Got one throwbackness tee already ... and one of those wowzer purple ones on the way - love it! And LOVE Soul Train Saturdays! Hope you're having fun at the lake! You've had an eventful week! So honored to be part of it!
That was fun! Some of those girls made me feel like butter in a frying pan. I loved watching this show when I was really young, but I couldn't dance worth a damn and finally a girl gave me the key on how to dance and BAM! It all worked after that. 😀 Great song too. Thanks ✌👍
Boomers...We Did It!!!! We got our musically deprived millennial over the 500K subs mark!!!...and on his birthday too!!!!!!! Well done all....time to enjoy some great 70/80's .... cheers
Same type thing for me. Solid Gold, Soul Train on Saturdays was always fun. I remember I always wanted super long hair like that one dancer on Solid Gold :)
Yep! Denver: Saturday morning cartoons (the BEST!), then American Bandstand then chores had to begin. Then they added Soul Train (1971) and we got a chore extension. Lol! Saturday mornings were the best in those days (60's-70's). They always looked like they had more fun on Soul Train than they did American Bandstand. Truth be told-I think our parents liked this arrangement too. They got to sleep in late without being bothered. ;-)
On Saturday at my house in Dothan, Alabama in the late 70s: 4:00 Soul Train, 5:00 Hee Haw, 6:00 RASSLIN'! Appointment television, all three of them. Man, back when I was a little white boy with the same bowl haircut every other little white boy had, I was as jealous as I could be of afros. LOL
Same in Cincinnati on Saturday mornings! After Soul Train we would usually play sandlot football and I would use the moves I just learned on soul train, lol.
Jamel, Dig, i used to see Stevie Wonder in Detroit when i was 15 Years old, I got to meet him back then, He was one of the Kindest Persons I ever met in my life, he would always talk to people I used to hang out in front of the Motown Studio, Hitsville, and see the artists walk in and out, I got to meet many of them, , Memories of the Motor City, Peace Man, Cousin Figel
Every Saturday morning when I was young it was American Bandstand and Soul Train, every Saturday night it was Don Kershner's Rock Concert (or was it In Concert, one was Friday the other Saturday) and between the four I heard music of every type. Osabisa, David Bowie, Earth Wind and Fire, Steeleye Span, Steely Dan, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Uriah Heep, and more. They made a musical melting pot, It wasn't MY MUSIC, or YOUR MUSIC, for that time in history it was OUR MUSIC.
@@peterblood50 "Hullabaloo" was just a couple of years before my time, as was "Where the Action Is" I was 9 years old when " "Where the Action Is" went off the air. So they were my brother and sisters youth (I'm the youngest by 10 years).
Stevie is also one of the few artists who can "play the studio," as I call it----play all the instruments, as well as produce his own albums, which he did several times! Others who have accomplished the feat, among others, are Roy Wood and Todd Rundgren! Wood was a founding member of ELO, and went on to have a solo career, and front a band called Wizzard, and Todd is worth discovering, too....a 2-time Rock'n'Roll HOF nominee, who is mentioned as a major influence by a lot of present-day rockers! This year, maybe?
bradness yeah true I’ve had all of Todd’s music since 1970 saw him 3 time s once with utopia great artist and songwriter as well That’s where I got a wizard a true star from ... great record as well Steve I got into when Inervisions came out ... incredible all time favorite and what followed incredible 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
A literal genius , I was on the road during this period and played all the dance , disco rock and pop hits we toured 50 weeks a year through the entire USA. And love the joy of all this music .... and we were great at doing it .... the best of time and music for 11 yrs of my life .... all these great artist .... Jamel. Brother god love you .... your the best ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
The dancers were all part of the Soul Train Dancers so they weren't just randomly selected each week. They all practiced together ever week. BET has been doing a series on Soul Train. When I was a kid we loved watching the Soul Train.
I was a kid back during the 70s but I remember Soul Train and Solid Gold. That was back when everyone was active and not a bunch of lazy bums like we are now! LOL I am loving your channel!
You done good, Jamel ... This is an amazing way to start the day! Great Hair, Great Music, Great Dancing, Great Format, Great Green Screen, GREAT REACTING! It always boils down to the Jamel_aka_Jamal Human Touch (and expressions). Pure GOLD, Jamel ... HOME RUN!
If all 500,000 of us show up, we're going to have to have it in the middle of the desert like Burning Man or something! We can't all fit in the club! ✊
Also Elton John doing "Bennie and The Jets" was good. However, I thought "Philadelphia Freedom" with the Gamble & Huff sound and "Mama Can't Buy You Love" from his Thom Bell sessions album would have fit better.
I just remember everybody walking all the time. Now, in my neighborhood, when you have to go into town (about three blocks away), people bring in their cars. Plus, there was a hell of a lot of dancing. My older cousins used to go out every week dancing or to a party.
@@joeday4293 I'm tripping seeing all the clothes I used to wear back then. Gaucho pants and boots. 3 piece skirt suits with boots. Wide leg pants. Pretty dresses. Not a boob or butt cheek in sight. Loved those days. We all carried ourselves with class. Miss that. (Class of 77)
@@eloisapompa5048 Big ditto!! Class of '80 👍❤ The insignia words I had put on my high school ring said "The Class With Class" 😁 Silly, but it was really how I felt. I saw things beginning to get tacky & gauche, cheap & trashy.
@@iahelcathartesaura3887 MAN! We didn't get to put anything inside our class rings except our initials, lol. Me and my friends used the word gauche too in 77'. Too funny.
Yesss....women dork themselves up way 2 much these days. Know it's their body, but they seem NOT to realize how beautiful They r w/o all of those distractions.
Isn't this so great...I am really loving this. The fashion reminds me of my late sister. She was all about wearing 3 piece leisure suits...lol😳😳 I have tons of pictures of her wearing these suits. Lol. I really miss the dance lines. Where I grew up we had a skating rink and once a month when the skating stopped at 11 pm, we could stay over until 6 am in the morning during the sock hop lock down. It was so fun!!!!! We took off our skates at 11 and danced our buts off till the sun came up. There was this really tall black guy I wish I could remember his name. Omg! All the girls wanted to couple skate with him. He was an amazing skater and I was about 7 when I first started skating. He actually helped me to learn how to couple skate. I was at the sock hop lock down one Saturday night and I got to dance with him during the sock hop dance line. I was 12 years old and I had the greatest time dancing with him without skates. He made dancing so easy he was truly a leader when dancing all you had to do was follow along. Men who take the lead and know what they are doing can move a lady across the floor like she is just floating on a cloud. This guy many times made me feel this way skating but to get to dance without skates with him was amazing. Truly a gentleman that made you feel completely comfortable. I wish I could remember his name. He was awesome. Soul train and American bandstand were awesome to watch. ✌✌✌
What a way to start a Saturday morning , Thanks Jamal this how my Saturday mornings were Soul Train , Kung-fu theater, Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges! Man you brought back the memories of my childhood! Whooowee!🕺🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶✌
@@1966Hemi426 hello, I know the kind you're talking about. The size where when you bob your head back and forth it looks like your 'fro is doing the wave.
@@jameskirschling7887 He needs the Franklin Ajaye model. But hey, it looks like he finally picked this one out and got it in shape for this video. With all those curls in it, it's more like the Barry White model. LOL
Omg! My man, Stevie! By far my favorite song by this incredible music man! Love, love, love this Soul Train Saturday morning reactions! Funkalicious!! 🤘🏿💜🤘🏿
And the hits just keep coming. Steve Wonder, the King! So many incredible hits. My wedding song was Ribbon in the Sky. You should listen to that one. Thanks, Jamel!
I read an interview with Steve Winwood once where he talked about hanging out in the studio with Stevie Wonder. Stevie had the top off of a Linn drum machine and was fiddling around with its electronic guts while it was turned on and playing - while blind. One of the engineers rounded the corner and saw what he was doing and turned white as a sheet and said, "Stevie, that thing's live!" "I know." No problem. He got the sound he was looking for and put the lid back on and cut a take with it. LOL
Soul Train was on in the morning? Silly me thought it was on just after dinner where I lived in NY. Again, STS is so enjoyable IN THE MORNING!!! 6'5" WOW
This is the best! Back when I was a tween babysitting my toddler cousin, the ONLY time I could get him to focus on anything longer than a few minutes was when Soul Train came on Saturday nights. He would watch the whole thing with me, and we’d dance and have such a fabulous time! This takes me back!
Ohhhh noooo you didn't bring back the LINE. I remember watching soul train at 3:00 on Saturday and Wrestling at 4:00 as young boy. Good Job JAMAL. Get saved peeps.
Man, Soul Train and Hee Haw and rasslin' were the key components of a good Saturday when I was a kid. I watched Austin Idol put Tommy "Wildfire" Rich in a figure-four leglock and break his leg on live TV! I watched Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream, deliver his famous "Hard Times" promo when it originally aired!
You are "Listening" To a Masterpiece Album which is considered to be one of the Best of all time. Songs In The Key Of Life made History when it was became the First Album by a US Artist to Debut At Number One. Celine Dion sang this as well during her Residency at Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas. It also did "Damage Control" at Motown because 1975-1976 was a very bad year and it was the slow beginning of Motown's Downfall. Diana Ross's Second Movie Mahogany was a "Flop", Smokey Robinson & Berry Gordy were at loggerheads over Songwriting Publishing and there was the Debacle of Florence Ballard Of The Supremes Funeral (1943-1976). Also The Jackson Five left Motown 9 Months before their Contract Ran Out and it resulted in a 20 Million Dollar Lawsuit that was settled in 1981 after Six Years where The Jackson Family Paid back $500.000.00 and gave up their Rights To The Name Jackson Five. This Album showed that Motown still had The Goods. Also The Soul Train Line was the Polar Opposite of American Bandstand's Spotlight Dance where Couples would Dance Just Three so the Kids could see the moves better. Also around that same time Diana Ross went to Number One with Love Hangover written by Pam Sawyer that you may have heard for the Promo for the Last Season Of Mad Men. Jermaine Jackson played Bass on it as well.
Thanks for the memories! When I was a teenager I watched Soul Train and Bandstand every Saturday morning... mostly to check out the chicks. Lol. LOVE Stevie! Peace!
The dude dancin at 5:30 has the fro I'd love to see you try. The way that hair bounces when he dances, is SUCH a cool addition to the moves of the dance!
Two winners in a row. This is a great way to start Saturday. I showed this to my wife and she enjoyed it too. I mentioned the clothes and she laughed and said "you wore them too." Stevie Wonder songs Sir Duke, Superstition and Living For The City. Can't go wrong with those. I watched Stevie on Detroit/Canadian TV when he was Little Stevie Wonder.
Carolyn Evers - Because we all worked at a job every day, worked at home to help our Mom's and helped our neighbors with things they needed help with.. This was not unusual, it was well, the way life was back then.. God Bless..
This Song is such a Great, Eternal Song to LISTEN TOO!!!!! I remember it when it first come out and put on the Radio!!!!! "I Wish.........!" OH YEAH!!!! Go back in time to my YOUTH!!
1976... Sister Leticia: now you know you can't have that radio at youth camp, and you can't be playing that devil music. Me: that's Stevie Wonder..... Sister Leticia: well alright then. Lol! Oh yeah...SOOOOOUUUUULLLL TTRRRRAAAAIIIIIINN!!!!!
Thank you for sharing Soul Train Saturday with us! I feel so good now, love Stevie Wonder, still wear my bell bottoms, the 70s, I was in high school then, living in Hawthorne, California. This is what my friends and I would get together and play Stevie Wonder records and dance, what great times they were! This is so fun! Love the new screen.! 6' 5"? Same as my husband, more than a foot taller than me! Not a problem LOL 😷✌❤
I have a request there is two Stevie’s did a song would love to see you react to it the song is Very Superstition by Stevie Wonder and Stevie Ray Vaughn they are both great and Vaughn for Wonders blessing to do the song and makes an appearance in the official video
I have, at times, lost myself in a soul train binge... And now it's becoming a regular Saturday event and I like it. And the intro is Gold! Literally! Thank you for all that joy! Looking forward to many more of these.
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Could you listen to losing my religion by R.E.M. please. Also happy birthday
Got one throwbackness tee already ... and one of those wowzer purple ones on the way - love it! And LOVE Soul Train Saturdays!
Hope you're having fun at the lake! You've had an eventful week! So honored to be part of it!
Oh LAWD, you really did it 👏👏👏👏👏
Off topic.
We just list one of the greats.
Peter Green.
You might not know the name, you'll know the songs.
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Hey Soul Train check out Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
The dudes were cool, the chicks were hot, and the dancing was a total gas.
@Peter right said!
Yea digging the huge bell bottoms.
@@Brian-ed4jm Quasimodo didn't see bigger bell bottoms at Notre Dame!
Right on!
Is it just me or do all the guys look great and about half the women but some girls...meh.?
When the cats were cool, the chicks were hot and everybody was having fun.....those days
Solid. Slide me some skin, blood. Right on.
Soul train was a must watch in the 70’s. Fun times.
I watched it every Saturday.
LOVED IT!
Guys would leave their ladies on the line as a respect to show their beauty while they dance
That's right. In dance class the men were told that their job was to make the ladies look good, in other words, take a back seat!
I wish those days would come back once more. So much better than today's bland music.
Amen
You said it!
I owned this on 45.
Amen too that!
That was fun! Some of those girls made me feel like butter in a frying pan. I loved watching this show when I was really young, but I couldn't dance worth a damn and finally a girl gave me the key on how to dance and BAM! It all worked after that. 😀 Great song too. Thanks ✌👍
Boomers...We Did It!!!!
We got our musically deprived millennial over the 500K subs mark!!!...and on his birthday too!!!!!!!
Well done all....time to enjoy some great 70/80's .... cheers
So many good Stevie Wonder songs. Tons of hits. You really cannot go wrong.
and there are about 50, 60... Stevie Wonder songs that ever better than his hits! Genius!
Sir Duke is my favorite.
Living for the city!
Heaven help us all makes me tear up every time!
we will go around in circles we will fly high like a bird up in the sky
Slim and sophisticated, love those times and clothes! I wish those days could come back once more.....yes, Stevie!
@Lorie yea...wish I was that slim and flexable again today!! 😆
Lorie L. And, ironically, Stevie was singing about a time 20 years before this. Nostalgia always gets us🙂
@@susanmaggiora4800 So true!
Boston Saturdays in the 70s: Saturday Morning Cartoons, then if it was raining; Soul Train and Creature Double Feature on Channel 56.
Same type thing for me. Solid Gold, Soul Train on Saturdays was always fun. I remember I always wanted super long hair like that one dancer on Solid Gold :)
Yep! Denver: Saturday morning cartoons (the BEST!), then American Bandstand then chores had to begin. Then they added Soul Train (1971) and we got a chore extension. Lol! Saturday mornings were the best in those days (60's-70's). They always looked like they had more fun on Soul Train than they did American Bandstand. Truth be told-I think our parents liked this arrangement too. They got to sleep in late without being bothered. ;-)
@@bustagutable Chores extension for Soul Train??? Respect to your parents. I'd like to buy them a drink 🥃🍺
On Saturday at my house in Dothan, Alabama in the late 70s: 4:00 Soul Train, 5:00 Hee Haw, 6:00 RASSLIN'! Appointment television, all three of them.
Man, back when I was a little white boy with the same bowl haircut every other little white boy had, I was as jealous as I could be of afros. LOL
Same in Cincinnati on Saturday mornings! After Soul Train we would usually play sandlot football and I would use the moves I just learned on soul train, lol.
Jamel, Dig, i used to see Stevie Wonder in Detroit when i was 15 Years old, I got to meet him back then, He was one of the Kindest Persons I ever met in my life, he would always talk to people I used to hang out in front of the Motown Studio, Hitsville, and see the artists walk in and out, I got to meet many of them, , Memories of the Motor City, Peace Man, Cousin Figel
Every Saturday morning when I was young it was American Bandstand and Soul Train, every Saturday night it was Don Kershner's Rock Concert (or was it In Concert, one was Friday the other Saturday) and between the four I heard music of every type. Osabisa, David Bowie, Earth Wind and Fire, Steeleye Span, Steely Dan, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Uriah Heep, and more. They made a musical melting pot, It wasn't MY MUSIC, or YOUR MUSIC, for that time in history it was OUR MUSIC.
Yessssss
And don't forget "Where the Action Is" and "Hullabaloo"
@@peterblood50 "Hullabaloo" was just a couple of years before my time, as was "Where the Action Is" I was 9 years old when " "Where the Action Is" went off the air. So they were my brother and sisters youth (I'm the youngest by 10 years).
Midnight Special...
Yes, speak the truth Lance!
Your intro for 'Soul Train Saturdays' is everything. You are a Superstar Jamel 😁🌼🤘
I remember being an 8 yr old white girl in Texas who could not wait for Soul Train to come on tv! I waited all week to watch the next one.
@@ingridfitz6671 I watched both, too. The dancers on Soul Train made the show so much fun.
They're a skillful bunch,
lemme tell you .....
I was a little white boy with a bowl cut back then. I wanted an afro so damn bad. LOL
I was a little white girl who wanted to be one of these pretty women. Now I'm an old white woman wanting the same thing.
Same here! only in Jersey.
Songs in the Key of Life is his best album IMO.
Innervisions is my personal fave but there are no bad Stevie Wonder creations!! :)
agreed, got to see a live performance of it in Vegas.
Awesome song ... Stevie is the greatest composer , singer musician in the world ....a hero , a true star 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️☮️☮️☮️☮️🎸🎸🎸🎸
Stevie is also one of the few artists who can "play the studio," as I call it----play all the instruments, as well as produce his own albums, which he did several times! Others who have accomplished the feat, among others, are Roy Wood and Todd Rundgren! Wood was a founding member of ELO, and went on to have a solo career, and front a band called Wizzard, and Todd is worth discovering, too....a 2-time Rock'n'Roll HOF nominee, who is mentioned as a major influence by a lot of present-day rockers! This year, maybe?
bradness yeah true I’ve had all of Todd’s music since 1970 saw him 3 time s once with utopia great artist and songwriter as well That’s where I got a wizard a true star from ... great record as well Steve I got into when Inervisions came out ... incredible all time favorite and what followed incredible 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Prince fits that mold very well too. Composer, singer, musician,dancer, songwriter.
Matthew Drake you are so correct Another genius , prodigy another unique all around singer songwriter musician and incredible performer
Todd also produced at least the first Bat out of Hell album for Meat Loaf. That whole album is classic.
“I wish” those fun happy times would come back❣️ Love Stevie Wonder 🥰
Saturdays just got better.
@Kevin a wholllle lot better! ✌️
Stevie Wonder is fantastic. Can't go wrong with any of his songs. Love him. I could watch this all day!!
A literal genius , I was on the road during this period and played all the dance , disco rock and pop hits we toured 50 weeks a year through the entire USA. And love the joy of all this music .... and we were great at doing it .... the best of time and music for 11 yrs of my life .... all these great artist .... Jamel. Brother god love you .... your the best ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
The dancers were all part of the Soul Train Dancers so they weren't just randomly selected each week. They all practiced together ever week. BET has been doing a series on Soul Train. When I was a kid we loved watching the Soul Train.
I was a kid back during the 70s but I remember Soul Train and Solid Gold. That was back when everyone was active and not a bunch of lazy bums like we are now! LOL I am loving your channel!
Michelle's Crafts & More The Solid Gold Dancers! Yes!
Jamel you need to complete the whole look for soul train Saturdays with one of those kick ass outfits to go with the wig.
All he needs is something from the waist up, like one of those Italian shirts made from imported polyester that Mark Wahlberg wore in "Boogie Nights."
Joe Day seriously. All he needs is one trip to a good thrift store
Oh, I second that!! Full on disco man.
Then you need to add yourself to the clip, like your coming down the disco runway. heh heh
Cheryl Song is in this clip. The token Asian.....
You done good, Jamel ... This is an amazing way to start the day! Great Hair, Great Music, Great Dancing, Great Format, Great Green Screen, GREAT REACTING! It always boils down to the Jamel_aka_Jamal Human Touch (and expressions). Pure GOLD, Jamel ... HOME RUN!
Not gonna lie, I got all my dance moves from watching Soul Train.
Yep, you could tell who watched soul train that day because at the party later that night you would see those moves on the dancefloor lol
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That's what I'm talking about! Stevie Wonder and Soul Train. Luv it!
Lovin Soul Train Saturdays
Amen!
When all of this Corona stuff is done, there has to be a Soul Train dance line party, in person. The subscribers will show up, for sure.
I'm all for it 👍
Count me in.
Eric I grew up in this era. I'm 58 if we tried this at my age they would have a floor full of people with thrown out backs, hips, and knees !
@@garywayne7953 I grew up after this era and I'd still be in the 911 line. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☹
If all 500,000 of us show up, we're going to have to have it in the middle of the desert like Burning Man or something! We can't all fit in the club! ✊
Soul train was about dancing and modeling fashions.We followed suit.
They set the standard for dressing.
Half a million subs Jamel. Way. To. Go.
Yes, Jamel is on a roll. The 500K subs is a big feat.
David Bowie on soul train doing”Fame” when he was lip synching was hilarious,you have to check it out.
GREAT song!!
Worth checking out 'Golden Years' also for sure ;)
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Also Elton John doing "Bennie and The Jets" was good. However, I thought "Philadelphia Freedom" with the Gamble & Huff sound and "Mama Can't Buy You Love" from his Thom Bell sessions album would have fit better.
Look how SLIM those guys are, Damn.
I know, I thought the same. Dayum we were in good condition back in the day!
Big Jay I noticed that too! Saw one bigger dude.
They stayed in shape by dancin' all the time! Plus no cell phones, internet and video games at home. They weren't sedentary.
I just remember everybody walking all the time. Now, in my neighborhood, when you have to go into town (about three blocks away), people bring in their cars. Plus, there was a hell of a lot of dancing. My older cousins used to go out every week dancing or to a party.
@@Cheryl_Haydon yea, out playing ball, hanging with friends, not OnLine,
notice how everyone is fully dressed, those were the days
I'm tripping on the beautiful dresses the girls are wearing. Maybe I'm just showing my age, but I think American women hit peak sexy in the late 70s.
@@joeday4293 I'm tripping seeing all the clothes I used to wear back then. Gaucho pants and boots. 3 piece skirt suits with boots. Wide leg pants. Pretty dresses. Not a boob or butt cheek in sight. Loved those days. We all carried ourselves with class. Miss that. (Class of 77)
@@eloisapompa5048 Big ditto!! Class of '80 👍❤
The insignia words I had put on my high school ring said "The Class With Class" 😁 Silly, but it was really how I felt. I saw things beginning to get tacky & gauche, cheap & trashy.
@@iahelcathartesaura3887 MAN! We didn't get to put anything inside our class rings except our initials, lol. Me and my friends used the word gauche too in 77'. Too funny.
And THIN
SUCH A GREAT INTRO! I know its gonna be good when he pulls out the WIG!
Sooner or later We'll have to see Fred "Rerun" Berry from What's Happening.
500K subs! Congrats Jamel you deserve it! 🎉
Mom and Dad were way cooler than today's kids. Also the ladies were more beautiful, no tats or piercings.
Yesss....women dork themselves up way 2 much these days. Know it's their body, but they seem NOT to realize how beautiful They r w/o all of those distractions.
the 70's started tats and piercings.
@@sg-yq8pm only positive comments allowed
please:)
What's wrong with tats & piercings? I have both and I'm a grandma!
@@anniethenonnymouse me too don hall is square. lol..
Loving the 70s clothes and music. Some of the clothes are back in fashion. 🎶. Thanks Jamel. 👏
Isn't this so great...I am really loving this. The fashion reminds me of my late sister. She was all about wearing 3 piece leisure suits...lol😳😳 I have tons of pictures of her wearing these suits. Lol. I really miss the dance lines. Where I grew up we had a skating rink and once a month when the skating stopped at 11 pm, we could stay over until 6 am in the morning during the sock hop lock down. It was so fun!!!!! We took off our skates at 11 and danced our buts off till the sun came up. There was this really tall black guy I wish I could remember his name. Omg! All the girls wanted to couple skate with him. He was an amazing skater and I was about 7 when I first started skating. He actually helped me to learn how to couple skate. I was at the sock hop lock down one Saturday night and I got to dance with him during the sock hop dance line. I was 12 years old and I had the greatest time dancing with him without skates. He made dancing so easy he was truly a leader when dancing all you had to do was follow along. Men who take the lead and know what they are doing can move a lady across the floor like she is just floating on a cloud. This guy many times made me feel this way skating but to get to dance without skates with him was amazing. Truly a gentleman that made you feel completely comfortable. I wish I could remember his name. He was awesome. Soul train and American bandstand were awesome to watch. ✌✌✌
I agree! That's how I learned to dance, got to have a good leader.💃🕺❤
I'll watch anything from Stevie Wonder, one of the best ever.
What a way to start a Saturday morning , Thanks Jamal this how my Saturday mornings were Soul Train , Kung-fu theater, Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges! Man you brought back the memories of my childhood! Whooowee!🕺🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶✌
I literally just never want it to stop!!
Fitting song for us old folk we wish those days could come back once more, why did those days, e-ver have to go cause I loved them so
Request for a bigger 70’s Fro. 😀
Are you wanting the Angela Davis size 'fro?
James Kirschling .....hello. Yes, I want to see him grooving with a huge fro. That would be fun to watch. 👍
@@1966Hemi426 hello, I know the kind you're talking about. The size where when you bob your head back and forth it looks like your 'fro is doing the wave.
Billy Preston in ‘72 !!!!
@@jameskirschling7887 He needs the Franklin Ajaye model. But hey, it looks like he finally picked this one out and got it in shape for this video. With all those curls in it, it's more like the Barry White model. LOL
Loving it! Stevie Wonder, so much good music! Innervisions, 1973 -- Living for the City and so much more.
Omg! My man, Stevie! By far my favorite song by this incredible music man! Love, love, love this Soul Train Saturday morning reactions! Funkalicious!! 🤘🏿💜🤘🏿
And the hits just keep coming. Steve Wonder, the King! So many incredible hits.
My wedding song was Ribbon in the Sky. You should listen to that one.
Thanks, Jamel!
Now that's dancing😊😂
You can see the forerunners to a lot of the Electric Boogaloo in these soul train videos
96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians
Yes thats the jam
That song is on my playlist 🎵
Yup Yup
he actually played every instrument in this song including drums
I read an interview with Steve Winwood once where he talked about hanging out in the studio with Stevie Wonder. Stevie had the top off of a Linn drum machine and was fiddling around with its electronic guts while it was turned on and playing - while blind. One of the engineers rounded the corner and saw what he was doing and turned white as a sheet and said, "Stevie, that thing's live!" "I know." No problem. He got the sound he was looking for and put the lid back on and cut a take with it. LOL
Soul Train Saturday! I'll agree the couples are more like couple in this one, love the matching outfits and 'fros too!
I’m hella glad I grew up in the 70s. Saturday mornings were EVERYTHING when I was a kid
Jamal!!! Did you spritz the fro???
GET DOWN! ✊🏾😁
Soul Train was on in the morning? Silly me thought it was on just after dinner where I lived in NY. Again, STS is so enjoyable IN THE MORNING!!! 6'5" WOW
This is the best! Back when I was a tween babysitting my toddler cousin, the ONLY time I could get him to focus on anything longer than a few minutes was when Soul Train came on Saturday nights. He would watch the whole thing with me, and we’d dance and have such a fabulous time! This takes me back!
You have to keep this format Jamel, it's 💥. If we don't get dance breaks on every song from here on out we may root lol.
Jamal, PLEASE do Stevie Wonders song , "Boogie On Reggae Woman" . You'll LOVE it!
yes
Awesome song!
They sure did believe in the 'high kick' back then! Lol 🤸🏾♀️
Lol, my leg doesn't do that anymore ... unless I wanna really 'get down' ... like a sack of potatoes! bwahaha
Ohhhh noooo you didn't bring back the LINE. I remember watching soul train at 3:00 on Saturday and Wrestling at 4:00 as young boy. Good Job JAMAL. Get saved peeps.
Man, Soul Train and Hee Haw and rasslin' were the key components of a good Saturday when I was a kid. I watched Austin Idol put Tommy "Wildfire" Rich in a figure-four leglock and break his leg on live TV! I watched Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream, deliver his famous "Hard Times" promo when it originally aired!
I Wish is such a relevant song. So true. How I Wish for those days!🙂
Play me some Earth, Wind and Fire!
Bring on the Stevie and bring on the Don. Loving Soul Train Saturday, Jamel!!!
So stylin’, so groovy!✨
Great dancing, Jamel. Damn, you’re 6’5”?! Wow. 😮 That is legitimately tall.
You are "Listening" To a Masterpiece Album which is considered to be one of the Best of all time. Songs In The Key Of Life made History when it was became the First Album by a US Artist to Debut At Number One. Celine Dion sang this as well during her Residency at Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas. It also did "Damage Control" at Motown because 1975-1976 was a very bad year and it was the slow beginning of Motown's Downfall. Diana Ross's Second Movie Mahogany was a "Flop", Smokey Robinson & Berry Gordy were at loggerheads over Songwriting Publishing and there was the Debacle of Florence Ballard Of The Supremes Funeral (1943-1976). Also The Jackson Five left Motown 9 Months before their Contract Ran Out and it resulted in a 20 Million Dollar Lawsuit that was settled in 1981 after Six Years where The Jackson Family Paid back $500.000.00 and gave up their Rights To The Name Jackson Five. This Album showed that Motown still had The Goods. Also The Soul Train Line was the Polar Opposite of American Bandstand's Spotlight Dance where Couples would Dance Just Three so the Kids could see the moves better. Also around that same time Diana Ross went to Number One with Love Hangover written by Pam Sawyer that you may have heard for the Promo for the Last Season Of Mad Men. Jermaine Jackson played Bass on it as well.
I loved the 70s so many genres, bands and music. Jamel watch Stevie on seasame street. Groovy!
Thanks for the memories! When I was a teenager I watched Soul Train and Bandstand every Saturday morning... mostly to check out the chicks. Lol. LOVE Stevie! Peace!
The music, the dancing, the way they dressed . . . baby, take me back home!
Love it!!
The dude dancin at 5:30 has the fro I'd love to see you try. The way that hair bounces when he dances, is SUCH a cool addition to the moves of the dance!
Oh I wish these days could come back. All I see are my parents dancing in the living room when Soul Train came on.
Makes me want to get this rickety old body off the couch and on the floor 🤣😀👏👏👏
ALL music was good in the 70's,that's why it was all played on the same station WBSR AM where i lived,country,rock,soul.it didn't matter.
😂 “Three seconds and Il’m outta here”
He better not have said that in the bedroom once they got home.
@@joeday4293 That happened the night before.......hence the rapid exit!
Two winners in a row. This is a great way to start Saturday. I showed this to my wife and she enjoyed it too. I mentioned the clothes and she laughed and said "you wore them too." Stevie Wonder songs Sir Duke, Superstition and Living For The City. Can't go wrong with those. I watched Stevie on Detroit/Canadian TV when he was Little Stevie Wonder.
Everyone of those dancers were in serious shape. No body fat, no big bellies. What happened??
They didn't have the additives then that they put in it now. High fructose corn syrup, corn starch... etc.
Wwhooo Cocaines a hell of a drug lmao😎🍻
Carolyn Evers - Because we all worked at a job every day, worked at home to help our Mom's and helped our neighbors with things they needed help with.. This was not unusual, it was well, the way life was back then.. God Bless..
They didn’t let fat people on the show is my guess. There have always been great fat dancers too.
People used to stay at home and eat at home and they didn't have fast food and all of this crap. Home cooking💛🎼🧡
Oh my! This brings back so many memories of "back in the day"! Please, please, please do more of the Soul Train dance lines....I LOVE it!!!
NOW DO HIGHER GROUND. ITS AN ALL TIME JAM
This Song is such a Great, Eternal Song to LISTEN TOO!!!!! I remember it when it first come out and put on the Radio!!!!! "I Wish.........!" OH YEAH!!!! Go back in time to my YOUTH!!
Is that a disco version of DMX where the hood at? lol...Jamel, the hippest trip in america!
1976...
Sister Leticia: now you know you can't have that radio at youth camp, and you can't be playing that devil music.
Me: that's Stevie Wonder.....
Sister Leticia: well alright then.
Lol!
Oh yeah...SOOOOOUUUUULLLL TTRRRRAAAAIIIIIINN!!!!!
This is great Jamel, putting a grin on our faces! Thanks 🙏
Love the couple's line dance the best Stevies I wish those days
Would come back once more and why did they ever have to go!!!
Agreed
I'm liken' this soul train idea!
Feel good song. I play this whenever I feel down and always heals my heart!
Best Stevie Wonder song! You must do Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind, & Fire!
@Mark there's never enough EWF in the air!
Those dancers were incredibly talented, elegant and attractive! Wow!!
Oh how I want you to react to the Dramatics “What You See is What You Get” from Soul Train
Thank you for sharing Soul Train Saturday with us! I feel so good now, love Stevie Wonder, still wear my bell bottoms, the 70s, I was in high school then, living in Hawthorne, California. This is what my friends and I would get together and play Stevie Wonder records and dance, what great times they were! This is so fun! Love the new screen.! 6' 5"? Same as my husband, more than a foot taller than me! Not a problem LOL 😷✌❤
I have a request there is two Stevie’s did a song would love to see you react to it the song is Very Superstition by Stevie Wonder and Stevie Ray Vaughn they are both great and Vaughn for Wonders blessing to do the song and makes an appearance in the official video
That's cool!
The Stevie Wonder Era. Man, you could count on Stevie back then to put a smile on your face.
You need to do “Slide” by Slave!!
Oooh, Slide is a good one. Forgot about that one. Thanks.
I have, at times, lost myself in a soul train binge... And now it's becoming a regular Saturday event and I like it.
And the intro is Gold! Literally!
Thank you for all that joy! Looking forward to many more of these.
Soul Train was a Saturday morning ritual. The chores had to wait.
Chores had to be done before ST in our home or the tv didn't come on. Lol
Played bass with my band on this for years. FUN-KEE!
I’d like to see you groove to The Jackson’s “”Shake your body” ,,,,
Also please play ("I Be Good To You" by The Brothers Johnson. Superb. A little slower but funkalicious.
Soul train is the entire reason I dance the way I do... ty 70s
Could you react to Ray Charles Hit The Road Jack
Growing up I never missed Soul Train and American Bandstand. Classic!✌️