Don’t be sleepin on Willie Hutch now .. his music has played at many Family reunions and old school house parties. Rip WH thank you for all of your music it’s much appreciated.
As an Asian guy born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, this era of music i didn't grow up under. But...... Going to a school that was 80% black, you make friends. You get invited to parties. You get exposed to black music. Young kids would be outside dancing to rap and hip hop but the older generation would be inside playing soul, blues, funk, and jazz. I gravitated more to the older generations music, i don't know why but because of people like Willie Hutch, Curtis Mayfield and Bobby Womack, i became a bass and rhythm guitar player. I love every minute of it.
Willie was an overlooked artist. Coming in the Curtis Mayfield tradition, he combined social consciousness with great rhythm and blues stylings and cool orchestrations...
this song was an insrument of growth for our young people as a dancer 74-76 on the train i had many dreams...the movie the actors and people like willie hutch showed us that we could accomplish anything
Listen to the words in that song !!! That's when music had meaning.. I would say from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's and maybe early 2000's. That's it !!! You don't here that know more .
Watching this, I REALLY wish i was old enough to be a part of this era. It looked like FUN!! The song is getting me emotional cuz of the times today. Brother’s gonna work it out in 2021!!
I was a pre-teen at this time. Too young to be on soul train…but watched it every Saturday morning. I love growing up in this era, the music, clothes and everything else that was the 70’s!!!!!! Nothin’ like it!!!!!!!
I just woke up from a dream, I was in Macy's buying makeup in the beauty department and this was blasting, I was dancing really hard all thru Macys. Fuckn weird....I didn't even hear it lately for it to be fresh on my mind.
Soul Train- Now that was some real good dancing even Fred Astaire(remember him? classic movie star/dancer) said he admired those soul train dancers and thought he could learn some new steps from them.
What fascinates me about Soul Train's first decade is how social dancing is changing. In the first years we see the beginning of free form dancing that moves away from structured partnering and doing a specific dance for a song like "The Mashed Potato." However, here for instance, we're still in an era where dancing is good, clean fun. Dancing becomes more an expression of individual sexuality as the 70's progress, and by the end of the disco era dance is highly individualized and completely sexualized. In one of the very first episodes, Don Cornelius is interviewing a couple who lists all of the dances they've learned over the years. When Cornelius asks if they can do all of those dances, the young man says, "Exercise." The first decade of Soul Train marks this transition from the wholesome, recreational dance tradition which began with Irene and Vernon Castle and the dance halls that dotted the United States in the early 20th century as a result of the dance craze they started in the 1910's. Disco itself is the last gasp of structured, partnered dancing: Do the Hustle!
The sounds heavier & funkier than all his other albums, with a spirit that matches the spirit of the movie The Mack, which this track comes from, this 1973 album from the Blaxploitation movie is simply brilliant, if you loved Superfly then you'd dig this album
