Magic Night - 1980 TV special celebrating Can't Stop the Music

[@jeffreysuhr7333]

When we thought we could have it all in 1980...

[@Carrick1]

and we did!

[@stephaniekaufman7325]

I wish I can go back to the 1980s all over again I miss it like crazy❤

[@wisdomgate3351]

I know when life was normal and things made sense 😢 i miss so much about the 80's

[@gertvanlaar5670]

​@@wisdomgate3351 I feel the same ❤

[@tsemczuk]

About 10 minutes in, I realized this is the gay "Star Wars Holiday Special." What a time capsule.

[@Bthe312]

😅

[@misskittylitteratx5339]

I saved up my allowance to go see a double bill of Can't Stop the Music and Xanadu. It was money well spent. So many magical memories of happier times. Baskin Robbins even made an ice cream flavor from the Movie. Thanks for sharing this. Takes me back....

[@seanphillips9523]

Yes. It was called "Can't Stop the Nuts".

[@misskittylitteratx5339]

@@seanphillips9523 That was it, I remember laughing about the title..

[@pika23]

@@seanphillips9523 sounds like the United States anymore! Both sides

[@blackamerican40]

The first two movies to start the Razzies. 😅😅

[@misskittylitteratx5339]

@@blackamerican40 and I love them both to this day, lol.

[@paulnelson5144]

This and Friedkin’s Cruising were filmed in NY at the same time and used some of the same extras. They make an interesting double feature! As a teenage gay boy, I went to see this by myself at the mall and I stayed and watched it twice and then went to Tower Records and bought the soundtrack. Oh, 1980…

[@brooke8567]

You survived AIDS😂

[@valzubiri]

lmao I saw this as a closeted high school student... in the Philippines.

Are you still gay? So many people change so much over time. Just look at Bruce Jenner!

[@paulnelson5144]

People’s inherent nature does not change. I am still proudly gay. It was not a phase. Bruce/Caitlin Jenner is Trans, not gay. They are different things.

⚜ You little rascal, you. Having quite a day, weren't you? Should have gone by Ferrell's for some ice cream, while you were at it.

[@jamesgray4627]

This is a nice surprise. Never knew existed, Thank you.

[@jjphoenix4055]

same. What a suprise.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

An incredible time capsule of a very different era in popular culture. It's almost 45 years ago- amazing to think if we were to travel back another 45 years from 1980 when the movie was released we would land in 1935! That's when you realise just how much time has passed. The music is so camp and gay without anyone ever using the word gay- for so many people the references were totally over their heads- much more closeted and innocent times. The Reagan years and AIDS were just around the corner. I was in my year of University now in 2024 I'm in my 3rd year of retirement- it is a lifetime ago!

[@MovieJon]

In case anyone missed it -- 1:52 TCM's late, GREAT Mr. Robert Osborne as Barbara Rush's escort. 🥰

[@Bedlamite23]

Steve Guttenberg skating through New York City (San Francisco?). Priceless, Thanks for posting this, crazy fun with the commercials, jack in the box particularly.

[@paulnelson5144]

New York

[@stevers62]

This is SOOOO GREAT!!! Thanks for posting this chance to time travel!

[@dwayitis]

OMG what a find this video is!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Casablanca Records and Filmworks at the height of their glory. Great listening to all these Casablanca hits from Cher, Ritchie Family, Capt & Tenille.. the memories of great times gone by.

[@MountainDream]

Just got the nEw 4K of "Can't Stop.."! The bEst it's ever looked/sounded! We need THIS special, aNd "The Fabulous Allan Carr", on Blu Ray!

[@MovieJon]

The special itself aside, these commercials are GOLD. So much work, effort, polish and thought went into all of them, including the use of music. They're watchable, instead of the horrible ads that proliferate today and make me grasp the remote the moment any program is pausing for a break!

[@zibbyzubb]

So cool that this special survived. There was another one for the release of either Grease or Saturday Night Fever that I would love to see again.

[@supachaloopa3611]

Every now and then, I look for the full tv special of The GREASE Party At Studio 54, but the search always brings me back to this kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4HRdZ1oZ8xsfJI

[@zibbyzubb]

@@supachaloopa3611 I am not sure if that is the party I am thinking of. Back in the 90s either VH-1 or MTV aired the full original special. It was so much fun to watch. I even saw a then co-worker in the special dancing. When I asked him about it the next day, he confirmed he was there.

[@supachaloopa3611]

@@zibbyzubb Hopefully someday someone will post it. 🥳

[@Maynardcomau]

Thank you so much. A rare gem!

[@sebastiankinnunen5549]

❤OMG! Beautiful 80's, and this movie!! Met Village People after their Paris, France concert at Club Sept, Rue St. Anne. Fantastic small exlusive club. They came after their concert to dance. Great memories.❤love from Finland

[@11dsw]

Everything you see here is actually 7os...except the fashion. 8os fashion started in 1979.

[@magnetdesignandadver]

Love the part with Cher rollerskating. Such a perfect free spirited picture of the era. And the Village People with their Milkshake innuendo lol. Before internet and ai and obsession with technology!

[@adric137]

The Village People are fun and entertaining!

[@TheReturnofNIlbog]

❤Thank you I have wanted to see this forever!

[@happgood]

Thank you for sharing this. I never dreamed anything could be a goofier, messier, odder Village People disco nightmare film than CSTM, but the Making Of film is even worse. So bad its good... lets disco skate some more with Ida Morgenstern.

[@jamesrsfo]

Such a fantastic time capsule! And I love that we are treated to videos by Cher and Toni Tenille. Before MTV was even born. I even loved the commercials! Thank you for posting Jeffery

[@conradpoos2859]

This is awesome. I forgot Nancy Walker directed this lol.

[@georgemaranville3305]

She made it clear ahead of needed to be described as actor turned director

[@jeffkennerson9116]

This was awsome, so sad because during the filming Can’t stop the music the infamous 1979 disco records burning at Kominsky Park in Chicago, the scene literally halted over night- Allen Carr was making a Disco movie during the Disco sucks area, and the film was released a year later with poor reviews-but it is fun movie to watch, it’s a Time Machine to 79- great high energy great village people soundtrack with the Ritchie faimly and Cher,and fun campy gay overtones- got life on VCR tapes and the 90z disco revival.

[@singin8324]

I still really enjoy this film till this day.

[@gertvanlaar5670]

Magic times . Gone forever

[@movie_man]

Finally someone uploaded this. Too bad you didn't contact the people who released the recent Blu-ray of Can't Stop the Music, this would have made a killer piece of bonus material.

[@H-mu4bo]

Magic time too..love this special. Xanadu and Can't Stop The Music were great movies.

[@jjphoenix4055]

The Best! I'm a total underdog fan and I love these films more than the big hits out there. I'll add to the list "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" feat. Bee Gees and P. Frampton.

[@hauntedbelle]

I will back you up there. The haters just don't know how to have fun.

[@SteveWeaverIvyfield]

I bought the soundtrack - just for the completely new lineup of The Richie Family’s ‘Give Me A Break’.

[@darrelljustice6105]

I got the LP record because I saw David London on Dance Fever performing two songs (Sounds of the City & Samantha) that he recorded for the film. His picture was included on the back of the LP cover but unfortunately he wasn't shown in the film nor in this celebration.

[@richsack]

@@darrelljustice6105 You didn’t happen to record that Dance Fever episode? 🥳🥳🥳

[@darrelljustice6105]

@@richsack David London (5/15/1951 - 1/18/2014) a.k.a. Fergie Frederiksen. I saw him on Dance Fever in 1980 (twice since I saw the rerun) but I didn't have a VCR by that time. But otherwise I sure would have recorded him. I couldn't take my eyes off him. He was extremely handsome, feathered blonde hair, and in his late twenties. For at least one of the two songs he was wearing white pants. Later under his other name he was the lead singer on Angel Don't Cry by Toto.

[@SallyWilliams]

It was fabulous music 🤩

[@kalnfornia]

I actually saw this at a movie theater when it came out

[@djbille4283]

Me too!!! Loved 💕 it then, love 💗 it now in October 2024!!!

[@mickeymouse2able]

Extremely 80s Time Capsule ❤the Guy who plays the Native American is sooo cute❤

[@robertthompson6091]

This is absolutely amazing!

[@DavidM-e7z]

❤❤❤ Thank you.

[@catcookie6726]

I love Do The Milkshake! It's my favorite part of the movie.

[@djbille4283]

It is so so good, all in white!!

[@antondoesbolton]

Kitch camp joyous disco fun ...... despite the critics I loved it .... ❤

[@paulbertie434]

OMFG!!!!

[@valzubiri]

thanks so much! i saw the movie in the theater in the Philippines. I was in high school. What an escape it was for me. I also remember watching this show on tv but I can't remember the details anymore. I just discovered now that Nancy Walker directed the movie. My respect and admiration for Allan Carr comes from him following his vision that may have flopped but the movie to me was amazing, very visual, very gay, very escapist, very 80s and very New York. I also worshipped Valerie Perrine, having recently been the femme fatale in Superman and I was a comic book collector.

How is this movie "very gay?" This was made in an era that was just like this, naturally. I wouldn't slap a gay label on it. The time was as if "all things are possible!" Freedom was budding, like a rose.

[@valzubiri]

It was gay when they entered YMCA showers 😆 🤣

@@valzubiri Did it ever occur to you that at that time, people may have been curious about how the showers looked or what was going on in there? Not everything is about sex.

[@jl3322]

This one hour TV special aired on ABC in 1980. Disco was just about dead they were filming Cant Stop the Music a 2 hour feature film.

[@michaelglenn367]

Wrong disco was not dead in 1980, 81 or 82. The 1980 pop charts were filled with R& B disco hits. I went to my first bar August of 82 & was blown away by the non stop DISCO... In 82 disco dominated mostly the dance clubs and was one of the best years of dance music.

@@michaelglenn367 ⚜ Thank you, Michael. Some people just can't see the forest for the trees! It helps to have a spiritual light shining on the path we're navigating. Some, who are in the dark, have trouble finding the reality of the day. ~James🛡

[@dPollyEster]

we love can;t stop the music !!!!!1

[@gregruland1934]

Bruce Jenner was ready (for the chop?) Superstar Eric Estrada?!! AND Hugh Hefner? What a gem!

[@juangelfernandez1131]

An absolutely F A B U L O U S time.

[@emerybayblues]

When we did tv specials just because.

[@LannieLord]

All that Grease profit - FLUSHED down the TOILET !

[@shawnw8717]

Almost 45 years later, the retro kitsch factor has kicked in and you just can't help but laugh at the sheer campiness of this whole fiasco, but somehow appreciate it as a product of its time. Even the commercials give strong nostalgic feels. At the time, disco was on its last legs as punk and new wave was overtaking it in popularity. There was the inevitable backlash against it from the rock music fans, although in hindsight there were definitely racist and homophobic under (and over) tones, with such incidents as the Disco Demolition Night between the games of a White Sox doubleheader at old Comiskey Park, in which a popular Chicago DJ blew up disco records on the field as a promotional stunt. Manic fans rushed the field turning it into a mini-riot causing enough damage that the White Sox had to forfeit the second game. Of course "disco" survived the 80's by becoming "dance music" and later "electronic dance music," and the genre has been reassessed as the years have gone by, but at the time it had become detested. This movie essentially killed the Village People's popularity, though again, they survived to become an enormously popular nostalgic novelty act. In a 2014 interview after his retirement, David Hodo (the construction worker) said even while filming it, they knew it was going to be a disaster. He said he personally went to Carr's office on several occasions to complain on behalf of the group, but Carr was steadfast that this was going to be the biggest movie ever made. Allan Carr was a fairly successful producer, and is considered, in some circles, to be a gay icon. In others, he's considered to be a coked up hack whose delusional ideas of what is hip ruined movie musicals for decades. He's also responsible for the disastrous Snow White Oscar ceremony,.

[@CuirPhotodotNet]

....i appreciate the numbers that this showed that got cut out of the movie...i remember in an interview that the guy that played the cowboy...RANDY ... quit the group because they were trying to make the VPs look new wave when the genre first hit and he didn't think it was masculine...it was a disco musical and i thought it was a HUGE step FORWARD because we all knew the gay and camp references so i saw the film and LOVE IT STILL...it's a great piece of entertainment for a knowing audience...or an unknowing audience depending on age...lol...

⚜ Well, aren't you just a ray of sunshine? Disco was only "detested" by dark spirited, simpletons, who just didn't have the spiritual light to keep up! Get it right, Shawn.

[@bkynbiker19]

Plenty of straight people, mostly young, hated disco, I was 20 in 1978 and remember. A lot of it was, as he said, homophobia and racism

@@bkynbiker19 ⚜ Greetings, from Castle Saint James~ Biker19, allow me to continue with your thought, please. If there was any hatred to be cast in 1978, I'd say it was strictly, as a result of weakness in spirit. This, of course, stemmed from dark spirited, ignorance. These, are the very same creatures that we now, have come to know, as MAGA MONGRELS! The dark spirited, fools, among us, have and will always be, the shameful burden we all must bear, as a less than completely, wise and polite society. Good day. ~James 🛡

[@RLucas3000]

Whoa! Did this movie introduce the spelling out of YMCA, that remains at weddings to this day?! I’m pretty sure it’s not in the original song video.

[@supachaloopa3611]

There is an interview somewhere out there... or here on You Tube, in which the VP are on a talk show, I believe Merv Griffin Show, and David Hodo & Randy Jones discuss how they kept seeing the audience members at their shows spell out YMCA with their arms. So then they started using it in their shows, then it was used in the movie. So once again, the fans get the credit.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

i have dvd somewhere

[@briankooker2627]

Comedienne turned director...then turned right back...

[@booth2710]

yeah that's exactly what I thought. I think it's safe to say her best work was in Rhoda

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

i had NO idea that Nancy Walker, of all people, directed the movie!

[@AccurateCrabLegs]

I saw “Can’t Stop The Music” in the theater and about 20 minutes into it the film broke and it stopped. An old lady said “Well, I guess you CAN stop the music” and everybody laughed.

[@jhhone]

This special wouldn't have wanted to make me see this movie!

[@TheRealPynkPanther]

Chicago's Irv Kupcinet of Kup's Column...wow. He looks waaaaay cool here👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@longnlean34]

Remember International Male & Undergear catalogs also the movie "Cruising," with Al Pacino? Yes Sir...1980 was an intellectually stimulating year!

[@pika23]

I remember Caitlyn on the Kardashians wwhen she would always go on about bring in this darn movie.

[@RocStarr913]

It must have been a great opportunity for her to act. Who wouldn’t want to try that out if that wasn’t the background they were training in?

[@blackamerican40]

Caitlyn could use that steak knife to finally become the woman she wanted to be. 😂😅

[@sylvaniaboi]

I don't think many knew what they we getting at the World Premeire of CSTM in Sydney - I recall Alan Carr promising that he would have the film open here after the Australian premiere of Grease.

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

"I Love You To Death" is a TERRIBLE song, but the set for the video is gorgeous. i can't help by enjoy myself while watching it. i was conflicted while watching it as a teen-aged disco fanatic.

[@booth2710]

Blimey they wouldn't be giving knives away these days !

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

21:55 Fresh Prince's Mom

[@FrankMuzzy]

I was at a couple of those parties...(LA & SF).They were great,! Alan Carr knew how to throw a fantastic party although he was somewhat of a nasty to his party staff workers.... I would never want to work for him!

[@darrelljustice6105]

Roger LeClaire (3/24/1950 - 2/3/1986) has a quick cameo in the movie as a photographer at a disco who snaps a photo of Valarie Perrine. Under the name of Geoffrey Kane he was Playgirl magazine's Mr. April of 1977. Alan Carr kindly took care of all of Roger's medical bills when Roger was very sick prior to passing away in 1986.

[@uhdudewhy7980]

Yes, Bruce was a dude, Valerie Perrine and Toni Tennille were eye candy, and I thoroughly looked down my nose at disco. But oh those commercials...

[@robyoung9968]

Bruce was a hot man too, it’s still weird..

[@blackamerican40]

Wasn't this on ABC? RIP Sammy, Alan, Glenn, Nancy and Captain 😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@gianca60]

..and few months later the "big disease with a little name" came and destroyed it all😢

[@dwightfan2013]

Do You Have The Allan Carr Grease 2 1982 TV Special With Adrian Zmed Lorna Luft Maxwell Caufield Peter Fretchette Leif Green Christopher MCDonald Didi Conn With Commercials Jeffrey

[@rrsaga]

@10:15, Bruce was not able to get a cab until 30 years later when he got a skirt..

[@rrsaga]

@11:77, the Indian sure was not into Marylin but he could explain the shiny hiny

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

11:77?

[@hughestodd]

​@@MyNameIsUnavailable11:37

[@kimtaylor1986]

I would like to have david in the 80s

[@w.urlitzer1869]

💌

[@ChicagoShaun1978]

0:32 😂 girlie man

[@kromedome0101]

Not sure which was worse, this or the Sgt. Pepper movie!

[@TGGaineyProductions]

Sammy, be thankful you weren't in the film! I'm sure you didn't want to ruin your legacy. Hahaha.

[@jhhone]

Who's this, Bruce Jenner person? 😂 on IMDB Katlin Jenner is lised as a cast member and in parentheses (as Bruce Jenner) 😂

[@RocStarr913]

This was her cisgendered existence.

[@Candywarhol]

So much hate sprayed all over this title, after people decided that disco's time had passed.

[@adamgregory5274]

Can't Stop The Music, the only PG rated film ever to feature full frontal male nudity!

[@RocStarr913]

Well, back then, the PG rating was more like what the PG-13 rating would be now and the G rating was more like the PG rating has become since the introduction of the PG-13 rating. It shows how the standards of the Motion Picture Association were different at the time.

[@stephencraig7130]

They call it Hollywood for a reason...

[@Demille40]

Bruce Jenner!

[@bestdisco1979]

😂😂😂 he was probably hiding in Valerie s dressing room trying on the frocks.

[@timgreenglass]

his gender-envy is evident. he wants to be able to flag down a manhattan taxi more easily. 10:05 sequence starts.

[@Demille40]

@@bestdisco1979 😝

[@edreid7872]

I remember the tremendous promotion they did for this terrible movie.. It may have had a little success 5 years earlier, but Disco was operating fumes when it came out..😂.. Did I mention it was a terrible movie..

[@RLucas3000]

I think even two years earlier it could have hit. Also, this movie was a MONSTER hit in Australia, and is still played every New Years Eve there the way The Sound of Music is played on Thanksgiving! The soundtrack album peaked at 49 in the US, but went to 9 in the UK, and all the way to 1 in Australia! Instead of switching to their awful New Romantics phase when disco died, the VP should have just moved to Australia. They would have been selling out stadiums.

[@edreid7872]

⁠@@RLucas3000 The Village People, while very popular was too niche, and too gay for mainstream America in such a lavish musical.. I love cheesy musicals, Xanadu opened around the same time and became a cult classic..Not This Dog.. terrible acting, terrible songs, and terrible direction.. the big showstopper, Milkshake, was horrible…

[@djbille4283]

Terrible but oh so good at the same time, and for all the right reasons!! LoL!!

[@atrocchia]

It's a fun movie, but the script is lousy.

[@paulnelson5144]

Borrowed from a 1930’s musical

[@booth2710]

@@paulnelson5144 it didn't even have that kind of fineses - have to say that, even though I do love the movie ...

[@blackamerican40]

Steak knife given out as a reward? Oh, hell no!!! Not today! 😅😅

[@djbille4283]

Wow, Bruce Jenner before he became a woman 👩🏻 😮😮👄

[@edreid7872]

Y

[@ericlopez9107]

52:30...LOVE most of the retro commercials! But come on PEOPLE, the all black marching band for the grape soda was pretty AWFUL &INSULTING! I guess that was part of being in 1980!!

[@RocStarr913]

It was more about getting an opportunity. Not everything had to have an intentional or unintentional meaning behind it.

[@NewtonDKC]

See kids? Cringe has always existed! :-)

[@Kakorot77]

I still don't understand why the massively overrated Barbie movie was given more praise than the underrated Xanadu movie???

[@drmarkcthompson6504]

The movie that inspired the Razzies 😅😂

[@seand67]

Movie was a massive flop

[@isaiahtolbert]

Omg so embarrassed for them in 2024.

[@jl3322]

Most are dead

[@isaiahtolbert]

@@jl3322 Still

[@CuirPhotodotNet]

@@jl3322 ....only the gentleman that played the motorcycle man has passed..all the rest of the group are still alive....

[@RLucas3000]

Ah, violence against women humor from Sammy Davis. Different times.

[@jcjung5544]

Too bad that was such a bad movie.

[@davidmaurits]

I absolutely hate the fake cheering.

[@phoenixrising2268]

I had to stop watching when they tried to pass the Village People off as straight. Absurd.

[@jl3322]

Bigot

[@RocStarr913]

They had to back then. The Village People would have committed complete career suicide if they didn’t. Ironically, they pretty much did by making this movie, because most people wised up to what they were all about and were uncomfortable with it.

[@richardkennedy8481]

Worse than the movie.

[@ericlopez8622]

This programing was all they had before OUT TV!! 😂😂

[@briansmith6292]

I made my mom watch this and my mom was shocked when I said that I was not gay….😂 kidding BIGOLE MO