Now, any American boy or girl of any hue who EVER got in touch with his/her “soul side” and is over the age of 25 HAS to remember this institution. And if you don’t, high time you were reminded.
Yes, you’re going to “be all ROFL” at some of the fashions, but no matter what, do not miss the guy(s) on the right at the 1:35 mark!
I can totally hear in my head that guy doing John Travolta: “Ya know, I work on my hair a long time, and you hit it.”
If you’re lucky (and you are not among the heretics people who have totally abandoned radio), there’s a “souldies” station in your market. Pronounced so that it rhymes with “oldies”, it’s a format name I made up back when Denver had a classic soul station and damn, I still miss it. But the ownership of the station, as is so often the case in radio, built a loyal listener and advertiser base — thank you, Tower Liquors — but didn’t get high enough ratings (in a heavily saturated market) to satisfy some out-of-town suit, so they applied the Genghis Kahn Approach to Radio Programming and pulled the plug and flipped the format to country. Believe me when I say Denver needed another country station like Detroit needs another abandoned building.
In honor of tonight’s VH-1 Soul Train documentary and also because Lester made some good finds the other night that got me to missing this amazing music all over again, I’ll share a few with you over a series of posts, like I did with the one-hit-wonders last year.
First up: Tower of Power!
Here’s wishing you all peace, love — and SOUL!
