Dancin' to the Hits

I sincerely doubt that anyone will ever read this comment, as I am probably the only one who even remembers this show! Basically it was a top-ten-type Solid Gold ripoff with a twist - seems all the ladies were dancing to the hits in lingere! I kid you not - and they made sure there was plenty of mist for them to dance in! They would dance to anything - and I mean ANYTHING - every hit of 1986, they danced to it (yes, there were some male dancer but for some reason I don't remember much about them, LOL!). You don't know pain until you see a bunch of weird-looking people trying to dance to Bruce Hornsby's "The Way it Is"!!! (basically they'd sorta gyrate and figure that was about the only way they could dance to certain songs.) Weird, weird show. Hot girls, though.

I was and still am a fan of music/dance related shows and Dancing To The Hits (in my opinion) was a fun show to watch for anyone who enjoyed performing arts. Sure, as the other commenter said, it might have been a rip off of Solid Gold but they did not have the girls in lingerie all the time. The women on Solid Gold wore sexier, more revealing outfits. Geez!! Anyway, I enjoyed the themes of the dance numbers. It wasn't just watching dancers in the same outfits on the same sets constantly. They had themes, like a Halloween type theme (with a graveyard, cobwebs, coffin, etc) or a New York street theme. It changed and it was fun and I thought the dancers were VERY good.

Airing on local TV in 1986, this show featured a group of performers called "The Summer Action Dancers" with host Lorenzo Lamas introducing each dance number. They danced to many current hits and some classic ones like Born to be Wild. We didn't have cable at our house yet and this was the only thing worth watching at the time along with G.L.O.W. Wrestling.

My favorite dancer was Cheryl Yamaguchi who had graduated from Pearl City High School in 1982. Back then she came into our store with a see-through boob tube and we could see everything. She just smiled because she knew she was hot. With her solid voluptuous body Cheryl was fun to watch on the show as she pranced around slowly in her colorful lingerie.

I remember a male dancer with white/blonde hair that was trying to emulate Billy Idol (without the spikes). This guy never smiled and always wore a sneer while he danced.

One song I remember them all dancing to was Werewolves of London. The set was smoke filled and there were tombstones all around. It was almost like a ballet as each guy and girl dancer would hold each other, spin, and then branch out their arms or legs in sappy dramatic poses.

The series was really really cheesy and I only watched it for the cheap thrills. My friend and I would record the shows and then check it out in slo-mo to see some slippage when the ladies bent over. Hey - they were wearing loose lingerie and it happened! This show was awful fluff now that I think about it. I give it a 5 out of 10 only because Cheryl was fine!

It's funny but I used to watch this show when I was really little...i was just talking about it because I remember the male dancer (Barry) was in a Janet Jackson video back in the 80's and I used to think he was hot for some reason! For some odd reason I used to love watching this show when I was 5 years old...me and my sister used to love it. It didn't hurt that Lorenzo Lamas is hot! I agree that the music and the dancing were definitely a little hokey and a rip off to Solid Gold, but what are we to expect from the 80s. I never did understand why the females were always dancing around in their underwear, or why there was the one token male, but then again I was only 5! Why ask why?