Soul Train
Season 1
30 listed hours · 1971–2006 · Syndicated
From the desk
How this season is filed
Don Cornelius promises the hippest trip in America and delivers the national dance party corporate TV had under-served: guests, fashion, the Line, scrambleboard kids who became famous. Syndicated Black music television as cultural archive from 1971 deep into the 2000s. Velvet baritone as the rope.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Soul Train (1971–2006) on Syndicated as the first listed season of 35 — 30 listed hours, 1971-10-02–1972-04-22 from “Gladys Knight & the Pips/ Eddie Kendricks/ The Honey Cone/ Bobby Hutton” (S01E01) to “Ike & Tina Turner/ Jerry Butler/ Brenda Lee Eager” (S01E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Gladys Knight & the Pips/ Eddie Kendricks/ The Honey Cone/ Bobby Hutton
Gladys Knight, Eddie Kendricks, Honey Cone, Bobby Hutton: the 1971 open. Cornelius promises the hippest trip; syndicated Black music television as a dance party corporate TV had under-served.
- S01E05 Bill Withers/ Al Green/ Viola Wills
Bill Withers, Al Green, Viola Wills is early-run guest density as archive. The Line already the set; scrambleboard kids loading into fame; velvet-baritone hosting as cultural weather.
- S01E01 Gladys Knight & the Pips/ Eddie Kendricks/ The Honey Cone/ Bobby Hutton
- S01E02 Charlie Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Band/ Carla Thomas/ General Crook
- S01E03 Chairmen of the Board/ Rufus Thomas/ Laura Lee
- S01E04 The Staple Singers / Freda Payne
- S01E05 Bill Withers/ Al Green/ Viola Wills
- S01E06 Lou Rawls/ The 100 Proof/ The Emotions
- S01E07 Martha & the Vandellas/ The Intruders/ G.C. Cameron
- S01E08 Friends of Distinction/ Clarence Carter
- S01E09 Chambers Brothers/ The Five Stairsteps
- S01E10 Junior Walker & The All Stars/ Bobby Womack/ Thelma Houston
- S01E11 Jean Knight/ The Delfonics/ Maurice Jackson/ Ralphi Pagan
- S01E12 The Chi-Lites / Joe Tex / The Originals
- S01E13 Gene Chandler/ Simtex & Wylie/ The Free Movement
- S01E14 B.B. King/ O.C. Smith/ Patrice Halloway
- S01E15 Dennis Coffey/ Detroit Emeralds/ Jesse James
- S01E16 Little Richard/ Undisputed Truth/ Nolan F. Porter
- S01E17 Curtis Mayfield/ The Honey Cone/ The Persuaders
- S01E18 The Impressions/ Mary Clayton/ The Three Degrees
- S01E19 The Dells/ Kim Weston/ Luther Ingram
- S01E20 Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee/ Joe Tex/ Hodges, Smith, James & Crawford
- S01E21 Al Green/ The Whispers/ Denise LaSalle
- S01E22 The Four Tops/ Jackie Wilson/ Kool & the Gang
- S01E23 Gladys Knight & the Pips/ The Ohio Players/ Garland Green
- S01E24 Rufus Thomas/ The Bar-Kays/ Laura Lee
- S01E25 The Chi-Lites/ Edwin Starr/ James Gadsen
- S01E26 Wilson Pickett / Curtis Mayfield / War
- S01E27 Joe Tex/ Gloria Lynn/ Independents
- S01E28 Lou Rawls/ Otis Clay/ The Peaches
- S01E29 The Isley Brothers/ Love Unlimited/ Millie Jackson
- S01E30 Ike & Tina Turner/ Jerry Butler/ Brenda Lee Eager
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