David Bowie's most embarrasing TV music moment

Yes, friends - Rock icon David Bowie's most unfortunate TV music moment during the 1970s. It's been on YouTube for three years, but I just found it tonight. What a hoot!

A YT commenter wrote: "David Bowie on the Cher Show in November 1975. Bowie and Cher dance and sing through the first half of "Young Americans," which was a hit off Bowie's latest album at the time. Then they go through a medley of other people's hits (Song Sung Blue, One Is the Loneliest Number, Da Do Run Run, etc.) before finishing "Young Americans."

You have to understand, kids, cocaine was flying about and Bowie was hanging around too many NYC and LA hotspots and meeting too many showbiz folks, and keeping him off the rough and ragged pathways with the cool people. And that's where clarity gets sullied.

Here we go - David Bowie and lovely Cher (sporting a somewhat orange, but frolicking short cute lil hairstyle) go into Bowie's "young Americans' sounding cool and all, but then at the line of Young Americans' when it goes "Showing nothing he swoops like a song..." BAM right into Neil Diamond's "Song Sung Blue" (eek!) for a verse, then into Three Dog Night's "One" for a few words, then BAM then into the '60s chestnut "Doo Doo Ron Ron", then for a line or two into the groovy 5th Dimension's "Wedding Bell Blues" and then BAM into some 50s ballad called "Maybe" then BAM into Buddy Holly's "Maybe Baby" where they take the last part of the line "I'll have you some....day" right into BOING! 1965's "Daytripper" by John Paul George Ringo - who wudda thunk it! Crazy!



Next up is a bit of the 50s nugget Blue Moon, the 50s(?) standard The Platters' Only You then a few others before heading back into the 70s with Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine", Leiber & Stoller's 'Youngblood', then finally...mercifully... back to Bowie's Young Americans.

What a day for Americans watching TV that day. I was too young. Whew.