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Grease Day USA (1978 TV Movie)

Spinners??

[8/10 · 27 January 2007]

I swear the O'Jays performed on this special instead of the Spinners. I do not recall hearing any Spinners tunes only O'Jays songs. For example one of the songs the O'Jays did was their classic hit "She Used to Be My Girl". Nope, no Spinners to my knowledge.

Frankie Valli completed his comeback by singing the title track GREASE to open the show.

Nice to see some of the cast of Kotter arrive to support John Travolta at this premiere.

Also this special aired originally for one hour, not 30 minutes.

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Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977 TV Movie)

Not a bad special overall

[7/10 · 27 January 2007]

The person who commented on this prior to myself was pretty much dead on however Paul Simon did not perform on this show, only Art Garfunkel as I recently reviewed this show and in fact added it into the IMDb archive.

As Rolling Stone has always been about the music those moments were the best on this program. Art sang "Bridge over Troubled Water" in a performance that was 100% perfect. It was also nice to see a Jesus Christ Superstar reunion of sorts with Ted Neely and Yvonne Elliman performing on the show, Richie Havens voice was superb as always. Lesley Anne Warren was gorgeous and still is even 30 years later.

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