I love seeing Ronnie alive and talking, I listen to his music all the time. I have a full playlist on Ronnie Dyson. Such a talent I can't imagine where he would be today. I'm rallying to get TvOne to do an Unsung on Ronnie RIP Ronnie.
Byron Benguche' totally agree! Ronnie had a beautiful voice and gifted he should have been encouraged by those who believed in him and guided by his own will to achieve.
I count it one of the highlights of my life when Ronnie came to my home to listen to some records he had just bought while on tour. We stayed in touch for a few years, but sadly not up until the time of his untimely death. It just broke my heart. His birthday is tomorrow. He would be 69. He had an angel's voice. Too bad he didn't just do R&B; but his promotors just kept packaging him in pop/rock. If you want a good example of his voice in its purity, listen (in UA-cam) to the song in Hair "What a Piece of Work is Man." It's a duet, and he is given almost all of the solo parts of the song-and it is obvious why.
Love the way he said about his mother "She USED to travel with me…but not anymore!"…they say his mom Elsie was THE Stage Mother of ALL stage Mothers!!!
Mr. Dyson had wished that his mother, or any other responsible elder kin-folk had continued chaperoning him in his career. He would be alive today! That's why artists, like Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, The Staples, The Spinners, the 5th. Dimension etc. are still here and are performing today. Family; that's what matters in this screwed-up, corrupt "business"!!!
Love the set, and how they are standing and laying on the letters of SOUL! Ronnie Dyson has always reminded me of Rog from What’s Happening for some reason.
Interesting to know he was hoping to act as "Goody-Goody" I remember when he was this young, Iwas just a kid. Now I realise he himself was just a kid - what a really great talent !!
In the end, he was Frankie Lymon, in that he didn't have anyone like his mother after a while to act as his "wingman, and protector, against the those who had corrupted him, and led him to an early death-and took his "playlist" and rights, also!!!
@antij 1 "He would have made a good Frankie Lymon." In the end, he was Frankie Lymon, in that he didn't have anyone like his mother after a while to act as his "wingman, and protector, against the those who had corrupted him, and led him to an early death-and took his "playlist" and rights, also!!!
@@michaelwarren7962 my voice cracked and hair started growing on my face at the age of 17. I'm not knocking ronnie for that, just amazed as how he retained youth of a 15 year old like that and still be 22. He left this world too soon.
SOUL TRAIN vs. AMERICAN BANDSTAND In 1973, Dick Clark, who dominated TV for teens with American Bandstand, felt threaten as Soul Train’s popularity grew. American Bandstand began to lose its black audience, so he tried to have Don Cornelius’ Soul Train taken off the air and replaced with his own knockoff, Soul Unlimited. Clark’s power move outraged black political leaders who along with the black community believed that having a black-owned show on television was not only cool, but an extension of the civil rights movement. Led by Chicago’s Reverend Jesse Jackson, they contacted Clark and ABC executives to protest. The idea that Clark, with whom blacks had always had an uneasy relationship, could kill Soul Train led to threats of an ABC boycott. Black leaders were joined by one of the most powerful men in the history of the black music business-and also a consultant to ABC, Clarence Avant, who went ballistic when he learned about Clark’s power move. After too much pressure, ABC finally caved and cancelled Soul Unlimited. #blackhistory #history #soultrain #americanbandstand See less Comments
@@LeoVargas94Oficial I could be mistaken. But I strongly believe that there was a tall, skinny, intellectual guy also hosting. A Don Cornelius knock-off.
I think it just wasn't a good movie... way below the caliber of movie Dyson would qualify for. I watched it just to see Dyson in it, and thought the movie really stunk. (Dyson did not have a major role.)
@Eddie Son. "He does look like Frankie Lymon I could have seen that." Actually, he looks more like comedian Jimmy walker of "Good Times". Now, Mr. Walker could probably have played Ronny Dyson in a bio-pic, but of course the former is now too old for the part!!!
Don had no choice but to have it rightfully shut down, made no sense for Dick Clark to create a soul music show to compete with Soul Train when Dick was already doing just fine with American Bandstand...and as much as I'll always love Dick and Don on an equal level, Dick was wrong for trying to corner the market on hot music shows which were basically geared toward younger audiences...the black audience needed a show like Soul Train with a black host to fully capture the essence to culture of soul music in the 70s...otherwise, Dick had no problems getting black artists on AB if they had a nice big hit that the Mainstream audiences were familiar with, but doing a separate show of black music was like taking money out of Don's pockets and that just wasn't right, business wise...in the end, having both AB and Soul Train balanced each other out and made legends out of both men who are no longer with us...
@@hevyonez97 But The DON stole the concept for SOUL TRAIN from a local Chicago teen dance show patterned after AMERICAN BANDSTAND. Cornelius wanted to partner-up w/ it's producer. It's creator w/dn't. So Cornelius cloned his show & rebranded it as SOUL TRAIN. And SOUL UNLIMITED made every bit of since 💲wise for Dick Clark.
I love seeing Ronnie alive and talking, I listen to his music all the time. I have a full playlist on Ronnie Dyson. Such a talent I can't imagine where he would be today. I'm rallying to get TvOne to do an Unsung on Ronnie RIP Ronnie.
How can I help him get on Unsung?
True Go to their Facebook Group and let them know
@@kellyg8086 Go to Unsung's and TV One's Facebook pages and let them know
He MUST get a TV One UnSung segment! Love his voice and RANGE!!
Most underrated singer in history....
One of THE greatest soul voices
1 Of the greatest voices period...........................
Ronnie's version of The Main Ingredients "I Just Dont Wanna Be Lonely" kills me every time I listen to it !!!..." Pure Magic "
Actually, he Ronnie Dyson, did the song before the Main Ingredients.
Ronnie did the song first. Blue Magic did an excellent version.
Yes Ronnie was first.
You said it all..wow
Ronnie Dyson was talented and very articulate.Too bad Ronnie Dyson was underrated as a R&B artist.
Byron Benguche' totally agree! Ronnie had a beautiful voice and gifted he should have been encouraged by those who believed in him and guided by his own will to achieve.
@@alexforest1Melba Moore was true friends with him.
THE TUNE "JUST DON'T WANNA BE LONELY"...LISTEN TO IT, AND YOU'LL HEAR A VOICE MOST SINGERS WISHED THEY HAD!
I count it one of the highlights of my life when Ronnie came to my home to listen to some records he had just bought while on tour. We stayed in touch for a few years, but sadly not up until the time of his untimely death. It just broke my heart. His birthday is tomorrow. He would be 69. He had an angel's voice. Too bad he didn't just do R&B; but his promotors just kept packaging him in pop/rock. If you want a good example of his voice in its purity, listen (in UA-cam) to the song in Hair "What a Piece of Work is Man." It's a duet, and he is given almost all of the solo parts of the song-and it is obvious why.
HE SURE LOOKS YOUNGER THAN 22. VERY HANDSOME YOUNG MAN.
Hé looks like a woman
@@rennep5605 - She bleed monthly, especially back then no hormone blockers/enhancers. Thats a 30 year old femaIe
RONNIE WAS ON OF THE MOST TALENTED SINGERS I HAVE EVER HEARD.. MAY HE FOREVER REST IN DEVINE PEACE!!♥️♥️♥️
And look at little 17 year old Ronnie Dyson with his beautiful voice! Rest in your power Ronnie.
22 here
Love the way he said about his mother "She USED to travel with me…but not anymore!"…they say his mom Elsie was THE Stage Mother of ALL stage Mothers!!!
My favorite Ronnie song is "I Don't Wanna Cry" still makes most playlist, wish I could find a video of him singing that song
Real young legend gone 2 soon they don't make them good like him no more bless from Jamaica
Compare the maturity and articulation of this young man to todays rappers. It's sad what we've become.
I love this artist; Ronnie was very talented💗
I wish I could find some videos of him singing live.
rati8989 that would be a blessing. On Soul Train he’s doing a wonderful job lip-synching to his records.
❤ this greatest black singers
In the world 🌎!
Dr.tyrone of Chester PA
What a voice!!! So soothing!! #rip
Mr. Dyson had wished that his mother, or any other responsible elder kin-folk had continued chaperoning him in his career. He would be alive today! That's why artists, like Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, The Staples, The Spinners, the 5th. Dimension etc. are still here and are performing today.
Family; that's what matters in this screwed-up, corrupt "business"!!!
Atomank68 absolutely correct!
What happened to Ronnie after his mother stopped traveling with him? He sounded like he was glad that she wasn’t. Do tell!
Yes please tell! Because I've read that although they were incredibly close, she hindered his career..
Ronnie said, “ Yeah, she used to travel with me, but not anymore.” 😂😂
Priceless clip here
Love the set, and how they are standing and laying on the letters of SOUL! Ronnie Dyson has always reminded me of Rog from What’s Happening for some reason.
“Don’t be afraid” is my fave by Ronnie. Sad to not have home with us any longer.
Ronnie😍🥰! Love you. Forever talented. Please continue RIP🌹.
He look so Young
He does look like Frankie Lymon I could have seen that.
Buster Jones was on KGFJ back in the 1970's he was a disk jockey great music back then
Interesting to know he was hoping to act as "Goody-Goody"
I remember when he was this young, Iwas just a kid. Now I realise he himself was just a kid - what a really great talent !!
I didn't know Ronnie was in HAIR. How about that!?
Yes. His is the very first voice you hear in the musical.
He would have made a good Frankie Lymon.
I agree with you. I think Donny would have made a great Frankie Lymon.
Totally Agree
In the end, he was Frankie Lymon, in that he didn't have anyone like his mother after a while to act as his "wingman, and protector, against the those who had corrupted him, and led him to an early death-and took his "playlist" and rights, also!!!
He was supposed to play Frankie Lymon in a movie!!
Atomank68 absolutely all the way!
Tall brother about 6ft4.
Great singer.
Ronnie though much taller would've been good playing Little Willie John, do you agree?
omar shabazz I agree
Gratitude.
My mother traveled on the road with me once... _ONCE!!!_
@antij 1 "He would have made a good Frankie Lymon."
In the end, he was Frankie Lymon, in that he didn't have anyone like his mother after a while to act as his "wingman, and protector, against the those who had corrupted him, and led him to an early death-and took his "playlist" and rights, also!!!
He had a somewhat, feminine face. Extremely smooth.
Well what kinda face do you expect on a 22 year old?
@@michaelwarren7962 my voice cracked and hair started growing on my face at the age of 17. I'm not knocking ronnie for that, just amazed as how he retained youth of a 15 year old like that and still be 22. He left this world too soon.
Yes that's Rhonda
🙏🏾✊🏽💯
Aw !….so sad !…was hoping to do the Frankie Lymon biopic….now he himself is a legend gone too too too soon.
Ronald Dyson 1950- 1990
22 years old and look how profound
SOUL TRAIN vs. AMERICAN BANDSTAND
In 1973, Dick Clark, who dominated TV for teens with American Bandstand, felt threaten as Soul Train’s popularity grew. American Bandstand began to lose its black audience, so he tried to have Don Cornelius’ Soul Train taken off the air and replaced with his own knockoff, Soul Unlimited.
Clark’s power move outraged black political leaders who along with the black community believed that having a black-owned show on television was not only cool, but an extension of the civil rights movement.
Led by Chicago’s Reverend Jesse Jackson, they contacted Clark and ABC executives to protest. The idea that Clark, with whom blacks had always had an uneasy relationship, could kill Soul Train led to threats of an ABC boycott.
Black leaders were joined by one of the most powerful men in the history of the black music business-and also a consultant to ABC, Clarence Avant, who went ballistic when he learned about Clark’s power move.
After too much pressure, ABC finally caved and cancelled Soul Unlimited.
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don't remember this show AT ALL. He looked 17 then, not 22
This show was Dick Clark's ripoff of Don Cornelius's Soul Train. It didn't last long which is why not a lot of people heard of it.
Wasn't there another host to this show?
No, Buster Jones was the only one.
@@LeoVargas94Oficial I could be mistaken. But I strongly believe that there was a tall, skinny, intellectual guy also hosting. A Don Cornelius knock-off.
He's not the Dyson who later joined the Temps, is it?
Ron Tyson joined the Temptations, not Ronnie Dyson
@@SebastianHernandez-jh2yz
Thank you.
What is the deal with the movie reference? Putney Swope? Was it a joke?
I think it just wasn't a good movie... way below the caliber of movie Dyson would qualify for. I watched it just to see Dyson in it, and thought the movie really stunk. (Dyson did not have a major role.)
@Eddie Son. "He does look like Frankie Lymon I could have seen that."
Actually, he looks more like comedian Jimmy walker of "Good Times". Now, Mr. Walker could probably have played Ronny Dyson in a bio-pic, but of course the former is now too old for the part!!!
Atomank68 Yesssss
OMG, I don't see any resemblance between Jimmy Walker and Ronnie Dyson.
Ronnie was too African, thats maybe why he was so underated.
To bad Don Cornelius had this show shut down.
Don had no choice but to have it rightfully shut down, made no sense for Dick Clark to create a soul music show to compete with Soul Train when Dick was already doing just fine with American Bandstand...and as much as I'll always love Dick and Don on an equal level, Dick was wrong for trying to corner the market on hot music shows which were basically geared toward younger audiences...the black audience needed a show like Soul Train with a black host to fully capture the essence to culture of soul music in the 70s...otherwise, Dick had no problems getting black artists on AB if they had a nice big hit that the Mainstream audiences were familiar with, but doing a separate show of black music was like taking money out of Don's pockets and that just wasn't right, business wise...in the end, having both AB and Soul Train balanced each other out and made legends out of both men who are no longer with us...
@@hevyonez97 But The DON stole the concept for SOUL TRAIN from a local Chicago teen dance show patterned after AMERICAN BANDSTAND. Cornelius wanted to partner-up w/ it's producer. It's creator w/dn't. So Cornelius cloned his show & rebranded it as SOUL TRAIN. And SOUL UNLIMITED made every bit of since 💲wise for Dick Clark.
This dude do not look 22...he looks 16
That a chick "passing"
You got a nerve some women look like men
Fake ass soul train
I thought this was a woman
She is
He ia male.