Music on TV

[RGMike]

Centric salutes MJ with a 1972 SoulTrain ep: the J-5 doing "Corner of the Sky" and "Lookin' Thru the Windows" plus Jermaine doing "That's how Love Goes", his underrated first single, as well as "Daddy's Home".

[RGMike]

a FB-friend on the East Coast advised me to watch the Daytime Emmys because they were horrendous and she was right -- they're doing a salute to American Bandstand with a horde of aging stars who can't sing anymore: Marie Osmond, Tony Orlando, Chubby Checker.  Damn this is just awful.

[RGMike]

OMG!  Country Music television (ch. 475 on my Comcast) is showing  "Johnny Cash @ San Quentin" a 1969 docu with performance footage interspersed with interviews with inmates -- I'm guessing this hasn't been shown on TV in many years.

[RGMike]

An interesting late-1981 Soul Train with the then-new group The Time (3 years before Purple Rain) doing "Get It Up" and "Cool", and a between-hits Patti LaBelle doing a flop single called "We're a Family".

[sundaygal]

Courtney Love: VH1 Behind The Music.  Have you seen it?  This woman is crazier than a shithouse rat, but so fucking entertaining at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw6RDwzhon0

[sundaygal]

Check out this rousing rendition of Pulling Mussels on Jimmy Fallon!  This song never gets old. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJf_0xuMFw

[RGMike]

Lawd! a 1975 Soul Train with Ike & Tina doing Ringo's "Oh My My". She can boogie! She can slide! This was not long before they broke up, actually.

And then Don Cornelius intros an even-worse-than-the-original-version remix of Disc-O-Texx's "Get Dancin" by saying "you've never heard anything like it". We'll, you've got me there, Mr C.

And I&T return later to do "Ike's Nuts + Tina's Bush = Nutbush"

[RGMike]

Check out this rousing rendition of Pulling Mussels on Jimmy Fallon!  This song never gets old. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJf_0xuMFw

That was pretty great. But WTF is up with doing a new album of remakes of all their old hits? A&M doesn't pay them royalties any more?

[sundaygal]

Heeerrrre's Johnny (Lydon) on the telly selling Country Life butter in the UK.  I can't tell if this horrifying or genius.  Maybe a bit of both.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY

[urth]

Heeerrrre's Johnny (Lydon) on the telly selling Country Life butter in the UK.  I can't tell if this horrifying or genius.  Maybe a bit of both.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY

I ran across that a while back--just proves he's a much of a whore as anyone. But the commercials (there are several) are pretty funny.

[RGMike]

Heeerrrre's Johnny (Lydon) on the telly selling Country Life butter in the UK.  I can't tell if this horrifying or genius.  Maybe a bit of both.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY

I ran across that a while back--just proves he's a much of a whore as anyone. But the commercials (there are several) are pretty funny.

"you eat (butter) while I secrete!"

[RGMike]

according to a tip over at the other AT40 message board, tonite's classic Soul Tarin is the VERY FIRST EPISODE from 1971; Honey Cone and Gladys & the Pips are the guests. Can't wait.

[RGMike]

according to a tip over at the other AT40 message board, tonite's classic Soul Train is the VERY FIRST EPISODE from 1971; Honey Cone and Gladys & the Pips are the guests. Can't wait.

Holy flaming mutha -- amazing.  Honey Cone at the very top of the show, doing "Want Ads", and they're singing live, not lip-synching.  And then Eddie Kendricks came out and sang a song I couldn't ID; something from his first solo LP, 2 years before he hit with "Keep on Truckin". Can't wait to see what's next.

Gladys & Co appear to do "Polygamy Friendship Train". Then return to sit in the "Soul Train Hot Seat", an interview segment. And lawdy, here's "I Don't Wanna Do Wrong", one of my 2 or 3 fave perfs of Ms Knight's. I just can't HELP mahself!

Then, after a demonstration of how to do the funky breakdown, Honey Cone return for "Stick Up" -- I'll wear a smile down the aisle, 'cause he's the father of mah child!

[RGMike]

Hard to top last nite's ST, but this comes close: a Summer-of-'74 excursion with George McCrae, Rufus feat. Chaka, and Billy Preston's gigantic 'fro.

[RGMike]

according to a tip over at the other AT40 message board, tonite's classic Soul Train is the VERY FIRST EPISODE from 1971; Honey Cone and Gladys & the Pips are the guests. Can't wait.

Holy flaming mutha -- amazing.  Honey Cone at the very top of the show, doing "Want Ads", and they're singing live, not lip-synching.  And then Eddie Kendricks came out and sang a song I couldn't ID; something from his first solo LP, 2 years before he hit with "Keep on Truckin". Can't wait to see what's next.

Gladys & Co appear to do "Polygamy Friendship Train". Then return to sit in the "Soul Train Hot Seat", an interview segment. And lawdy, here's "I Don't Wanna Do Wrong", one of my 2 or 3 fave perfs of Ms Knight's. I just can't HELP mahself!

Then, after a demonstration of how to do the funky breakdown, Honey Cone return for "Stick Up" -- I'll wear a smile down the aisle, 'cause he's the father of mah child!

For those who don't have the Centric channel but who *do* have Comcast, this particular episode is available On Demand as part of their ongoing promotion for the Soul Train CD box set. Go to channel 1 (the On Demand menu) and select Music --> Music Picks --> Soul Train --> "Soul Train Ep 1".  (it's available FREE until Aug 2nd).