This Video shows freedom, i mean real freedom! you know cause to many people in this world are worried about what other people are doing or thinking and trying to point fingers here and there as to why this world is the way it is.. This video serves as a reminder to not get to caught up in the game and to let yourself just be free for a min. cause face it, it feels good to just let yourself move to the music without giving one care as to what someone else thinks.
What a time we had. Found myself at 0:49 in the leopard dress at age 16 trying to look grown. LOL Thank God for Don Cornelius and thank Don for Soul Train!
There will NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE LIKE THIS. This is when FOLKS CAN HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH NO BS. ALL ABOUT PARTYING AND LAUGHING DANCING 🤣😅. THANK YOU DON CORNELIUS
Growing up in the 70s as a white boy in Germany in a small town. Once a week the local vinyl store might have a new one of black music, I get it me immediately. Every funky echoes from Black America I sucked with all my nerves, in an era without Smartphones and Internet. I am so happy now to watch the original soul train to keep the funk alive in my daytime, thanks, don cornelius!
R.I.P. Maurice White - one of the best dance tracks ever released as a single! Iconic group, song, classic/timeless! Thank you for posting this 1974 gem-jam - Cheers, DAVEDJ
Everybody just gettin' down and enjoying themselves 'til they hurt!! Nobody uptight. Would just love to go back to those simpler times! Thankful for the memories!!
Seriously, I really enjoy this stuff. It's much more innocent and lighthearted than today. And YES, everyone was skinnier! Dang, we need to get down like this every night folks, and lose some bigtime pounds!
@summersbr1 I also found another clip of me if you'd like to see view the Sout Train Dancers Jungle Boogie (1973) clip. I have on rolled up jeans and red tights. Much to my surprise this clip of me was used in a Halle Berry movie Frankie and Alice.
PROUD to say I actually danced on that show baaaak in 1978....first white girl to do so. it was an incredible experience, and i'm so thrilled to have had even a tiny tiny part in such a historic/iconic show. Don Cornelius changed the culture......black youth funked their way right into our living rooms, and we ate it up! Rest In Peace Visionary, Don Cornelius......glad to have met you.
Um...she's probably lying because my mama was a ST dancer and said that there weren't any yt dancers in the 70s. They didn't start appearing until 1981.
An All-American show... still lives on part of history and part of myself very proudly hispanic all the way, but with so much soul as a brother long live in everybody's heart SOUL TRAIN FOREVER!!!!
@AnitraJ2011, thank you that info. i will go to it now. I wish i could have had the luxury of being on the show back then and blessed enough see it some 30 years later via computers and internet. And i agree with you that being on the show gave you dancers a certain image of celebrity and status. I also noticed how much slimmer and mobile we were then.
The good old days wish l could turn the clock back where everyone just wanted to dance and vibe to the music 🎵🎵🎵 unlike all the crime that's going on in the world today u can't even have fun anymore without all this violence hoping and praying for better days ahead.Barbara Fogg
we were all BLACK back then. no matter the shade. now anyone a slight shade above a brown paper bag wants to claim "other","biracial","multi-racial".....ect anything but the truth - BLACK be proud of it.
I think rap music/culture has made young people more aggressive, just look how much fun everyone is having here, no gangsta attitudes present. Bring back the funk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't just the dancing. I was a teen of the early 70's and it was rare to see a young person obese or very over weight back then. Unfortunately, the fat trend started in 90's and now obesity in the youth is commonplace. Sad.
@AnitraJ2011, i saw you at 0;37 of the Soul Train Dancers Jungle Boogie clip (1973). You were so tiny and cute. Dancing at that time was more about getting on the floor and having fun, thats it. I feel so fortunate to have grown up during that period of dance and music, great memories
OH MY GOODNESS!!! Where'd you find this? It's priceless! You dance like that in clothes today, they'd rip all over the place...wait, forget the clothes, just having folks DANCE like this today would be a miracle - they are all in shape and partying down back in da day! Forget McDonalds, get some Funk (Earth Wind and Fire, et al!!!)and Dance those pounds away, that's what we're missing! Too many Justin Beiber fatties...(lol!!!)
This is really beautiful. But it was hard work, and the rehearsals were pretty intense. Still, the entire cast was young, beautiful, fit, and really wanted to be there. A few actually went on to make nice careers for themselves in entertainment. Thanks again for posting this! Best. Peace!
@Blakmajik78 Yep, am a 50 yr old white boy from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We soaked this up and returned the favor by tripn out our black bros with some Pink Floyd, good times...
@AnitraJ2011, if that is truly you at 0:49, you we cute small and sexy.. I've always wanted to hear from any former dancers that found themselves on these soul train videos. I bet it was a great experiences to be on the show.I watched it faithfully from the 70's thru the 90's
Moon shoes had an advantage during slide steps - you could glide long and stop sudden by throwing your balance forward. Broke my dancing teeth on them.
@msmicheletorres ~~Congrats, good for you,that was my show every week, + we also had here in PA, in Philly the Georgie Woods show another great show, but nothing could beat Soul Train {R.I.P. Bother Don}
Wooowwwww!!!!these people have the rythm on their veins. Cool dance If I would have been an afroamerican guy I would had enjoyed a lot dancing and dancing , an dancing, and dancing every tracks in some discos around.... jeje ( Sorry for my basic english)
@Blakmajik78 They dance had a great time didn't mind if you cut in front to dance with their lady or man, now days you can't even go out and have a great time. Its a sad time when people just can't be kind of each other.
What percentage of dudes who danced on Soul Train were straight, I wonder. It takes a lot of confidence to dance up there, especially for a straight man I'd think. Respect to all the dancers.
I love the fact that soul train let the couples come down the together line and throw down and I was 4 yrs old then my mommy and daddy was partying then goodness!
