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Post by fourlittlediamonds on Aug 30, 2022 15:23:37 GMT
Not sure if this is just an nice bit of editing but surprised to think that ELO would ever have featured on a show like Soul Train, which I assumed concentrated on Soul/Funk/R'n'B and wouldn't have touched rock/pop. Being a Brit, don't know that much about the show as it was never seen here but that intro does sound like the host Don Cornelius so they may well have appeared on it at some point. Strange to think what Jeff and the boys would have thought (and looked like) on ST? And no one has ever danced to ELO or Showdown like this, I suspect
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Post by trekkielo on Aug 30, 2022 15:45:22 GMT
I don't know about Soul Train, but Electric Light Orchestra supposedly performed on Solid Gold with Dionne Warwick as host around the same time they made their 2nd and final American Bandstand appearance in 1986!
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Post by trekkielo on Aug 30, 2022 16:27:05 GMT
Not sure if this is just an nice bit of editing but surprised to think that ELO would ever have feautured on a show like Soul Train, which I assumed concentrated on Soul/R'n'B and wouldnt have touched rock/pop. Being a Brit, don't know that much about the show as it was never seen here but that intro does sound like the host Don Cornelius so they may well have appeared on it at some point. Strange to think what Jeff and the boys would have thought (and looked like) on ST? And no one has ever danced to ELO or Showdown like this, I suspect Dead giveaway is that it's Jeff Lynne's new solo version of Showdown from 2012.
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Post by fourlittlediamonds on Aug 30, 2022 17:51:42 GMT
Yes it's clearly not the original video/soundtrack from the show (if it happened). However what caught my attention was the intro which I'm fairly sure is host, Don Cornelius, suggesting they did feature on the show sometime (unless they faked that too!) However I would have thought something from the Discovery/Disco period would have fitted in better than Showdown.
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Post by jungledj on Apr 28, 2023 11:20:46 GMT
Not sure if this is just an nice bit of editing but surprised to think that ELO would ever have featured on a show like Soul Train, which I assumed concentrated on Soul/Funk/R'n'B and wouldn't have touched rock/pop. Being a Brit, don't know that much about the show as it was never seen here but that intro does sound like the host Don Cornelius so they may well have appeared on it at some point. Strange to think what Jeff and the boys would have thought (and looked like) on ST? And no one has ever danced to ELO or Showdown like this, I suspect
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Post by jungledj on Apr 28, 2023 11:32:00 GMT
I happen to know that ELO appeared on Soul Train, because I saw the episode. It was in December of 1971, and I was 9 years old, in the hospital, and recovering from some nasty surgery. As a young boy obsessed with music, seeing ELO on Soul Train is something that always stayed in my memory banks, particularly for the sideways cultural aspects of it. I definitely couldn't tell you what song they did, but that video clip doesn't do the performance justice, because they were live on stage.
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Post by lawrev on Apr 28, 2023 18:45:04 GMT
ELO could hardly put on a live show in 1971-72, so I wonder about appearing on a major U.S. dance show. Did Jeff wear his silver wig or something?
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Post by vlogdance on Apr 28, 2023 20:13:09 GMT
I happen to know that ELO appeared on Soul Train, because I saw the episode. It was in December of 1971, and I was 9 years old, in the hospital, and recovering from some nasty surgery. As a young boy obsessed with music, seeing ELO on Soul Train is something that always stayed in my memory banks, particularly for the sideways cultural aspects of it. I definitely couldn't tell you what song they did, but that video clip doesn't do the performance justice, because they were live on stage. Perhaps they sang "Soul over Beethoven" Or maybe "Soul Train To London"?
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Post by eloneen on Apr 28, 2023 21:38:27 GMT
I happen to know that ELO appeared on Soul Train, because I saw the episode. It was in December of 1971, and I was 9 years old, in the hospital, and recovering from some nasty surgery. As a young boy obsessed with music, seeing ELO on Soul Train is something that always stayed in my memory banks, particularly for the sideways cultural aspects of it. I definitely couldn't tell you what song they did, but that video clip doesn't do the performance justice, because they were live on stage. This list of Soul Train episodes doesn't list ELO, but that would have been an interesting show. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soul_Train_episodesI know that Strange Magic and Evil Woman were fairly popular among Black American radio listeners at the time they were released, but I have my doubts about tunes before that. I'm a Black American who became an ELO fan in '76 with ANWR, when I was 11, but my older brother and my brothers in law close to his age became familiar with ELO with FTM. I'm not sure how much of a Black fan base ELO had in the early 1970s, and Don Cornelius usually only invited guests who were doing well with Black audiences, or who already had a history of success with earlier tunes. I have not done any research beyond looking up this list, so I could be wrong, of course.
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Post by trekkielo on May 8, 2023 18:44:26 GMT
Congratulations Don Cornelius on your posthumous (RIP 2012) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction as Soul Train creator and its long time original host from 1970-1993 for 734 episodes!
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