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Post by rick on Feb 1, 2012 23:46:35 GMT -5
Was sad to hear the news today that Don Cornelius committed suicide.
Here he is in happier times, in 1973, when Mary Wilson of The Supremes persuaded Don to dance down The Soul Train line for the first time.
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Post by erik on Feb 2, 2012 0:00:16 GMT -5
A tragedy to be sure, especially for R&B fans, as that show really helped to accelerate the genre's popularity, especially on TV, during the 1970s. D.C. was in pretty bad straits health wise in the years leading up to this, but it's still a catastrophic loss.
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Post by Dianna on Feb 2, 2012 23:39:41 GMT -5
very sad. RIP Don..
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Post by erik on Feb 3, 2012 0:22:33 GMT -5
And just as a sidebar, the long-time theme music for Soul Train was "TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)", by the Philly session group MFSB (Mother Father Sister Brother), a #1 hit for two weeks in April 1974.
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Post by rick on Feb 3, 2012 18:23:10 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Mar 10, 2012 5:13:08 GMT -5
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