| |
 |
 |
|
The Real Don Steele TV Show
The Real Don Steele TV Show aired on Los Angeles TV every Saturday night, 6 to 7 PM, from 1969 - 1975. It was widely watched and acclaimed, consistently scoring
higher rating shares than American Bandstand and Soul Train. The show
was a "glamour rock" version of England's popular show Ready, Steady, Go.
In typical, concise Steele fashion, RDS summed up The Real Don Steele TV Show in
one sentence: "It's like Dick Clark on acid."
|
|
The Real Don Steele's Show Biz News Stuff, was a tinsel-town gossip feature, kind of
an out-of-control, early Entertainment Tonight which highlighted Steele's sense
of timing, word-play and ability to deliver verbally and fractiously! He simply popped
off the screen!
|
|
Dressed to kill, and sitting behind a reporter's desk, Steele hosted a series of
antic-ridden tattle tales. In one, he ran offstage just before a set collapsed,
clad only in a camel-hair suit and jockey shorts with Valentine hearts. No one ever
said The Real Don Steele was dull!
|
|
 |
FREAK-OUT DANCE TIME
The song was always the same, Devil With The Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly by
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. Steele was a wicked ringmaster with a demented "spotlight
dance". Each dancer got his/her brief moment in the sun dancing solo until Don pushed them
off and pulled another on. It was hilarious.
|
|
The Real Don Steelers were the foxy gals that always surrounded The Real Don Steele
as he emceed the show - kind of like the Laker Girls or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
|
 |
Now! A Full-Length Real Don Steele TV Show In Color!
|
