Here's a pickin' everybody's sho nuff diggin'.


She's Just a Groupie - Bobby Nunn
Young Love - Janet Jackson

Performance: Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl

Scramble Board tune (Stevie Wonder): Doo Wa Ditty - Zapp

Soul Train History Book: Grease - Frankie Valli

Change - Barry White

Performance: Carl Carlton - Baby I Need Your Lovin'

Muscles - Diana Ross

Performance: Vanity 6 - He's So Dull

Soul Train Line: 1999 - Prince

Performance: Carl Carlton - Swing That Sexy Thing


Love, Peace & SOUL


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Freakin' awesome!


Great to hear some quality Soul music from back in the day. Vanity 6 and Prince!


I never used to watch the Soul Train of today. The music sucked and it was just boring. But it's great to see the old school episodes.

theAudience said:

I like when you do this


And I even seen it today..

Still wait for the Bootsy show

funkpill said:

Thanks.

It's a fun watch.
I keep hoping i'll get a glimpse of Rosie Perez.


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Im watching it now even though Im really sleepy

That dancer with the really long hair,wonder what she's doing today

ThreadCula said:

I was thinking the same thing - she probably looks the same! I was also wondering about that guy Louie - the light skinned brutha who always wore the shades and threw his hands up more than he actually danced. He was the one who opened his shirt on this episode while "Muscles" was playing.

Isn't it amazing the impression some of these dancers made?

My brother and I watched a video compilation of vids from 1987 to 1990 and I was amazed how many videos Louie was in. I wonder where he is today?

The Carl Carlton interview was funny..my man had sweat and S-Curl juice running all down his face during the interview. I hope they play the episode when Vanity
peformed solo (I think it was during the "Wild Animal" era)..dudes in the crowd were going ballistic..holding up dollar bills.

Still waiting on the Bootsy show.

JessDezz said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

A photo from a 2004 Soul Train Dancers reunion...



...and yes, he still pointing.


I always got the impression he was attempting to channel MJ for some reason.


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ThreadCula said:

Cheryl Song (far right)...



...from a 2004 STD (that doesn't look right - Soul Train Dancer) reunion.

Damita Jo Freeman (another dancer) is to her left.


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As a Prince fan, that was a really cool episode to catch, maybe the best one that I've seen since I started catching these (a few weeks ago). The Janet song was interesting. I'd never heard that Bobby Nunn tune, but it was jammin' and I'm trying to download it now. Vanity was f----- beautiful on stage. I like how Don introduced them with the "wrote and produced all of the songs on their debut album" and started their interview with (appropriately) "they bad, ain't they?" I only wished Carl Carlton would've performed "Bad Mamma Jamma". The Frankie Valli clip was pretty damn cool- I didn't know he had so much soul. Speaking of having soul, or lack thereof, what was up with the blonde white girl in the Soul Train line?

My Tivo is set for Soul Train every Sat. (comes on at midnight down here) and watching it is one of the highlights of my Sundays. I just hope that they have DOPE episodes to hold me through those July and August Sundays when there's no basketball or football.

theAudience said:

OMG!!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Fuck, I don't believe I forgot to watch this! What an episode!

theAudience said:

Thanks for posting that pic.I always wondered whatever happened to Louie.You are correct,he was always dancing/posing like Michael Jackson All he needed was the white glove,lol.

so is erm that vanity 6 performance on the tube thats you yet?

btw,this was one of the BEST episodes I have seen! I went nuts when they showed the 1978 flashback of Frankie Valli singing "Grease" The summer of 1978 is special to me.I remember being caught up in disco and "Grease" (the movie and soundtrack).That was such an exciting time!

It was also great to hear Bobby Nunn's "She's Just A Groupie".Vainandy will disagree with me,but I think it was cool when they slowed things down a bit and played Diana Ross' sultry,sexy "Muscles".Man,that is such a hot track!! That song (and this episode) took me right back to the fall of '82,when nearly every R&B artist and band had a kickass single on the radio.

Of course,Vanity 6 was a treat so sexy and charming,they were.

Christopher said:

It sure is: http://www.youtube.com/wa...9d9yuM69dQ

SPYZFAN1 said:

His performance was disappointing too.A weak Motown remake ("Baby,I Need Your Lovin").He needed a stronger follow-up to "She's A Bad Mama Jama".

SoulAlive said:

i love how they all go crazy in the front. lol

okay now we need someone to post the version that aired this weekend

Christopher said:

along with the second song "He's So Dull"

SPYZFAN1 said:

I remember that episode! It was in the fall of '84.Vanity performed "Pretty Mess" and then came back and did "Wild Animal".During the interview,Don asked if her she had ever done movies.Smiling,she said "Yes,Don,I have done it many times" She also mentioned that she was now on Motown and that Rick James had been helping her out,giving her advice.I wonder if she was trying to make Prince jealous? lol

theAudience said:

Wow,it's interesting to see these people now! I wish they would make some kind of documentary on the Soul Train Dancers.I'd love to hear their stories and get a little insight on what it was like to be a ST dancer.

Don...are you listening??

Yeah Soul do you remember that? (lol)...that was a great peformance. Maybe ol' Rick was trying to get P a litle jealous.

Cheryl looks different but she still looks good. She's probably a mom with grown kids and grandkids (lol). DaMita Jo Freeman did OK for herself. I know she was in the movie and TV series "Private Benjamin". She also danced on American Bandstand.

They should do a docu on the dancers. Just to see how Soul Train affected their lives. The one guy who used to get on my nerves was the Micheal Jackson/Narada Micheal Walden lookalike with the jheri curl. Arsenio blasted Don on his show and said "you gave him more camera time than me..he was to busy 'drippin' all over the place"...Don just fell out laughing.

SPYZFAN1 said:

that shit was mad funny seeing his curl juice running down his face. my husband was like i hope no one lights a match near him! he seemed sweet though. what a show! this was probably my favorite episode so far. i love me some classic soul train. does anyone know what Don Cornelius is up to these days?

Louie always makes me LMAO when I watch these classic Soul Train's, he was doing his MJ impression for sure. The funniest was on the Evelyn King/Flash & Furious Five epi few weeks back when MJ's "PYT" was the Soul Train Line song and Louie pulled out some of MJ's moves when it was his turn.

SPYZFAN1 said:

That Narada looking cat does that same shimmy shimmy move like he's a fish outta water, I guess that was his signature step. He could easily pass for Narada brother
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Abdul said:

Yeah,he always look like he is auditioning to be in a Michael Jackson video,lol.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I think his name is Myron...



...2nd dude from the right.


More Louie...



...still posin' & pointin' at something.


More Cheryl...



...She looks like she's been bodybuilding or something.


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Great show from beginning to end.

vainandy said:

even the "slow" song?

Actually, I like the song "Muscles", even though I would never have played a song that slow on a dance show. However, they made up for it when the lady opened the guy's shirt and rubbed that hairy chest. After I recorded the show on DVD, that's the first place I went back to and hit the "zoom" button.