Dance Fever 1979 with Jane Seymour & Benji, Bobby Van, Robert Shields & Evelyn King Part 1

Dance Fever Disco Playlist:
M - Pop Music
Pablo Cruise - I Go To Rio
Hott City - Feeling Love
Meco - Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Marathon - I Want To Dance
Evelyn King - Out There

[@brettshepherd5240]

just pure tv fun back then. I was a kid but I'm glad I was old enough to remember these times.

[@celestialstarseed111]

I know. Good times back in the 70’s. Fond memories of watching this.

[@ECO473]

Bobby Van certainly looked right at home on that dance floor! RIP.

[@melaniekolomyja7335]

Sadly that same year Bobby Van was diagnosed with a brain tumour and died the next year. 😢

[@tamaragarrett3625]

Wow! This is the best! I was 4 yrs old watching this every weekend. My Mom would make us Jiffy Pop and we would watch together. Times were so much better then. People had fun! Music was great!

[@Silverhorse32]

I wish this would come back on tv on Saturday nights again.

[@1060michaelg]

Man, this brings back good memories; My girlfriend and I (who I married in 1980 and still together today) had our first place, cheap rent in Clearwater, FL...you could go out to dinner, keep your bills paid and just LIVE. We never missed Dance Fever unless we were out ourselves...good times.

[@DiscoMatty79]

I need that outfit. I love those late 70s primary colors.

[@cgizz1801]

I miss these days! God life was good and pure fun 😍

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

What I remember is that Dan Hartman's "Instant Replay" seemed to be the song at least one couple danced to on every show. "Born to Be Alive" was a favorite, too.

[@sylvesterquast5832]

Back when people knew what real music was

[@19ccj65]

I wanted that "disco jukebox", badly.

[@DavidBDavis-lz7bt]

Wow! Been ages since I've seen Dance Fever, but I used to watch pretty regularly back in '79. Thank you for a very fond look back at my youth🌞😊.

[@l.claudio1079]

Deney Terrio came to the Philippines and performed in a dance concert during the 80s. We were amazed by his talent and kind gestures. I think he came back after that concert to perform and host the local version of the Dance Fever.

[@MediaWatchDawg]

If not for KZbin, you'd have to go all the way to Bratislava to see anything like this.

[@damienchance7442]

Wow I didn't know Jane Seymour was on this show

[@rrubio6660]

Just as a guest.

[@Multi1628]

~ Peter Allen wrote & performed 1976's "I Go To Rio" on A&m 12' - no DJ worth their salt plays the Pablo Cruise version - shame Dance Fever. Beautiful Bend's Boogie Motion hooray 1978!! The group Marathon from the movie 'Thank God It's Friday' still hot as well. This music is eternal & still fresh in 2018. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

[@steve-hm1wn]

i'm sure the couple got to pick the version they wanted to dance, too

[@paulread7113]

The Pablo Cruise version is way better to dance to though, thus is the obvious pick

[@PqV72MT4]

Beautiful people and great music!

[@althea7210]

Benji dominated the dance floor 🕺🏻

[@v.dargain1678]

Benji knew how to breakdance before it was cool .

[@jorgeluispadron9156]

🤩😍😍adorable

[@JTrost1234]

I love it.

[@agapitorico2111]

buenos recuerdos!

[@marymoran8859]

FUN!!!!

[@RIPRICKJAMES]

Deney Terrio was the shit !!!!!! I always watched Dance Fever back in the day !!!! I always loved the dancer Diane Day beautiful and a great body. The judge Robert Shields was cranked up LOL !!!

[@1060michaelg]

LOL!! -- Yes, it looked as though Shields had just done a couple of rails of perrico off of Yarnell's behind!

[@v.dargain1678]

You said it honey !!! Deney the dance king . Glad AIDS or drug a overdose didn't get him like the others . Bringing these old videos out of mothballs was a good idea : )

[@bluevictory1010]

I seen Deney Terrio in an interview and he said he had a cocaine addiction back then. In some episodes you can tell he's high as a kite.

[@dean95b]

Lol dude he is sooo gay

[@lperry7289]

Loved him

[@axlrosepagdanganan8938]

I remember this episode. my god! i miss denney terrio.

[@dagdogg]

Sadly, original "Dance Fever" announcer/DJ Freeman King passed away of a heart attack on his 59th birthday, June 1, 2002. His replacement on "Dance Fever", Charlie O'Donnell, passed away from congestive heart failure on November 1, 2010.

[@zaharaazure73]

Memories

[@njplr]

Now THIS is how I remember the show. Mostly, "you've got my body movin' in boogie motion", which ALWAYS played as he introduced people. I used to put the show on just to hear that song.

[@gmughadam76]

Danny's dancing skills are savage...!

[@commpacifacfilms]

Deney nailed that opening Pop Music ! All the celebrity judges could dance too even Benji...

[@Rescue162]

I liked Jane Seymour in the 1979 TV movie "The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders".

[@markrodriguez9442]

I'd remember this one. Deney Terrio is my dance idol but ironically,I can't dance.

[@elguapo7298]

I read the shows wiki page and read that the show started in 79, it's a shame the show didn't start in 77. by 80 disco was half dead

[@bobdavis4848]

Great footage from a great show. I love disco. Your credits omit Boris Midney’s Beautiful Bend’s “Boogie Motion” heard from 2 to 4 minutes in. The Hott City song was “Feelin’ Love,” not “Feeling Love.” The playlist miswrites Marathon’s “I Wanna Dance” as “I Want To Dance” and doesn’t say it is from the “Thank God It’s Friday” soundtrack. Thanks for posting, I’d buy this kind of stuff if it was on DVD.

[@joeyphenomenal]

When there was actual life on earth 🌎

[@twistoffate4791]

Amen to that. You are SO right.

[@ruelnicholas8317]

Lol..my nieces just now reminiscing about me spinning and tossing them around my mom's living room...breaking everything on the coffee table...lol..my mom yelling back there..."oh no, what broke.."..lol

[@laurallama73]

I remember threatening siblings in the room, if they caused me to miss hearing the bio of each and every dancer.🎶🦹🏼💜🦹🏻‍♀️

[@Rodin99]

I watched this show prior to 1979 when apparently it hadn't yet aired according to Wikipedia. Go figure.

[@anthonychiulli7736]

Denney taught john travolta to dance

[@ali.husain4008]

Wait? Benji was also a judge?!! Jesus....

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

The two ✌️🏻 women 💃🏻💃🏻 called ☎️ “Motion” in this 1979--80 episode of the original DANCE 🪩💃🏻🕺🏻 FEVER 🥵🤒 were those of both Dianne Day and Toni Yuskis.

[@colinchampollion5605]

Denny Terrio should have worn that red vest without a shirt ~Very fine handsome guy😉😈

[@sonicaffairband]

If I didn’t know any better I’d say that this show came straight out of Anchor Man. I mean the dog is dancing?!! Wow...

[@christopherdunbar394]

that's were televison

[@VTMCompany]

Those days were such fun before AIDS. We had little warning of what was just around the corner with the new decade.

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Thanks for posting these. Actually, I didn't start watching dance fever until around 83 or 84. Or maybe 1982. I was maybe a year or several months old when this started. My grandmother and my mother used to watch that show every Saturday afternoon on KTVU channel 2 in the bay area. By the way, one more thing. I wonder what song is that couple number four was dancing to? Yes I know it’s called I wanna dance but I wonder who the artist is.

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Adrienne Gurge I hear you. It would be really nice if all of these dance shows was on DVD. Wouldn't that be great?

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Adrienne Gurge i'm going to be honest. I wasn't crazy about dancing with the stars. I love the old-school dance shows like solid gold, American Bandstand, soul train, of course dance fever, and another show produced by Dick Clark Called puttin' on the hits. Those was the shows that I grew up on. And I know this one is not a dance show but I even loved Star search.

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Adrienne Gurge valid point. I actually exercise three days out of the week. But, I don't dance.

[@marthaibarra3829]

I love the night live in internet

[@rockndisco3874]

Can you upload the first episode please

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Note the bad video image. Yes, it’s a vhs copy, but also video wasn’t very sharp back then. It couldn’t handle light, white clothes, etc. it looks like they also use a soft focus too. It’s better to have a smaller set well lit, than a huge set that’s dim. 1979 was the time the public was tired of disco. By the way, these shows were all taped one right after another.

[@32rodrick]

Disco Dance Competition Show Created by DON CORNELIUS

[@n64wilbert]

7:19 that electro track

[@meganmccafferty1049]

Who is here from the Pop Culture Preservation Society?

[@artistpr5386]

Before the SuperSize Menu and when Big Pharma couldn't advertise on TV!!

[@trytobenice7234]

🐾 2:58

[@turboredcart]

The host was paid 3k a show. He said that he should have been paid 10k-15k each show. He used coke in the 80s since everyone was. I wasnt. hmm. He is straight- but was hit on by the management, Harrassed-

[@shawnfutch9474]

I used to like the statues

[@chowbok]

Have to say I'm a little disappointed in Benji's judgement.

[@toddforhetz]

Bobby Van died a year after this ..... a brain tumor. RIP

[@Stephanie-vn6ir]

I loved dance fever! But I stopped watching when Deney Terrio left and they got rid of the DJ.

[@twistoffate4791]

I liked Adrian Zmed, tho, too because he was hilarious. But I agree that Deney Terrio was a major presence.

[@virgilwilliams2378]

I felt sorry for the Dj cause he to wear those ridiculous outfits. I have The Close Encounter theme song on vinyl.

[@loumacri9242]

Silly

[@raerae3844]

That show was rubbish. Evelyn Champagne King was the only good thing on that show!!

[@rrubio6660]

And yet here you are commenting. LOL!

[@raerae3844]

@@rrubio6660 Sure Am.

[@colinchampollion5605]

Dumb Dance Fever Producers did'nt prepare for the rapid change of the 80's music which came almost overnight 😈😆! I SURE HATED THE GAUDY 70'S Disco crap dancing as a young kid back in the day and had to listen to like Pink Floyd and Ozzy Osburn, and was sooo glad the 80 's just pop-out to replace this disco crap 😬😠

[@lovewe2302]

The disco era is a definite low point in the history of humanity. Awful clothes. Awful music. And the whole 'I don't give a Fu## mentality'. Thank god it only lasted a few years.