'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:03.5 | Okay, you all ready? |
| 0:07.5 | Yes, I am ready. |
| 0:08.5 | Not long ago our valiant producer James took us down a pretty joyful rabbit hole. |
| 0:14.0 | Hold on, remind me what we're doing. |
| 0:16.0 | We're watching old school Soul Train videos. |
| 0:20.0 | I can't dance because then I'll bump the mic. |
| 0:22.0 | Was that a colomba already? |
| 0:24.0 | This opening is imprinted in my mind along with reading Rainbow. |
| 0:28.0 | The graphic is so iconic. |
| 0:31.0 | Like of the train going through that Chicago. |
| 0:33.0 | I didn't realize that. |
| 0:34.0 | That is Chicago, isn't it? |
| 0:36.0 | Soul Train. |
| 0:37.0 | Soul Train, Erica. |
| 0:39.0 | Even if you've never watched this show, even if you've never heard of his conductor Don Cornelius, |
| 0:45.0 | the cultural cornerstone that is Soul Train has inevitably touched your life. |
| 0:50.0 | That funky 70s neon train bumping and jumping on the tracks |
| 0:55.0 | signaled the weekly start of a revolutionary television dance show. |
| 1:00.0 | Sonari, we spent over two hours watching some of the greatest moments from Soul Train. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, like that one time when Mary Wilson from the Supremes convinced Don Cornelius to go down his own Soul Train line. |
| 1:14.0 | You think I could come up that Soul Train line? |
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