Original Soul Train Dancers Reminisce On What It Took To Dance On Soul Train! | American Soul
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2019
- From the days of Motown to the birth of hip hop, the "Soul Train" dancers look back at their time on the show and reflect on how their experiences transformed black culture.
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Back in 74 at my Junior high dance, I boogied like ReRun 1:43 !! in the line dance. I can truly say Soul Train taught me. I'm going on 59 ! Haven't lost it...Slight knee pain though 🤣😂🤣😎✌🏽✊🏽✊🏽
i love it because i LOVED the show but i thought Don Cornelius was a jerk, and i was right about that. of course, i also became a little socialist in middle school. not paying the, THE ‘Soul Train Dancers’ that is some fucked up shit right there...i wish they’d ALL got together and done a STRIKE !! ✊🏾🌎❤️ you KNOW that musicians wouldn’t have crossed that picket line. being on tv is NOT enough. ka-ching !!
I wonder what ever happened to Cookie Morris. She was one of the first superstar dancers on that show.
@@MrMooney196144😅
They're all aging so well.
All that good exercise.
Black don't crack!
They are, they look so good
When i was a youngboy i learned how to poplock from these dudes err sattaday morning.
SOUL TRAIN FOREVER!!
@@anthonyali7309 hahahaha
Don was wrong. Those dancers made the show and deserved to get paid.
They got exposure
Odyssey to Jérémie no they didn't
@For the Love of Curls You obviously don't know valuable free advertising is. The dancers themselves said it was the exposure they got on the show that opened doors for them and their careers.
For the Love of Curls As the show became more popular, exposure became more relevant to the dancers, but in the beginning it wasn’t as much for the original dancers since the show was new. They didn’t know how iconic the show was going to be in the future so kudos to the original dancers who paved the way
At that time, things were different and the era was about blood and sweat exposer and the only incentive was to be on television without pay. His or her pay was exposer on the most popular show"Soul Train" at that time. If any dancer who was a dancer and he or she wanted a dream, that dream was to be on "Soul Train"!
People had true talent at that time. Men and women didn't need to expose their ass to make it in the business. Not like today!!!
Saturday mornings growing up in the 80's:
-Cartoons
-Soul Train
-Go outside and play
Same thing for me in the 70's.
That was exactly the order it fell!l 😆
You forgot Kung-Fu theater then go outside and act out everything you just watched.
WORD and in that order !!! Miss those days.
You must have lived in my neighborhood 😂 all in that order🤗
Soul Train dancers from the 70’s are the REAL deal.
Exactly. They were the best, by a looooong way.
The Chicago dancers got it started on channel 26 and the rest is history
DAMITA JO FREEMAN taught me to dance !!!🇯🇲✌🏿
80 were good to
No doubt. In LA, it became too "Hollywood".
You have all aged well. Literally. Dancing for 10+ years on the show like it wasn't nothing.
Yes, they look the same.
Get down on the floor
Coming down the soul train line just like it was yesterday you all look great💯👯💃
20!
Was the first thing I noticed.
Dancing for fried chicken keeps you young.
Black ppl was so fit, natural and beautiful in the 70s...wow!
AMEN!!!!! REAL and unspoiled!!!! 💗💗💗🚂💗💗💗💗💗💗
Except Rerun
U ain't lyin no fat fucks gluten free diabetic thyroid or any other excuse just fit
trinigyul back then we use to care about each other
@@onetwo12onetwo526 umm being diabetic or hypo/hyper thyroid are not "excuses" they're medical conditions
I didn’t care for the 90’s soul train. 70’s and 80’s thooo 😩😩🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Right ! The early '90s and mid '90s was good but late '90s and early 200s I didn't too much care bout them but my younger siblings then were kids then they loved the show and still do . But the '80s and '70s they were the best hands down
70's was the real deal
Nothing can top 1971-1993. #enoughsaid
The Don Cornelius Era was the best the new jack Era. After Don left it went down hill. And plus you had all these other cable dance shows
i noticed a lot of the OG soul train dancers basically called it quits by 1990 or early 1990s.
They should get royalties for every video that shows their face on videos of soul train videos
Choo Choo234 I thought they did receive royalties not for the original airings but I don’t know why I thought that and that was partly why Soul Train wasn’t in syndication?
" Yes " they should!
All entertainers should
@@OriginalPinkbird Ummm but they WERE in syndication, just hard as heck to find.
Interesting... Well Don Cornelius is gone now, I don't know if they could renegotiate. Also, since everyone right now is on the "Black lives matters" tip, maybe Netflix could bring the episodes? There were some iconic performers on there and I would love to watch them again..
“Damita Jo had a raw blackness about her. She didn’t care about having an Afro or really trying to be pretty, she was just out there giving it the funk”- 2:30
Yaaassss! I can dig it! ✊🏾
i don't think having an afro meant she didn't care about being attractive. that was just a stupid comment.
@@krs777hotmail maybe you didn't take it that way because you're used to this sorta thinking and you lack critical thinking skills.
There are places and times when black women were considered beautiful just because of what the creator gave us. How you think we got here.
@@orangemoonglows2692 Thank you. It was a thoroughly insulting comment.
Wow...some folks over-analyze everything. I think one has to dig pretty deep to find the insult in that statement. Actually, I find it more insulting to have someone categorized as, "dumb black people" or "not having critical thinking skills" just because they don't think the way some do.
Gee, I guess because we all aren't micro-analysing every word that comes across our line of vision, or within earshot, we aren't "woke". 😂
One can find negativity in anything, if that's what they wish to see. Just a little something I learned from experience.
Pity not needed, or accepted...
Someone shouts "Soul Train is on"..block clears...everyone running in the house to turn on t.v. afterwards everyone back on the block showing off the latest steps they just learned. Good times.
Yup!
Yup! Yup!
So true! 😂
That’s heartwarming to hear so much love and respect for the show!!
Pamela Talley Spence Real Talk
The original soul train dancers need to be on the Soul Train Award show and receive an award for their contribution to soul train. They did have a lot to do with making the show what it was.
True... but, they were so happy to just get their faces in front of the camera....
Haha... Mr. Cornelius knew that these dancers would've paid a cover charge to get in. Sheesh... club owners still capitalize on this.
This made me so sad!!!!! I remember watching soul train. But I also remember the love that was in the black communities in this age. I pray we come back to loving and enjoying each other.
well said 👍🏾
Tell me more brotha man
Yes please
@Michaelle Mcgill
sad to say.
I feel the same way 😭
WTF ARE THEY EATING????
Mofos look young af.
TenTaur Tv BROOOO....I’m telling you!!!!
they didnt wear all that makeup back then or get all them surgerys
Joy of joy, living their lives right. A message for us all, I'm sat here on my fat arse in 2019 in the UK watching this with my eyes out on stalks.
You feel me I'ma start dancing 😂😂😂
According to Rosie Perez, two piece meals from KFC
Black is freaking beautiful I love being black
That's cool! I don't hear that too often. Everybody should be proud of who they are.😊👍
Same.
n-damn-deed 👑
@BADAZZTHANG I had several, very good black friends. Unfortunately, they all went their own way, got married, moved out of state, and we lost touch. I'm around black people that are friendly with me that frequent the same convenience store as I do. But like I said, I just don't hear people say that too often. I'm a recluse, so I don't have many opportunities to meet and make new friends. I'm proud of who I am too. But I have to be careful about how I say it because of PC culture.😊
@BADAZZTHANG 😁 Thank you! 🙏 We, the people, have the power!✊
That moment you realized Soul Train came out almost 50 years ago.
Yup 1970
Dang!!
@@MrMooney196144 It went into syndication I think in the fall of '71, sometime in October. It's said it only reached 7 cities when it first aired, LA, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Cleveland, Philly and Atlanta. It expanded to other markets quickly from there. I lived in Connecticut when it first came on but went to Detroit that October for my grand father's funeral and saw one of the first shows and was in awe, I would have been 12 then. I remember Rufus Thomas was on and sang "The Breakdown", that had to be about the 1st, 2nd or 3rd show that aired.
Wow! You’re Right ✨🎶❤️
I feel old now
They got paid in chicken? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ it’d be your own people sometimes
Ava Martin absolutely that's a damn shame fucked up
yeah they got paid in chicken but he kept him hungry for money so they thought past minimum wage to a fortune in notoriety
Uh, no. "It be" people who don't think for themselves.
@Freddie Davis your totally right shamar Moore really did fuck up soul train for the 6-7 years he hosted.he only really cared how he looked on tv and having all the ladies dancing around him!!!!
@@richiebee1984 you blaming hip hop? they still could have did the damn thing, it's just that the producers was older and didn't know what to do with it, right now Soul Train can be a hit if somebody knew what to do with it, especially with the new generation coming up now, but you got to pay these kids today ain't going for that chicken shit no more.☀tribe
I am so proud to say that I was part of this legacy in the late 70's and participated in the Soul Train Dance Contest, representing my home town Pittsburgh, PA. It was my dream came true. Thank you Don, R.I.P.
Thanks for the Saturday morning entertainment ✊🏿✊🏿
Hey Paul, what year was this you were on for the contest?
Please create a UA-cam Channel and do a story time about your experience. We would love to hear about it.
Monique still look soo young.
I grew up in the Pittsburgh area and I was glued to the TV set EVERY Saturday morning. Thank you so much 🙏🏽
All of those dancers look excellent for their age!!!!
nick j dancers seem to age well for the most part.
@@BDizzleNY06 yeppppppp, good point!!!!
All that dancing keeps you young
@@notmyrealname11 yepppppp!!!!
These dancers put the "Soul" in Soul Train. They were the reason I watched every Saturday.
We were a bunch of Asian and white kids in the 80s and we never missed Soul Train. We loved American Bandstand, but Soul Train was boss! We all had our favorite dancers..those were good times.
Saturday wouldn't be Saturday without THE SOUL TRAIN!!!!
Facts
eggzackly ✌️™
Not at all!
Yes. Very true statement!
Yes!!
Notice how good they still look for their age. Definitely a sign of people who lived life to the fullest especially on the dance floor.
Boy, do I miss Soul Train, especially the 70’s Soul Train! 💜
Baby...EVERY Saturday I was on point waiting on soul train. I had on my outfit and was ready to dance at 12. I come from the 70s....
And chores HAD to be done b4
Cal Brown You wore an outfit to watch the TV show?
I was a Soul Train dancer in my living room. So was my brother and my parents.
Daniel Marsala 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We all were...and I always solved the puzzle at home.lol
Haha,yes I also was a Soul Train Dancer inside of my Living Room. My RIP parents,siblings and family members we would even Soul Train ourselves forming the Soul Train Line in the 1980s. And,we would dance down our line one at a time,during family togetherness🌹
Also!
Shit HAD to be lit in ya'll house!
RESPECT to the Soul Train Dancers and the entire Soul Train crew ✌🏿
@Killer Joe Really? 🤦🏾♀️
@Killer Joe I agree. Sooo disappointing to hear because Don had the power to change this. A two piece chicken box? How insulting. I want a movie done about this to showcase the good and bad. A really movie too, not on lifetime or ber. Glad to hear the exposure gave them other opportunities to make $ and they look great for their age. All the dancing kept them young + black dont crack. 😃
@Killer Joe glad you can read through the typos. Ugh, hate that shit. My bad! 😊✌🏾
@Killer Joe 🤣🤣🤣
Yes we had chicken all 4 tapeing😂😂
that took me back to when life was good!
cuz Mom and Dad paid the bills, and Young folks danced
Saturdays weren't complete without Soul Train. Loved the music, the fashions and most of all the Soul Train dancers!✌
I miss Soul Train💜...I use to couldn't wait til Saturday's to see the Soul Train line & to see what artist would be performing on the Soul Train stage.
They couldn't do it today what with the music that they make now. Now they don't do r and b, it's all hip hop.
Me to
Me too :)
@@robinquinc329 Oh it's still R&B...Rap and BULLSHIT!
Thank you! Ha ha!
As much as I love the 90s and early 2000s. The best dance and Soul Train Eras were 70s and early 80s (Funk, Soul and Disco). Those eras embodied what Soul Train and dance was all about. I will admit tho...the early 90s had some classic dances and performances too.
I am 53 years old all the years were good except that few years when they don step down and let that actor host the show that's when i pretty much stop watching it.
Patrick Boyd I'm 80s baby I stop once Don stopped I started again it was so so
@@juanlee8035
During that time it was a different generation of people and the music wasn't as good anymore.
Rodney Norman me to I love the 80s 90s 2000s
Patrick Boyd the 90s 2000s was awesome well 07 it wasn't as good. Yes it was a different generation the music was way better than compare too now
I was a Soul Train dancer..
at home
Lol
A million years from now when some other intelligent life finds out about us.... I hope one of the first things they see is a video of 70s Soul Train.
Rosie Perez danced like there was no tomorrow! 😍😍
Lol...I know right she meant business
Luv Rosie!
danced like her whole life was at stake
Yes, she did I loved her dancing
Rosie Perez was like a Jennifer Lopez before Jennifer Lopez but so much better :)
We had to clean up every Saturday before watching Soul Train. My mom would watch with us sometimes. She made 80% of our clothes so we had all of the latest fashions going to school. Ours really stood out. I miss this show and really miss my mom too.
That was our family Saturday routine. Clean house, watch Soul Train. My children were raised with this show, I always thought my grandchildren would be too. But no. 😿
Ours too.RIP to your mother,sis.❤
Cleaning up on Saturday mornings. Lord the memories. ❤
Thanks for that memory
olivia wonderful We too had to do our chores before we could watch ST. And don’t forget the J5 cartoon. I stopped watching ST probably mid 80s.
I remember ALL of them ❤I'm in my 50's now.
Oh my lord marvin gaye❤❤❤❤
@@amandah2454 😍 Marvin
I do as well
You're in your 50s and you're still alive that's wonderful
Soul Train was in our house every Saturday growing up in the Midwest.
Take heed to what they're saying about what happened when rap came out. The Soul Train dancers lost creativity. They started all dressing and dancing the same. There wasn't a lot of couples dancing together. Everyone was out for themselves. I grew up on 90's Soul Train, but when I got a taste of 70's Soul Train I was amazed by My People, the dances, the clothes, the styles, the couples and the music. I could feel the love, the cohesiveness, the Black pride, and all the good vibes that were going on. I like to tell myself that that unity came from the racial struggles that Our People faced in the 60's and those 70's dancers were Freedom Dancers dancing from a free soul. I love y'all
Truth Man,I was born in the later 1960s and I grew up as little girl in the 1970s. I loved every moment of that Melanin Love Pride from the 1970s Soul Train Dancers. Also I grew up with that James Brown Song,say it loud I am Black and I am proud. We really did have that respect and love in our Communities,during the 1970s Decade 🌹💖💕
Truth Man
I love all y'all true heartfelt comments. I want us back again too! Especially, being knowing who we are. I love my own ! ❤
I love this comment. ❤️
Truth Man love u back
Yes, I agree.
Man, if you are a 70s and 80s kid, then you know NOTHING compares to our Saturday morning line-up... cartoons all morning, followed by Souĺ Train... I forget what was after that... nostalgic!!!
"cartoons all morning, followed by Souĺ Train"
Sadly, today's kids will never experience the joy we had...since now they're both gone.
Weeellll...that was the very early nineties too. Missing those days
I'm a 70's and 80's kid. I was born in 1969. I remember the Asian lady with the long hair and the light skinned guy me and sister called him Head....Great memories! 😀
@@tonyac9153 who doesn't remember her... lol? I was IN LOVE with her as a kid! I think she was the most popular one, and she was in the Super Freak video.
@@toastEDmrshmello09 the women on there at that time were fine and BEAUTIFUL!
I feel like the 90’s was when soul train lost its soul......
Yes, the growth of hip hop changed the game.
@@MB-fv9jh
I noticed the DIFFERENCE as well, it had less or no *SOUL*.
Yeah I think soo too
90s era was r&b and hip hop, it wasnt just hip hop, but more a mixture of both.
it was i remember when they tried to do that next generation shit and it just wasnt hittin right smh
Their looks are really throwing me off because we’re talking about the 70s but they look young..
Cherish Faleono ikr😅
The 70's originals was the best. Hands down.
YEP!!!!
Speak for yourself! Everyone has their favorite era/s!!
The 70ies was cool, it laid the foundation for everything that came after, but the 80ies, imo took things to the highest level the early 90ies were alright but after that soul train seemed to have jumped the shark.
@@theking0ne327 + Absolutely!
I loved the 80s era. Especially mid 80s soul train
Damn I thought at least at some point Don paid the dancers. Even though the show gave them exposure and other opportunities there should've been some monetary gain. Soul Train was very successful and on for a long time.
It's business. Not everyone gets paid.
On American Soul, one of the Soul Train Dancers said that the American Bandstand dancers got paid with benefits. Did ya see last night's episode when the dancers were protesting outside the studio demanding to be paid?
Unbelievable the dance made to show and 😳 you mean you tell me Don was that damn cheap 🙀just giving them a two piece in a soda ,WOW!!! That’s a Stonecoal trip🥴
Imagine if the social media we had today existed back then, they would have gained more from that kind of exposure.
Stephen Short I did. I think that was low down of Don.😱
This should have been longer, at least 30 minutes and with more interviews.
“We made the show. We were the show”. Exactly. ST came on after American Bandstand in the 1970’s and a wonderful cultural insight. You all still look amazing and so excited you had the life experience and memories.
Didn't want this to end!!! Thank you B.E.T😍
Glad you enjoyed!
This should have been longer. Loved it!!
I know right.
Hopefully there'll be a part 2 and another one every week!
BETTER THAN THE MOVIE.....that real feel. Salute
I agree totally
No, the talent from the show was gone, now, people have SHIT for talent.
I really enjoyed watching this. I remember all the dancers. Back in the 80's, my older sister my cousin and I were in front of the TV every Saturday morning watching Soul Train just to get the latest dance moves😅😄😃🤣. The good old days.👍
I remember it all. I remember Shabba-doo and Rerun, and my all time fave Damita Jo Freeman. She really stood out and she did the most legendary dance when Joe Tex came on and performed his hit. She was on stage going off and it seemed very impromptu. She was just that good. Basically, the group Shalimar came off of Soul Train.
I REMEMBER THEY KEPT CALLING ROSIE PEREZ..."TINA". IT WOULD BE NICE IF SOUL TRAIN BROUGHT ALL OF THE WELL KNOWN DANCERS TO OPEN THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS & ALSO PRESENT THEM👌
That's an awesome idea!
Absolutely 🤩
@@michaelangelotaylor8th 88g Alvin Slaughter
@@colinricketts6121 oh?... meaning? 🤔
I agree that they should bring the Soul train dancer's in an opening act for the Soul train Awards. Loved the 70's dancers much better. Charles is 2yrs older than I am, I didn't recognize him. He danced in the 80's. I wish I could see Domita Joe and
La Tonya the best female dancers of them all. Salute to the 70's Soul train dancer's. I stopped watching Soul Train in late 80's.
I remembered standing in on front of the T.V. when I was little girl trying best to copy every dance move that I saw. The Asian lady always stood out to me with her long hair.
She also danced on American Bandstand.
I remembered also standing there in front of the Television set in my Teenager Lady Years in the 1980s. And trying to mimic their dancing moves. Also,in the earlier 1980s there was another woman whom hair were similar looking to the Asian lady hair. Now,she was Exotic and extremely gorgeous,she could really dance too and her hair was even longer than the Asian lady hair. I believed her name was Dina Rivera🌹
@@ericar.hutcherson874 she did?? I never saw her on there. there were a couple that danced on both damita jo freeman and a couple others.
@@retroguy1976 Yes in the early 70s. Some of the danced on Bandstand.
She stood out with her long hair for sure and because she was Asian. But she couldn't dance, all she ever did was flip her hair around.
Barbers in the barbershop would stop cutting hair to watch the Soul Train line💯
Especially when Rosie Perez would shake that ASS!😋
What's up Sam Jackson
🎱🎱🎱🎱
Man, seeing these guys again is mind blowing. They only showed clips of these dancers, but y'all need to watch the full episodes from the shows...THESE GUYS CAN DANCE! They made the show. No fooling.
The Dancers never got PAID!!!!😱
Thundergod6088 fucked up situation
right. no fighting over who's making more and I'm a better act. more people recognize me so I should make. . .
Soul Train dancers were a team
Did you hearnwhat Shabadoo said?? It helped them mold real csreers away from getting scale
Everybody in the music video do not get paid
@@Demarcointuit it helped shabadoo, it didn't help all of them
"The Asian lady with the long hair" my grandmama used to love (RIP). I was a big fan of Shabba Doo, Penguin (Rerun), and Damita Jo!
@@dwaynedavis2721 where is she now....
@@lvncsr6166 Last heard she was working at LAX airport as an executive assistant, but that info is 10 years old.
@A O K I know. Thanks.
I always looked for the long hair swinging
Me too
*Dancing makes you young, music lifts the soul - TRAIN !*
None of them looks anything like old, they just don't expire!
Must be immortal souls!
Just beautiful, everything they did!
in our hearts we were all Soul Train dancers
Every Saturday morning! Then come Saturday night...in the club with those new moves! 😼
Absolutely! 😊
TRUE
Many of them still looking good...respect 🙌💯💕
Yes
Please, please don't think I am being disrespectful, I truly don't mean to come across that way, but at 60 years old myself, and a huge fan of Soul Train, I watched it every Sat. I still do catch a rerun now and then, and enjoy it now maybe more than back then. As someone who loves to dance and has been told I'm pretty good at it, I loved the dancing on the show, especially the line!!! Lastly I'd like to add that I believe black people and hispanic's age very, very well!! The skin seems to stay wrinkle free and glowing!! And as a white woman, watching her ass flaten by the day, I am envious,lol. I wish I knew what it was in the ethnicity that keeps you lovlies from aging!! Cheers to all of you dancers out there!!
Janet Carlson. As a Irish& Mexican Female as always dancing and moving to the beat of music from all kinds.. It's in the pigmentation of people's skin how the age prosses goes as we'll plenty of creams.. always using baby oil on the skin especially in the winter months. And Summer months with some spf .. It's in your DNA ..
there are plenty of people all different races that have beautiful skin . its in how you take care of your skin . and DNA ..
my own cousin I've always told her how beautiful her skin is she is a natural red head pale tone yet even going through many different heath issues she still is beautiful even when she does not feel like it.she has always danced worked has a strong mindset..she is 50 doesn't look it at all ..
Age is just a number anyways really its how you feel ..
Keep dancing even if you don't think you can ..move something to the music find a beat and go with the flow...it's not a cure all but it will help you stay fit ..
Let's Not forget about
The Solid Gold Dancers
💃💃💃💃💃💃💃✌
@@natashabenitez7650 Thanks for replying!! As a young teenager well into my 40's I was always lying in the sun, without any protection mind you!! I live in FL. and my skin is showing all the sun damage that I have allowed to happen!! I've never taken care of my skin, just too lazy. Now I certainly regret it!! I have 2 daughter-in-laws. One is Scicllian and the other is mostly Cherokee. Their skin is poreless, where as you could fall into mine,lol I don't know if I am too late to repair any damage or not. But at least, even with a very painful spinal disease, I still love to dance. I was on a Prince kick last night!! Thanks again, and keep on dancing!! btw, wish I could see your entire face, but you have captivating eyes!!!
Shabba Doo😍
My mama always tells me the story of her running to the TV on Saturdays to watch Soul Train 😂😂😂😂😂
I remember watching Soul Train on Saturday to look at the new dance moves because the new dances always came out first in California.
I was living in New Orleans, so I learn those dance moves off of Soul Train and brought it to the club.
I WISH THIS CLIP WAS LONGER!! THIS WAS AWESOME!
Time look so good, people look so natural and beautiful, things look so real all you could wish for is to go back to them days!
Love Love And More Love! Greatly needed in the Black Community now and what is missing. Love my Black People and I love Soul Train!!
Vivica Fox at the scramble board...in '83 i got a jericurl at 13 and i wanted it bouncy just like Charles Washington's but my hair was too thick and messed up a lot of shirt collars with that activator...😔
Bring back memories... the t.v. with the coat hanger as an antenna and pliers as the television knob..
We had our first "color " tv when my mom bought a rainbow colored film to go on the screen of our black and white tv! Anyone remember that?
Hahaha bahahaha....yeah our children would pass out and be in comas
😂😂😂 ... Girl, you ain't part of Black culture if you didn't have that big ol' t.v. with the coat hanger and pliers needed to change the channels! You REALLY brought back some memories! Oh my goodness! 😂
@@darmadusa We didn't always get the picture right with the coat hanger but we were experts with those pliers LOL
@@gokaren420 LOL They would just want to throw the whole t.v. away.
No pay, wow, chicken ? These people are so gifted, awesome talent.
I thought the whole idea for Soul Train was an outlet for young black people to show case their dancing skills & stay out of trouble, not get paided, you were there because you love to dance. Soul Train was like a popular black knight club on tv. But, i would of feed the dancers good, with a variety of food, also have money & trip give-aways for best dancer(s). 😃👍
Those Were my favorite dancers on Soul Train! They still look amazing! Gorgeous Ladies and Fine Men!
I remember the Chinese lady when I was young she had long hair, in this was in the early 2000s and she been doing it since the 70s, she's a real soul train OG
after the 80's the dancers weren't dancing they were grinding shaking their asses,but before them they were dancing their asses off
Yes they were 💯
@Killer Joe nahJoe they just got lazy and thought shaking ass was the same as dancing.
Anybody could do what the 90's dancers was doing. Now them 70's dancers......"do not attempt this at home". LoL
Rosie Perez came on and shook her azz to the death of Soul Train 🚂 the spotlight stayed on her. Real dancing became obsolete 💃🏽🕺🏾
...lol...
Man.... I LOVED the Soul Train Dancers particularly during the 70s and 80s!! I watched them practically every Saturday morning and tried to duplicate their dance moves!! THANK YOU SOUL TRAIN DANCERS!!
OMG! This was a must watch program for me every Saturday morning! I grew up in East Saint Louis, IL (just across the river from St. Louis, MO) and my Aunt, cousins and I would always call one another and say "did you see Soul Train today?" We would learn the dances and of course rock the fashions that were out then. I truly miss those days.....
They all deserve a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame🌟👏👏👏🌟
in my opinion the seventies were the best years for the dancers on Soul Train. No one was on there acting like they were getting ready to audition for a music video and the women dressed with much more class than they did in the 90s up until the end of the run of Soul Train. I wish that they had had damita Jo Freeman on there or more of the people that originated the 70s dances on Soul Train. If it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't even be talkin about Soul Train today they made the show!
Yep the 70s was the best now they were the original Soul Train dancers
Agreed! Domita Joe and Pat were my favorites.
LMAO LMAO
......is she alive still?
Calling all power people Opra, Tyler Perry, Denzel Washington, Jay Z Beyonce, Floyd Mayweather, Will & Jada, Michael Jordan lets put some of those coins together and use your connections to put together another soul train so we can show case our long lost r&b culture and our love of hip hop music. I can remember when Mrs Stephanie Mills quoted they killed r&b music they didnt want to here it from us they want to hear it from justin Timberlake adele and peple like that and she was so right.
😲This video was sooooo nostalgic to me, growing up an early 80’s baby! I remember watching this at my Grandmama’s house! Sniffling...I can see their faces in my head. They loved to watch us dancing and mocking the dancers in that line! WHEW, the memories! 🥂🎉😂
I am a fan of SOUL TRAIN. My late parents and my siblings looked forward to watching Soul 🚆 Train every Saturday.
This awesome show made my day! The wonderful & Talented Artists made me want to purchased the 45rpms' & Albums.
The dancers were AWESOME!!! I enjoyed watching the beautiful women and handsome men dancing. I wish those days would come back. This is part of Musical history.
Remember they’d unscramble the word before the show would begin?
Every winner of the scramble board got the same damn thing in the 70s...The Afrosheen Blowout kit.
The participants already knew the answer before the game..Don Cornelius didn't want them to work out the scramble long because of time.
@@mikegee3991 😂
What word did they have to unscramble
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I loved watching soul train every Saturday morning. The dancers was awesome. I really missed that show!!
And the dancer aged gracefully. Bless there hearts
Im so happy to be black we are so damn creative and amazing
Why is everything about RACE!!!!!!!!
Yes we are,yes we are.....
Music doesn't see race! Only the ignorant believe that! Loved Soul train for the music,not color
Yo Riana Anais,why is your hair straight?????
@NEGUS MBARKA wtf does that have to do with anything
There will never be anything remotely close to those eras. Those were the days of true fun and good times.
Please let’s include Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniels!!! 😘
Yass!
Jody was the fashion icon! I wanted her big hair and dresses.
Jody was EVERYTHING! She was the full package and brought it everytime🕺🏾💃🏾
They are who i was looking for!!!
@@kristelquartz6085 yes, me toooo!!!
I need to start dancing more. They look so good.!!
Don Cornelius cheated those soul train dancers who took his to a whole nother level! But that Russian woman walked off with millions.
@@marlomills6800 Both men & women danced, for free.
studies show kids who get paid to do their chores; don't. my big daddy say you'll find a way to make money at what you enjoy doing. Don forced them to expand their horizons
@@kellynorvell5714 if you're talking about his suicide; that's all kinds of WRONG!
Well, you reap what you sow!
Theses niggaz always do that marry a white woman and a black man dies and she gets all that money and puts it back in white communitys, pimpin pimpin, when are black men going to learn? the women Out last the men
Thank you all for being a positive part of my childhood
Thanks Don for giving us children who was born in the 60s and came of age in the 70s as children and 80s as teenagers and even in the 90s as young adults for this i will never forget you.
I loved watching Soul Train with my mother, aunts and uncles! It was a staple in our household. We'd cleanup Sat mornings then everyone's eyes would be glued to the tv watching Soul Train and trying to do those dances, lbvs! Great times as a kid in the 70s!
Happy memories!!!! 😊👍
Riiiiiiight, we did the same thing eat breakfast clean up til soul train came then when it went off played outside.
All of the dancers still look absolutely amazing!! 😍😍😍😍😍
When I was a young girl you couldn't tell me I wasn't a soul train dancer!! I had the robot DOWN!!!😂😂i use to practice all the time and the split...i had a whole routine..now..lol lol i struggle to touch my toes...the 50's got me tired😂😂😂
Loved the soul train dancers! They made the show and the acts were exciting to watch too! All the latest fashions, and some crazy costumes but that was part of the charm! Saturdays was special from all the kid programs & cartoons, to Soul train at 12pm. I miss those days!
I miss those days too... 💖
Don Cornelius was kind of wrong with not paying them.In my opinion feels as if he was exploiting them
There will never be a show like this
Ashanti P theres a saying, give a starving man a fish, he eats for the day but give him a fishing pole, he eats for life! Don gave out fishing poles not fish.
@@shellbells339 I understand where your coming from. True Mr Cornelius provided them opportunity and gave them a platform to display their talent. He also profited greatly as well.There would be no soul train without the dancers
Ashanti P I understand what you're saying as well... I guess most everyone can get a little greedy when it comes to money. Lol
... He was... There were lawsuits and he lost lots of sponsorship deals behind the scandal.... It was the ongoing topic of discussion throughout the early 80's concerning the show...
Don Cornelius was a genius, so happy that the dancers’ hard work paid off, I watched the show from 77-79
Ms. Damita Jo Freeman 2:00 she was the greatest Soul Train dancer. She is an O.G of the Soul Train Gang!
Ya DAMN RIGHT, she had *SOUL* she was the literal definition of Black Soul Sister !
Ms. Damita Jo Freeman was also in a movie called Ratboy in 1986
And the movie Private Benjamin... the tv show too...she also did a few episodes of the tv show L.A. Law....
OMG! I watched the very first Soul Train episode when it was broadcast. Most of the black community across the country was so hyped. It was a phenomenon. I was entranced as a tween of 12 years old. I get goose pimples thinking about it. The show was great and the dancers were awesome. My friends and I copied the dances and fashion all the time. It was a beautiful and exciting moment in time.
Soul Train Dancers brought style, boogie, swag before you knew what swag was. Thanks for making my life fun and full of Soulllllllllllllll!
As a kid growing up this was my favorite Saturday show, came on at 12:30 in RVA in the 80s. For a mixed girl like me living in such a conservative city this was my only exposure to music and dance that connected to me. I loved it.
I remember watching this. I also watched Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's rock concert.
What happened to the guy with all the mask that danced?? I remember seeing him in LA at a gas station in the early 90's. He had a trunk full of mask and costumes!! I miss this show on Saturday morning!!! Bring it back.
Absolutely!!!..Masked Guy!!!...
Lisa Marie great idea only thing is I feel if they bring this show back it wouldn’t be the same. The way women dress now and the twerking and all the sexually dancing it would be something kids couldn’t watch. Back in the day they all seem to have class and even some of the women had bodysuits on they still seem to have sexual appeal and not over done it.
2019 no ones dances with style and passion like these guys. I would watch it if they danced now. Wow
Sure they do
Yeah they do loo
I entered the 10th grade in 1970 finishing in high school in 1973. We watched Soul Train religiously every Saturday. The men wore platform shoes from Flag Brothers & Thom McAn shoes back in the 70's wearing big Afro. I have a knot on my knee to this day from 1972 where I was doing a Soul Train dance at a party hitting my knee on a brick fireplace at my cousin's house in Coral Hills, Maryland outside of Washington, D.C. Boy do I miss those days.