Soul Train Special Moments

Throughout Soul Trains 35 years, there are many special moments poignant, historic, funny or just plain fun from Smokey Robinson refereeing a basketball game between Marvin Gaye and Don Cornelius to a 19 year old Al Sharpton presenting James Brown with an award to Elton John talking about how he watches Soul Train every week .Global ImageWorks is exclusive worldwide clip licensing representative.

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• Soul Train
• basketball
• Michael Jackson
• Jackson 5
• Marvin Gaye
• young Al Sharpton
• James Brown
• Smokey Robinson
• Elton

[JackHauss]

Just goes to show the absolute carnage rap music has done to black music. If these stars came out today you would never ever hear of them because of raps vice like grip over the industry. James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Smokey, The Jacksons would all be ignored over absolute schmucks like Kanye West even though Kanye doesn`t have 1/10000000th the amount of talent that those guys had.. Rap has got to end man, it is has done so much damage to every aspect to the black community for far too long.

[verbatimmags]

I agree with you 100%. Can you imagine what the music industry would be like if they never had rap. We would still have so many soul artist being played on the radio and TV. I may get thumbs down, but I dont' care! Soul Train ratings dropped because they lost their soul. i wish there was a soul show on now that only featured Soul Artist of today and yesterday. These artist arent dead and they would still be selling if they had an outlet. (Skyy, Bar-Kays, Confunkshun) and so many more.

[miamivicepastels83]

@JackHauss this is a lie perpetuated by the media to make us believe the worst about our own ppl. like i said to the commenter below you, i am not even that big of a hip hop (current) fan but there is all kinds of different rap. the media outlets only want u to see certain things. i believe hip hop is a service and vessel for the black community

[miamivicepastels83]

@verbatimmags i have to disagree. im not even that big of a mainstream current hip hop fan but hip hop's roots are in soul. it has a soul. gives a voice to black ppl just like james brown, marvin gaye and other soul singers did for the previous generation

[williamg2552]

@JackHauss Tell Clear Channel. They own and operate most of the radio stations in The U.S. They dictate what you hear, and determine what gets played and what doesn't . They are responsible for all of this Rap / Hip-Hop nonsense.They have issued orders to their member stations not to play true R&B anymore.

[FUKUFEDS]

@verbatimmags Rap didnt kill the industry, the industy killed itself................Even if you took away rap there would still be SOMETHING to tear down the business..........Hell hip hop is apart of EVERY aspect pf american society today, to take it away would be to take the backbone of america away

[4children2]

Nothing but pure Class and Sophistication. If these haters would just let our people be dignified like they USE TO BE. But there goes dollar, sad. Surley we must rise again. This is why I constantly teach my children about how classy black entertainers used to be when performing on stage, as in business look, professional acts, black people taking care of business, representing black people very good in a class of Genius people. Neat, Clean, Intelligent, and BEAUTIFUL SMART GODLY PEOPLE.

[mjjcng8958]

@boomcc1 i know he definetly paved the way for people like oprah, yeah i said oprah to have successful shows. and he had thi massive voice

[boomcc1]

@mrblondnyc right on, my fav is theclip with curtis mayfield, and

the song get down, watch that clip if u have'nt already ur gonna

luv it total rythem

[boomcc1]

@mjjcng8958 and its style awhile time and we call this one the ojays and loooooove traaain, gotta love don

[boomcc1]

@busasimba nothing can stand up to 70s music so please

shut up