Moon Man & Barry Richards - DC '70s Music TV

[DCMemories]

HipHopPoppa remembers: "The Lady with Larry Graham is Patrice 'Chocolate' Banks, vocalist with Graham Central Station..."

[HipHopPoppa]

The Lady with Larry Graham is Patrice "Chocolate" Banks, vocalist with Graham Central Station...

[1956safari]

Love this !!!!!

[unique74muzik]

Van Mcoy!!! wow!!!!

[SUNMAYDEN518]

i grew up in rockville, md and listened to fast talking Barry every night

[deliveryguyrx]

I would listen to the MoonMan in my shag-carpeted '67 Impala.That AM radio had WWIN cranked up!!

[PhanMan69]

Yes, Wail 105 fm, If BR aint in your box, your box just aint on. 1980

[DCSportsNut]

Shit, this is all BEFORE we got Channel 20 on our cable system!!! Now the only thing missing is "Countdown Carnival" from Channel 5 back in the day ('60s/early '70s).

Hey, either that or Fred Weiss doing "Money Movie 7" back in the '70s...LMMFAO

[babygurl1279]

I am trying to find footage as well. My uncle used to dance on this show, and I am also trying to find pictures. If anybody knows where I can begin to look, please let me know. I remember watching Dance Connection on UHF as well!!!! I thought this show was the hottest thing ever when I was a kid!!!!

[NCWeber]

Good Lord, the station ID alone had me rocketing back to my childhood. :D I remember the Barry Richards Show. Wolfman Jack would do a short sing-song intro before the theme music and title kicked in.

[Akira625]

The Moonman! Now THAT's someone I haven't seen in a long, long time! :D

[digital2500]

The Moon Man is hosting a radio talk show on Saturday nights on WOL AM.

[KojiRecords]

Also in 1975 a show from Texas called "Dance To The Music": it was done in a small studio, no guests, and the host was one of the dancers, crappy sound, but totally raw and hot with all young dancers rivaling that of Space Connection and Soul Train. Whoever has any DTTM, please post!!! Also "Dance Time" in San Diego.

[KojiRecords]

OMG---You don't know how long I've posted and been looking for any footage on the Moonman Space Connection! This show was broadcast on Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) when I was 17, statiioned in (West) Germany at both Rhein Main/Ramstein Air Bases in 1975-1978. The last I saw of Moonman was the final incarnation of the show, which ran on satellite via National College Televsion (NCTV) in 1988-89. The Space Connection show had many regional, non-charting northern soul artists.

[ottowes]

I worked briefly with the Moonman. He was a first class performer and gentleman on and off the air.

[geraldltd]

Do you have any clips of the old Soul of the City, Moonman Connection and Dance Connection TV shows?

[72eneg]

wail 105 f.m. new orleans

[maxway9999]

OMG! My first boyfriend HOLLYWOOD use to dance on this show, it was called Soul of the City then it changed its name to Dance Connection.I knew quite a few people who danced on this show!!! Please find footage,everybody was hanging in this club in B-more called The Carousel!!!

[kevhar12]

Reminds me of living in B-More . This station WDCA-20 was a Washington station so it always had bad reception because it was a UHF channel. I still would watch it because back then we could only get 4 or 5 channels (cable han`t come out in Baltimore City yet)so it was a treat to see The Moonman. It still is. Dig that futuristic set! Man did we have alot of imagination about what the future would be like. Here it is 2009...some future.

[strongbo5]

The real BR was a disc jock on WMOD, the short lived classic rock and roll station in DC.

[ATOM09]

Moon Man, LOL, soul of the city. That's some ole stuff for your behind. I wish you had some of the footage of the dancers. All my balitmore homeboys and girls from liberty heights, forrest park and all around baltimore. I wonder what they doing now.

[graydog788]

what year did moonman space connection went off air,,, 1978 was a good year for the show... did you dance on the show

[deepfreezevideo]

Barry Richards, "The Boss With Da Hot Sauce".

Got fired from WINX 1600 AM for saying "Man, the Supremes make me cream in my jeans!"

Good times.

[Benelcar]

The DJ who was let go for the faux pas

was Paul "Fat Daddy" Johnson WSID 1010 Baltimore MD.

He was known for his fast paced delivery,

in a moment of overzealous presentation

he made the mistake of letting his mouth get ahead of his brain. The result was a silver tongued intro which became a phonetic

train wreck. The result was his declaration ..When I hear the Supremes I cream in my jeans!

He was fired from there but went to a stellar career across town at WWIN AM then Atlantic records.

[graydog788]

are you from b-more like me

[ATOM09]

I use to live in B-more but i moved 20 years ago.

[graydog788]

i moved away too,,, 1981 mother and i moved to charlotte nc ... i hate it here

[colsnake331]

I miss the old gang from B-More. Big Al Jefferson, Diamond Jim Sears, Eddie "C", and the rest.

[DCMemories]

Odawq96 and SaintSluggo...

If you ever locate any tapes of Dance Connection, we'd absolutely love to post a 10-minute clip from a show. Sadly, this short tape excerpt is all that survives from the WDCA archives of Barry Richards and of that 1975 GCS appearance on his show. (If I had more, I would definitely share it!) Indications are that this particular "Rock 'n Soul" show was taped in late summer. The show was not renewed for the 1975-76 season.

[Odawg96]

Hmmm...it looks like CHOCOLATE to me; she was GCS female vocalist. I'm just glad to see MOONMAN BACOTE. We had some of the 80s episodes of Dance Connection on VHS. I'm 33 years old, but seeing his face take me back to being a kid.

[saintsluggo]

This is great! More please!

[bynmc]

That would be Choclate, also a member of Graham Central Station.