Don Cornelius is dead

Soul Train founder Don Cornelius apparently shot himself in the head. E36 M3ty was to start off Black History month.

USA Today linky

That's a nice 'fro.

Awe, here we go with the "... is dead" threads again....

abevigoda.com

neon4891 wrote: abevigoda.com

Firefox tells me that's an attack page.

Who waits to 75 years old to commit suicide? Maybe he had a terminal illness.

Otto Maddox wrote: Who waits to 75 years old to commit suicide? Maybe he had a terminal illness.

I read somewhere that he'd recently been divorced.

EDIT: Seems you may be right..Daily Mail says that he mentioned some health problems during the divorce proceedings.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094916/Don-Cornelius-dead-apparent-suicide-gunshot-wound-head.html

N Sperlo wrote: Awe, here we go with the "... is dead" threads again....

Here ya go:

Appleseed wrote: Soul Train founder Don Cornelius apparently shot himself in the head. E36 M3ty was to start off Black History month. USA Today linky

well, he is history now..

A good sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkleiqrWji0

And, every week, the Soul Train Line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5e3lbAIn34&feature=related

As a kid I watched this on Saturday morning realizing it was getting late and I had watched too much TV. This is what I found interesting..........Rerun? Haven't heard that name recently.

The dancers became stars in their own right and created moves such as locking, roboting and waacking (later known as voguing) that would be replicated at clubs and parties around the world. Singer Jody Watley and dance partner Jeffrey Daniels, who would become part of the hit-making trio Shalamar, got their start on the show..........So did Rosie Perez (Pineapple Express) and Fred "Rerun" Berry (What's Happening!!).

In reply to pete240z:

You had my attention with Jody Watley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foq2yMj2QgQ

Old Train Video clip link

I remember watching it frequently as a kid - not because of the music, but because I was nuts over trains and the whole "Sooouuuullllll Traaaiiinnn" at the beginning always got me hooked. Ironically enough, it probably had a far more profound effect on me musically than I could have imagined, as growing up in a tiny Midwestern all-white town I probably would have never heard most of that soul/R&B/funk anywhere else.

I have a weakness for '70s funk and so I watched it more than you might expect a semi-rural white kid would. In the '80s and '90s not so much.

I do admit that after hearing the news I spent yesterday muttering "Let's turn it on, it's time to get down" and doot-doot-doodle-ee-doo--doot-dooting under my breath.

Duke wrote: I have a weakness for '70s funk and so I watched it more than you might expect a semi-rural white kid would. In the '80s and '90s not so much.

Nah, not completely unexpected. My own parents weren't very racist in the 70s (I was 10yrs old in 1972), but I had friends at school who would have been whipped with a belt if their parents had found some of those records in their bedroom. Still don't know how they were allowed to watch Soul Train on TV in the first place, perhaps it was on before their redneck parents finished sleeping off the hangover.