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Gladys Knight & the Pips on Soul Train in 1974 The Jackson 5 on Soul Train. This is a list of episodes for the musical variety show Soul Train. Soul Train premiered on WCIU-TV on August 17, 1970, as a live show airing weekday afternoons.
Soul Train is an American musical variety television show. After airing locally on WCIU-TV in Chicago, Illinois, for a year, it aired in syndication from October 2, 1971, to March 25, 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists.
At the first Soul Train Gang reunion, Davis was voted “Soul Train's Original All Time Diva”. [2] [5] Davis had a cameo appearance in the 1976 movie Detroit 9000 where she did a dance to "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor. [4] [8] She was in several groups including Something Special and the duo Essence.
Cameo; Tevin Campbell; Tisha Campbell; Canela; Nick Cannon; Blu Cantrell; Captain & Tennille; Irene Cara; Mariah Carey; Carl Carlton; Ralph Carter; C+C Music Factory
Decades before MTV’s “TRL,” BET’s “106 & Park” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk,” to name just a few, Soul Train was chugga-chugging along, shaping ideas of cool across dance, fashion and ...
Soul Train showcased African American culture, and brought African American musicians and dancers to television. [13] The show's appeal to white audiences steadily grew and eventually earned a huge following. [14] [15] Cornelius (second from right) with The Staple Singers during production of a 1974 episode of Soul Train.
In 1976, their second album, The Soul Train Gang, produced by Philly's Norman Harris, was released. The Gang broke up in 1977. That same year, Singer/drummer Arnie Oliver, aka Ahaguna G. Sun, and singer/guitarist Werner "Bear" Schuchner comprised Sunbear, a little-known soul/funk vocal duo that recorded in Los Angeles in 1977.
The group recorded its second album, The Soul Train Gang, produced by Norman Harris and done largely in Philadelphia, in 1976. Cornelius and Griffey hoped they could use Soul Train's popularity to make The Soul Train Gang a hit. Lead single "Ooh Cha" peaked at 107 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and 62 on the R&B chart. Both albums ...