And the Beat Goes On - The Whispers

The Second Time Around - Shalamar

Scramble Board tune (Walter Payton): Move Your Boogie Body - The Bar-Kays

Performance: High Inergy - Skate To The Rhythm

Performance: Dick Gregory

Performance: Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing

Sexy Dancer - Prince

Performance: High Inergy - I Love Makin' Love (To The Music)

Soul Train Line: Working Day and Night - Michael Jackson

Performance: Chic - Good Times



Love, Peace & SOUL



tA

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I saw most of the show and it was great. Hearing Sexy Dancer was a great treat! Good show. What year was that from? I thought it was from 1979 but And The Beat Goes On and The Second Time Around were big in the early 80s unless I'm mistaken.

purplecam said:

Good episode for sure.

Not sure about the show's original air date.
SoulAlive or vainandy probably do.

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theAudience said:

Well TA, Legs will give it a go. The Whispers & Shalimar cuts came out around early 1980.
[Edited 6/9/07 13:04pm]

Baby doll in the green dress


Lawd have merrrsaaayy!!!

They were groovin to "Sexy Dancer." I wanted to jump through the TV and join them! Havin too much fun on tha one!

I was guessing what date the show aired too..I think this was from early to mid 1980. Today's episode was great. Chic was on point. High Inergy was OK but their music sounded like it was stuck in 1974.

I always wondered why Prince never peformed on Soul Train back in the early 80's. He did Bandstand, Midnight Special, SNL and even Solid Gold. Maybe the paycheck wasn't that good? (lol)

Still waiting on BOOTSY. I would love to see the episode tribute to Rick James when he was on the entire show.

SPYZFAN1 said:

nah!!!

I think he avoided Soul Train early so he wouldn't be in lump in the R & B catagory...

He wanted that cross over appeal...




AND YES!!!

Where's Bootsaaay??!!!

And Raydio??!!!

1979 kidz..

NOOOOO! I missed Chic??!! Say it aint so.

Dick Gregory was droppin SCIENCE on the diet of black folks back in the. Damn near 30 years later and we still ain't learned anything. I heard ya Mr. Gregory and I will be dedicating a day a week to eating my raw vegatables and fruits.

Oh,wow! They're playing my song!

Damn, skate is a funky ass song.

High Enery were pretty hot chicks I wish there was a fan somwhere near.

Yeah funkpill...Raydio got down on Soul Train back then.

funkpill said:

Yeah she was BAAD wasn't she

theAudience said:

This show originally aired on March 1,1980 but I have a feeling that it was taped several weeks before that.All of the songs appear to be from the latter part of 1979.Certainly,by march 1980,Chic's "Good Times" was old news.

overall,I thought this episode was kinda boring Chic were fantastic,of course,and it was cool hearing Prince's "Sexy Dancer".That's one of his most underrated dance tracks and you could tell that the dancers liked it alot.

But High Inergy?? These girls are only known for their excellent 1977 hit "You Can't Turn Me Off".I never heard another decent single from them and the two songs they performed on this episode were...

Didn't really care for the Dick Gregory performance.Don's interview with him seemed to go on forever.

Michael Jackson's "Workin Day and Night" was the perfect song for the line dance.That song is sooooo fast and relentless.Today's kids wouldn't know what to do with a groove like that

funkpill said:

the sad thing is...he finally appeared on Soul Train in 1994...long after the show became irrelevent To me,the show was over at the end of the 80s.They should have cancelled it then.Could you imagine how cool it would have been if he had appeared on Soul Train in 1981,singing "Controversy" and "Private Joy"?! A missed opportunity.

It was early 1980. It was a great show except for the long comedian act which bored the hell out of me. "Sexy Dancer" was my favorite part of the show. That song got the queens on the floor to hollerin'!

I agree the comedy was a bit outside of the box. some was funny and he looked like he was almost fifty instead of forty bragging about all them kids. and yeah the interview was long-winded.

why was move your boogie body cut off!
high energy was cool. I wanted to hear other tunes by them. the ladies of chic performed expressionless

over all it was a great show-- second time around was good. no ballet dancing and no tights on the funk jams. it was funny to see lou ski the guy from the eighties who was all over the place on the main stage out dancing on the floor with all that hair. and the costume man was on the floor that was cool. before his time.

Soul..that would have been intense! I would have been happy if he just came on the show back then (in 79/80) and rapped with Don.

I'm praying they'll run the episode when The Commodores took over the show. I think "Midnight Magic" was out at that time and they played "Sail On" and some other cuts.

SPYZFAN1 said:

brick house rocked on that show as well. that was just when lionel left the group but that was the first time I was introduced to crowd participation

SoulAlive said:

Indeed


Or he could've appear when his debut album came out...

Imagine the performance of Soft & Wet on there

funkpill said:

damn,Prince!! He shoulda been on there

Prince turned down Soul Train because they wouldn't let him perform live.
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LittleBLUECorvette said:

seriously? Did he get to perform live on American Bandstand?

SoulAlive said:

I doin't know, I was just guessing.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Nope!!!


And not on Midnight Special either...

Or Solid Gold

Come to think of it...

Purple Rain could've been his first televised live performance..


Oops!!! Forgot about Party Up on SNL

SPYZFAN1 said:

Ray Parker & Inc was dropping some serious Funk no doubt back in the day.