funkpill said:

TD3 said:

Help a sista, what channel are "we" looking at?

Oh!!! I still haven't came across it and I've been looking.

I was just surprise that Maze was on there

sorry

But I'll keep U posted

Tease.

Will when you find it, you know. I have a lot of time on my hands these days.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Cameo was on this morning from 82.

Yep, Cameo and Patrice Rushen. That was a good one. This afternoon, they're playing another good one, Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio from 1980. I hope I make it home in time this evening. They really need to change the times on these episodes.

Who is Raydio?

ANDY! how ya been, baby?

scriptgirl said:

scriptgirl said:

Who is Raydio?

ANDY! how ya been, baby?

I'm doing fine honey.

Raydio is the group that Ray Parker, Jr. was in before he went solo. Songs like "You Can't Change That", "Jack and Jill", "For Those Who Like To Groove", "Hot Stuff", "A Woman Needs Love", etc. are back when he was with Raydio. "The Other Woman" was his first solo album.

TD3 said:

funkpill said:

Oh!!! I still haven't came across it and I've been looking.

I was just surprise that Maze was on there

sorry

But I'll keep U posted

Tease.

Will when you find it, you know. I have a lot of time on my hands these days.

vainandy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Cameo was on this morning from 82.

Yep, Cameo and Patrice Rushen. That was a good one. This afternoon, they're playing another good one, Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio from 1980. I hope I make it home in time this evening. They really need to change the times on these episodes.

That's probably the one where they perform For Those Who Like To Groove

dang

Thanks, Andy!

Prince on soul train (this video is great!)

[Prince video snip - luv4u]

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funkpill said:

vainandy said:

Yep, Cameo and Patrice Rushen. That was a good one. This afternoon, they're playing another good one, Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio from 1980. I hope I make it home in time this evening. They really need to change the times on these episodes.

That's probably the one where they perform For Those Who Like To Groove

dang

It was great. They performed that one and also "Two Places At The Same Time". Ray, Goodman, and Brown was also on the show performing "Inside Of You" and "Special Lady".

They were on a roll yesterday. Two episodes from the best era, the early 1980s. They fucked up this morning though by playing A Taste Of Honey and Jeffery Osborne from 1982. Great episode but it aired a few years ago on WGN so I already have it.

free2bfreeda said:

Prince on soul train (this video is great!)

[Prince video snip - luv4u]

[Edited 11/2/11 18:33pm]

Prince needed his ass beat for waiting until he fell off to perform on the show. He should have been on there in the early 1980s performing "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "Controversy", "Let's Work", "1999", etc. Everyone else from that era, including his side projects, performed on that show except Prince. Instead he was busy sniffing around "American Bandstand" and "Solid Gold's" asses instead of performing on "Soul Train" where his audience at the time was.

Soul Train Fun Trivia

http://www.funtrivia.com/...48921.html

In 1971, "Soul Train" became a nationally syndicated television show; however, it was first televised locally a full year earlier in this particular city. Which one was it?

Chicago. "Soul Train" got its start on station WCIU in Chicago, in 1970. Don Cornelius had produced the show's pilot episode in 1969 and, after seeing it, the Sears and Roebuck Company gave him some of the funding to put the show on air in exchange for the right to use the Soul Train name in promoting a line of record players the company was selling at the time. As the show began to pick up a following, it picked up its most popular sponsor of all, the Johnson Company, whose cosmetics line included Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen hair-care products.

Which month, in 1971, did "Soul Train" make its nationally syndicated premiere in the United States?

October. "Soul Train" made its nationally syndicated debut in the U.S. on October 2, 1971.

Which one of these artists did not appear on the first episode of "Soul Train"?

Sly and the Family Stone. Except for Sly and the Family Stone, all of these acts appeared on the first episode of the show. Eddie Hutton rounded out the first four artists to debut on the show.

It is generally known that r&b singer, Jody Watley, was a dancer on "Soul Train" for several years before she found success with the r&b group, Shalamar; however, what other artist, who would have a close relationship with Jody for many years after the show, was also a dancer with her on "Soul Train"?

Jeffrey Daniels. Jeffrey Daniels and Jody Watley both joined the show as dancers in 1973. In 1977, they both joined the group, Shalamar, and were members together until Jody left to pursue a solo career in 1984.

Although "Soul Train" was erroneously considered to be a show for African-Americans only during its early years, there have been many white artists that have performed on the show. Which one of these acts was the first to "break" the color line on the show?

Gino Vannelli. On February 2, 1975, during the fourth season of "Soul Train", Gino Vannelli, whose best-known hits include "I Just Want to Stop" and "Living Inside Myself", "broke" the color barrier to become the first white artist to appear on the program. He performed two songs, "People Gotta Move" and "Powerful People". Also on that show were Rufus and Chaka Khan and Hamilton Bohannon. Other white artists that have also performed on the show include Elton John, Sting, and Thomas Dolby.

Which of these groups has the distinction of making an appearance on "Soul Train" each season from 1971-1983?

The Whispers. For twelve consecutive seasons, beginning on February 19, 1972 until June 25, 1983, The Whispers were the only act to appear on the show every year. After that June '83 appearance, the group would not return to the show until almost exactly four years later on June 13, 1987.

Of the following solo artists, which one has the distinction of appearing on "Soul Train" the most between 1971-1993?

Cheryl Lynn. Of the artists mentioned, Cheryl Lynn had the most appearances on the show between 1971-1993; she was a guest star on seven different occasions, which occured between 1979-1989. However, Cheryl shares the record for most appearances during that time with Stephanie Mills, who was also on the show seven times. Her guest appearances occured between 1980-1989. Seven other artists are tied with six appearances each which include Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, and Al Green.

Which of these stars from the 1970's hit tv show "Good Times" made a musical appearance on "Soul Train" in 1975?

Ralph Carter. Ralph Carter, who was the youngest child, "Michael", on "Good Times", and a Tony-award winning actor, made a musical appearance on "Soul Train", on September 20, 1975. He sang, "When You're Young and In Love", a song later re-made in the early 1980's by Stacy Lattisaw.

Which one of these acts never made a live appearance on "Soul Train" during its first 25 years on the air?

Earth Wind and Fire. Earth Wind and Fire never appeared on the show during its first quarter-century of being on the air. However, on September 16, 1978, the group did "appear" via concert footage. The songs which they were shown performing were, "Jupiter", "Serpentine Fire", "Fantasy", and "Sunshine".

What is the word which completes the famous catchphrase Don Cornelius used at the end every show? "We wish you love, _____, and soul!"

peace. It is unclear as to how or where the catchphrase Don Cornelius used for the 22 years in which he hosted the show came from, but many can recite it word for word. Although I only asked for the last portion of the quote, the following is the catchphrase in its entirety, "You come on and run with us next week on these same stations and you can bet your last money, it's gonna be a stone gas, honey. I'm Don Cornelius, and as always in parting, we wish you love, peace, and soul!"

Saxophonist King Curtis appeared on the show many times in the early seventies, but he also has a very special tie to "Soul Train" history that is pretty interesting, too. What is it?

King Curtis is credited with doing the show's first theme song.. King Curtis's song, "Hot Potatoes", was used as the show's very first theme song for the 1971 and 1972 seasons.

Which major American network carried "Soul Train" for the majority of it's television run?

cbs. CBS carried "Soul Train" from its nationally syndicated beginning in 1971 until the late 1990's.

Which of these groups has the distinction of making an appearance on "Soul Train" each season from 1971-1983?

The Whispers. For twelve consecutive seasons, beginning on February 19, 1972 until June 25, 1983, The Whispers were the only act to appear on the show every year. After that June '83 appearance, the group would not return to the show until almost exactly four years later on June 13, 1987.

vainandy said: [Video snip - luv4u] circa 1994 Prince needed his ass beat for waiting until he fell off to perform on the show. He should have been on there in the early 1980s performing "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "Controversy", "Let's Work", "1999", etc. Everyone else from that era, including his side projects, performed on that show except Prince. Instead he was busy sniffing around "American Bandstand" and "Solid Gold's" asses instead of performing on "Soul Train" where his audience at the time was.

Prince made three appearences on "Soul Train" between 1979-1982.

F. Due to his extreme eccentricities early in his career, Prince was one of the few big R&B acts that never made an appearance on the show during its first 25 years on the air.

Like any other television show, "Soul Train" would re-run select episodes from the recently-ended season throughout the summer months until the new season began in the Fall. However, in the middle of the show's twelfth season, production was halted for almost four months due to this particular event, what was it?

Don Cornelius had brain surgery and he was taking time to recover.. After the January 1, 1983 episode, which featured Vanity 6 and Carl Carlson, "Soul Train" did not air another new episode until April 30 of that same year due to Don Corneilus' recovery from brain surgery.

How many consecutive seasons did Don Cornelius host "Soul Train"?

22. Don Cornelius hosted the show for 22 consecutive seasons from 1970-1992.

After Don Cornelius stepped down as the host of "Soul Train", the show used a series of guest hosts for a few years afterwards. Beginning in the 27th season, the show finally settled on a regular host who would remain with the show until midway through the 29th season. Who was this host?

Mystro Clark. On September 27, 1997, Mystro Clark began a 2 1/2 year run as host of "Soul Train". After his stint ended in January 2000, he became a writer for the television show, "Cousin Skeeter", which aired on the Nickelodeon network fromm 1998-2001.

B.T. Express' song, "Express", was used as the opening theme song for "Soul Train" for two years in the mid-seventies.

F. Although the show has gone through more than it's share of theme songs, "Express" was not one of them. Some of the more recognizable openings for the show include O'Bryan's, "Soul Train's a-Comin'", from midway through the twelfth season until the end of the show's 16th season; "TSOP" by MFSB, which was used from the start of the third season until the end of the fourth season; and, "Soul Train '75" by the Soul Train Gang, which lasted from the beginning of the fifth season until the end of season seven.

Finally, and I think, appropriately, for this quiz, can you finish the famous catchphrase that Don Cornelius used at the end every show? "We wish you____, _____, and ____!" (If you watched the show on a regular basis, there's no way you should miss this one! haha)

love, peace, soul. "We wish you love, peace and soul!" was the final ending to the show as the credits rolled during Don Cornelius' time as the show's host.

follow the link to play the soul train quiz game: http://www.funtrivia.com/...48921.html

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I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

You ain't lying. When I record "Soul Train", I always record the entire episode but I made an exception with that one. Hell, I had stopped watching the show by then and only watched that night because Prince was going to be on there. I only recorded his performances from the show. Every other song was typical mainstream 1990s.....horrible.

I don't remember "Soul Train" ever playing any of the songs from the "Dirty Mind" era so I doubt he would have been asked to be on during that time. But they did play "Sexy Dancer", "Let's Work", "1999", "Lady Cab Driver", and "Little Red Corvette", so they were there for him throughout the years.

funkpill said:

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

If he had come on during that era, he probably would have done like he did on "Saturday Night Live" and leave his trench coat buttoned up.

There was another good episode yesterday afternoon. The Brothers Johnson and Rockie Robbins from 1980. Bobcat and Mr. X also had a dance battle to Michael Henderson's "Wide Receiver". Bobcat really queened out with the Gene Anthony Ray leaps while Mr. X turned it out with the squatting near the floor and swinging one leg under the other like Prince did years later.

They fucked up this morning though with the Janet Jackson episode that Centric aired a few years ago and they'll be fucking up this evening with the Teena Marie episode that WGN aired a few years ago.

Last week the announcer fucked up big time on a commercial announcing a Janet Jackson episode from 1984. I got ready to record it thinking it was going to be "Don't Stand Another Chance" and thinking that songs for the dancers were going to be from 1984. When the opening segment came on and I saw her in the black outfit, I said..."Hell, that looks like her Control era outfit from 1986"...I be damned if it was. I turned my recording off because even though I like her from the "Control" era, I knew the rest of the songs on the show would be a bunch of crossover pop bullshit (which was typical for the late 1980s). Plus, there's no shortage of "Control" era footage on TV throughout the years that has been overplayed to death by music videos.

Stay the hell out of the late 1980s. Don't go past 1984 because music became weaker after that. Actually, don't go past 1982 because those dancers became stiff and started dancing like white girls after that.

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funkpill said:

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

embolded and:

i remember very clearly that Don Cornelius was very consevative, and i know the "conservative don c." statement has been co-signed very often. i agree with funkpill. don would not have understood and (seemingly) did not understand prince's sexually bold presentation on stage.

but dick clark swooped prince up from the beginning. so it's a two edged sword in regard to why prince was not on soul train prior to 1994. (somewhere in there during the purple rain era, i bet prince refused to cow-tow to Don C., and refused any invites to perform on soul train.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Train excerpt:

Cornelius was relatively conservative in his musical tastes and was admittedly not a fan of the emerging hip hop genre. Even though he would feature rap artists on Soul Train frequently during the 1980s, he publicly would admit (to the artists' faces such as Kurtis Blow for example) that the genre was one that he did not understand; as rap continued to move further toward hardcore hip hop, Cornelius would admit to be frightened by the antics of groups such as Public Enemy.

Rosie Perez testified in a 2010 VH1 produced Soul Train documentary (Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America) that Cornelius also disliked seeing the Soul Train dancers perform sexually suggestive "East Coast" dance moves. Cornelius admittedly only had rap artists on the show because the genre was becoming popular among his African-American audience, though the decision alienated middle-aged, more affluent African-Americans like himself. This disconnect eventually led to Cornelius stepping down as host in the early 1990s and the show losing its influence.

^{so you know d. cornelius (with all due respect) would've faaa-reaked out if prince was on the show and performed computer blue on his show in it's original format.}

LittleBLUECorvette said:

BounceTV ain't workin for me for some reason and Mo Money comes on 2nite.

funkpill said:

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

Hey, I just noticed you avatar, is that your lil' grandbaby? Cute.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

BounceTV ain't workin for me for some reason and Mo Money comes on 2nite.

Falso alarm, its back n and right on time for soul train. The Gap Band / Yarborough and Peple and another cat who's name just slipped my mind. Episode from 1983.

What?????? Oh hell, that must have come on early this morning and I missed it! Dammitt, they really need to put the show on at decent hours of the day when people aren't asleep or in the process of getting ready for work or driving home from work! This is getting to be rediculous because I'm starting to miss some good episodes because of their strange hours of the day. Hell, take that stupid court show off that comes on every night and put Soul Train in that time slot.

Anyway, I saw that episode when it originally aired back in the day and if I remember correctly, the other guy was Goodie. By that time, The Gap Band, Yarbrough and Peoples, and Goodie were all on the Total Experience record label which was a breakoff of the Mercury label. This was the one I remember Goodie performing....

TD3 said:

funkpill said:

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

Hey, I just noticed you avatar, is that your lil' grandbaby? Cute.

yup

thanks

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Vain, don't know if u gonna be happy about the next episode, they goin into the late 80s. 5 Star and Babyface from 1987, thought he at this time still with Deele?

I saw the commercial and I'm not even going to watch that bullshit.

I recorded a great episode yesterday afternoon. It was a 1981 episode with Jerry Knight performing "Overnight Sensation" and A Taste of Honey performing "Sukiyaki". All the music for the dancers was great too. Well of course, 1981 was a great funky year.

I recorded another one this morning from 1983 but I'm going to record over it. Tavares was on there performing two songs I had never heard. That must have been a flop album of theirs. Kool and The Gang was on there performing "Joanna". The songs for the dancers were too crossover pop...."Thriller" by Michael Jackson...."Delirious" by Prince.....I mean, please, stuff like "1999", "D.M.S.R.", or "Lady Cab Driver" are cool for the show but "Delirious" is too pop sounding and isn't danceable at all. The dancers were hopping around like "American Bandstand" dancers to it rather than shakin' ass like "Soul Train" dancers. This is definitely the era I remember the magazines accusing Don Cornelius of trying to take the "soul" out of "Soul Train". The only good part was when Kool and The Gang performed "Tonight" but I'm not saving the episode just for one song.

I didn't even watch last night either. It was a Jody Watley episode from 1986. I love Jody Watley but the late 1980s had too many crossover songs so the rest of the show would have been dull. Also, BET was gaining popularity in the late 1980s so all those songs from that era have been absolutely worn out for decades on the video channels. I have no desire to see performances from artists that I have seen over and over and over on BET, MTV, and VH1 for decades. They need to stick to the early 1980s because those are the performances that people haven't seen in years. In the early 1980s, "Soul Train" was the only outlet for the R&B artists unless they were the tired crossover ones.

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vainandy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Vain, don't know if u gonna be happy about the next episode, they goin into the late 80s. 5 Star and Babyface from 1987, thought he at this time still with Deele?

I saw the commercial and I'm not even going to watch that bullshit.

I recorded a great episode yesterday afternoon. It was a 1981 episode with Jerry Knight performing "Overnight Sensation" and A Taste of Honey performing "Sukiyaki". All the music for the dancers was great too. Well of course, 1981 was a great funky year.

I recorded another one this morning from 1983 but I'm going to record over it. Tavares was on there performing two songs I had never heard. That must have been a flop album of theirs. Kool and The Gang was on there performing "Joanna". The songs for the dancers were too crossover pop...."Thriller" by Michael Jackson...."Delirious" by Prince.....I mean, please, stuff like "1999", "D.M.S.R.", or "Lady Cab Driver" are cool for the show but "Delirious" is too pop sounding and isn't danceable at all. The dancers were hopping around like "American Bandstand" dancers to it rather than shakin' ass like "Soul Train" dancers. This is definitely the era I remember the magazines accusing Don Cornelius of trying to take the "soul" out of "Soul Train". The only good part was when Kool and The Gang performed "Tonight" but I'm not saving the episode just for one song.

I didn't even watch last night either. It was a Jody Watley episode from 1986. I love Jody Watley but the late 1980s had too many crossover songs so the rest of the show would have been dull. Also, BET was gaining popularity in the late 1980s so all those songs from that era have been absolutely worn out for decades on the video channels. I have no desire to see performances from artists that I have seen over and over and over on BET, MTV, and VH1 for decades. They need to stick to the early 1980s because those are the performances that people haven't seen in years. In the early 1980s, "Soul Train" was the only outlet for the R&B artists unless they were the tired crossover ones.

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So true...

Right now I'm watching an 1981 episode featuring Patti Labelle and The Time. I'm especially fond of the late 70s-early 80s episodes because that's the Soul Train era I grew up watching first.

[Edited 11/6/11 14:55pm]

funkpill said:

SoulAlive said:

I think it's a shame that Prince appeared on Soul Train in 1994, when the show was on its last legs He should have appeared on the show in the early 80s! Can you imagine a Dirty Mind-era Prince singing "Uptown" and "Do It All Night" on the show in 1980??

Don't think Don would've allow him to perform in his bikini drawers

That would've been too wild

That's why P-Funk never appear

Now ya'll know Cornelius had a bug so far up ass, that wasn't never gonna happen.