The 70's had to be the greatest time in history for music and entertainment. I can remember when no one was outside when Soul Train came on because we all wanted to watch all the dance moves. Miss those times.
The 70’s through the 90’s was a great time for 🎵 MUSIC! I watched Soul Train every Saturday! We (my sisters and brother)had to clean 🧽 up the house 🏠 first! 😎❤️My Dad and Mom demanded that! American Bandstand with Dick Clark was first followed by Soul Train next! I loved watching the dancers with their smooth dance moves and outfits! Look at how slim and fit they were! Don Cornelius was a trailblazer! RIP sir! You were a head of your time! I miss those days as well! 👍🏽😎👏⭐️💕💗🩵❤️🩶💜💚🩷🌸🌼🌻🤍💟🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I don't think I've ever met someone that didn't like Soul Train, it was pure fun and let's face it "Funk" is one of the best musical arrangements ever invented. You want to throw a dance party? You go with Funk every time.
❤💃💃💃 Me too... I'm 59 and can STILL bust a move down the dance line.. especially when I am watching these clips on the 80 inch with BOSE speakers hookups, house is BOOMING !
It does not matter about the color of the skin! Soul Train with Don Cornelius was a great show and so was American Bandstand with Dick Clark! I am 62. I loved and watched both of them! Both men were classy as hosts! Both shows enjoyed a long run on television! It was said that Don Cornelius did not like the direction that the music 🎶 industry was going in and he was right! A lot of the new music was very graphic and distasteful! I remember when Shemar Moore and other guests hosted Soul Train! They were good, but it wasn’t the same as in the 70’ and 80’s ! It is great to see old re-runs of the show. I wish they had the entire 📦 boxed set on 📀 DVD! I would get it! ❤🧡🩷💚💜🩵💕🤍🤎💟😎❤️
Folks don't know how big this song was. The Dazz band started off in Cleveland, Oh. Named after the Kinsman Bar & Grill. I lived two blocks away. Look it up. I was there. Right across the street was Mt. Pleasant Bar- B- Que. The Soul Train dancers LOVED this song. Can't you tell? It was a monstrous hit.
I think a lot of them got stuck trying to figure out what move to do first because this song is so electrifying. I love this song, and I went to an HBCU. There’s nothing like watching the majorettes whip to this.
Facts I grew up in the 70s and we would take trips to Cleveland from Arkansas family been there for over 60 plus years and that's how I know of the Dazz band and their music was pure funk!
Some of us for sure can! People would dance a different style if a show like this would be done today. But there's a lot of young people who love to get down to 80s funk as well.
Those were the days. When they danced with rhythm and class. They were the best dancers on TV. I believe in the whole world. This is just my opinion. And everyone copyed there dancing. God bless them for bringing us soul train. 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️💋🙋
We all know our parents or grandparents were in the club doing these moves. The thing is they all made it home. There were rarely any altercations, feuds, guns, paramedics or the ER. Good music & good vibes
That may be survivors bias. If you are talking the 50s yes, but the 70s had a very high murder and crime rate. I have read and learned that the main difference was that is was all about business people did connect better.
Remember watching Soul Train on Saturday afternoon back in the day and doing those same moves at the club that night! Glad my partying days were during this era!
American Bandstand and Soul Train. Two hours of Saturdays well spent. Loved the dancing, the clothing and the overall happiness of the people dancing. There may have been problems on the outside; but on the inside of these television studios, the problems melted away with the moves of the dance. Even the music was happy.
Not hard to do;exposure is the key! Getting grandkids interested and exposed to a variety has been rewarding.Few kids ever heard country,jazz,classical or reagae music therefore are limited by choice.
Same here! I am Irish and Scandinavian...really white, blue eyes, freckles but put on this...EWF, Parliament, Foxxy, you name it. I AM IN MY ELEMENT.i grew up in Boston and I was a sailor in the 80s and it did not matter cause at the base club, we all dance x together. Music should be an equalizer and color blind! I just hear the beat and I am transported! We never thought about color...just great dance 💃 beats!;We need to get back to that way of being. Let's just be kind and respectful to each other! It should be simple..treat people the way you want to be treated! GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏
I have always loved the funk. I am a white woman from Canada and I cannot get enough of this music. It is joyful and soulful and so much fun I can't stand it. Dazz Band, Isley Bros., EWF, O'Jays....etc. Keep it comin'
In Dallas we didnt get American Bandstand which i was surprised it was still broadcasting in the 70's+80's i thought it was a relic from the 50's but We did get Soul Train!! I never missed a show on Saturday Morning after watching Cartoons!! Those Folks danced the way i wish i could!! Good Memories!!😊😊😊
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I remember me and my Bros were kids and had a twin bed on each side of the room and this came on late night and we would dance down the isle in-between the beds when we should have been sleeping. Haha. Memories.
Really no how too dance good for what it's worth they were letting the world think it's better if u dance and entertain people temporary soultrain. Held u in a magical hostage. While jefferdahmer been killing while this dancing going killing since 1978 and got caught 1994 decade later but soultrain took you too a whole knew level of holding you hostage. For a while. Intil..........
it happened roughly in the late 90's when originality got lost and everything became a copy of something prior. i was at the tail end of it all being born in 69, so i was part of the last generation. once 1995 hit it has been all down hill from there.
They sure were. You worked hard all week, then Saturday, you go to the mall to find "the perfect outfit" so you can hit the club to dance your ass off that night
Luckily, my teenage years were from 1969-1975 and IMO I was exposed to the greatest era in music history. Your point about culture hits the nail on the head - exactly,what happened to it? I will never understand why people gravitate towards a genre (rap music) that instills anger and hostility in an individual. All I know is that we all got along a helluva lot better when we were listening to Motown, hard and soft rock,and R&B.Music,that put smiles on our faces.
There is nothing greater in the history of music (nay, of mankind) than this video. Love the lady at the very end with the Valley Girl/Shakespearean pumpkin hose/side ponytail look. Thanks for posting this!
@@nratchr It's not that simple. Have you seen how fast some of them text? Sound like a morse code or old fashion telegram being typed on food 1st thing they do is take pictures of it. Walk everywhere without looking up. Just sharing HAGD.
The world peaked in 90’s and ended in 2000...we been living off the fumes of real ish ever since P.s. everybody crossed over aka bowed to the machine/industry/execs
I remembers watch the soul Tran. Those are the great old days. No violence no drama no shooting ect….. miss old days. Wish time goes back. I’m in my mid 50s n I’m still enjoy watching the vidoes. Bring back good old memories.
That dude was the whole reason i won my first dance contest in middle school. I did that exact move and rocked the house. Then got the fever and been dancing every since. That is hard as hell to do. and it will rattle your brain. I swear he was the first to do it too. he had a few more line dances on other shows, but this one was his debut.
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 ❤
I'm a 53 yr old white małe. But if it had not been for Soul Train. I wouldn't have not appreciated different style of music, dance, culture. I remember my first time watching, I caught Elton John singing Benny and the Jets. And all the lovely people just grooving and dancing to the music. Did GRUNGE really destroy enjoyable music? It all changed in the mid 90s. Instead of dancing together, you beat the crap out of the person next to you. I still enjoy dancing close and respectfully with a woman.
Being born in '58 was great. You would turn on the radio (free) and on one channel you got Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Mel Torme, and the Rat Pack. Flip the channel and you got the Greatful Dead, Frank Zappa, Queen, Genesis, Bowie, etc. And somewhere in between was Al Jarreau, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Manhattan Transfer. And don't even get me started on the girl groups and their "shimmy dresses" like the Supremes, Tina Turner, or Gladys and her Pips. The boy bands? Temptations, O'Jays, the Tavares Brothers, etc. I just assumed that this would continue for my entire life. Ooops!
When feeling good and having fun had nothing to do with how many "likes" U received. And thank God I lived through them, remember them and often revisit them 💯🎵🎶😎🥰 #LetItWhip
