Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971, to March 27, 2006. A song which appeared on Genre Go Go Comment by Mary Wintour @david-saunders-26: Indeed. The Chuck Brown Band is grateful for any tips while we are unable to performEnter the amount you wish to donateCheck out the new Chuck Brown Band single "It's Alright" featuring vocals of KK, Wiley Brown, Ms. Kim and Frank "Scooby" Sirius.We hope you all are staying safe and healthy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The series also spawned the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and the Soul Train Christmas Starfest. Affectionately known as the Godfather of Go Go, Chuck Brown created the Go Go sound. Then she was teamed with a regular dance partner, Don Campbell, with whom she brought “locking” moves to “Soul Train.”Legendary “Soul Train” dancer Damita Jo Freeman knew that she had some superbad skills when the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, picked her to boogie with him onstage.But in addition to shaking it on the dance floor, Freeman, now 65, was shaking things up behind the scenes: She fought for the dancers — who weren’t paid unless they performed with an artist — to get basic needs such as tissues to wipe the sweat off of their brows and more than one soft drink each during long days of shooting two episodes.“Also,” Freeman says, “a lot of the guys did the splits, and their pants, of course, would split, so [I said], ‘Don’t you need a person with a needle and thread to sew that up?’ ”After a few years on the show, Freeman — like other “Soul Train” alums, including Jody Watley, Rosie Perez and Carmen Electra — made other career moves: She danced for artists such as Cher, choreographed the closing ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and even acted in movies (1980’s “Private Benjamin”). Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories?It was Freeman’s unstoppable talent that caught the attention of “Soul Train” scout Pam Brown in 1971, when the 17-year-old ballerina was dancing at a Los Angeles club called the Climax (and later Osko’s, the same multilevel venue used for the 1978 movie “Thank God It’s Friday”).Still, getting to rub shoulders with the likes of the Jackson 5 (“Michael loved how I did the robot”) in those “Soul Train” years is hard to beat. Cornelius, who was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said in 2006 he remained grateful to the musicians who made "Soul Train" the destination for the best and latest in black music. Says Freeman: “When I woke up, it was a party every day.”Thanks for contacting us.