In the 1980s, I was just a newborn baby. When I turned 35, I accidentally saw a video of Belinda's performance and when searching for her information, I found out that she was the lead singer of The GO GO, and I fell in love with them completely. Many people say that the 80s and 90s are outdated and old-fashioned, an era that only the elderly will recall! However, I know how to appreciate music and fall in love with the songs of that year. This means that classics can be passed down forever!
You people gotta stop viewing an old school performance from a modern day trajectory. Every artist & every group had to lip synched on national television. Every show required that format: Soul Train, Ed Sullivan, Hullabaloo, American Bandstand. People back in the day weren't obsesssed by lip synching the way people are today; or in other words WE DIDN'T SPEND OUR TIME HATING ON FOLKS PERFORMANCES; we were just happy to see them on television.
Kenny...YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE FRIGGIN' MONEY!!! I have been trying to answer many a comment, such as these, one at a time. I am going on 60 years of age and watched just about many a program you mentioned...and even some others in the same realm... and when I hear a 'young millennium" cry, stomp their feet and moan & groan over viewing a lip sync performance and scratch their history-brainless hairy head and say, "THIS IS NOT LIVE!!! I CAN TELL THEY ARE LIP SYNCING!!! THIS IS FAKE!!! HOW CAN THEY DO SUCH A THING!!! I scratch my 60 year old, going gray hair head and say...no one cares about taking "TV Pop Music History Lessons"; nobody. BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio it's so weird, because almost Everytime I hear a live performance today it's awful,but the kid's will say"at least they were live". live means nothing if you have no charisma. Chloe x Halle restored my faith that newer artist could actually sing live. of course they barely make the charts.When I watched the Dolly Parton tribute at the Grammy's a year or two ago, I was disgusted at how the artist paying tribute couldn't honor Dolly properly .Thank goodness she was there to save her own songs. Plus the generation of autotune needs to take a few seats. The night time talk shows and awards was where you got live music. Artist were not everywhere like today.
I don't think there was any questioning the Go Go's musicianship nor songwriting abilities. Additionally, I think that the Broadway musical "Head over Heels" was created featuring their music proves it. I went to the musical and people were literally singing and dancing in the aisles. If that doesn't prove that the Go Gos music hasn't stood the test of time...
Gotta admit...gotta totally admit, I can't think of any other pop band, male or female, in the age of "lip & instrument-sync" of the early 80's, that did it better than The Go-Go's! They were pretty much dead-on, most of the time, ESPECIALLY Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock & Kathy Valentine; they were the true musicians of the group and "played-back" all their cues, ad-libs and embellishments with preciseness and exactability, if that is even a word. Wiedlin was a wee bit more into jumping around on stage with her guitar and consequently falling out of sync or began not paying too much attention if she was to play rhythm strumming, power chords or lead solo...and Carlisle always "mouthed it" just right, complete with that early 80's "right arm sway/finger snapping/knocked kneed dance" that she pretty much coined out of pure osmosis. Those five girls had it down just right, "Sync" of "LIVE" and did pretty much perfect until the very end; summer 2016. 'God Bless The Go-Go's' indeed. BCRadio
This is why I had to read the comments. It's so good that I couldn't tell if it was really live or a recording. The audio is too great to have not been done in a studio.
Hey 1980s we're Classic hits songs never get tired listening to all day long. I was out my high school day back 1983. Yes my friends in my school day in Iowa. Had listen rock songs nothing else. Kindly fit in with my friends. Now bring more classic hits of 1980s back again.lots great moments my life. One time they cancelled show in St Paul Minnesota but years later did came back and play show. One greatest show never forget. Thank you. Go-Goes still amazing artist band A plus song and video. Still enjoy classic hits songs of 1980s
Never saw this before! They look energized here, a full 6 months after the release of Talk Show, but before their non-stop touring (once again) took its toll. Nice to see that the Go-Go's still had some spark left in them in the Summer of '84.
I loved their performance in 1984 the most, but unfortunately, Jane left the band shortly after, and the band was temporarily disbanded. It would be very beautiful and touching if these precious clips could be remastered into a high-definition version, or even combined into an video of their performances and interviews from 1978 to 1985.🤩😍
I was 22 then. Never heard of the Go Go's apart from in passing when Belinda Carlisle had a mega hit over here in 1987 "Heaven is a place on Earth". What have I been missing all of these years?
Love this performance! Seeing them loving it too. Gina’s looks to her band mates throughout makes me smile. See her’s to Charlotte at 2:25. 😆😁 You rarely see this type of pure enthusiasm, and bubbling energy and such passionate precision these days. Part of makes them so special 🎶✨
Scarlett Johansson on drums, Shirley MacLaine on bass, Audrey Hepburn on guitar, Linda Hamilton on keyboard, Reese Witherspoon singing; my mind is playing tricks on me.
Nobody - and I mean NOBODY- can crush a pop song like the Go-Go's. This one happens to be classic Kathy Valentine, featuring a poignant-as-hell lyric about disillusionment with sudden fame. Bow low, ye pretenders, this is how it's done.
I was hoping to all 'HIGH' heavens, she wasn't going to trip and fall, wearing those 6 feet high heels!!! Geez-O-Rama...!!! She practically TOWERED over Kathy & Belinda!!! I guess by 1984, gone were the days she would prance around the stage like a jumping bean on fire, in her world famous mini-skirts, which required a REALLY good pair of trusty sneakers! BCRadio
I used to rock out to this track...first kid on my block with MTV...it had that New Wave Valley Girl swing to it..I'm from Virginia like Pharrell and Missy,,,we listened to everything...Black or White...kids used to trade albums at school!
OHHH GOD, DID YOU HAVE TO SAY VALLEY GIRL??? LOL. My sisters and I grew up in So-Cal during this era. I HATED when their friends would come over, all Valley'ish. OK, I really didn't hate it cuz they were all hot. LMAO
This actually wasn't Solid Gold. This was the spin-off series Solid Gold Hits. Solid Gold was a weekly 60 minute program that aired on the weekend. Solid Gold Hits was a nightly show that aired Monday through Friday for 30 minutes. I remember it coming on at 7:30pm in my time zone.
IIRC in my time zone it aired at either 3:30 or 4:00 pm and a video countdown show aired on another station at 4:30 pm. These times are in the CTZ(central time zone)
Indeed, you are correct...HOWEVER...as production banks of video footage, scheduling techniques and time-released, airing blocks were concerned, much or all of these performances were indeed video-taped for the main SOLID GOLD weekly release...but...re-tooled, re-edited & re-sequenced for daily release, under a slightly different name, to extra capitalize on the franchise. This form of television syndication was nothing new in the late 70's and into the 80's. Not so much anymore. BCRadio
Poor Charlotte, she really struggled with the powder during this period. I saw Belinda live back in the mid 80s during her solo tour with Charlotte on keys, and she really looked bad. So glad she's sober now because I think she's very talented.
This is the first time I've ever seen Gina (the drummer) doing backing vocals on stage (even if they all are faking it). I don't think Solid Gold or American Bandstand could come back today unless bands wee playig live.
@@christine3043 Well, actually, during their first Dick Clark's American Bandstand performance of "Our Lips Are Sealed" & "We Got The Beat" in 1981; one of their earliest nationally television appearances, INDEED Schock was performing a "lip-sync" back-up vocal into a microphone, posted with a long side boom arm. This was due mainly in part of segment & creative producers (and not so much Clark, himself). Such assistant producers and stage directors would instruct many musicians (drummers, bassists, percussionists, etc...) that normally didn't do any vocals on the album, to "fake" a back-up vocal, STRICTLY for "Eye-Candy", "Camera-Glam" & "Stage-Presence-Intelligibility". It was ALL about "HOW IT LOOKED" on the Camera...and on your Television! Trust me on that...I produced many independent productions. BCRadio
I don't know (...but I believe Belinda Carlisle struggled deeply with cocaine during this period...) however, that aside, this is one of the ONLY Solid Gold performances they did, where guitarist Jane Wiedlin isn't dancing around like she has an ant infestation in her underpants! I NEVER saw her in such high heels as she is touting here! Normally, on earlier Solid Gold episodes, she wears either flats or sneakers and practically dances her mini-skirts off! She BARELY moves here, trying vehemently to balance herself on those massive heels! And...succeeded. BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Gathering by their 2020 documentary, she was sadly may have been ready to leave the group, but when performing would give her all, however she was feeling. Maybe the heels were way to keep her stationary or she was just experimenting with style, having slicked back etc. I do love how infectiously 🆙 and precise their performance is. Number 1 in our hearts.
Well, where else would you keep your head; below your heals? Having one's head below their heels could lead to blood pooling in the brain...Making you super smart, or giving you a hemorrhagic stroke (
In the 1980s, I was just a newborn baby. When I turned 35, I accidentally saw a video of Belinda's performance and when searching for her information, I found out that she was the lead singer of The GO GO, and I fell in love with them completely. Many people say that the 80s and 90s are outdated and old-fashioned, an era that only the elderly will recall! However, I know how to appreciate music and fall in love with the songs of that year. This means that classics can be passed down forever!
You people gotta stop viewing an old school performance from a modern day trajectory. Every artist & every group had to lip synched on national television. Every show required that format: Soul Train, Ed Sullivan, Hullabaloo, American Bandstand. People back in the day weren't obsesssed by lip synching the way people are today; or in other words WE DIDN'T SPEND OUR TIME HATING ON FOLKS PERFORMANCES; we were just happy to see them on television.
Kenny...YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE FRIGGIN' MONEY!!! I have been trying to answer many a comment, such as these, one at a time. I am going on 60 years of age and watched just about many a program you mentioned...and even some others in the same realm... and when I hear a 'young millennium" cry, stomp their feet and moan & groan over viewing a lip sync performance and scratch their history-brainless hairy head and say, "THIS IS NOT LIVE!!! I CAN TELL THEY ARE LIP SYNCING!!! THIS IS FAKE!!! HOW CAN THEY DO SUCH A THING!!! I scratch my 60 year old, going gray hair head and say...no one cares about taking "TV Pop Music History Lessons"; nobody.
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio it's so weird, because almost Everytime I hear a live performance today it's awful,but the kid's will say"at least they were live". live means nothing if you have no charisma. Chloe x Halle restored my faith that newer artist could actually sing live. of course they barely make the charts.When I watched the Dolly Parton tribute at the Grammy's a year or two ago, I was disgusted at how the artist paying tribute couldn't honor Dolly properly .Thank goodness she was there to save her own songs. Plus the generation of autotune needs to take a few seats. The night time talk shows and awards was where you got live music. Artist were not everywhere like today.
@@Lilyrush681 Thank you LaTanya. You too, are so very right on, with your evaluation.
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I don't think there was any questioning the Go Go's musicianship nor songwriting abilities. Additionally, I think that the Broadway musical "Head over Heels" was created featuring their music proves it. I went to the musical and people were literally singing and dancing in the aisles. If that doesn't prove that the Go Gos music hasn't stood the test of time...
Gotta admit...gotta totally admit, I can't think of any other pop band, male or female, in the age of "lip & instrument-sync" of the early 80's, that did it better than The Go-Go's! They were pretty much dead-on, most of the time, ESPECIALLY Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock & Kathy Valentine; they were the true musicians of the group and "played-back" all their cues, ad-libs and embellishments with preciseness and exactability, if that is even a word. Wiedlin was a wee bit more into jumping around on stage with her guitar and consequently falling out of sync or began not paying too much attention if she was to play rhythm strumming, power chords or lead solo...and Carlisle always "mouthed it" just right, complete with that early 80's "right arm sway/finger snapping/knocked kneed dance" that she pretty much coined out of pure osmosis. Those five girls had it down just right, "Sync" of "LIVE" and did pretty much perfect until the very end; summer 2016. 'God Bless The Go-Go's' indeed.
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BolsaChicaRadio
Spot on!!
This is why I had to read the comments. It's so good that I couldn't tell if it was really live or a recording. The audio is too great to have not been done in a studio.
@@NapkinEdStern Their live sound had a rougher edge.
I love the Go Go's...period.
My favorite Go Go’s song. Pure pop perfection!!!
So much joy & talent.
Love love love these ladies
1:40 Belinda trying to pull up her strap from falling down. PRICELESS. :)
Hey 1980s we're Classic hits songs never get tired listening to all day long. I was out my high school day back 1983. Yes my friends in my school day in Iowa. Had listen rock songs nothing else. Kindly fit in with my friends. Now bring more classic hits of 1980s back again.lots great moments my life. One time they cancelled show in St Paul Minnesota but years later did came back and play show. One greatest show never forget. Thank you. Go-Goes still amazing artist band A plus song and video. Still enjoy classic hits songs of 1980s
I love Belinda Carlise😍😍😭
Hi five if you loved Belinda's outfits!
Never saw this before! They look energized here, a full 6 months after the release of Talk Show, but before their non-stop touring (once again) took its toll. Nice to see that the Go-Go's still had some spark left in them in the Summer of '84.
I loved their performance in 1984 the most, but unfortunately, Jane left the band shortly after, and the band was temporarily disbanded.
It would be very beautiful and touching if these precious clips could be remastered into a high-definition version, or even combined into an video of their performances and interviews from 1978 to 1985.🤩😍
You know what's sad, I remember sneaking up just to watch this that night with my sisters. Was 10 back then LOL
Did they turn u n2 a fairy also?
What's sad about that?
@@rudolphguarnacci197 it's a figure of speech.....
Damn! This song rocks.
they actually came and preformed at my job
They genuinely appear to be having fun on this televised appearance - another classic! Thanks for posting :-)
I LOVE this song! It never gets old!
I was 22 then. Never heard of the Go Go's apart from in passing when Belinda Carlisle had a mega hit over here in 1987 "Heaven is a place on Earth". What have I been missing all of these years?
There is a reason this song is in so many soundtracks.
Love this performance! Seeing them loving it too. Gina’s looks to her band mates throughout makes me smile. See her’s to Charlotte at 2:25. 😆😁
You rarely see this type of pure enthusiasm, and bubbling energy and such passionate precision these days.
Part of makes them so special 🎶✨
You've got way too much time on your hands!
Great clip from Solid Gold. Even without the video, still exciting.
I was 14 then. I miss the 80's.
I'm a big Go-Gos fan
Belinda's a cool dancer.
There's nothing to it. I once had a girlfriend who danced like that.
I saw this when it originally aired!
Every band that was ever on Solid Gold was forced to lip sync, it wasn't just the Go-Go's.
Bang on Song, Bang on Performance....
Sounds just like the record!
Ahhhh...because it 'twas. ALL (well, 99.99999999%) of all Solid Gold 'performances' were done in lip-sync form.
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Teehee! - I was being a little sarcastic : )
Still love Belinda, she's so cute
Scarlett Johansson on drums, Shirley MacLaine on bass,
Audrey Hepburn on guitar,
Linda Hamilton on keyboard,
Reese Witherspoon singing; my mind is playing tricks on me.
DANG-O-RAMA...!!!
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I remember when music was fun.
Awesome
I was 20 then - me TOO !
Nobody - and I mean NOBODY- can crush a pop song like the Go-Go's. This one happens to be classic Kathy Valentine, featuring a poignant-as-hell lyric about disillusionment with sudden fame. Bow low, ye pretenders, this is how it's done.
I actually commented somewhere else wondering if the lyrics were not autobiographical
I was so in love with Jane at this time
I was hoping to all 'HIGH' heavens, she wasn't going to trip and fall, wearing those 6 feet high heels!!! Geez-O-Rama...!!! She practically TOWERED over Kathy & Belinda!!! I guess by 1984, gone were the days she would prance around the stage like a jumping bean on fire, in her world famous mini-skirts, which required a REALLY good pair of trusty sneakers!
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Belinda so beautiful !!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😭😭
man they look a liitle aged, but dont we all after a while!
I used to rock out to this track...first kid on my block with MTV...it had that New Wave Valley Girl swing to it..I'm from Virginia like Pharrell and Missy,,,we listened to everything...Black or White...kids used to trade albums at school!
OHHH GOD, DID YOU HAVE TO SAY VALLEY GIRL??? LOL. My sisters and I grew up in So-Cal during this era. I HATED when their friends would come over, all Valley'ish. OK, I really didn't hate it cuz they were all hot. LMAO
yes that's right!
Honda Summer Sales commercial sent me here
This actually wasn't Solid Gold. This was the spin-off series Solid Gold Hits. Solid Gold was a weekly 60 minute program that aired on the weekend. Solid Gold Hits was a nightly show that aired Monday through Friday for 30 minutes. I remember it coming on at 7:30pm in my time zone.
IIRC in my time zone it aired at either 3:30 or 4:00 pm and a video countdown show aired on another station at 4:30 pm. These times are in the CTZ(central time zone)
Yup actually Rex Smith and Marilyn McCoo were the host of solid gold this was actually a spin off with Grant Goodeve.
Indeed, you are correct...HOWEVER...as production banks of video footage, scheduling techniques and time-released, airing blocks were concerned, much or all of these performances were indeed video-taped for the main SOLID GOLD weekly release...but...re-tooled, re-edited & re-sequenced for daily release, under a slightly different name, to extra capitalize on the franchise. This form of television syndication was nothing new in the late 70's and into the 80's. Not so much anymore.
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@@BolsaChicaRadio I also remember this a summer time only series(at least where I lived)
@@paulsonj72 Indeed, your added observations are correct!
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Babe Belinda!! :)
Poor Charlotte, she really struggled with the powder during this period. I saw Belinda live back in the mid 80s during her solo tour with Charlotte on keys, and she really looked bad. So glad she's sober now because I think she's very talented.
Charlotte was clean and sober when she was part of Belinda’s solo career.
How could they ever say Belinda Carlisle was fat? She was cute and perfect.
This is the first time I've ever seen Gina (the drummer) doing backing vocals on stage (even if they all are faking it). I don't think Solid Gold or American Bandstand could come back today unless bands wee playig live.
Gina only sang backup on the Vacation album. I did see her singing backup on a Letterman performance sometime around 1994.
@@christine3043 Well, actually, during their first Dick Clark's American Bandstand performance of "Our Lips Are Sealed" & "We Got The Beat" in 1981; one of their earliest nationally television appearances, INDEED Schock was performing a "lip-sync" back-up vocal into a microphone, posted with a long side boom arm. This was due mainly in part of segment & creative producers (and not so much Clark, himself). Such assistant producers and stage directors would instruct many musicians (drummers, bassists, percussionists, etc...) that normally didn't do any vocals on the album, to "fake" a back-up vocal, STRICTLY for "Eye-Candy", "Camera-Glam" & "Stage-Presence-Intelligibility".
It was ALL about "HOW IT LOOKED" on the Camera...and on your Television!
Trust me on that...I produced many independent productions.
BCRadio
Thank you very much-where did the years go? :(
Where does the Prince clap come from? Is that a tape?
Was that Grant Goodebe introducing them anyone?
Wonder if they were all high or if there was at least one or two that were sober during this performance
I don't know (...but I believe Belinda Carlisle struggled deeply with cocaine during this period...) however, that aside, this is one of the ONLY Solid Gold performances they did, where guitarist Jane Wiedlin isn't dancing around like she has an ant infestation in her underpants! I NEVER saw her in such high heels as she is touting here! Normally, on earlier Solid Gold episodes, she wears either flats or sneakers and practically dances her mini-skirts off! She BARELY moves here, trying vehemently to balance herself on those massive heels! And...succeeded.
BCRadio
@@BolsaChicaRadio Gathering by their 2020 documentary, she was sadly may have been ready to leave the group, but when performing would give her all, however she was feeling. Maybe the heels were way to keep her stationary or she was just experimenting with style, having slicked back etc. I do love how infectiously 🆙 and precise their performance is. Number 1 in our hearts.
Que buena banda por la puta madre!
It’s almost painful to see Belinda in this era knowing she was in the throes of a serious drug addiction.
Weren’t they all except for the drummer?
on solid golds party actually.
Well, where else would you keep your head; below your heals? Having one's head below their heels could lead to blood pooling in the brain...Making you super smart, or giving you a hemorrhagic stroke (
quite obviously a dub.
There is a reason this is considered 80's music
They got the beat…….a lot cheesy I know ohhhhhh
I love the Go-Go's, but I really hate these lip synch TV shows. They're a great band live.
good lip sync. ;]
Those overalls Belinda is wearing are just dreadful. I realize that was the 80s, but, come on.
she was also spun out on coke a lot
That hat you go on is pretty dreadful, too.
@@randyventresca4152 Stop flirting, Randy.