@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!!
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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!!
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!
AFTER FAMILY UNIT BECAME ABSENT OF FATHERS AND DRIVE SHOOTINGS THE SAFEST PLACE FOR XHILDREN PLAYINGPLAYSTATION AND COMPUTERS CHANGE LIFE LIKE COVID IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND DRUGS.
@@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
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 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.
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 UA-cam and watch these videos clips. God bless Don Cornelius...he had an awesome "vision" for music and the youth.
There were as many McDonald's back in the 70s and 80s as there is today, the difference is that there more activities for one to be engaged with than today that didn't require hi-tech devices. The point: Get off the couch at your Mama's house and start moving. Disclaimer: I am not texting this message from my couch; but, from my living room chair.
No fake nails or lashes. Not tatted or pierced from head to toe. .....and modesty dressed too. No breast showing, nobody's ass uncovered and all up in the camera. Such a different vibe. Sure miss these times.
What with these dusty ass dudes in every soul train video saying shit like “black women had no wig or weave ” I hope you know weve been wearing wigs back then too, since the 50s. get an education.
@@mariahardy1201 Exaaaactly. Did you see the woman (black) who made a stink on the airplane? A staff member asked her to cover up and she got all pissy. She looked like a streetwalker - breasts hanging out, tight pants, etc. Ridiculous.
I don't know about the wigs, but you're spot-on, they looked true, whole, they had this optimism and pride in themselves. You know, pride (in the positive sense) starts with how you behave and even with how you look. Someone who doesn't make this little effort each day to not even dress up but just dress is someone with a low self-esteem.
Not so MUCH sugar in EVERYTHING. No high fructose corn syrup (a lab-cooked up cheap sweetener substitute for actual real sugar). No hormone-laden (hormone fattened) cattle and milk products. Cattle was GRASS-grazing, not GMO-corn fed. People ate real butter, not hydrogenated oils (fake butter, fake cheese)....etc, etc, etc........
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...
@@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...
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!
The dude with the boxing gloves just killed me, but at least they all had fun. Something that our generations can't do nowadays. Either some dude acting stupid & ignorant, or some chic just acting stuck up & prissy......
doris motley We wuz weren't we. Almost all of us wuz all skinny like dat. Ate all the food we could eat and still skinny. Back in da day. Hi skool days.
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!"
I adore these old 1970s line ups. The amazing thing about the 70s is you can distinctively see the fashions change every single year. Everything is so bland and “blend in” now. I wish i could go back to when people had style 😎 What was this ‘77 maybe? 🤔
It was a quick transition once the 80s rolled.If you watch the early 80s Soul Train women were starting to let loose,the dancing were more revealing with the shaking of asses,gyrating,cleavage,short shorts and hair weaves and frizzy dos were starting to take place and men were showing more hairy chest.Still a great show but the 80s Soul Train were far less conservative and more progressive than the 70s.
@@umarbentley4953 I noticed the change too, the look became flashier and yes more sexualized. MTV came along and perhaps Don Cornelius felt he needed to make the show more progressive in style to compete. I graduated HS in '81 and by that time the magic of ST had started to wear off for me. This clip here exemplified the best of ST for me- conservative but more polished.
Notice how skinny Everybody is before they started pumping growth hormones in our food Now Kids are developing early 12/13 yr old girls wearing same size bras as women 😌these girls can't even jump rope no more without holding their chest...Smh.😒 ..back in the day when we was healthier
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.
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.
Those were the days. We lost all the grooming, grace and joy that was so common throughout the community. EVERYONE from the toddler to grandpa could do the bump, the dog, the robot… which really made dancing a COMMUNITY legacy. Also, most folks wanted to show PRIDE. Tragic cultural losses.
The first Mike Tyson a 1:21 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂👍👍🔥🔥, One of my favorite Emotions songs. Get down to the get down 💃💃💃Wanda, Sheila, and Jennette Hutchinson, one of the best singing sisters to come out of that era.
When I see these segments of SOUL TRAIN and see everyone having fun dancing and having a smile on their face, I FEEL THAT RAP MUSIC, VULGARITY RUINED THIS.What you see here of everyone having fun listening to cool beautiful music.Cool people etc.
I am a 62 year old who can't dance at all. But when I hear this song I do my best to embarrass myself and I don't care who is watching.
I’m 62 years old too. When I was amazing and shocking by their beautiful voice.
It's the beat...like, ballero
@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!!
I'm 62 grew up listening to this female group greatest ever! No comparison hands down!😊
I’m sure you’re amazing! No need to embarrass yourself.
My grandparents dancing @25 seconds with the one peace and white sweater they were getting down
Wow! Thanks for sharing that.
I bet u feel a bit jealous cos these days we only c naked people dancing on tv
Oh nd another thing is = u have cool grandparents.just check out ur grandma she is extra cool😘
Awww I just posted 0:26 that couple was doing the stankie leg. How special to see your grandparents on Soul Train.
Was this in a Chicago or LA?
Before high fructose corn syrup, drive thru meals, 20 oz sodas, supersize everything, gaming and 24 hour/500+channels .....
love your comment these young African Americans look great
Exactly
HA! And our parents believed in home cooked meals.Well my parents did in the 1970s
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.
@@lastdays3148 PREACH!!
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.
Yes. And Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta became a mainstream hit because of Soul Train and the incomparable Don Cornelius and these dancers
This was a great time when people knew how to have fun.
You had to know HOW TO dance properly (at least in Peru), otherwise people looked you badly.
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.
jaybethatdude preach!!
jaybethatdude Very few people on the soul train were fat. Who would want to see that? But there WERE fat people back then.
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
So true! Our generation was the last to enjoy being young in dance and fun. These younguns today have no clue!
Amen to that brother.
RIP all those folks that are not with us anymore..
I was a teenager during this time! Soul Train was in every Saturday at 12:00! It was a great time to be young and Black!
And young and Brown:)
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.
It was a great time just to be YOUNG....I'm so grateful that was my time.
I LOVE watching this Soul Train line, dude with the boxing 🥊 gloves on…DAMN he did that 😂😆👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
😂
And me a grandparent can still throw down when necessary. Never underestimate a grandparent that went to a James brown concert 10 times
Alright then 👍🏾
Sho u right!
I know that's right ✅💯💃🙂
The girl at the end in the satin dress/jacket. She looks fabulous!
Peggy Stoute Morin she's FLAWLESS
Classy.
I think that was Cheryl Song
70's fashion remains undefeated!! I wanted almost every outfit the ladies had on lol
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!
@@fr-tigerfangs7039 That is good to hear. Best of luck to your daughter. I hope she does well in whatever she chooses to do in the fashion industry. 😊
Jody W and maybe Jeffrey dancing in the red sweaters?
Yes, Indeed!
Gorgeous!
"Dinner's ready...and the wine is chilled" HONEY! YAAASS
I want them days back! Great times! House & Block parties were the best!
Hi I by
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
Aw, Gurl Yu kno it☺️
The boxer is a genius
That boxer was hot and not wearing a jockstrap jejeje 😹
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.
@@fr-tigerfangs7039 I agree! Everybody that came down was best dressed and looked good!🤗
@@fr-tigerfangs7039 They we’re screened but nobody was fat in the 70s..
But... the girls who were considered to be *really* "fine" usually weren't skinny.
Lord just one request...please take me back to late 70's and I'll handle it from there.
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!!
These people just look so average in clothes that are just regular. They could actually dance and had style with out over doing it.
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!
AFTER FAMILY UNIT BECAME ABSENT OF FATHERS AND DRIVE SHOOTINGS THE SAFEST PLACE FOR XHILDREN PLAYINGPLAYSTATION AND COMPUTERS CHANGE LIFE LIKE COVID IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND DRUGS.
if I only knew how short the good times would be i would have enjoyed them more. but more good times for me and us
Leonard Bailey 😂😂😂😂I know how you feel!!
Amen
Leonard Bailey amen
Back then there was no talk of being vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, etc. and we were more fit and healthier back then than today. 💙 Soul Train...
Lol. These people had to audition. No fugly ppl on TV.
I agree! And no one was spending all their time in the gym either
Yes very fortunate back then before all the additives and unknowns were being put into food products😒😔
@@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
0:05 I see you Shabba Doo! Rest in Peace Shabba✊✌️
He's good! Just googled him. See that he recently passed in 2020. RIP 🙏🏾
R.I.P. Legend Shabba Doo 👑❤ What a gorgeous man!!
Real Gorgeous man yes gosh he passed on as well 😞
I thought that was him in the opening segment - yes, I pray he’s resting peacefully 🕊️❤
Beautiful, talented young people. Gosh!!! Glory days. Please come back!
The boxers moves were outstanding,he always was on point every week.✊🏾💥
RIp Adolfo “Shabba Doo” Quiones .... Good God was he a fine thang!!
Thank Brothers and Sistas for showing this white kid how to dance I still bust it out at weddings !!!! Love ya guys
One of the greatest records ever made, grooved to by some of the greatest dancers ever born.
my favorite emotions song
It’s the Friggin BEST..
Great music and everyone having a good time, time machine me back.
Look at Shabba Doo (aka Ozone) opening the Soul Train line!!! I still love him!!! :-)
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.
And lo key voguing..
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.
Amen!
Amen.
and God Bless you too Brandon. 🙏🙏💕
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 UA-cam and watch these videos clips. God bless Don Cornelius...he had an awesome "vision" for music and the youth.
🤘😎
My favorite Emotions jam.
You can tell there was no Burger King and McDonald's on almost every corner back then.
They were, but we kept moving.
Yes!!!
Everyone Fit and Trim!!!
If they weren't healthy, they sure did not look it!!
People were still preparing meals at home!!!
@@sasfunc6170 Not in every corner like she said. Yes, people chose Real Food & physical outdoor activities back then.
@@islandgirl5382 It's WAY more complicated than that, you don't know what you're talking about.
There were as many McDonald's back in the 70s and 80s as there is today, the difference is that there more activities for one to be engaged with than today that didn't require hi-tech devices.
The point: Get off the couch at your Mama's house and start moving.
Disclaimer: I am not texting this message from my couch; but, from my living room chair.
Our 70s style was ON POINT! Man i miss those days!
I LOVE this!!!!!!! Real disco funk music!!!! No uptown funk can't beat this classic genre!
Beautiful, "BROWN SKIN" people, enjoying themselves and making us smile!
Hell I am white and growing up watched every Saturday and loved it
MAN I AM SO ENJOYING THIS WHAT A DIFFERENT WORLD I MISS IT SOMETIME WAS BORN IN THE 1960 S. SO THIS WAS THE WORLD I'M FROM
1961 baby! I'm right there with you. Our times were the best!
me too.. i really miss it .. we were blessed to be young for the best decade ever !!
dammm...we black people are beautiful!!!
Black women looked so much better then, confident, and not everyone wearing a wig.
No fake nails or lashes. Not tatted or pierced from head to toe.
.....and modesty dressed too. No breast showing, nobody's ass uncovered and all up in the camera. Such a different vibe. Sure miss these times.
The most criticized, critiqued, stereotyped group on earth= black women.
What with these dusty ass dudes in every soul train video saying shit like “black women had no wig or weave ” I hope you know weve been wearing wigs back then too, since the 50s. get an education.
@@mariahardy1201
Exaaaactly. Did you see the woman (black) who made a stink on the airplane? A staff member asked her to cover up and she got all pissy. She looked like a streetwalker - breasts hanging out, tight pants, etc. Ridiculous.
I don't know about the wigs, but you're spot-on, they looked true, whole, they had this optimism and pride in themselves. You know, pride (in the positive sense) starts with how you behave and even with how you look. Someone who doesn't make this little effort each day to not even dress up but just dress is someone with a low self-esteem.
*_I just love to watch these old clips of Soultrain.The brothas and sistahs had hella rhythm.The first man dancing is fione!_*
that was Shaba Doo from those "Breakin" movies
These old clips is better than rap.
nationofmillions he's actually from Chicago too.
I take you didn't see the last one dancing with the chinese girl in all white! Now that's Fine!😊💕
Thank you!😊
Damn no one was fat!
my thoughts exactly
Not so MUCH sugar in EVERYTHING.
No high fructose corn syrup (a lab-cooked up cheap sweetener substitute for actual real sugar).
No hormone-laden (hormone fattened) cattle and milk products.
Cattle was GRASS-grazing, not GMO-corn fed.
People ate real butter, not hydrogenated oils (fake butter, fake cheese)....etc, etc, etc........
ESPECIALLY THE LADIES TODAY'S BLACK WOMEN NEED TO BE ASHAMED OBESE FAT OVERWEIGHT IS NO EXCUSE TAKE ME BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD OH LORD 😠
@@SunnyIlha DON'T FORGET LACK OF GYM WORK OUTS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND OVERWEIGHT FAT BLACK WOMEN SEX IS NOT A EXCERSICE😠
Hello! We danced & danced and had a heck of a lot of fun!
RIP Shabba Doo, Tyrone Proctor & Lil' Joe!
The 70's was best decade ever for music. I think this generation is beginning to embracing that good music from the 70's.
I so miss these times in Los Angeles!
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...
0:06.....a very young Shabadoo (The Lockers and later "Breakin'"). Peace.
Peace; and respect to Don Cornelius and the soul train line dancers.↗😚
two of Chicago’s 70s influences on the world, Soul Train and the great Emotions.
Watching these old video clips reminds me when we were Kings!
Sol W you still are
These Soul Train line dances put a smile on my face.
Oy! ...the third couple at 0:24-0:40....That was some badass moves 😎...love that walk.
Damn folks we need to smile more. What the hell happened!!
America
@@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...
Mean mugging gangsta mentality took over
R.I.P. PAMELA ROSE HUTCHINSON & DON CORNELIUS = CHITOWN LEGENDS
OMG!!! I love it. What a wonderful sight to see. Everybody look fly as hell and doing their thang😁😁😁
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!
Love to watch the girls’ hair flopping around. No extensions, probably not many wigs either!
The dude with the boxing gloves just killed me, but at least they all had fun. Something that our generations can't do nowadays. Either some dude acting stupid & ignorant, or some chic just acting stuck up & prissy......
Haha yeah! Fucking loved it, that guy with the boxing gloves was ready to rumble at any time.. :P
He‘s the Shit lol.. amazing
The dude with the boxing gloves punched his self, and then went right into the next dance move... Absolutely amazing!!!
Or twerkin
Look how skinny we were!
doris motley
We wuz weren't we. Almost all of us wuz all skinny like dat. Ate all the food we could eat and still skinny. Back in da day. Hi skool days.
Dancing is great exercise!
Exercise,eating healthy,positive energy,and no harsh drugs or drinking heavily. We can maintain the slim body for life.
We actually went outside back then. Somewhere with some physical activity.
We had gym!!!! I mean if you didn't work up a sweat, they made you work out harder!!!
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!"
I adore these old 1970s line ups. The amazing thing about the 70s is you can distinctively see the fashions change every single year. Everything is so bland and “blend in” now. I wish i could go back to when people had style 😎 What was this ‘77 maybe? 🤔
I was born in 86, but watching these old soul train clips made me realize how distinct the fashions were for each year.
David Rabb so true :)
My beautiful mom danced on soul Train in 1978....i saw old video of her dancing i tripped out....😂
This is how u pass down generations of confidence ♡ DANCING!!!!! ♡
Who comes up with the idea "Hey, Ima soul train line dance dressed as a boxer with the gloves on and shit !" ?
Lol
I love those boots, back in those days dudes wore boots too, they brought the women's boots back but why not the men's boots?
+fivefivevirgo eventually they will
Great boots from 1:18 to 1:57.
As someone who has no rhythm, I always enjoyed watching the dancers, Especially Damita Jo Freeman!!!!!
the smartphone generation wouldnt have a clue!
Everybody was CLASSY!!! No thongs, nakedness, just there to dance and have a good time
It was a quick transition once the 80s rolled.If you watch the early 80s Soul Train women were starting to let loose,the dancing were more revealing with the shaking of asses,gyrating,cleavage,short shorts and hair weaves and frizzy dos were starting to take place and men were showing more hairy chest.Still a great show but the 80s Soul Train were far less conservative and more progressive than the 70s.
@@umarbentley4953 I noticed the change too, the look became flashier and yes more sexualized. MTV came along and perhaps Don Cornelius felt he needed to make the show more progressive in style to compete. I graduated HS in '81 and by that time the magic of ST had started to wear off for me. This clip here exemplified the best of ST for me- conservative but more polished.
As a 10 yr old white kid from the burbs in 1979 I used to watch these and get DOWN in front of the tv
How did music go from this level all the way down to nicky manaj?? 70s best era for music.
It's amazing that the average person back in the 70's was slim (not just the soul train dancers) compared to the average size person today.
Despite a ton of exercise infomercials and wack diets people are fatter than ever nowadays.
Notice how skinny Everybody is before they started pumping growth hormones in our food Now Kids are developing early 12/13 yr old girls wearing same size bras as women 😌these girls can't even jump rope no more without holding their chest...Smh.😒 ..back in the day when we was healthier
Back in 1977 wow still love💯💯💯💯💋🌹
Saturday mornings at 11 am all black people were watching this show!
so was this Chicano!
I remember when this song came out in 1976 I was 16 years old.
I was abrick house back then, now I am a big house with curves, one of my favorite songs.
Who you telling, me too 🔥🔥👍👍💃💃
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Fun times. I’m still listening in 2023. Anybody else?
2024 from L.A. Ca. home of the Soul Train dancers!
Don had the most unique voice I have ever heard. Soulllll Trainmnnn lol
Yes! That unmistakable voice of a legend!
I'm 51 Feel Good Music ❤
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.
Loving the gaucho pants and the boots!
Good looking black couples
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.
Plus we taped 4 shows per weekend then danced at clubs after :-)
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.
Those were the days. We lost all the grooming, grace and joy that was so common throughout the community. EVERYONE from the toddler to grandpa could do the bump, the dog, the robot… which really made dancing a COMMUNITY legacy. Also, most folks wanted to show PRIDE. Tragic cultural losses.
Everybody so happy..smiling up something
I am not even black and I love this sound
Freestyle at its finest y'all!
I was living in DC but I went nd house at 12:00 on Saturday to see Soul Train RIP Don🌹💥🙏Amen
Been binge watching these videos and honestly their fits are fire!!
The first Mike Tyson a 1:21 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂👍👍🔥🔥, One of my favorite Emotions songs. Get down to the get down 💃💃💃Wanda, Sheila, and Jennette Hutchinson, one of the best singing sisters to come out of that era.
Yo The Brother With The Boxing Gloves Though Lol
I love the last sister; she turned it!
Isn't that Shabba-Doo (aka "Ozone" from the movies "Breakin'" & "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo") and his sister kickin' off the Soul Train Line🚂? 😃
Thank you Don Cornelius!!!!!!!
The Jam of all Jams!
When I see these segments of SOUL TRAIN and see everyone having fun dancing and having a smile on their face, I FEEL THAT RAP MUSIC, VULGARITY RUINED THIS.What you see here of everyone having fun listening to cool beautiful music.Cool people etc.
Fine, brother,shadoo
I'm here to learn some dance move
I was dance with Tyrone the bone
1980
in JAPAN
When people smiled when they were dancing and having fun
Right! When did mean mugging and looking unhappy become a thing