how did don cornelius put soul train on the fast track?”
Admit it: No matter what you remember about “Soul Train” – the dancing, the clothes, the music – just those two words put a smile on your face. So will this VH1 documentary on one of the most successful music shows in the history of anywhere. “The Hippest Trip” is an express version of that history, 90 fast-moving minutes narrated by Terrence Howard with guest comments by artists from Aretha Franklin to Snoop Dogg. Along the way, it notes that “Soul Train” also had ties to more serious matters, since its charismatic creator and host, Don Cornelius, came out of the civil rights movement. He was a journalist more than a music man, but he also had a promotional sense and in the late 1960s, he saw a hole in the music media market. Soul music was popular everywhere, and yet unlike rock ‘n’ roll and pop stars, soul artists had no place on television to promote that music. So Cornelius started one, on a low-power station in Chicago. In a sense, he did with TV what Berry Gordy did with the rec
Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America Saturday at 9:30 on VH1 Admit it: No matter what you remember about “Soul Train” – the dancing, the clothes, the music – just those two words put a smile on your face. So will this VH1 documentary on one of the most successful music shows in the history of anywhere. “The Hippest Trip” is an express version of that history, 90 fast-moving minutes narrated by Terrence Howard with guest comments by artists from Aretha Franklin to Snoop Dogg. Along the way, it notes that “Soul Train” also had ties to more serious matters, since its charismatic creator and host, Don Cornelius, came out of the civil rights movement. He was a journalist more than a music man, but he also had a promotional sense and in the late 1960s, he saw a hole in the music media market. Soul music was popular everywhere, and yet unlike rock ‘n’ roll and pop stars, soul artists had no place on television to promote that music. So Cornelius started one, on a low-power station in Chica
