Stairway to Stardom (1981) - full show - Joey Marlowe, Jimmie Smiley

Stairway to Stardom (1981) - full show featuring Joey Marlowe, Jimmie Smiley

[@Neptuneman07]

This is my new guilty pleasure

[@LisaMitchellGD]

I feel like this comment section is like an online support/Rehab group for other STS addicts. I can't stop watching it. I'm in deep

[@rdred8693]

Hi, my name is Red, and I'm addicted to STS. The song Hairdresser runs through my head all the time.

[@LisaMitchellGD]

@@rdred8693 🤣🤣 That was an original song

[@hwilliams7458]

Can''t....stop.....watching....help.....

[@agoo7581]

"I'm appearing in an off-broadway show". I am sure it is TECHNICALLY off broadway.

[@gffpau]

joey marlowe aka nunzie giffone ; my uncle , the greatest !

[@flwrfan1752]

gffpau-Your Uncle could sing!He was talented.

[@gffpau]

@@flwrfan1752 Thank you

[@delftbrown75]

He sure is ! I am a big fan

[@Neptuneman07]

He is incredibly good.

[@hhaden8961]

Your Uncle was very talented. I miss the older type entertainment. May I ask without being too personal? Is your Uncle still alive?

[@hibachisamurai21141]

absolutely the best show . i used to eat paint chips also

[@anthonygudgeon4298]

Jimmie Smiley IS SENSATIONAL! I wish “We Gods Creation” Was officially released by him!

[@themc6281]

The fun starts at 8:08

[@caesar349]

design.logic 😂 this is magical

[@iVenge]

This is why vaudeville died.

[@Finding457]

Well at least he’s enjoying it

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

Jimmie Smiley was beyond magnificent with his band. He has actual singles and some here under Jimmy Smiley.

[@rdred8693]

Is he still alive? I really liked him.

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

​@@rdred8693 I wish I knew but I have looked around. The search continues.

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

​@@rdred8693 I have no idea but if Jimmie is out there, let us fans know!

[@Kevin-xi6ts]

I feel like I was abducted by a UFO

[@petersokol1603]

I mean….you just can’t make this shit up…..it’s mesmerizing.

[@cchaffincc]

I’m kinda liking Jimmie Smiley. Soul/Folk fusion.

[@huggybear9937]

Joey Marlow was always a fun guy to be around

[@rdred8693]

He looks like a nice person.

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

He had a soul of Vaudeville.

[@jraoul711]

Jimmie Smiley definitely had some talent.

[@crankyoldyankee598]

Anyone have any info on Jimmie Smiley? Found a couple of his 45s on KZbin but can't find anything else about him...

[@iVenge]

He’s pleasant. But the drum machine is courtesy of the Baldwin Organ Company. Just before Roland and Yamaha offered the real thing to the general public.

[@scot30]

I keep watching these Stairway to Stardom videos. They're like a train wreck. You don't really want to watch, but you can't take your eyes off of it. Did any of these people actually become truly famous after appearing on this show?

[@teijaflink2226]

I don't remember his name now but there was a dancer in one episode who at least got a career in show business, he was nominated for an Emmy and got to dance with Michael Jackson, he was actually good though.

[@scot30]

@@teijaflink2226 Well that's pretty cool! Thanks for the info!

[@elainegentry6512]

Jimmie Smiley & Joey Marlow were very good 👍

[@Kevin-xi6ts]

It’s off Broadway….Camden New Jersey to be exact.

[@gleroyTullySAEHEYKID]

Jimmie L Smiley is kingly! Trying to see if you ever got those records out. Truly Sam Cooke with Sister Rosetta's playing!

[@iVenge]

g.leroy Tully That was back when you could have a rainbow without being a gay.

[@iVenge]

Jimmie just came along about twenty years too late. Probably one of the only genuinely talented people to have ever appeared on the show.

[@susiepittman601]

Joey's not bad.

[@shadyganley8877]

Joey bag of doughnuts is wacked

[@aodhmacraynall8932]

Man, people didn't have much talent back then, did they?

[@TVHouseHistorian]

They did, except there wasn’t the same expectations put on people at that time. There was a lot less talent development available at the time.

[@Finding457]

This isn’t a production, it’s just a group of amateurs in someone’s basement recording their acts, it was never aired on TV or anthing

[@nudnick]

@@Finding457 Except for the fact that it aired on NYC public access tv, or anything.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

The talented people weren’t appearing in some guy’s basement on crappy public access shows.

[@nudnick]

@@crixxxxxxxxx For the millionth time, it wasn't filmed in some guy's basement. It was filmed in a Manhattan public access cable television studio on West 59th Street. It's listed in the end credits of pretty much every episode. Also, a few people on the show became pretty successful, i.e. they did have some talent.

[@thomasturner2007]

He really cuts loose at 8:52.

[@chinatype2bassrocker809]

The lattice room is in his future.

[@Tekknorg]

The inventor of the neutron bomb Samuel T. Cohen!

[@chipbuttytime3396]

Been in showbiz/started singing in the shower at 9 years old

[@iVenge]

I have to wonder if Evie Day is in any way related to Gloria Huddle. It’s just something about the eyes.

[@OhFishyFish]

Wow, I didn't know Woody Allen could dance!

[@gffpau]

thats not woody allen ; thats james cagney ( with glasses ) ; i know what i am writing about - he's my uncle

[@huggybear9937]

Good old days of great television

[@jimmycastaneda3854]

I meent I love this show

[@georgecoles7988]

Jimmie does a great Sam Cooke but not too much. Just enough, He’s really good

[@KrisTopher-sx3om]

Jimmy Smiley got chops, hard to tell, is he lip synching ? I can’t tell…..could just be an added drum track which was very possible and relatively cheap in those days.

[@SoCalDad91932]

I'm guessing he didn't live much long after this

[@funone2no]

Why do Guys buy JUNK guitars they can't get a Real Gibson Guitar. Sounds Horrible. Love The Guitar Strap.

[@iVenge]

Quite right; he should have gone all in and bought a Jolana Star IX.

[@jimmycastaneda3854]

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[@jimmycastaneda3854]

I meent I love this show

[@RjBenjamin353]

Jimmy Castaneda I meent it tu.

[@jimmycastaneda3854]

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