-- Amen! - Those were some really fun and memorable times. I miss those days!

Same! My dad and I would watch it. Don took his show to LA for the professional dancers. Saturday did not start until we finished watching Soul Train!

I'm a 77 year old white woman. I tell my grandchildren, in the fantastic GenZ to watch Soul Train for great music!! Always pleasant to know someone else that's white knows what is cool. ♥️

Talented musicians and singers from a golden era

Blacks must never again be allowed to reach this level.

Amen. I love the 70s. But it all came together in the 80s. Prime of my life!!

I was a teenager in the 70's and a young adult in the 80's, loved it.

So true!!

Agree. Think of all the time they spend trying to figure out their gender 🙄🙄🙄

And early 90s

@@mpbeautyinsight Right, it’s wild…truly wild…

uhm...im 23 watching this haha. i love all the 50s, 60s, 70s music.

not all "pure joy" when you consider schools didn't suppress bullying like today and Teflon Man was voted into office.

Tall Blonde Alien The music and the dancing it's gone

@@grandmahands1498 So glad i had my youth,then that show brought a lot of joy.

Same i cried too

I miss these days so much!

@BigBoy 5.56mm Excuse me prat,you have no clue of my ancestry and i bet you donot even like this music only the crap that is around these days that is not even music.I grew up in a very multicuratral enviroment and appreciate good music and dancing whatever race.

😂😂 Great story!

Let's go back to the real days. . .🤝

This CT girl didn't go anywhere until she had watched Soul Train on Sat afternoon!

Love for thy neighbor in trueness of all honesty, great share. Thankyou lord

Cause there was no reruns. You saw it then or you missed out

Same here🖒🖒

Truth!!!

Amen to that.

Yes indeed!

Me too....

Interesting you say that my boss a Jewish guy said the same thing went down hill in 84 he said all about image from that point on

I was born in 68’ so I can truly co-sign your truth…In and especially not only hearing but seeing most if not all of the artists appearing on Soul Train with Don on Saturday afternoons here in NY back in the day in Brooklyn on Channel 11.. Damn sure miss those day’s and would damn sure forfeit one wish from a Genie as to go back to both decades especially the 80’s in which I came of age in…

very true

Big difference fRom the cop killing women hating drug using gun toting lyrics of the rap music today!

💃

Same here Barbara! got to luv it!!

I'm right there with you Babs!!!👍👍

Miss these days!!

Agreed. Yeah Barbara going out on Friday nights after a long week of work to dance was awesome. Hitting a diner on the way home.... I also still dance to these great tracks. 💃🎶💃🏽

Barbara Leszczynski, nothing says "I'm an old fart in denial about my age and trying to pretend I'm still young" than stating your age as "70 years young". Saying your age as "X years old" doesn't mean you're old, or that the recipient thinks you think of yourself as old. Think about it. "Teacher, today is my birthday and I'm 8 years old!" The teacher doesn't ever think the kid thinks he's _old._ So please, drop that phrase because it actually has the opposite effect from what you think it does.

I dunno much Shalamar music, but Make That Move is my #1 and Night To Remember is #2. I have not listened to Second Time Around since growing up, but it was awesome. Pop Along Kid was played when I was growing up as well.

@loveloses, And remember, Jody Watly was the female singer in Shalamar__she held her own after they split! 💖🙌😺

All of the music back then was pure quality. I am in my 30s and I raise my 2 children on this type of music. They love dancing to it

Don’t forget “I can make you feel good” as well!

Don't forget the 2nd time around, that's a great song too

Can i attend...

I want to dance too !!

O..10 ......You go gurl friend 😘 👏👏👏👏

I've been married for almost 10 years now (we eloped) and told my husband if we ever renew our wedding vows, I'm having a soul train line and I don't care if it's just the 2 of us 😂

Oh it was crazy back then also! the difference is we had happy feel good music to help us either deal with or just forget about our problems.

Shalamar is singing a very nice song but keep in mind...they had problems too!...Dont be so hard on yourself

Yeah folks... Disco. The good old, golden days. (sigh)

Amen to that.

Same here

Aw give it a fuckin rest

Bobby T, it's the truth though!

@@leeeastwood6368 For some maybe. None of us should pretend we speak for the masses.

Bobby T, I guess you had to be there, and just feel it!

@leeeastwood Im 51. I was there, albeit in Jr High

It always lives in you

@@GloryDaze77 yah! I must confess

Word!

Yes, it was😆

Everyone so slim love it cool xxxxxxxxx

so true it was just lots of fun miss it so much wish we could get thoses days back

Yes! so true!

Jody sang and wasn't getting into so much drama like Rhianna or making superficial political statements like Beyonce'.

@@johnmolina3284 So true! ✨

Both men & women danced great....just straight dancing enjoying eachother's creativity

Great observation 👍

so right brother.

Life was so simple then bro.

There was Atari in '81...before it, actually. I had about 20 cartridges. Space Invader, baby!

Delete

And, I haven't played a video game since then. They've onviously come a long way since Atari & Commodore, but I personally have zero interest.

Angela G M something to be said for that ! We have lost our way to connect with people

Yes they were

@Two Wolves 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

really

@@biancahenry6010 i hope for new joung !!!

I'm a millennial but I envy my parents growing up in that time. Such free expression, now I'm forced to conform

strictlynorton : No GANGSTA RAP has a lot to answer for.....Whoddini, Grand Master Flash, LL Kool J...and a lot more don’t have anything to be ashamed of....

Miss those gud old days

D man right! It was kinda fun at the beginning, then all of a sudden, the screwface! Bitches, Hoes, mfers! Test my coo! Pop, pop pop! Fun was all gone then. But, at about 00, 01 they seemed to start having fun again. Unfortunately, the damage was done. 😐

Yeah, we no longer use the words BROTHERS AND SISTERS. but I will not use the N word...not in my vocabulary.

@@hirameberhardt8643 I still use brothas and sistas to my children so they know the closeness of how those words feel instead of the N word. I want them to know that even if their friends use the N word, it's not OK. Hopefully they get it and will pass it down to their children.

You got that right

CASA Rodriguez So well stated and the stone cold truth!

+Valincia Pruitt k

I bet you have a cellphone and social media, too. Bitchin Is Stupid.

I feel you!!!!!

Yes it was much nicer to have interaction with people back then, people were much more accepting and open minded (for the most part) now you try to be whoever you want to be and do what you want to you get dirty looks and chastised. Stares, eye-rolls, head shakes, you name it. Everyone is so into everyone elses lives instead of their own. People are judgmental and closed-minded every where you look, it makes people not even want to leave their houses, That's why people are so off-putting, it's not the advancement of technology it's that Society itself Sucks these days.

Zac Preston It was fun back then!!!

Zac Preston those happy days healthier days nothing days is over

@@paggielee4906you speak for yourself

The answer to your question is...M O N E Y! yep thats what did it. you remember lionel richie? im sure you do. Well michael jackson was the king of pop (popular) but lionel richie was the king of CROSSOVER his music after his 1970s group days is what got him rich and known to a whole New white POPular new fan base which in turn got him and michael jackson paid alot of money. So in turn everybody wanted to get in on it, remember jeffery Osbourn left LTD? Cameo downsized their group, bands were breaking up. Hip Hop was slowly creepin in...it was the 80s! and the a lot of music in the 80s was terrible!

because music is used to destroy people nowadays not uplift them.

You got that right, there were no questions about gender or why a man can't use a woman's restroom. Like you said, it was all natural like it was meant to be!

less obese too

Yes back then your Imagination was your best Ally✊💃✌

and real women less than 60 kilos without 40 lbs of cellulite on their asses

and no sagging pants for the men. that's nice to see.

whataboutredlorry The clothes we wore in the 70s you can wear them now and look good

😂😂😂😂

We still do !

Dats Rite! 😆😁

yeah everyones angry all the time nowadays ...Black music used to be so funky now it's just about money hoes and drugs

Lol. I know you don't mean to be funny, but this is funny!

@@bigtony4829 True Story!!!

Tell it!

Sigh,... Fo'Real. Dat kaina rap, dey not even singin anymo.

The real good party/dance music, was ending in the early 80's. In NYC, Shalamar (props) was bubble-gum music. We were much more hardcore dance music.

Hello.. hope you are fine and staying safe over there??

Listen t Bruno Mars. He brings it back.

I believe crack truly only affected the inner city ghettos! But i agree White, Black, and most Americans were happier in the 70's & 80's! Then the government and corporations began to decimate the Middle class and we ended up with the shit-show that we are currently in!!

wildjustice Yeah, everything was PERFECT back then, right? I'm afraid i might get hit with the sunshine coming out of your ass!😢😢

+Christopher Ray You are the ever livin' optimist, aren't you?

Pre Reagan Era

+whitesongs73 This is early 80s (1980 - 82) Reagan was President in January 1981 til 1989...so yes this was the Reagan era.

Yes!

Yes...Memories....and WE appreciated the LADIES back then. Not all these TATTOOS WHORE TRAMPS of today.

we wore half slips then.

Well this is T.V "Soul Train" you had to have Style then n look fly the fly era comin out of Disco into new wave but still pumpin good R and B , funk!!!!

@@Markks100 Good one!

Most of all, it was affordable.

Elli k.... I love your comment and statement.. it has a fresh thought in perspective. Where are you from? I'm from Los Angeles 🙂

kyereCat ... not true, I grew up in the 70’s food and the way of life are totally different now

No, it’s just because you’re watching a very select group of people. It’s not like anybody could just join the soul train.

People were wearing size 0 clothes back in the good old days .

Count me in, 1954!

Haha so true

No they didn’t, and this is a bunch of damn young people. I hate people who wear rose colored glasses and don’t know anything

Riding bikes, playing jump rope with house phone cords, racing down the street to an imaginary finish line LMBO. I was born in 89. We didn't have childhood obesity in my neighborhood we was outside all day playing lol

Yeah we were more active but also didn’t eat as much fast food as they do today.

Same food? I never remember our parents giving us fast food. Everything was smaller, chickens, etc. It was vastly different. We existed on kool-aid, not soda.

Navid Khan Shalamar and Dynasty were the experts for the bass.

@@brunoottina293 Slave and Aurra too.

Leon Sylvers III, the only one ! ;)

I loved Shalamars. SECOND TIME AROUND

She is extremly beautiful... The way she moves and walks. I have seen this video many times because of her

Myha C that’s Cheryl Song, she was also in the Superfreak and Beat It videos.

She sure did

Cheryl Song! She's one of the famous ST dancers

Hello.. hope you are fine and staying safe over there??

I know 🤣🤣🤣 we had a blast !! I'm still having a blast in 2023 🖐️

@Robert Lee, Countertenor Practically the 70's. These people are from the 70's transitioning into the '1st year' of the 80's; which was still like the 70's until mid 80's.

Them WERE “ THE DAYS “ 💕👍

I'm with you Destiny ! :-)

Love to play this for my kids... nothing to bleep out or hide.... just great danceable tunes! Bring back the roller skating too !

That's Cheryl Song! She was one the famous ones

@@misstantrix is she still around?

Yep, absolutely

the women damm firme

sparky6899 neither can I. It's almost 2a.m, and I have to wake up at 5a.m to get ready for work.😳

Same here :))

@2:22-

@2:28

I love the movie Crooklyn it shows the early 70s for what it was the 2 disc sound track is great worth getting for sure.

Yesssss top dancing love dance dammm dammmm

I saw her first

He was 'Michealesque'.. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ... maybe MJ watched Soul Train?

I would dance with u all night..........

Hello.. hope you are fine and staying safe over there??