Soul Train

I am a little ashamed to confess that it took me until yesterday to fully appreciate how phenomenal Soul Train was. As I sat in my hotel room in Tokyo working away with the television on in the background, I couldn’t help but notice out of the corner of my eye one soul legend after another popping up on the screen until eventually I couldn’t not turn the volume up and see what was on. Now admittedly I couldn’t understand a word, but what I did manage to gather was that it was some sort of retrospective on Soul Train and before I knew it almost two hours had passed and it had felt like five minutes. This show really was the business. Forget everything else you’ve seen. James Brown performing Out of Sight, Kool & The Gang performing Jungle Boogie, Chaka Khan performing I’m Every Woman, the Ohio Players performing Fire, Sly & The Family Stone performing Dance To The Music – I could go on and on but you really need to watch it for yourself and I haven’t even mentioned the clothes and the dancing. Don Cornelius – You are a don and they don’t make them like they used to.