along with her glaring lack of vocal talent.

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January 28, 2024 12:54 AM

Has anyone got the video of young Sara Gilbert's hip hop version of "Big Spender"?

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reply 48

January 28, 2024 1:01 AM

What was the roller skating sequence in Danielle's video? Loved how she was singing a little ahead of the band and they were desperate to keep up.

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reply 49

January 28, 2024 3:58 AM

R44 - is Jimmy singing in that clip or faking it? all I can hear is Kristy.

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January 28, 2024 4:16 AM

The clip of Jonathan Gilbert singing "Push, Push, In The Bush" has sadly been lost to time.

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January 28, 2024 4:41 AM

The queen with the mustache sitting in front of Dick Clark is THRILLED for this before it begins.

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reply 52

January 28, 2024 4:42 AM

Kim Fields was also on Bandstand without roller skates. What a missed opportunity!

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January 28, 2024 6:57 AM

R41- There's a video on youtube of the 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade- Danielle is on the Ocean Spray parade float singing Tomorrow from Annie. She was only 11 years old at the time and sings beautifully. I was really impressed.

Here is the video. She starts singing at 1 hour 25 minutes and 29 seconds.

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January 28, 2024 7:24 AM

R36- Wrong.

She looked absolutely adorable there.

You're on the wrong thread. We are not talking about Lens Dunham.

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January 28, 2024 7:27 AM

r56 you're blind. She has huge buck teeth and a terrible voice.

I'm glad you love your days watching Little House and thinking Half Pint was the MOST, but...NOPE. This was a horrible performance, and she was indeed homely. Much the way Kristy McNichol was on Family and everything else.

I'm almost sure you're the person who kept arguing about Kristy a few months back. It's fine for you to love them, but in all honesty, neither of them were attractive. they were really awkward looking kids.

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January 28, 2024 7:33 AM

R57- Yes, I agree about Kristy she was not at all conventionally attractive back then especially compared to her tv sister Nancy Maitland- who was very pretty bordering on beautiful BUT

Laura Ingalls/ Melissa Gilbert was a very cute girl at that time- I'm not a Lesbian I'm a gay male but still.

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reply 58

January 28, 2024 7:36 AM

[R55], did you catch that Dean Butler (Almanzo -LHOTP) performed before DB? Great clip!

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reply 59

January 28, 2024 8:59 AM

Oh my god, Melissa Gilbert vs Melissa Sue Anderson. Gilbert was an annoying little fuck and Anderson was beautiful and poised.

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reply 61

January 28, 2024 9:04 AM

They were aiming for “precocious” with kids at that point. In Living Color” did skits about it.

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reply 62

January 28, 2024 10:56 AM

[quote]Melissa Gilbert Goes Disco With Two Bottoms

Two bottoms is an understatement!

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reply 63

January 28, 2024 11:07 AM

R59- It’s funny that the clip I posted about Danielle has Almonzo singing right before her considering this thread is about Melissa Gilbert.

What a contrast- Dean CANNOT sing at all - he’s awful

Then we have Danielle at only 11 years old belting out Tomorrow. She’s so adorable in this video with her slightly cross eyes.

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January 28, 2024 2:17 PM

Two things -1. MG has AMAZING hair! 2. She must be in incredible shape. She wasn’t even out of breath after all that dscoing!

I thought she did a good job. I was entertained.

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January 29, 2024 3:20 AM