There were times when I thought I had just imagined Pink Lady. Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy.

Damn a lot of these famous icons are gone. Surprisingly, Pink Lady duo are still looking fab and going strong at their age.

ピンクレディが可愛くてっさ ジェフとその他のスタッフ有難う サポートしてくれたアメリカスタッフに感謝だね。

They were beautiful. This was before my time.

So much fun! I love Pink Lady! Amazing guest stars. What a great cross-section of the American pop culture wasteland 1980.

@ChristopherSobieniak

9 жыл бұрын

I want it back!

@georgewernerjr9362

5 ай бұрын

Old comment, but agreed. 1980 was great. Look at the film's released that year, then dare call it a "wasteland." You can't.

The funniest thing about this is the title. The "best of" pink lady and jeff! Talk about a title in conflict with itself!😂😂😂😂😂

He did NOT SAY "You get turned on by my sexy ROUND EYES" to an asian woman. OMG wow! This is history for you!

@saber_marionette

3 жыл бұрын

this was my exact reaction x__x

@AntQuick1102

5 ай бұрын

It's actually funny though, I think today's conformist political correctness will eventually be a more disturbing history

1980 was a very strange time.

@fromthesidelines

9 ай бұрын

Yes! Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, wasn't supposed to erupt as a volcano. But in May 1980- over a month after "PINK LADY" was cancelled- it *did.* It belched lava and ash on a regular basis until 2008.

Even though you could barely understand a word from Pink Lady they were still more amusing than "comedian" Jeff Altman!

@justsayin502

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Beddow Jerry Lewis finds him highly amusing.

@JeffreyRBeddow

8 жыл бұрын

Yes! I read about that! Scary, isn't it?

@user-dz4rl7kp5y

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Beddow

@PhancyPants99

7 жыл бұрын

He's not that bad

@MichaelHansenFUN

7 жыл бұрын

read the book BAD TV

I remember being so excited reading the TV GUIDE® listing that week that Cheap Trick was gonna be on "Pink Lady and Jeff" Friday night, and then being so--o-o pissed that their "performance" was the VIDEO of "Dream Police"!! I wanted to see the actual band on the show!! Good memory, though...

ビューティーのキャロル・キングのカバーが素敵です 日本から来て同郷人のいない海外の番組に溶け込んでいるのがすごいです

Fred Silverman saw Mie and Kei's photo in a magazine, read about their incredible popularity as a Japanese singing duo, and signed them to appear in a weekly variety show for early 1980 (he needed SOMETHING to attract viewers to NBC that season). He never bothered to ask if they could speak ENGLISH, though. When he found out they couldn't, he added Jeff Altman as their "American guide" [and their "Sonny"/"Donny"], had them phonetically learn the American dialogue for their comedy routines, and virtually threw the show on the air in March 1980. THIS was the result.....

@Kohntarkosz

8 жыл бұрын

Which is widely credited with killing off variety shows on Stateside television!

@fromthesidelines

8 жыл бұрын

Not quite: the ONE variety show Silverman developed for NBC, "BARBARA MANDRELL AND THE MANDRELL SISTERS", lasted two seasons (and outlasted his tenure at the network).

@Kohntarkosz

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I forgot about that. I remember the puppet band, I forget what they were called, but it was a country band made up of puppets. It was the only reason we watched the show (that and the occasional instrumental the sisters would, where Barbara would show of her guitar playing skills...which were way more impressive than the country/pop dreck she usually sang).

@airdaleva42

6 жыл бұрын

The main reason Altman was chosen was he could speak fluent Kanji. (Japanese) But by this time the variety show was in a hospice state. Silverman was throwing anything out there to get a hit.

@johnseal56

4 жыл бұрын

@@airdaleva42 I wrote head writer Mark Evanier about this the other night. He wrote back that Jeff "didn't speak a word of Japanese".

貴重な映像をありがとうございます！ みーちゃんとけーちゃん可愛い(*´˘`*)♡

I feel really bad for Mie and Kei, they were treated pretty terribly. First of all, the poor women didn't speak a word of English, which apparently nobody knew, and so Jeff Altman was hired to be their cohost while they had to learn their scripts phonetically (!). They wanted to perform their own songs in Japanese, but the network forced them to record English songs (remember, in a language they didn't know... so they were just singing phonetically) and lip-sync them. It's a shame because they're actually quite talented and still beloved in Japan, but in the US they're still associated with this nightmare.

@dementednun1175

10 ай бұрын

No they didn't speak English just sang in English and spoke English on the show! You did watch the clip didn't you

@realretrorelapse

9 ай бұрын

You know they weren't "forced" to do anything. They actually had a pretty crazy contract that made many demands that the network had to oblige by. You speaking like they are victims. What, did you think they were supposed to speak Japanese in a US show? Even less people would watch than actually did, which wasn't very many.

@kenhahn5544

8 ай бұрын

Agreed presumably they were paid handsomely. They were given time to go back and do their concerts in Japan they were adults and chose to do this and they should have known that many shows in the United States don't the high percentage do not

@Masterstroke-bk1zz

7 ай бұрын

​@@dementednun1175 do you even know the meaning of the word "phonethically"?

Ah, this is the show that finally pounded the last nail into the coffin of the TV variety show!

@fromthesidelines

8 жыл бұрын

You forget Dolly Parton's 1987-'88 ABC variety show.

@dagonvaldez2878

3 жыл бұрын

Ken Berry says hold my beer....

The girls were quite talented and appealing, but not being able to speak English on an English language show and speaking phonetically from cue cards is a slight problem! They are still to this day (late 2017) quite popular in Japan and, after going solo for a while, Mie and Kei got back together to do a big tour in 2011. They haven't changed a bit!

@BigOldScout

3 жыл бұрын

I remember watching their show and was one of many who were disappointed that it didn't last long. Their language "problem" really wasn't that big a problem. During that time "The Jackson's" and other such shows were short-lived. If the show came two years earlier, it would have had a better chance.

@heatherr0420

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOldScout I agree, at least partly, with you. At that point, the variety show format was kind of tired

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Fred Silverman was determined to keep the variety show format going, even though an NBC execuitve tried to tell him, "Fred, the variety show is dead." "I'll tell you EXACTLY how the long the variety show is dead!!!", he said angrily. "How long?", the executive said softly. "It's dead until the next hit variety show is on the air!!!!!", Silverman insisted. He also tried reviving it with Susan Anton in 1979, and Marie Osmond in 1980. He *did* have some success with "BARBARA MANDELL & THE MANDRELL SISTERS" in the fall of 1980 (even though he tried to graft the "Tony Orlando & Dawn" kind of comedy routines and relationship on them). The only reason why that ended, in 1982, was because Barbara was exhausted from doing the show AND touring with her sisters, and her doctor advised her to take a long rest away from performing.

Pink Lady were awesome when they were allowed to sing their own Japanese songs, "Monster" and "UFO," on the show, but IMHO considerably less successful when covering the American disco hits of the day. It's astonishing to see how many big-name guests they had (Larry Hagman just a week before J.R. was shot on "Dallas," for instance), and there were some great musical guests, whether onstage or in video clips. The "comedy" is truly painful to watch, though. I watched very little of the show during its original run, though I do remember tuning in to see Alice Cooper performing "Clones (We're All)." I eventually bought the Rhino DVD set of the complete series.

@daviddemaria3982

Жыл бұрын

That guest lineup was pretty incredible for a single show

Considering these ladies couldn't speak English, they done a good job!

As a child, we used to call this "Good old fashioned family TV entertainment"...now we call it "Human Trafficking"

@AntQuick1102

5 ай бұрын

😂

I've only recently discovered Pink Lady, through a current SNS mutual account. Naturally I had to go digging on their history & songs (UFO etc)... and ended up here. After reading all their dialogue used was learned phonetically, which made off-the-cuff chat, impossible. They deserved better.

The show was bad but the girls are fantastic singers and look great even to this day!

@fromthesidelines

8 жыл бұрын

According to the show's head writer, Mark Evanier, Mie and Kei wanted out of it as soon as their commitment was finished. They weren't happy with the way they were presented on American television......and were VERY happy when they returned to Japan.

@johnseal56

4 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines Absolutely. I asked him something about the show yesterday and courteously got back to me this morning, the next day. Real nice guy.

Aw I love Pink Lady honestly, they did so well

@jamesmcinnis208

7 ай бұрын

"Honestly"

Amazing! Thank you very much for uploading this video. Almost Japanese guys know Pink lady IoI

Omg, I used to watch this show back in the day long before Barbara Mandrell and The Mandrell Sisters TV show took over. It's too bad these two beautiful Asian divas couldn't be successful in America.

Mie and Kei are great. I love them. Altman built his his career on other people. Pink Lady were a great introduction to western audiences, but they deserved better. And they're still going strong. They're the Perfume of their time.

This show has to be seen. The Jokes have for good or worse the same quality as the stuff in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In but Pink Lady do have honour. Them performing in japanese is great and the featured guests are good choices. Thx for sharing.

Pure, intense kitch I love this!

Mie and Kei are very talented, and I'm glad this monstrosity didn't hurt their career in Japan

@cmalberts

11 ай бұрын

It did hurt their career. After the time spent in the US taping this debacle, they returned to a Japan that had had time to cool off from Pink Lady mania. They were seen as old news, and their bookings were nothing as big as before.

How surreal! This camp was the hight of TV entertainment.

Alice Cooper's performance is really in keeping with the spirit of the show.

@mattkaustickomments

Жыл бұрын

Alice was at death’s door at this time in his life. Ravaged by alcoholism. What an amazing comeback he made.

Ohmigod I am 11 yrs old all over again!!! And the killer part: both ladies still alive, still together!!!

jeff had to prove they were 'big' by showing a giant concert footage

@ElectricShark

5 жыл бұрын

They were extremely popular in Japan. Millions of fans. They haven't aged much in 30 years either.

嬉しい〜映像ありがとう💕

Man a round eye joke. It's been awhile since I've heard one of those.

This is so weirdly great...It's like one of those old Judy Garland "Let's put on a show!" movies, except it's 1980, they're on a massive amount of drugs, they've roped in a couple of Japanese exchange students, and somehow they've gotten on TV with a number of famous celebrities...I don't know who had the idea to put Larry Hagman, Teddy Pendergrass, and Sid Caesar fully clothed in a hot tub with Jeff and the girls, but he or she should be enshrined in the That Was Some Crazy Shit Hall of Fame...

I always loved Mii-chan ... I married my own Mii-chan 38yrs ago ^_^ なつかしい～～　ミーちゃんはなだ綺麗ですよ～　　　今まで大好き

Huey Hogg. One reason this show never caught on, was because it aired against "The Dukes of Hazzard". So, Jeff Altman competed with his "special guest star show".

These Girls are cute as hell and boy can they Sing Dancing Queen was very well done

Holy crap how many guest stars could they fit in one 20 min program. 😂 Pink Lady were great and super adorable but yeah, their understanding of our humor was less than mediocre at best.

I remember watching The Pink Lady & Jeff Show on AFKN in the 1970's when I was stationed in Korea.

This was brilliant TV back in the day. It was the variety show on fucking acid. I loved it.

@CoopyKat

5 жыл бұрын

raydeen2k I think you WERE on acid and still are. This was one of the WORST TV shows EVER!! It only ran a few weeks if you'll recall. This was the worst waste of resources to produce this GARBAGE.

I know a couple guys who learned Japanese then moved to Japan just for the beautiful Japanese women. Pink Lady shows why they're so hot!

Thanks for this special torture

This is just amazing.

I loved the different personalities the women were given. Mei was flirtatious and adored Jeff while Kei was sarcastic and NOT smitten with him at all. Jeff says "Do you speak English?" Kei says "Yes do you?" They were so adorable and funny as they adopted their very different comical U.S. variety show attributes! And watching them sing and dance wirh energy and international star power was a pleasure regardless of the lip syncing. They are so watchable you don't even notice! I loved those girls and they should be proud of their stellar performances! I can't get enough!

@daviddemaria3982

Жыл бұрын

How about that line about "my sexy round eyes" WTF?

@cashnelson2306

8 ай бұрын

did an AI write this comment good lord

@kristopherwilhite

8 ай бұрын

@@cashnelson2306 an Al? I guess I don't understand the question you are asking. My name is not Al it is Kristopher just like it says. What did you mean by that?

@trhansen3244

3 ай бұрын

@@daviddemaria3982 Why are you always making fun of people with round eyes!

@AndrewHeller-jn7dx

Ай бұрын

*with;...

This is AMAZING . Jerry lewis and pink lady ?!?!!?!?!?!!!?

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Jerry was probably the biggest "name" guest star the producers convinced to appear. Fred Silverman insisted on featuring "big name guest stars", despite the fact that the show was taped very quickly, and there wasn't enough time- or logistics- to find the "biggest" names as guests (that's why the musical guests mostly appeared via music videos and concert footage). Let's face it- even if they were able to feature Billy Joel, the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, Jesus Christ.......and Jack Klugman, Greg Evigan and Claude Akins......on *ONE* show, it still wouldn't draw viewers away from "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD".

Weird televised attempt at importing japanese talent and trying to bottle it up with some of the weirdest times for american television and using just about every means available to do it.

I remember when we watched the last death throes of the American variety show.

My buddy's parents had the tv on all the time. It didn't matter what was on and that's how I knew about this show. I was just 16 or so and had no idea how bad it was. The girls sure had charisma though. It was probably lucky for them their English wasn't so great.

Cheap Trick didnt even really appear on the show- they just sent in a film!

@Kohntarkosz

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they showed the Dream Police video. They did the same thing with Blondie, showing a couple of their videos, instead of actually having either band perform on set.

"Kiss in the Dark" was a great song.

@P00katube

Жыл бұрын

It should have been A TOP TEN HIT!!!!!

Round eyes? And I remember Jeff Altman from one episode of "WKRP!"

Pink Lady and Jeff> Most modern day SNL skits.

Beyond awesome.

4:44 the drummer is like, someone please kill me?

This is like something I'd watch on Tim and Eric.

@starkid77

9 жыл бұрын

badbabybear1 I like your Hercules profile:)

@badbabybear1

9 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro.

@iVenge

7 жыл бұрын

badbabybear1 like X one fucking million :-)

Any parents worried about their kids getting into show business just need to show them clips of this show and remind them..."ya know, pharmacy school really wouldn't be that bad".

@GenerationNextNextNext

Жыл бұрын

Nowadays, kids aren't interested in TV. They have Tik Tok. They get to make their own cringe content, and become their own worst enemy.

So many forgotten shows of the 80's must be confused with Fever Dreams 😂

Jeff had a great role on WKRP !!

Oh boy. For some reason, the gifted program at my public school went on a field trip to see an episode of this terrible show filmed at Warner Brothers in Burbank. I grew up on a boat and didn't watch television, so I really didn't know what to make of it. The young ladies clearly had no idea what their lines meant, and Jeff Altman killed time between shots telling us dirty jokes. My clearest memory is of multiple takes of them trying to get through "You've Got A Friend," and it sounding like a record playing at the wrong speed. (I'm probably somewhere in the crowd shot at kzread.info/dash/bejne/oXd3yLStl8SuqdY.html.) Then afterward we went across the street to Taco Bell and tried a new dessert, Cinnamon Crispas, which were just delightful after the agony of watching that taping.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Thank God you survived being a part of the audience that night! 😉 Think of what poor Mie and Kei had to go through for six episodes. 😐

Sid and Marty Krofft never produced more life like puppets.

9:33 Blondie!! The best moment in this mess.

@ChristopherSobieniak

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Hamilton So brief, though!

@joshmos

7 жыл бұрын

BEST part of this is Pink Lady!! amazing we were lucky to have them on TV back then but not appreciated of course. sigh. Show was stupid but they're amazing!

@yaywhewclips242

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't she singing a different version of "shaina"?

Why do so many people dislike this show? Look at all the eccentric costumes and talented guest stars!

@Kaeoooo

3 жыл бұрын

It was poorly executed and subtlety racist when looking back in retrospect

@zelmoziggy

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaeoooo It was poorly executed and overtly racist looking at it when it originally aired.

@Kaeoooo

Жыл бұрын

@@zelmoziggy so what I said? Gotcha..

@zelmoziggy

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaeoooo You said *subtly* racist when looking back in retrospect. I said *overtly* racist even watching it back then.

@mattkaustickomments

Жыл бұрын

Well, because it sucked. It was not funny- the host didn’t even get a smile out of me. The girls were unintelligible. The songs were already overdone. Everyone just tried too hard.

That Do Me song was hilarious.

Honestly, I never even knew this show existed except someone mentioned it in a article on Google that I was reading.

7:33 I looked up Byron Allen now. I figured he'd be long gone, no money. Turns out in 2022, his net worth is 450 MILLION DOLLARS.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

At the time, Byron was appearing on NBC's "REAL PEOPLE"- one of the few successful weekly shows the network scheduled at the time. Fred Silverman tried to plug the hell out of whatever popular NBC "star" appeared on "PINK LADY" (including Greg Evigan and "Boomer" the dog).

I remember watching this

I first seen this show on a channel that was showing the biggest flops in tv history. It is both a mixture of bad and entertaining at the same time. One could point out that some of the jokes and attitudes are a bit racist and dated , but at the same time it gave exposure to something foreign for American audiences at that time. The women of PInk Lady are attractive and talented and certainly are the highlight of the show for me. They had some big name guests on the show for that time as well (although some of the music guest stars were just music videos sent in for the show and not actual guest stars on the show itself). It is a train wreck in many ways, but an interesting train wreck. It's been awhile since I last watched this show, but I do want to re-watch it again. It's a but of a guilty pleasure.

No offense to Video Pirates, but "The Best of Pink Lady and Jeff" was 18 and a half minutes too long.

looks like a great show! :D

ok why cant ayumi hamasaki have a us show ???

What a line up

I love this show!

Jeff Altman reminds me of a discount Dan Aykroyd

i like that monster song

Back in the the 70s and early 80s they'd give a variety show to just about anybody. It'd probably be a shorter list to say who DIDN'T get a variety show.

What's the deal with the costumes Kei and Mie are wearing at 8:56? They look like escapees from a Kiss tribute band!

アメリカ進出は失敗だったという情報は間違いでは？英語覚えて立派に番組してるじゃないの！ケイちゃんのユーモラスな所も可愛いしミーちゃんはほんと声がいいね。 こんな貴重な映像見れて嬉しい！🎶 ありがとう☺️

After this Im watching clips of manimal and after that Im going to hit myself in the head with a hammer!😂😂😂😂😂

I knew I'd seen the Fook Me/Fook Yu gag from Goldmember before.

That was pretty impressive the didn't speak a word. You'd never know and just figured they had heavy accents.

なんて言ってるかわからないけど、みてる

3:35. Ace Frehley called. He wants his costumes back.

Is there any way to erase this entire phenomenon. Not the recordings. I mean, literally, like, literally erase all emanations of any electromagnetic energy (all associated photons, neutrons, etc. whether in the form of energy or matter) from the entire time-space continuum, so that it never happened? Please?

I figure people behind the scenes of the show wanted a cross between SNL, 'Sonny & Cher' and Japanese people... and realized how campy it was, corny and even the dumb... out-of-date and dated jokes about NIXON... in 1980? Kinda like making Regan jokes in the 2000's, makes NO sense.

@GenerationNextNextNext

Жыл бұрын

I'm weird because as a history buff I found the Nixon joke funny.

Who is the comedian at 7:34? He is jarring memories from the past. I remember he was on a lot of shows but I can't remember his name!

@garycitro1674

3 жыл бұрын

A Wikipedia episode listing gives me the answer: Byron Allen! He did that Last comic Standing thing

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

"It's 'PiNK LADY & JEFF' and their special guests ROY ORBISON, BOBBY VINTON, SID CAESAR and "REAL PEOPLE"'s BYRON ALLEN......you've *NEVER* seen anything like it before!!!!" **Jeff makes a silly face at the camera** KEI: (deadpan) "That all you got?" "'PINK LADY & JEFF'!!! Friday at 9, 8 Central!!!! *PLEASE???????????"*

pink lady rule

It could've worked if they only knew what the hell they were doing...

@ChristopherSobieniak

9 жыл бұрын

Why English is important as an international language of business!

@GenerationNextNextNext

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristopherSobieniak The fact that it is makes that a horrible fact, revealing the Europe's forced colonization, westernization, slavery, and oppression of the globe. That doesn't deserve a badge of honor, considering it's a stolen land where English was forced on inhabitants that weren't native English speakers to begin with.

NBC was in deep, deep trouble as a number of their shows dropped like flies, and for WSB here in Atlanta, Pink Lady and Jeff proved to be the last straw (they would hook up with ABC in September 1980 with WXIA being given NBC)!

My spine is cracking from cringing so hard LMAO

I'm confused. Where is Mothra ?

I would have fallen in love with either of them

wonder if this inspired all those early 80's japanese inspired pop songs wang chung etc.

I used to watch this when I was a kid. I guess I thought it was great. I love the girls, the rest of it is painful to watch.

It was a great concept! It probably could have lasted if revamped.

Altman was clearly all wrong especially as a "co-feature" (gag...cough...). Drop him and at least 75% of the campy comedy and fill it out with something like Hollywood Palace in the 1960s. i.e. decent music and dance acts introduced by the Pink Lady punctuated by a few novelty acts with Pink Lady doing an act/routine of their own at the start and at the end. It would be classier and have something for everyone which is what a variety show is supposed to be.

Better than sitting through Doctor Who!(just joking with you...)-JW

I feel so sorry for the girls, having to be on a show with such a hack, plus the writing was atrocious. E.F. Sumo? Really? But those girls… just look at those incredible bodies!

@WytZox1

7 жыл бұрын

Mei and Kei spoke no English and merely read their "spontaneous" comments off of a teleprompter. Jeff was actually a good stand-up comic on the nightclub circuit when Fred Silverman chose him to host this show merely because he was #1 on an alphabetical list of prominent comedians of that era. Silverman was called a "programming genius" with good work he did at CBS but let that "genius" deisgnation go to his head when he tried to revitalize ABC with lots of lame variety shows. ☺

@airdaleva42

7 жыл бұрын

Also Altman could speak Japanese

@dorinriki

4 жыл бұрын

@@airdaleva42 Altman could NOT speak Japanese. He said so, himself. He could barely speak English....

@dorinriki

4 жыл бұрын

@@WytZox1 Jeff Altman was about as funny as a mouthful of cavities. His so-called impressions were terrible.

@WytZox1

4 жыл бұрын

@@dorinriki ~> Jeff Altman moved on to be Huey Hogg (Boss Hogg's nephew) on Dukes Of Hazzard driving a white VW Beetle with steer horns on the hood! ☺

This might be the worst thing ever. And, it is not "so bad it is good." It goes past good and back to bad again ("Ghost World"). Now, I have to go back to watching every clip and adding to my Netflix queue.

Best of Pink Lady & Jeff is an oxymoron