Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams.HQ.Live @.A.J.Palumbo Center.Pittsburg,(16.Sept-1988)

[@mikeydrookie351]

a singer that actually sings...thats what the 80's were kids

[@jacobdescheneaux2420]

This is what real talent sounds like. One of the last original talents. Self taught, self made, no filters, no lip sink, no gimmicks. She is still supremely talented all these years later. Man I miss the 80s!

[@ericcharles8081]

Everyone saying she’s not using auto tune, it wasn’t even invented yet. She has REAL talent that’s why she’s so good

[@allmotorkp61]

You're the only mentioning auto tune...

[@debfan74]

No autotune, no gimmick...just pure energy

[@StepUpMedia039]

And it's incredible.

[@nancydianna4752]

What auto tune

[@BrokenHalo5]

I guarantee you that more dudes adored this song in its day than would admit to it.

[@Grizzlied555]

That's our little secret.

[@milobaret8672]

Yess i do. ❤😂

[@wilthomas]

me ✋✋✋

[@a.jackson9613]

Don't tell anyone! Lol

[@MegaPopfly]

Guilty

[@galaxyii]

Her vocal quality was exceptional and nearly identical to the studio track at points. Very impressive for a live performance where she’s moving around.

[@hendrikmorang2851]

Milli vanily did it better 🤣🤣🤣

[@elliottlangford9145]

I love this song and yes she really is impressive here!

[@sarahshouse1890]

Agree!!👍👍

[@RAFTERMAN7]

I miss this time frame of life. I used to love new tech like social media now I hate it. Its literally cancer. I remember these time when we used to talk to each other and have some respect for one another even if didn't agree.

[@jjthor407]

No Auto Tuner , No Ear Plugs , Just Debbie Gibson dancing and belting out an almost surreal live version of Only in My Dreams !

[@michaelsitton6459]

In case you confused it with Whitesnake's "Bad Boys".

[@wilthomas]

bro she can actually sing. say what you will about bubblegum pop but this slaps imo

[@Malcontent-]

Wow Deb was 18 years old in this video. Same age I was. Had such a massive crush on her back in the day. Just wow.....memories..... Watching this video stirs up....feelings. Love of the 80's and Deb's girl next door prettiness.

[@Silo-Ren]

I'll tell you what, I'm not a big fan of hers but just decided to check her out live since she has such a beautiful and ranged voice and she's only one in a handful of artist that sounds absolutely like on her record which is very hard to duplicate. I gotta say I was very impressed by her and found a new respect for her. No matter where she is, I hope she's doing very well for herself.

[@milkcarton6654]

Man, I turned 10 fourteen days before this show (and i guess she had turned 18 sixteen days prior...). She was my first real celeb crush. Is it the kind of stuff i still listen to today? Not much. But every few years, usually in my darkest moments, i need to remind myself of the gloriously happy days of my childhood and she'll take me right back to it. I don'T know how Debbie feels about her career now, the fact it was mostly a three years affair in terms of being in the limelight anyway (still two #1 and three top 5 in that time...), maybe she has regrets, maybe she wishes things had happened differently, but i hope she knows that to a lot of us she is intimately tied to our childhood (or youth anyway) and happier days and that hearing her songs can give part of this blissful innocence back to us. And that's sure worth something. Well....Debbie will be 51 in ten days and i'll be 43 in twelve. Dammit. Here's to us all getting old.

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

That’s a very good drummer.

[@aegisofhonor]

in an age of mostly male acts at least 10 years older then her, Debbie Gibson broke out of the typical pop acts of the mid to late 80s with such hits like this, written by herself no less.

[@marcopolo-xj4yw]

I danced on a pedestal next to Debbie Gibson in 1986 at a Top of the Pops performance in Los Angeles. Her mother was there with her. Other guests were Tiffany, LeVert, Smokey Robinson. What a great memory!

[@pattyg1821]

1987 or 1988 you mean? She signed her record deal in 1986.

[@crisfranz9308]

Que legal!!

[@marcopolo-xj4yw]

@@pattyg1821 yes then. Must have been ‘87-‘88. First year of college. No masks!

[@marcopolo-xj4yw]

@@pattyg1821Looks to be the TOTP performance of 1987, from what I can find here on KZbin. It was filmed in Hollywood. I had no record of it before the internet. Thx.

[@qzetu]

What's really special about this video and other 80's artist is the ackward & corny dancing. It's not suggestive & overly rehearsed like today. There is an innocence in their movement and I believe it's a true example of someone not only expressing themselves through their music but movement as well. She is innocent and free.

[@sarahshouse1890]

She was a sensation in the 80s!! Absolutely love her!!🩷 Superior energy and talent!! Phenomenal to this day! Bam!👊💥👍🩷🫠

[@tzasin7122]

That voice on her!! is so Girly and wholesome her tone is so youthful and clear. This live was better than the record

[@johnlark6583]

I dig her fun sparkly jacket. It's beyond neato.

[@jcampezzi1027]

It's groovy.

[@KCJake100]

No auto tune here. Real band. Gotta love the people who actually perform for an audience. Not my music style, But much respect for bringing it live...... Top ten female singer. because of that...... Way to go Deborah.

[@jbass69goat84]

And.....not a single one of those evil cell phone screens being flashed around. They were still the stuff of James Bond, Star Trek, and Get Smart. 😄👌

[@josephfrager9325]

Auto tune wasn’t around in the 80s. Back then artists and bands sang and played for real

[@baezamj08]

I wish I had lived the 80s 😔

[@Think_For_Yourself_]

It's was and forever awesome!

[@daswiftmova]

It was the best

[@jasonknox1268]

To be a teenager and a twenty something in the 80s was magical. KZbin brings some of the 80s magic back to life.

[@jamesdriskill5784]

Still can sing and still beautiful. I’d prob take my wife to see her

[@rcnelson]

She really does have an extraordinarily good voice--it sounds so clear.

[@omerballesteros]

why female artist nowadays cannot be just like debie? she is electrifying but look at her, very simple but she rocks!

[@Sailor-Alpha]

80S POP QUEEN ,VOCALLY SLAYING. SHE SOUNDS SO GOOD LIVE... TAKE NOTES !THIS IS HOW ITS DONE

[@sarahshouse1890]

YES!!!👌🤩

[@rp7326]

Holy crap, she was amazing!

[@KCultureCrossing]

Oh my god. She's such a great live performer. She must be one of the most talented woman in the history of pop music. A musician like Debbie Gibson should have lasted longer and become more successful than today's garbage

[@andrereloaded1425]

Geesh, what a girl! Do they make 'em like this now?

[@user-pv7pk5nh3k]

All that running around and her breath control is Stable!!!! Im breathless just watching this 😆 Love this 💕

[@adrianzapata9813]

I wish i could've seen a MANO A MANO between Debbie and Madonna in the 80s. Great spring 1989 memories.

[@stanleyhansen9375]

She's a great live performer - no pretending withe her singinging. That was her real voice, bot a recording. I like her. I liked her in the late 80's when I thought she was someone else. I was someone else . back then and I was pretty '"dazed and confuzz ed".

[@RavensFlock9592]

As a fan of mostly metal and hard rock I appreciate the talent Debbie Gibson had in her younger years. She could really sing and was a damn good showman (woman) did not have to use auto tune like performers do nowadays and plus this is one of the songs that gives me memories of the 80's. I do miss the 80's even though I was a young kid. I always remember the music being good from the 80's.

[@billbixby7877]

Auto tuned technology wasn't invented till late 90s. Cher used it on her single beli late 90s.

[@darcybrummett7004]

My favorite type of music is from the 80’s! The 80’s rocked!

[@RiversDoNotFlowUphillFE]

@@billbixby7877 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3bEeZ2Ge5lqlac

[@ricardosalgadomascorro6953]

Nice voice and beagiful girl

[@johannprosper6057]

So obsessed with her when I was like 7. It's 2023 and I'm 36 now, but I realize even more now as to why I was obsessed. So talented.

[@TedTheTree]

I saw Debbie live at Wembley Stadium in London in 1989;

[@Michelle062970]

Oh and yes...the Hannah Montana of our day...the 80s. I think I will show this video to my 9 year old daughter, although I was 17 (exact age as Debbie) when this song came out. I remember when I saw the video, she had no album to it yet. It was just a single...I was so impressed of her!

[@ReformedOrderPart2]

As I watch this video again, the spirit behind this was AMAZING! So fun, so entertaining, & a type of pure innocence of talent without any undertones or "hidden messages" like with what is seen now in todays GARBAGE! It brings a tear to my eye in knowing these days we see now from back then will NEVER be back, ever.

[@SteveCarras]

+Ross Rich It IS, in the form of Katy Perry and Meghan Trainor's original songs (and Debbie also wrote hers too.) Plus over ten years ago along with fellow late eighties and early nineties icon Paula Abdul she was a judge on AMERICAN IDOL (saying farewell this season..)

[@rockybalboa4052]

youngsters today will tell your old and paranoid, even though you are correct

[@drakejdf]

well said i agree 100 percent.

[@thegiftedone]

it was for us my friend...we chose to be born in this era....she is you....you are her....80's are us we are the 80's.......be grateful and remember this message

[@ReformedOrderPart2]

@@thegiftedone: You are RIGHT, thank you.I'll be sure not to lose that. :-)

[@fzghbkhvgfhhgv3524]

Her make up is just as amazing as her , it’s not running down her face with all those sweat

[@ferdiremo]

80s artists can sing, dance, play musical instruments, and compose songs.

[@aridian7787]

When American pop divas had real talent, class and professionalism! 👍👏👏👏

[@sofiastowers8242]

Love this clip. No one's holding a phone. Thank you debbie...

[@JohnDoe-jj8sp]

I would love to go to one of her concerts, to see her when I was younger....

[@cbspock1701]

Love this version of the song. Former fellow Long Islander, I still listen to Debbie’s albums

[@mauriliopasquinineto]

Her born in nyc, brooklyn

[@adamtrevino5017]

only in my dreams.... enough said.

[@1badjesus]

..and she WROTE the song🤯!

[@melaniejohnston2224]

At 13 yrs old

[@alangillman8919]

In fact she single-handly wrote ALL the songs on her first 2 albums 🥰🥰🥰

[@lolly22258]

i am a Debbie Gibson fan from the Philippines,i used to watch this concert video with a betamax before,the tape was just borrowed and it is only now that i found this very concert I long.My family during these days,composed of 3 male children enjoy her songs up to now the've grown and have their families (except for the youngest "boy"), still enjoy and have her CD. We love you Debbie

[@pacolopez7638]

I was in high school and I loved this girl, now the name of my daughter is Debbie for this beautiful singer...!!! 2019 .

[@furiosasexel2970]

I was 17 when this song came out. Loved you then Debbie. Still Love you in 2019.

[@murphan25]

This beats the music we have nowadays, and I'm 25. Hehe.

[@emmawoodhouse8622]

I am 17.

[@AlphaDReckless]

I grew up in the 80's listening to 80's rock and I still do but I must admit I hid a Debbie Gibson poster in my cupboard where my friends couldn't see and I said goodnight to Debbie every night lol! I loved you then Debbie and I still do now!

[@Nightrain76]

I’d rather hear live vocals than see big time choreography. It’s refreshing to see.

[@robertolameck912]

Sou morador do Rio de janeiro, na minha opinião o melhor rock in rio foi o de estréia em 1985. De lá pra cá só foi caindo, Medina podia olhar pra essa estrela pra dá mais vida ao festival...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Linda!!!

[@superfatchao14]

incredible stage presence

[@TheMoose403]

only in my dreeeeeaaaaammmmssss!!!! ha ha ha! i love this! I'm 21, so she's before my time but i still love listenin to her!!!!

[@JonathanKine]

Seems like yesterday, when the world was neon, safe, and music was good all the time on the radio🙂

[@rudolphmcneill515]

Daaaamn!! Even having been a little before her, but I remember the MTV days. I had no idea she actually had vocals like that. WOW!!

[@mikemayers5858]

i haven't listened to this song for a while , put it back on apple play list awsome song , always wanted to meet this lovely lady

[@Mar-uo2bj]

Crushing! ❤

[@ssaye89]

I was in high school in the late 80's, I totally loved this girl!!

[@JoeBegin1558]

When artists actually sang their songs. No ear pieces to lip sync and performed with energy. She is the Queen and I was on 8 in 1988. lol

[@anselj.torrescamac.1728]

This woman is spectacular ... times in which the songs made you dream ... all past times were better ... definitely ... greetings from Lima - Peru ...

[@threat_dynamics3272]

As a rock and roller from the 60's and 70's, perhaps I'm not qualified to comment on her performance or even this musical genre. But I will nonetheless. It's good. The woman can really sing, she's a good showman (showwoman?), her band is authentic, and Autotune is conspicuously absent. Very unlike most of the crap out there now.

[@AngelofAnguish]

Threat_Dynamics In my opinion, you have nothing to worry about! As fan of Megadeth, Quiet Riot, AC/DC, and Judas Priest, when I got an "earful" of Debbie's music, I (actually) was FLOORED. In my opinion, nothing wrong with (having a little) "diversity."

[@chuckles1972]

Threat_Dynamics r

[@JG-op4de]

Threat_Dynamics you do realize she's not singing live? Post production manipulations are clearly at work. Not saying she would or wouldn’t need it, it's just polishing most acts utilize when releasing "live" shows.

[@peterrobannsobrepena6029]

AngelofAnguish we won't tell 😁😃

[@peterrobannsobrepena6029]

J G It's live, but polishing is fine

[@elliswhiteley3310]

Debbie and Tiffany are very talented. 80s was best time for everything. There is nothing good today.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1987 {August 29th} Debbie Gibson performed her debut charted record, "Only In My Dreams", on the ABC-TV Saturday afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'... At the time "Only In My Dreams" was at position #5 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, the following week it would peak at #4 {for 1 week} and it spent over a half-year {28 weeks} on the Top 100... It reached #6 on the Canadian RPM Singles chart... Between 1987 and 1993 the Brooklyn, NY native had eleven records on the Top 100 chart, five* made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Foolish Beat" for 1 week in 1988 and "Lost In Your Eyes" for 3 weeks in 1989... Besides her two #1 records, her three other Top 10 records were the above "Only In My Dreams", "Shake Your Love" {#4 in 1987}, and "Out of the Blue" {#3 in 1989}... Deborah Ann Gibson will celebrate her 49th birthday in two days on August 31st, 2019... * She just missed having a sixth Top 10 record when her "Electric Youth" peaked at #11 {for 3 weeks} in 1989...

[@Blottyblotch]

WOW

[@riskey6788]

❤️❤️❤️❤️ youuuu ✌🏻😃✌🏻🇺🇸

[@michaelbowen8631]

At 3:00 the Sax Player nails it! Debbie Gibson has amazing voice!

[@j.r.9170]

I love her real vocal talent & energy running around the stage. Very special song for me that really express the best of the 1980s

[@bryanfryejr2999]

I'm an 80s baby alot of this great music died in the mid to late 90s due to poor economy and money🥺🥺

[@steverau4011]

Good Lord she was a cutie

[@pinkyman5155]

She was proper fit in the mid 80's

[@1ish746]

Blown away her live

[@Michelle062970]

HA! I remember when Debbie came out. I was a senior in high school. She was my hero!! AND I'm still ROCKING at 38 !!! LOL! God bless you Debbie! You're still better than Tiffany. HAHA!

[@debfan74]

I love how she did this live! She gave it her all

[@SVETLANA-pm2dy]

I love Debbie

[@ksaif]

Wonderful 80s, ahhhhhhhhhh. This song reminds me of my special friend Liesa, in her car I heard this for the first time in August 1987. Can't forget both!! Thanks Debbie for leaving a lifelong memory stamped in my heart.

[@dcabral00]

A wonderful underated artist of her time! I loved her energy and charisma. Her voice was as sweet and beautful as her.

[@DesertScorpionKSA]

Wow, she really got a workout from jumping around so much. I'm tired just watching her.

[@hawaiiallan]

I really miss the 80's !

[@duncanmills391]

I would go back tomorrow!

[@rafaellome1666]

America's girlfriend,the most beautiful woman an excellent musician ❤

[@VileAlberto]

wow spectacular diva

[@John-hf9ib]

Just an amazing voice

[@eddiecook1078]

And no autotune!!!!!!!!

[@rodnibee]

I love that epic jump! I loved it the first time I saw it three decades ago and still amazed by it until now. Love you Debbie, what a talent!

[@cm37177]

10 years has to be the max

[@joaniejett7189]

Oh take me back to the 80s Debbie I love every single version of this song that you have performed I wish I could collect them all on 45 and put them all in my juke box Love this song You are such a wonderful performer and so loved by so many rock on! thanks for the post!

[@georgewilson1184]

Debbie at her best

[@74djrichard]

Well balanced! The sound.. the music.. the vibe.. the people.. and the artist as well. I do adore this young lady eversince and now a more mature Deborah. I'm still a big fan this 2020 pandemic year.

[@CKJK954T]

2:46 - Umm, she HAD to have been Carlton’s choreographer 😉. L-O-V-E everything about this vid! Thank you for sharing the post, and stay safe & healthy out there everyone!

[@TheDeborahfan]

I can't belief this concert was 21 years ago. Deb did an awesome job.

[@boogieedownberlin]

31 baby, 31!

[@peculio2924]

excellent voice while dancing, that is very difficult

[@lgempet2869]

Can’t imagine dancing that hard AND singing well simultaneously….Debbie was incredibly talented & FIT in this performant to mange that!! Wow!!🤩

[@hoss3138]

I hate that we all grow old. Debbie should’ve been young forever. Only in my dreams.

[@wilthomas]

still looks pretty damn good though

[@YourAscents]

...and write and produce and dance. Doesn't she play, too? Man, her Live shows were so full of energy!

[@RhiannaBarr]

IWannabeJew yes she is a child piano prodigy...playing piano since aged 3

[@luisruabalboa7845]

Beautiful time

[@jefmecheng]

I remember watching this on a vhs tape. I watched it over and over again. I almost memorize the lyrics of her songs.

[@hendribs2688]

She is pretty till now..❤❤❤

[@904PinballZine]

The 80s Rocked!

[@SirChivalRegal]

One of the better Saxaphone solo's ive heard in many a year.

[@nealpucci1041]

my child hood mem love the 80