They’ll Smile To Your Face On Old School Friday

It’s Old School Fri­day and the theme is “Soul Train”.

It appears most per­for­mers on Soul Train lip syn­ced their songs, as you can clearly see in the follo­wing video as David Bowie, being one of the first white peo­ple, on a minus­cule list of maybe 3 white peo­ple, to be invi­ted to per­form on the show, did so while rather into­xi­ca­ted, high or both. Word on the street was he was ner­vous because it was huge honor to be invi­ted, and we can assume he didn’t want to be booed off the stage, but really how bad can one lip sync anyway?

This is one of the few per­for­man­ces I can find which appears to be not lip syn­ced. Ike and Tina Tur­ner. Tina is so awe­some in this clip I must put it here des­pite my dis­like for Ike.

An awe­some clas­sic by the O’ Jays. Back Stabbers.

Soul Train Addicts Collec­tion, fea­tu­ring a lot of the “Soul Train dan­cers” clips.

Soul Train got a new owner last sum­mer, ‘Soul Train’ Gets New Owner, “when Mad­Vi­sion Enter­tain­ment bought the franchise from its foun­der, Don Cor­ne­lius”. There are plans to open up the archi­ves, for the elderly, and res­tart the show for a youn­ger audience. Though the show went off the air in 2006 it was never canceled.

OSF spon­so­red by Con­ver­sa­tions With Marva and Mrs Gra­pe­vine

The pla­yers:

Elec­tro­nic Village | Kim | Kevin — A Slant Truth | Mar­cus LANGFORD | irie­gal | John | CC Groovy | Krea­tive Talk | Regina | Viv­rant Thing | AJ | Belei­ver 1964 | SJP | Bklyn­Queen 86 | Hey Shae | Mal­colm

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