Dexys Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen" on the US music show Solid Gold, 1983. Hosted by Marilyn McCoo.
Restored by Garrett Gilchrist.
March 26, 1983
May 28, 1983
June 25, 1983 (“The Celtic Soul Brothers”)
February 14, 1984
There is a recording on Vimeo of what appears to be the March 26, 1983 airing, in black and white 30p. It was re-aired in a "Best of 1983" special on February 14, 1984, albeit with a minute of the song edited out (around 1:30 here).
I was able to find a few VHS recordings of the February 14 airing in color. Noise reduction and color correction were applied, and hue correction to bands at the top of the screen. This was exported to 59.94fps in VirtualDub using AutoYUY2 for reinterlacing color.
The "missing minute" of this performance was available in black and white 30p. I decided to colorize this entire section, using Photoshop and EBSynth, and painting a new keyframe once per second or half-second as necessary.
I interpolated this to 60p with Waifu2x-Extension-GUI, and edited the results together in Adobe Premiere CS6. This section seems to be missing a few frames and therefore runs a little faster than it should (about 102.3%). I have left it as-is for now.
"Come On Eileen" is a song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom in June 1982 as a single from their second studio album Too-Rye-Ay. It reached number one in the United States and was their second number one hit in the UK, following 1980's "Geno". The song was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley and was credited to Kevin Rowland, Jim Paterson and Billy Adams, although Rowland later stated that the essence of the tune should be attributed to Kevin Archer.
"Come On Eileen" won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards, and in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's sixth favourite 1980s number one single in a poll for ITV. It was ranked number 18 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s" and was Britain's best-selling single of 1982.
According to Kevin Rowland, there was actually no real Eileen: "In fact she was composite, to make a point about Catholic repression."
Come On Eileen, Kevin Rowland, Jim Paterson, Billy Adams, Emerald Express, Kevin Archer, Solid Gold, 1983, Marilyn McCoo