Do you remember this variety show from the late 70s or early 80s that featured a caucasian male American host with two very pretty lady cohorts from Japan called the Pink Ladies? I don’t think they really spoke English, but they were big in Japan, and wanting to capitalize on that, they made up this random show, where each episode ended with the bikini-clad Pink Ladies got the guy host dressed in a tux to go into a hot tub with them in the end.
Okay found a picture, thanks to Tony. And it was with an article entitled “Possibly the Worst Show in the History of Television.” Yea!
Hell yeah! It was called Pink Lady (singular, not plural) and Jeff, I believe. Pink Lady were HUGE in Japan, and when ’90s power-pop band Jellyfish toured there, they covered a Pink Lady song and the crowds went completely bonkers. It’s a good song, too. I never really understood what the TV show was about, but I was only ten or so at the time.
I’m not sure about this, but I think Japanese power-pop/pop culture legends Puffy AmiYumi are the spiritual descendents of Pink Lady. Their music kinda rocks but it’s a little too sugarcoated for my taste.
wow, thank you MC Abe (is that a nickname? where is that from?) i could not even find an image of the pink ladies on google, though perhaps, if i were patient enough to sift through the several thousands of pages of average american women citizens dressed in all pink, i’d get a glimpse of them. Jellyfish…rings a bell, but I think I’m mixing them up with the band th at Tanya Donnelly did…with a starting song called “Sister”? YES! I’m totlaly mixing them up with Belly. I scare myself.
Jellyfish’s big hit was “Baby’s Coming Back.” I think “That Is Why” was a minor hit, too. Some of their songs were on the sappy side, but their ability to harmonize was ridiculous, and for a short time they featured Jason Falkner, one of my all-time faves and one of the great under-appreciated power-popsters of all time (his new album totally kicks ass). Belly’s big hit was “Feed The Tree” and I liked them, too.
M.C.Abe — because my middle name is Abraham (my dad wanted that to be my FIRST name, but thankfully Mom said no way), and because my wife and I both think I resemble Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch.
If you Google “Pink Lady & Jeff” there must be a picture of ’em somewhere on the Interweb.