Talk:Soul Train

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Filmed where? Anybody know? I'm guessing started in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles.

Contents 1 Ambiguity 2 Host 3 Weird 4 Re: Non Black Performers

[edit] Ambiguity

I was looking for the John Coltrane album of the same name - any chance you could link to it somehwere at the top? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.98.1 (talk) 18:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Host

Is it Dorian Gregory? Someone changed the successor box in his article (but not the text, so the article is inconsistent) to say that Big Tigger is now the host, and that the Big Tigger article also says that, but this article doesn't. Would someone who KNOWS what is correct please change these three articles so they are correct (and consistent)? Thanks. John Broughton | Talk 19:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC) Hello I am a long time follower of SOUL TRAIN///I have NEVER known that "Big Tigger" was a "host"...now unless the series have started again-it could possibly be true; if so it Tig'would be a grat person for the job...or me!!!(smile) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.212.74.117 (talk) 20:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weird

Why should the article list specifically the "non-black" performers? How about just the most notable performers, with a note that most are black? This section makes no sense. -Pete 02:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Non Black Performers

Hi Pete. Regarding non-black performers being listed, it was pretty rare, especially early on in the shows history for there to be a non-black performer on the show. In fact, I remember back in the day that it was a BIG deal when Elton John performed on the show probably around 1974, he performed Bennie and the Jets, which charted high on Billboard I believe as a SOUL single which was rare for a non black artist.

Soul Train was unique in that it was geared to black performers and culture, especially back in the day. Today things are much more blended and there is a lot of crossover artists, but back in the seventies for instance it was a big deal for a non black artist to be "allowed in" to the Soul Train. It was all good and fun, and everyone loved the little extra excitement when that happened. So it's kind of a point of interest and a trivia question in a sense. It was actually a big honor for a non black performer to be selected to be on the show.

Regarding an earlier post about where Soul Train was filmed, I don't know for absolutely sure, but I am pretty sure it's always been filmed in Chicago. It seems to me that Soul Train and Chicago went hand in hand. I sure could stand to be corrected on that however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silencioooh (talk • contribs)

First, I agree with you on the non-Black performers issue completely; 2) but you didn't read the whole article, because you would have seen that Soul Train moved from Chicago to Los Angeles when it went into national syndication in 1971. Rollosmokes 17:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I second the movement to replace the non-black artists list entirely. Since that's a point of contention, I question why any additions to the list are removed. Who gets to decide what artists make the list and which ones do not deserve a mention? What are the criteria for non-white performers listed here in the Wikipedia article? VertigoXpress 13:06, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I third this motion. I also don't know why it is so high up in the article. I can imagine it being a sort of reference list at the bottom of the article, but my change to take it down further was reverted without explanation. I'm tempted to take this to Wikipedia:Request for Comment for some outside comment/arbitration unless I get some kind of rationale for why this section is needed, and, much more importantly, why it needs there needs to be a list in the middle of the article instead of the more traditional placement further down in the article. It's poor Wikipedia etiquette to revert a good-faith edit without any kind of explanation at all in the edit summary or on the discussion page. Moncrief (talk) 16:37, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

It would be acceptable to keep this section on the Soul Train page when the American Bandstand page lists “Black Performers.” I find this incredibly racist and ham fisted in its clumsiness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.16 (talk) 14:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)