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!
@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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!!
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.
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
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@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
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.
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!!!!
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!
@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
@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.
@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}
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.
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!
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)
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.
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!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yesssssss 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I see you!
that was you ?
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
That first fella-his skyscraper platform shoes 👠 would make Lady Gaga jealous!!😀
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!
Every single person in this video is such a personality. The fashion, the dancing -- unforgettable!!!
@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.
Yea back in the 60s and 70s we had all the good music 🎶 😂
I am a white guy, and lovin' it!
Let's bring this stuff back and save the world!!!
It was all fun back then. Nobody was worried about fighting. If you go to the club now 9 times out of ten somebody is going to get in a fight.
THANK GAWD I WAS BORN A BLACK CHILD WHO GREW UP IN THE 70's!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sda1225 Thaaats Right! Be proud of the uniform issued to you by the Supreme Most High
HAAAAAA, YESSS-SAH, WOOOOO-WOOOO....WOOOO-WOOOO! :-)
Oh how I wish I could go back and be a teen in the 70's again. It was really a simpler time but such a great time.
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!
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.
One of the best groups EVER,miss you maurice
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
The best music ever-the 70’s
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.
What an era! People danced any way they wanted and showed off and everybody dug it!
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!!
@@tombeyer375eu não
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.
Video?
(from Bolivia)
thank you. since funk music is a sound for everyone ... i always wondered if there were ever any white dancers.
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.
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
It is no longer possible to be this cool.
Yea yu can 😁
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They all have the perfect bodies for the awesome styles from back then...do people even dance anymore these days??...We did, and we had Fun.
We are people of the mighty mighty people of the sun.
@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
Proud to be born black
The body's just letting the music take over 🙌
I can't get over how thin everybody was!. Must be from all that dancing! Oh yeah!!!
Carl Loud Very few people were fat in the 70's. The Fat generation didn't really start to emerge until the late 80's & 90's.
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.
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!!!!
Its Funk Friday, and I am dedicating this to the Legendary Maurice White. You will be missed but not forgotten.
Those were the days when people knew how to have a good time!
when people still had style and dressed amazingly.
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!!!)
Damita Jo Freeman at 1:42 (in the red blouse and the black overalls):
A gorgeous girl who is a magnificent dancer.
You can’t beat it!
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!
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ERA LIKE THIS...
I bet there are some grandparents looking at this and going "shit, there I am, son come look!"
Damita Jo Freeman at 1:41 used to dance her ass off! Check out the James Brown episode where she danced for and with him!!! :-)
Aminah Shabazz
I liked when she danced for Joe Tex when he sang "I Gotcha"
ahhh when everyone was young and beautiful!
First EWF single I bought funky song
my dude in the purple omg too much funk
:::Sniff::: I miss the 70s. It was a great time to be young!
No sagging pants no mean mugging no! Just having a ball... Oh yea... Everybody is dressed to kill!....
The cape at 1:36 is actually an XL coat.
And yes, it is exquisitely and fabulously cool!
0:27 Patricia Davis and Gary Keys: one of my all time favorite dancing couple on ST. Nobody could do the "The Robot" like those two.
Flamenco Funk thank you! I forgot her name!!😃👍🏽
That's not Gary Keys, that's James Phillips.
black people smiling and dancing like hell
@1:34 that brotha is working that cape!!!
Ramia Thomas 😃😃😃😃😃
That Son of Blackula was handling the biz! LMAO ✊🏾🥂🥃
make me a time-machine and i'll stay in the 70's forever.
how the hell do they move their feet about so fast with them huge assed shoes on?
This is pure EWF Funk. They went in a more commercial direction, for the good, but I missed that nasty.
Coolness overload.. Makes me wish I could dance! Love love love..
That first fella-his platform shoes would make Lady Gaga jealous!😅
70's Tik Tok
😂
They ought to do this part on American Soul!!😃😃
lol at guy with cape
@1:34 damn i wish girls still danced like this ... shake it sista with yo fine self!!!
music is energy and this song was nuclear...
@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
This is such great, great bass playing! Verdine has always been Blessed to play SO in the pocket!
i miss those day everyone was havin a good time an the clothes the best
@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.
Can't nobody tell me, that black indenginist, soulful brothers and sisters, don't have rhythm, in our blood. Peace mighty mighty, people of the sun.
I am loving the music and the outfits, LOL Ahh, the 70s were fun, thanks for sharing the video
american culture? whats the name of this line I mean it has any name ?
@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}
And John Travolta is known as the best dancer in those days. Lol!!
Jerry Braxton BWAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!
Jerry Braxton what a joke.
Best dancers who are dancers, and best dancers who are movie stars, totally different things
1:34 couple's my fave, girl looks good and dude brings out the CAPE!
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.
That's is a real party! I just love this song and the video is perfect. We need more funk in ours lives and more dance!
I agree with redmarch, the guy with the cape ROCKS! But what's going on with the first dude with super high elevator shoes and short pants? Scary...
The black community has given us some of the best music ever! Thank you for that!❤
THE CAPE MOMENT. I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE. Thank you, Jesus, for gay people.
they should do that kind of stuff again!
Man, i miss soul train!!!! :o Bring it back!
I'm srry but this is when black people were cool. I'm not racist just speaking the truth
the dude at 47 seconds is shuffling
no sé si tiempos pasados fuerón mejores , pero lo qué es en múisica desde que si lo fuerón ♫♫♫♫
wish i was born this time
The greatest dance club in the history of the human race.
😁💥🙏🏾
The dude with the black cape I am positive did NOT pick that up in the men’s department.
@summersbr1 Thank you! Yes we were fortunate to have grown up during that time. I agree with you...great memories!
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!
Man, people were so dang funky !! That's when both music and dancing were as good as you can get.
i bet the dude at 00:36 invested a lot of time in his cut off jeans to match them shoes LOL!!!!!!!
Cant tell (her) HIM nothing lol!
I SO want to go back!
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)
Holly Crap, that's fun.
They getting down doing the funky chicken lol😅😂😂
So nice and I m very happy to see all brothers and sisters just dancing and playing with shows love in America in early 70s
I wish so bad to be born in that time :(
quiros1010/ it was a wonderful time even though I was 11!!😃
This is a fabulous videos but if you look closely, lots of these dudes are queens! LOL!!
Wow! Were we really all so skinny back in the day...?
This is beautiful.
Thank you for posting this!
1:35 Count Blackula
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.
Oh my damn!!! They was killin' it!! Just too cool, too cool.
One thing about the '70s,platform shoes, gave you more soul!
I love those dress very nice for funky dancing.
Love it.. lots of dancing action . brings back lots memories.. but the volume is low..
Damn, I miss the '70s.
1:33 - Son of Blacula