At 3:00, Andy Gibb introduces Rex Smith, who hops onstage in tight leather pants before the two launch into a number from Pirates of Penzance. Andy’s side is clearly fueled by cocaine, Rex Smith’s by savage ambition.

A year later Andy Gibb was out and Rex was in as Marilyn McCoo’s co-host.

A story as old as time.

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November 6, 2022 3:50 AM

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.

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October 19, 2022 1:09 AM

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

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October 19, 2022 1:18 AM

[quote]The arrogance just dripped off of him

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

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October 19, 2022 1:24 AM

I loved him back in the day.

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October 19, 2022 1:58 AM

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.

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October 19, 2022 2:17 AM

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..."

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October 19, 2022 2:23 AM

Marilyn was (is) beautiful.

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October 19, 2022 3:32 PM

Is he the one that made the porno?

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October 19, 2022 3:58 PM

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

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October 19, 2022 4:49 PM

Datalounge dream cast for Grease.

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October 19, 2022 11:51 PM

Danny Zuko. Broadway, 1978.

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October 19, 2022 11:55 PM

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

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October 19, 2022 11:56 PM

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

He had no one to blame but himself.

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October 19, 2022 11:58 PM

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

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October 20, 2022 3:29 AM

Marilyn McCoo is a jazzy name!

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October 20, 2022 3:31 AM

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,

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October 20, 2022 3:35 AM

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

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October 20, 2022 3:40 AM

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

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October 20, 2022 3:47 AM

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 - ???

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October 20, 2022 3:51 AM

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

Caftans, unite!

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October 20, 2022 3:58 AM

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

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October 20, 2022 4:19 AM

You may be on to something, R19.

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October 20, 2022 4:21 AM

Dionne & Andy's excellent duet:

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October 20, 2022 4:29 AM

Superstar duet from 1982:

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October 20, 2022 4:48 AM

with Boy George, still healthy in 1985:

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October 20, 2022 5:00 AM

They were out of control!

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October 20, 2022 5:52 AM

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

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November 5, 2022 6:36 PM

R28 yes but he got real ugly there

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reply 31

November 5, 2022 6:38 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 6:42 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 6:43 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 7:06 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 7:12 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 7:14 PM

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.

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November 5, 2022 7:14 PM

Whet Rex Smith?

Are there nudes out there?

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November 5, 2022 8:07 PM

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

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November 5, 2022 8:13 PM

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.

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November 5, 2022 8:24 PM

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

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November 6, 2022 2:42 AM

^ Not everyone can be a Joyce Bulifant.

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November 6, 2022 2:43 AM

Joyce really was something special, alright.

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November 6, 2022 2:47 AM

Loved Irene Cara. Too bad she was blackballed.

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November 6, 2022 3:05 AM

Irene Cara was blackballed?

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November 6, 2022 3:22 AM

Yes, blackballed for what?!

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November 6, 2022 3:37 AM

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

Rex Smith looked and sounded coked-up as well.

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November 6, 2022 3:45 AM

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

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November 6, 2022 3:50 AM