SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I recorded 48 episodes onto DVDs. I originally recorded more but I threw two or three of them away because they were late 80s episodes and sorry.

vainandy said:

Haha!

The 1970s and early 1980s (1980-82) were fun to watch!

vainandy said:

You're not saying anything but the truth.

Timmy84 said:

Those were my favorites but I'd take it further to 85.

Because a country singer would have to compete with other artists that have a full band behind them and the focus isn't only on how good someone can sing. A country artist would have to compete with others that have melodies and the actual sound of the music behind them because as dull as I find country, it is still actual music and R&B isn't anymore.

It's easy to give an R&B singer a record deal and throw some shit hop sounding drum machines behind them and have a hit because the R&B world doesn't give a damn about actual music anymore.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

That would be "must-see TV" right there!

They wouldn't know how because they are used to simply flapping their arms around like they are swatting flies. When it comes to shaking ass, there are a bunch of dumbasses from this younger generation that consider that "gay".

Hell yeah. And you know that me, you, and TheAudience was turning it out every week with the Soul Train threads. That's the best the org ever was back then.

I like the music on the shows until around early 1985 (pre-Shitney Houston). But as far as the dancing goes, the best dancing on the show ended around late 1981/early 1982. After that, they started getting dancers, especially ladies, that danced stiff like white girls, or were too busy trying to pose and model than dance. Before that, the dancing was unmistakably "black".

vainandy said:

Uh-huh, exactly! Miss those days.

vainandy said:

That's true.

vainandy said:

So true

vainandy said:

Don Cornelius sold out after 1982-83. You even saw some Vanilla Ice-looking white boys on the late-1980s, early-1990s shows. I didn't really see it at the time growing up watching it but looking back, "Soul Train" was falling off when I started watching it as a kid!

Timmy84 said:

It was even earlier like mid-80's. Some of them were wack too.

purplecam said:

Yeah I saw some of the 1984-86 shows like when I saw them on the screen and they couldn't dance worth shit like Eddie Murphy said.

vainandy said:

OMG! I love that new dance! Is it the bird?

No. It's the faggot

Angelic1302 said:

What about "The Midnight Special" with Wolfman Jack?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

If anybody said that and a gay dude is in front of him, the person better be lucky if dude doesn't beat the shit out of him for that comment!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I was thinking the same thing!

At first, for sentimental reasons I thought, okay maybe...but then good sense gopt the better of me

The last time I saw a show like this it was a terrible snap rap act standing in a line lipsyncing their raps.

I would never watch a "new" episode of these shows.Three years ago,I was flipping through the channels and came across a new episode of 'Soul Train'.The musical guest was The Pussycat Dolls.It just felt so.....wrong.I grew up in the 70s when 'Soul Train' was so important and so entertaining.If it existed today,it would just become a sad show dedicated to shit hop.

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Timmy84 said:

He sure did. There was a nightly radio show back then called "Radioscope" that had mentioned this. They said that Don had started slipping in more pop/rock songs and brought in a few more white dancers in an attempt to gain a few white viewers and maybe compete with "American Bandstand".

I'm sure you noticed from watching some of the old episodes last year, that they played the music video by Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" on one episode and the music video by Huey Lewis and The News "Heart Of Rock And Roll". These songs were never played on R&B radio and were totally out of place on "Soul Train".

And the white dancers he brought in were horrible. They danced absolutely stiff as a board and their stiffness seemed to be carrying over to a lot of the black ladies. And the white dancers' partners were white also which looked totally un-natural and out of place. I mean, how often do you see a white couple in an all black club. Most white people that I've seen in all black clubs are dating someone black unless they are one of those white couples who are yuppies who are in there to "explore another culture". Now, Miss Asian Lady, Cheryl Song, looked totally in place. She was on there when she was the only non-black person in there, appeared to be totally at ease, and appeared to be liked and accepted by the black dancers. She seemed to be in there because she wanted to be there because she loved the music rather than just being in there for the sake of being a token. She reminded me so much of myself.
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I used to be flipping through the channels and see glipses of it and I could actually feel the vomit coming up to my throat. I didn't even call it "Soul Train", I referred to it as the "Shit Hop Train" and wanted it to either go off the air or change it's name because it was destroying the reputation and good name of the show.

There's a radio station in my area that's the same way. This radio station was the baddest station in Jackson when I was growing up, and back in the day, if my knob had fallen off the radio, I wouldn't have cared as long as the station was on WJMI. Well, it's the only station from back in the day that still exists and plays current R&B. Another one exists but they have a soft soul and oldies format. Whenever I flip through the stations and hear a snip of WJMI, it turns my stomach. They could at least change their name or something.