Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band? Good or bad?

It's a great band. It's a bad band. It's like pizza, baby.

It's good no matter what there's music in the air.

The route rock history certain watershed years mark a shift in the way the

music sounds and how we think about it.

1967 is a prime example. I'm Jim Deregadis from W be Z and Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Cut of the Chicago Tribune. 45 years later we look back at

1967 and the birth of the album as art. We also pay tribute to the legacy of soul-trained founder

Don Cornelius. That's coming up on Sound Opinions.

From W be Z Chicago and distributed by PRX. You're listening to sound to the back with the Godfather James Nana. James it's been a most exciting experience so far and I know it's going to get

heavier and heavy for the rest of the hour and I just have to say that just watching you you still the baddest out here.

Oh, thank you very much. I'm just trying to keep up with the Soul Train Dance.

That is the baritone voice of Don Cornelius, the founder of Soltrain.

Don Cornelius dead at the age of 75, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

What Dick Clark's American Bandstand was to popular culture in the 60s, I think Don Cornelius

was to the culture in the 70s 80s and beyond it all started in Chicago on the South side very modest budget

So small of a budget that they couldn't afford color television cameras they shot the initial episodes in black and white.

They had a dance floor about the size of your average living room, Jim. It was a very tiny show

on a tiny budget. They thought, hey, maybe we'll get a few kids to watch after

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