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Soul Train

Season 9

32 listed hours · 1971–2006 · Syndicated

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

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 9 of Soul Train (1971–2006) on Syndicated as a mid listed season (9; 9 of 35) — 32 listed hours, 1979-09-15–1980-06-14 from “A Tribute to Minnie Riperton” (S09E01) to “Salute to Barry White” (S09E32). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S09E25 Stephanie Mills/ Roy Ayers

    Stephanie Mills and Roy Ayers is late-1970s trip energy. Guests as the catalog's true episode titles: a weekly archive of Black pop, funk, and the kids who became the show.

  1. S09E01 A Tribute to Minnie Riperton
  2. S09E02 Deniece Williams/ Apollo
  3. S09E03 Shalamar/ Tata Vaga
  4. S09E04 Bonnie Pointer/ Switch
  5. S09E05 David Ruffin/ Heatwave
  6. S09E06 Rick James/ Teena Marie
  7. S09E07 Billy Preston/ Creme D'Coca
  8. S09E08 Bar Kays/ McFadden & Whitehead
  9. S09E09 Herb Alpert/ Dynasty
  10. S09E10 Salute to Smokey Robinson/ Keith & Darrell
  11. S09E11 The Whispers/ Vernon Butch
  12. S09E12 Tribute to Aretha Franklin
  13. S09E13 Johnnie Taylor/ Lakeside
  14. S09E14 Salute to the Commodores
  15. S09E15 War
  16. S09E16 Chic/ High Inergy
  17. S09E17 Lou Rawls/ Narada Michael Walden
  18. S09E18 Shalamar/ The Gap Band
  19. S09E19 The Whispers/ Patrice Rushen
  20. S09E20 L.T.D./ Cheryl Lynn
  21. S09E21 Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes/ Brass Connection
  22. S09E22 Sister Sledge/ Randy Brown
  23. S09E23 The Spinners/ Con Funk Shun
  24. S09E24 Captain & Tenille/ Ritchie Family
  25. S09E25 Stephanie Mills/ Roy Ayers
  26. S09E26 Village People/ Side Effect
  27. S09E27 Jermaine Jackson/ Dramatics
  28. S09E28 Salute to Gladys Knight & the Pips
  29. S09E29 Ray, Goodman & Brown/ Ray Parker, Jr. & Raydio
  30. S09E30 Salute to the Temptations/ Syreeta
  31. S09E31 Leon Haywood/ LA Boppers
  32. S09E32 Salute to Barry White

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