Tube City Almanac

June 25, 2009

Disco for Young Lovers?

(Mon Valley Miscellany)



Legendary WMCK and WIXZ DJ Terry Lee has found another nugget in his archives and posted it online for your entertainment. It's video from a dance show taped in Pittsburgh in 1977.

A lot of the male dancers are sporting the look that retired Post-Gazette columnist Peter Leo called "the Full Cleveland" (and he meant that only in the pejorative sense), while the women are rocking those pantsuits and velour dresses.

Terry is a lot smoother than "Rockin'" Mel Slirrup (Eugene Levy), host of the SCTV dance show spoof "Mel's Rock Pile" ... but since Pittsburghers Joe and Paul Flaherty worked on SCTV, was any resemblance purely coincidental? Hmm.

(Update: Hey! I just noticed that Sunday was Joe Flaherty's birthday. He turned 68. In honor of Joe, I'm going to put on a white suit and a Panama hat, and sit in a wheelchair --- to earn people's respect, of course.)







Feedback on “Disco for Young Lovers?”

Thanks for posting the Terry Lee video – Wow everyone was so thin! When is TL coming back to the Mon-Yough area. I contend that if he appeared at the Renzie Band Shell the attendance would exceed 10,000. Keep up the good work!
Donn Nemchick - June 26, 2009



The guy in the red suit with the white sunglasses is comedy gold.
Schultz - June 26, 2009



Yeah, Schultz — like I said, I kept waiting for Eugene Levy to walk out and interview Joe Flaherty as Hudgie DeRobertis and John Candy as Paul Fistinyerface.
Webmaster - June 26, 2009



Terry should post some Come Alive video, if any survives. Surely someone out there has some Super 8 film from hops at Reliance Hose or the Night Train!
Bill S. - June 26, 2009



Meco, the song’s arranger and producer, came from Johnsonburg, PA.
Mark - July 03, 2009



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