December 1979 Dance Fever Part 2

[@StacyDifrancesco]

Yes, I remember watching this every Saturday night when I was nine years old in our living room. Great show.

[@cleigh951]

my sister and I would watch and then she would try to swing me around like the dancers....one time she was swinging me and I knocked two of my teeth out on the coffee table.....🤣🤣

[@tanigallo3594]

I do still remember this I was just 9 years old then and now I'm 51. I tried to wait just to watch this during those times. I have witnessed the very first time of televising the dance fever on tv with deney terio. My mother keeps asking me what am I waiting for😁 and I said "dance fever". And 8 years after I became a dancer on television with the group. What an ambition😁.

[@deputay]

That's awesome! Great story- thanks for sharing!

[@DianaChick-ge1it]

PHENOMOnal!!! Danced in shows since 3 with my twin and gymnastics but not in DANCE FEVER! Wish I'd thought if it ,ESp w my twin as an attraction y'know🙂👌❓ Must've been a blast.( I hope ‼️💫) You should definitely write a lil book or memoir ; I for one would LOVE to read it ‼️🌜✨🌓🌃🌙 As Gary + the Gang SaY Keep on DANCING ✨🌠😃🌜🌃🌙🙂✨🌛

[@tonysteeleebw01]

My and my wife still have disco nights, just the two of us. Where we listen to disco music.

[@davidkublin4446]

Best year for disco!!! I still am a huge disco fan.was a dance fever fanatic!

[@tinydancer62]

Dance Fever was the best.

[@debrawhite6145]

Me too...

[@DianaChick-ge1it]

Agree 💯% 79 SUPERB yr for this superb music DISCO was HUUUGE and the music was definitely at its GREATEST that yr. I say 73 ,75 +79 are the most PHENOMOnal yrs for music all in all ✨ saw The Jacksons in 79 ,As a 15 yr old ,the Ohio players KC n Sunshine band , Parliament ‼️✨🌠😃, Even village people that yr ,as well as confunction🙂👌✨All standouts 🌃 As Gary 🌜✨🌙and The Gang says ** KEEP ON DANCING*‼️🌓✨

[@adolfosolano5465]

Fantastic year for Disco music and Disco dancers

[@19ccj65]

I'm so glad this was before smartphones, the audience is having as much fun as the dancers.

[@arielsilva1793]

never missed an episode back in '79

[@joannjohnson2481]

I want this on dvd .

[@cindycadwell]

The good ole days!!! The show was superb for its era and was a nice predecessor of the great dance shows today, like SYTYCD!

[@laurallama73]

That jukebox is all I want, now.

[@joannehines7806]

Still crazy.about that song, " Don't You Want My Love? Gotta look up.the artist now; used to.go.crazy when that.song would come on the radio!! 💘 🎶 😍 🎼 Disco Days!! 💃

[@tvtimetravel]

Amazed at how Charlie O'Donnell can do those announcements so quickly!

[@rubystaging237]

I just realized that the couple from Jackson Miss were a little ahead of their time with the Freestyle dancing and the shaking booty

[@christopherdunbar394]

Weekend comes watching classic show

[@Multi1628]

~ Don't You Want My Love by Debbie Jacobs 12" on MCA, and Cuba by the Gibson Bros. 12' - still hot and fresh in 2018. Such a fun show still from 1979 to 2018. Vinyl records were, and still are, the most fun! Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

[@JDSasso]

that Debbie Jacobs still sounds awesome

[@timothyarts8969]

Fantastic camera work!!!!

[@joannehines7806]

Thank.God for KZbin!!

[@GeOsmomGina]

Who is watching this in 2020?

[@MattLeger]

Me! Saturday nights growing up in South Louisiana during the 1970s, I always watched "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island," followed by news and then "Dance Fever," "Sha Na Na" and the late night mystery movie on WBRZ Ch. 2 (either the Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan movies). Good times!

[@edgardorubenbrandan6813]

Yo, desde Tucumán, Argentina

[@tinydancer62]

@@MattLeger Me too, almost the same TV lineup but.on the West Coast.

[@tonysteeleebw01]

Watching in 2022

[@msmrsro]

I love that they totally appear to be untrained amateur dancers, unlike those we see compete today who have been training in dance most of their life.

[@rjohnson993]

The NEW Pontiac Phoenix Coupe 😆👍👍

[@carlosmerino618]

No me lo perdia el programa cuando tenia 12 años

[@thomaswoodman3541]

I dig the outfits man so far out wow!

[@RBS_]

....this AMAZES me, because, I was THERE...- not REEEALLY 'there', but, Old enough, to remember this time- and, even in DECEMBER of 1979, this style of disco dancing was soooo 'dated'.....This aired on Sundays, at 7:30pm, on WPIX, in NYC, and, it was HUGE! ...I feel soooo bad for Denny Terrio...if "DF" premiered, Jan. 1978, it would've become a CLASSIC kitsch TV Show....not grasping for straws, Sept. of 1979.....

[@deputay]

For a show "grasping at straws" at the end of the 70s, the fact that it remained on the air until 1987 isn't all bad. Of course, some parts of the show are at the mercy of the contestants & their musical choices...

[@paulnguyen8910]

And on KIAH - CW 39 in Houston, TX.

[@sammavacaist]

Some amazing moves for a nurse!

[@carlosmerino618]

Buenisimo programa,concursos de baile

[@saucyminx8697]

🥳🥳THAT LAST DRESS, HAD THAT, AHHHHH MEMORIES, WAS THAT NANCY👌👌

[@jorgeluispadron9156]

Excelent!

[@Rescue162]

Now I remember why was into Dance Fever, but not so much "Dancing with the Stars"

[@paulnguyen8910]

Quartz (theme from Televisa's "La Carabina De Ambrosio") by Quartz.

[@rockndisco3874]

Upload Village People please

[@vap0rland]

definitely couple #1

[@jako3214]

Yikes almost exactly *40 yrs ago to the day! World is sooo much different and not at all for the good :/

[@joannehines7806]

Olivia's song now!!

[@joannehines7806]

Got.that.right!! Living in horrible & desperate times.now!! Think.I'll play

[@chuckiemeister]

I remember watching this show back then And I know a lot of people that were in this competition. The dancing is supposed to be a style of disco/hustle. Hustle at that time was in its beginning stages and it's nothing like it is now. Interesting the third couple looked like they were dancing west coast swing.

[@sergiospizzirri1543]

The Best days are gone

[@zachhoran]

I don't think Don Cornelius had a hand in Dance Fever. Merv Griffin's company produced the show. Merv hung onto the rights to Dance Fever despite selling the rights to Wheel and Jeopardy in the 80s.

[@integrito3323]

Ooooh La-La

[@ericn1450]

All 4 couples were excellent in my opinion. Who won? I would have gone with couple 1 simply for the acrobatics though since I stink at dancing I can’t tell the difference between a good dancer and a great dancer.

[@deputay]

The link for part 3 is in the description - check it out!

[@artistpr5386]

America before supersize menus and big Pharma commercials❤️

[@saucyminx8697]

💖🥰🥰😄TED WOAH😎😎😎

[@jeromelombardo6053]

East Coast people dance better than West Coast people.

[@saucyminx8697]

🤭🤭I LOVED HIS SHOW, BUT THE DIPPY FACTOR THR TO, WEN HE POINTED AT BEGINNING 🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@angelcummings7140]

Was that Flava Flave?

[@deputay]

That's Freeman King as the DJ

[@ksjanetka]

LOL!!!! That does look like Flav!!! Cold lampin'.

[@saucyminx8697]

HARVEY AND CINDY😁🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@time55k28]

sad the dance culture is gone in the states. now its lets go out fri night and stare into the phones like idiots.

[@monicalopez5970]

At 1:19 you see support for Ukraine

[@gersonpolanco9609]

When white people still half knew how to dance 😄😄

[@george4u1960]

My dance partner and I auditioned for the show in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1981. We almost made the cut when I watch this. I’m glad we did not make the cut. Those couples were terrible.

[@Moneytane1976]

1 month away from the 80s and we still have flares and hippy hair from like 1967. And all white, seriously - you think Philly and Jackson they would have to be Black - but no white - not even Jew or Italian white, but snow white anglo or nordic americans

[@georgelee43211]

disco is rapidly dying ....

[@michaelglenn367]

georgelee43211 WRONG...in fact 1980 81 and 82 where the best years of disco. 100 % TRUE.

[@jako3214]

Kind of. Yes the Disco Sucks disaster happened months before and the 4 on the floor beats became less common but u don't just 'kill' an entire genre overnight lol. The late 70s Disco sound was still huge in Europe in the early 80s and still to a hit/miss degree on US radio. But up untill around '83 the classic Disco sound lingered. By 84/85 yup...was totally over.

[@jorgeluispadron9156]

Don't think so. Glad to be seeing Cerrone in Best Disco Concerts around the World and at his Best. And other Great Disco Performers. It's alive than ever before. Thanks God.

[@ericn1450]

@@michaelglenn367 in the United States disco was pretty much dead as a genre as far as the radio was concerned by the end of 1980. Dance music never died and many feel the night clubs got better but look at the charts. For example, Chic were huge in 1978 and 1979 and look at them in 1980 struggling to get a hit.

[@jasonmorrow1981]

OMG. I had a Pontiac Phoenix. What a piece of shit. Just like the 70's and early 80's.

[@32rodrick]

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