@meanminpin I beg to differ. If you can move you can dance. When I partied in the clubs in the 70s during the disco, my friends and I danced with anybody who asked. Male, female, black, white, gay, or straight. We had a great time. The line dances made it easier to blend in, but who cared??? In those days we loved to go out and have fun. Our crew was popular and we were great dancers. We just wanted everyone to have a great time. You would have and still have fun with us!!
IKR ... that is the jam ... it stays on rotation in my house right next to "Flowers" ... love the message and the feel of that one "we hold the key to the world's destiny" ... the music was awesome, aspirational, beautiful and brilliant
And young and white. The highlight of my week was watching ST. I came from a po-dunk town in the Midwest. I couldn't even get R&B music on the radio. This taught me there was a wonderful world out there full of beautiful people, great music and cool clothes.
That is so true. Back then I used to make all of my outfits that I wore when I went out. Made sure that nobody looked like me. My roommate was a seamstress by trade. She worked for a private airline altering uniforms. Then she took hat making classes and leather wear classes. So you know we were looking good when we stepped out! Lol!
@@adc2327 your own unique style, that's great! Lots of young women could sew back then. There were a few who had exceptional skills. There was Home Economics classes and people worked in factories sewing clothes.
@@sbella6719 Believe it or not we had two guys in our sewing home economics class in the 70s. No one made fun of them because their clothes were so cool. They even made their suits/tux for the prom.
@@adc2327 Hello ADC. My 17 year-old daughter is currently in a professional high school learning and training to sew as part of her higher education in the fashion industry. What you said about your experience back in the 70s could be copied and pasted today: in her class of 23, 2 of her mates are male, the rest is female, but those two guys are very respected because of their uniqueness in what they design and make. Funny how some things remain the same in time!
The way we danced back in those days were the most true to our culture and who we were as black ppl. Rhythm at it's finest, always in step with the beat, and very smooth. Before drugs and fast food took us over.
there weren't many. I remember 2 or 3 fat people in high school and that's in all four grades because they stood out because there were so few. nowadays its the opposite. obesity is nowhere close to what it is now
Children now don’t realize the importance of soul train and our dances of today. Soul Train was the premier avenue of bringing black dance to the white world. Soul train dancers said to the WORLD this is how we do! This is how we dance! And then everybody wanted or did dance that way.
Fit looking beautiful people. Stylish clothes, Great Music, innovative dancing, beautiful women, and extremely handsome men, and that's why I watched soultrain every Saturday!
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That whole scene back then was beautiful: The style...the dances...the music. I am a heavy metal musician and when I need inspiration and escape from this crazy world....I tune in to RU-vid and watch these videos clips. God bless Don Cornelius...he had an awesome "vision" for music and the youth.
Precious Pearl me too! This was my favorite time in LA. My family was in Baldwin Hills and the Jungle...everybody lived off Crenshaw. They are still there but LA is so different now...
Also,we had maybe 3 or 4 channels and we could always find something interesting to watch. Nowadays we have a thousand channels { Sarcasm } But,we have so many channels and not a thing to watch on Television. The reasoning for me canceling that pesky Cable.
Now those were definitely the good ol days for me as a kid! Getting up early on a Saturday morning watching Soul Train! A lot of the outfits the ladies were wearing I would rock today! Love it!!
Now, 70 and lived for "soul Train" I remember, going to what they call social center, a little before "soul Train" became nationa, but when soul Train came on; our generation explored! Still live by the words in each song! Will die, and as far as this generation,enjoy!
@@DD-d6d3 As a 70s teenager we where ALL thin back in the day. There were NO fat people except for one or two people. We were active, rarely ate fast food and smoked a pack a day.
@@pjhey947 You are so right I too was a teenager in the '70s and we ate very little fast food if any had to eat what Mom cooked and we stayed out and about
43 year old suburban white woman who can't stop watching these line dances. I just love the dancing and the beat, and the FUN everyone is obviously having. We need those times back...ALL of us. And look how physically fit everyone is! If you go to the Bandstand clips, it's the same thing. People were fit because they moved to the beat and had the good times doing it. Please, Lord, take me back.
smoothcollected "Naw" - it's because we were more active then, not sitting around commenting on the internet. We also hadn't quite peaked in our over top dinner portions and ridiculous sized sodas, to which corporations like McDonald's were partially to blame. You have no way of understanding this unless you were there. I agree BettinaBalser.
Cori Robinson wow! I had to go back and watch. Can’t believe I didn’t notice at first! I still love him too and still have both Breakin’ movies in rotation.
This was my parents and my generation it was the absolute best! Never, never does this become old nor outdated. The women were beautiful, the men were strong and handsome. They were and are the coolest of the cool, the Afro Black Americans! Say it resoundingly loud, "I'm ABA lol proud!"
We were a more HEALTHIER PEOPLE, back then. Natural hair. Height and weight Proportionately. Not Fat and out of Shape. 2 Parent household. Black Love ❤
True, but remember that these dancers were screened prior to being chosen as part of the dancing bunch. Otherwise, it's totally true that we were much, much leaner in these days, and not only in the US, but across the whole western world.
Nah, they might come back again someday, but I guess something serious might happen before we start appreciating life for what it truly is, just like these kids did back in the 70s.
For me, the best entertainment i have ever been exposed to. The music, the style of the clothes, the moves of the soul train dancer's, in the end we were all soul train dancer's..Don Cornelius, a true visionary and he had great taste in music and he put it out there. Love, Peace, and Soul to all but especially to Don Cornelius!.......R.I.P.
@@FunkyBruja Nobody believes in anything anymore these days. The Boomers have killed the notion of sacred, they have shot down spirituality to its core. The only thing we are left with is the act of consumption, I guess, which is by nature a short lived source of satisfaction and a debilitating way of evolving. We take everything for granted, we despise the notion of effort. Smiling is seen as a childish way of expression and/or a source of dillusion. My opinion only...
This song is fun, and the dancing is great. I really dig everybody's style. One love that you'll never lose is the love of Jesus Christ. Give Him your life today. Read the gospel of John. Find out who He is, why He came, and who you really are. God the Father loves you all so much. I do too. God bless you.
...growing up in the 70's my sisters and I seriously LIVED for Soul Train...Saturday Morning at 11:00 am (back to back with American Bandstand)...the dance moves, the fashion, the attitude, and the all around basic PRIDE TO BE BLACK, resonates in every episode of Soul Train!!....In Loving Memory of Mr. Don Cornelius!!...
Omg I had the Flowers album on 8 track. Played the hell out of it in my Chevy Nova. Memories of Sunday cruising down PCH with my girlfriends. What a beautiful time to be young.
The memories!!! Shabadoo, Jeffrey and Jody, Tyrone Proctor, Cheryl Song! I went back to Saturday morning in my bedroom watching the television and in the mirror practicing all these moves. Precious memories!
@@trinamcdonald8139 ok cool. I just remember the 70s as not so prosperous times for most families I knew. They were still good times though. Good music and Soul Train helped get us through
@@sbella6719 No problem! Now I grew up in the projects in a single parent home but my step-father was a truck driver and father retired military and Detective with a metropolitan police force. So I had some provisions for a while. It was the best of times and the worst (challenging times) as well. You're right! times were challenging as well.
