Isaac Hayes had a smooth, silky deep voice that had a unique sound that made the listener know who was singing as soon as they heard those dulcimer sounds. He was also an excellent songwriter. His song "Deja Vu", with Adrienne Anderson having worked on it as well, turned out a nearly otherwordly sound that helped serve as the "comeback" song from the platinum album, "Dionne", in 1979. The instrumentation and the lyrics transport the listener to, as they state, "another space and time". The song has a distinct sound that lets the listener know from the first note, the song that is about to play. In his own music, Isaac Hayes combines a lot of different genres, as in this song, "Don't Let Go", which to me, includes pop, funk, disco, rhythm & blues, and other genres and subgenres. The Solid Gold Dancers really made an energetic performance themselves and the studio audience got into the spirit as well, being moved by the music. I could here the three female background singers, Dionne Warwick, Darlene Love, and Eunice Peterson, with Dionne and Darlene the most familiar, but all three blending together very well. Isaac Hayes got into the swing of things, so to speak, moving to the beat of his own music. All in all, a rare gem from early in the inaugural season of "Solid Gold", the television series that helped make guest artists famous if they were not already and became part of 1980s pop culture itself. All the more reason that when it ended production in 1988, although that I thought that it would have been nice for it to have aired much longer than it had, but if it had to end, that it should have given a proper sendoff, including closing credits that included credits for every person in every position, season by season, who would have made for a long closing credits and ending dance segment with all the current and former Solid Gold Dancers reunited for a grand finale and sendoff and the complete theme song with the second verse sung for the first time as part of the end credits. That is how I thought that it should have ended if it had to end. But, to digress... This early "Solid Gold" performance shows why the series has enduring popularity and nostalgia. Long live "Solid Gold" , its entire crew, every host and co-host still alive and the memory of the host and many guest co-hosts and resident performers such as Wayland Flowers and Madame, who are not, the custodians of its legacy, and long live its Musical Director, Michael Miller, who continues to entertain and educate with the his many uploads of "Solid Gold" that help build a powerful online legacy and historical database of the sweetest and greatest music-variety series ever, "Solid Gold", still golden and glistening and full of glitter after all these years.🎵🎶🎼💙🙂😊😂😃
Many thanks, Jason, for your kind words and cornucopia of excellently-written information! It means a lot that all of the music we made on Solid Gold is appreciated so many years later by you and many others!
@@bigeyezzzzzzzYou are welcome. The impact of "Solid Gold" has lasted longer than some of us viewers even thought that it would at the time that it aired. The immediate focus of the series had been the present of that era, so the young viewers were not thinking about the musical legacy that it would give to that young generation and those that would come later on to the present. The new technology of the Internet, as this UA-cam website and app is a part, has helped preserve its legacy and allows interactions, such as those on your channel that were not possible during its original 1980s television broadcasts. The fanbase for "Solid Gold" was there after it went off the air, but the Internet has brought new life to "Solid Gold" in ways that were unfathomable in its broadcast era, but that have become the new standard. In a sense, the title of this Isaac Hayes song, "Don't Let Go" is a fitting song title about "Solid Gold" and the preservation of its legacy in the history of beloved television series and their personalities and crews.
The person who I was Is looking back at me from a picture. And it is no longer similar, past and present. Just like there is a difference between the music of the past and the music of today.
@@bigeyezzzzzzz Glad to know my memory isn't fading. When I heard that Isaac was going to be a co-host, I was just sure they would do the PHOENIX / I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER medley so I was surprised when there wasn't a duet at all.
Isaac Hayes had a smooth, silky deep voice that had a unique sound that made the listener know who was singing as soon as they heard those dulcimer sounds. He was also an excellent songwriter. His song "Deja Vu", with Adrienne Anderson having worked on it as well, turned out a nearly otherwordly sound that helped serve as the "comeback" song from the platinum album, "Dionne", in 1979. The instrumentation and the lyrics transport the listener to, as they state, "another space and time". The song has a distinct sound that lets the listener know from the first note, the song that is about to play. In his own music, Isaac Hayes combines a lot of different genres, as in this song, "Don't Let Go", which to me, includes pop, funk, disco, rhythm & blues, and other genres and subgenres. The Solid Gold Dancers really made an energetic performance themselves and the studio audience got into the spirit as well, being moved by the music. I could here the three female background singers, Dionne Warwick, Darlene Love, and Eunice Peterson, with Dionne and Darlene the most familiar, but all three blending together very well. Isaac Hayes got into the swing of things, so to speak, moving to the beat of his own music.
All in all, a rare gem from early in the inaugural season of "Solid Gold", the television series that helped make guest artists famous if they were not already and became part of 1980s pop culture itself. All the more reason that when it ended production in 1988, although that I thought that it would have been nice for it to have aired much longer than it had, but if it had to end, that it should have given a proper sendoff, including closing credits that included credits for every person in every position, season by season, who would have made for a long closing credits and ending dance segment with all the current and former Solid Gold Dancers reunited for a grand finale and sendoff and the complete theme song with the second verse sung for the first time as part of the end credits. That is how I thought that it should have ended if it had to end. But, to digress...
This early "Solid Gold" performance shows why the series has enduring popularity and nostalgia. Long live "Solid Gold" , its entire crew, every host and co-host still alive and the memory of the host and many guest co-hosts and resident performers such as Wayland Flowers and Madame, who are not, the custodians of its legacy, and long live its Musical Director, Michael Miller, who continues to entertain and educate with the his many uploads of "Solid Gold" that help build a powerful online legacy and historical database of the sweetest and greatest music-variety series ever, "Solid Gold", still golden and glistening and full of glitter after all these years.🎵🎶🎼💙🙂😊😂😃
Many thanks, Jason, for your kind words and cornucopia of excellently-written information! It means a lot that all of the music we made on Solid Gold is appreciated so many years later by you and many others!
@@bigeyezzzzzzzYou are welcome. The impact of "Solid Gold" has lasted longer than some of us viewers even thought that it would at the time that it aired. The immediate focus of the series had been the present of that era, so the young viewers were not thinking about the musical legacy that it would give to that young generation and those that would come later on to the present. The new technology of the Internet, as this UA-cam website and app is a part, has helped preserve its legacy and allows interactions, such as those on your channel that were not possible during its original 1980s television broadcasts. The fanbase for "Solid Gold" was there after it went off the air, but the Internet has brought new life to "Solid Gold" in ways that were unfathomable in its broadcast era, but that have become the new standard. In a sense, the title of this Isaac Hayes song, "Don't Let Go" is a fitting song title about "Solid Gold" and the preservation of its legacy in the history of beloved television series and their personalities and crews.
I love this song... This to me is pure disco... I listen to it all the time especially when i have a beer😂
It's Dionne Warwick voice at the end !!!!
Awesome
Oh time, where did you run away to? I miss you sweet seventies.
The person who I was Is looking back at me from a picture. And it is no longer similar, past and present. Just like there is a difference between the music of the past and the music of today.
The duke of New York
Thanks for posting another great clip. For some reason, when this episode aired in my area, I don't recall a Dionne/Isaac duet. Was there one?
Glad you enjoyed this clip, and, no, I did not arrange a duet for Dionne and Isaac for this episode (and I don’t remember why)!
@@bigeyezzzzzzz Glad to know my memory isn't fading. When I heard that Isaac was going to be a co-host, I was just sure they would do the PHOENIX / I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER medley so I was surprised when there wasn't a duet at all.
Superbe !
Issac Hayes best song. Not his greatest tho. That is SHAFT!!!