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.
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 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.
I'm a white girl and my family would always watch his and do the soul train line! It's the best thing ever! We still do it every now and again at small get togethers. So fun!
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.
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!
That is just outrageous dancing, in an era when men and women could make those sorts of body moves and we'd watch with nothing but respect for their skill.
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.
Growing up I chose Soul Train over cartoons on Saturday and my parents quickly found a new way to punish or ground me they would take away my Soul Train privileges lol 😆😅
@@sachabois1744 LOL when I was 11 I would agree with you now I see what they were trying to do take away the thing I enjoyed the most and that would straighten me up in no time LOL
That is a good punishment. I would be devastated to not be able to watch my Soul Train.😁That was an every Saturday ritual in my house when I was growing up. I continued to watch it right up until it ended well into my adulthood. Such a legendary dance show!
I'm 40 yrs. old and I have seen the good days of our culture turn into what it is today. I know we, blacks, aren't the only ones to recognize this change. I'm overjoyed that more than us embraced our culture which is really American culture. I apologize for being curt. It just saddens me that this has become what many of our predecessors struggled and died for. As long as there is LOVE, there is a ray of hope for all.
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!
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. 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️💋🙋
"Let It Whip" is a 1982 single by the Dazz Band and their biggest hit, peaking at number one on the R&B chart for five non-consecutive weeks.[1] The single also reached number two on the Dance chart[2] and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[3] The song won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance
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'
Don't ever forget " Solid Gold " it was all that too!...No-one could out dance Denny terrrio, I think I spelled name right, ya'll know who I'm talking about though, dude could truly dance!
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.
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We would literally stop playing ball with our friends in the streets to come inside and catch the Soul Train line. I'd rather see Soul Train brought back then Tik Tok any day of the week bruh.
Hi I'm Wayne..whiter than white 😁 never missed a Saturday soul train episode. .loved every singer, music,dancers & R I.P. DON CORNELIUS PEACE,LOVE & SOUL TO ALL PEOPLE
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!
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.
I would trade twerking and standing around at parties/clubs to be in you all's time on Soul train and party with you all's generation. I've always been an old soul lol
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.
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!
Whooooaaaa. This is what it was like when everyone in the room was into the music and each other and not standing there snapping a selfie or gazing into a smartphone!
@@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.
