Soul Train - Season 9
Season 9
Episodes
A Tribute to Minnie Riperton
Dancers, record: "Seeing You This Way" (Minnie Riperton)
Vintage performance: Minnie Riperton - "Loving You" (from Soul Train #121, 28-Dec-1974)
Soul Train Scramble Board (MINNIE RIPERTON) record: "Reasons" (Minnie Riperton)
Performance: Wintley Phipps - "I Give You My Life" and interview.
Lorainne Fields and Larry Vickers (professional dancers) record: "Simple Things" (Minnie Riperton)
Midpoint song: "Dancin' And Actin' Crazy" (Minnie Riperton)
Interview: Stevie Wonder talks to Don Cornelius about Minnie Riperton.
Performance: Stevie Wonder (singing and playing piano) - "Perfect Angel" and "Loving You" medley.
Performance (Mike Douglas Show clip): Minnie Riperton - "Lover and Friend."
Performance: Wintley Phipps - "Sing a Song of Love"
Dancers, record: "I'm A Woman" (Minnie Riperton)
Performance (Mike Douglas Show clip): Minnie Riperton - "Memory Lane."
Don Cornelius closing comments & closing credits.
Deniece Williams/ Apollo
Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)
1st Dance Segment: "The Boss" Diana Ross
2nd Dance Segment: "Let Your Feeling Show" by Earth, Wind & Fire
Scramble Board (ANDREW YOUNG) "Good Times" Chic
Performance: Apollo - "Astro Disco"
Dance Routine: Michael Peters & Frances Morgan,"Dance Forever" by Ashford & Simpson
Midpoint Song: "Rise" Herb Alpert
Performance: Deniece Williams "I've Got The Next Dance" plus interview
3rd Dance Segment: "Sing A Happy Song" The O'Jays
Performance: Apollo "Right In Front Of You" plus interview.
Soul Train Line: Michael Jackson "Working Day And Night"
Performance: Deniece Williams - "I Found Love."
Closing Credits
Shalamar/ Tata Vaga
Shalamar - "The Second Time Around" and "Right In The Socket."
Tata Vega - "I Need You Now" and "I Just keep Thinking About You, Baby."
Bonnie Pointer/ Switch
Bonnie Pointer - "Heaven Must Have Sent You" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (her new single, to be released Nov. 1979).
Switch - "Best Beat in Town" and "I Call Your Name."
David Ruffin/ Heatwave
David Ruffin - "Let Your Love Rain Down on Me" and "Break My Heart."
Heatwave - "One Night Tan" and "Raise a Blaze."
Music video: Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough."
Rick James/ Teena Marie
Opening Theme ("Soul Train' 78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)
1st Dance Segment: "It's A Disco Night (Rock Don`t Stop)" The Isley Brothers
2nd Dance Segment: "Do You Love What You Feel" Rufus & Chaka Khan
Scrambleboard: (JESSE JACKSON) "In The Stone" Earth, Wind & Fire
Performance: Teena Marie - "Don't Look Back."
Dance Routine: The Bobcat,"Ladies Night" Kool & the Gang
3rd Dance Segment: "Lover And Friend" Minnie Riperton
Midpoint Song: "How Did You Know It Was Me?" Barry White
Performance: Rick James "Fool On The Street" plus interview
4th Dance Segment: "Deja Vu" Dionne Warwick
Performance: Teena Marie & Rick James- "I'm A Sucker For Your Love" plus interview
Soul Train Line: Michael Jackson "Don't Stop `Til You Get Enough"
Performance: Rick James - "Love Gun."
Closing Credits
Billy Preston/ Creme D'Coca
Billy Preston - "Late at Night" and "Come in Time."
Creme D'Coca "Mr. Me, Mrs. You" and "Doin' the Dog."
Bar Kays/ McFadden & Whitehead
Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)
1st Dance Segment: "Do You Love What You Feel" Rufus & Chaka Khan
2nd Dance Segment: "Ladies Night" Kool & the Gang
Scrambleboard: (DIONNE WARWICK) "Dim All The Lights" Donna Summer
Performance: The Bar Kays "Move Your Boogie Body"
Dance Routine: Jeffrey Daniels & Eclipse,"Working Day & Night" Michael Jackson; TRIVIA: This is the first time we were exposed to the dance that would later become the moonwalk, which was originally called "The Backslide"
Dance with Jeffrey and the rest of the Soul Train Dancers: "No One Gets The Prize" Diana Ross
Midpoint Song: "Deja Vu" Dionne Warwick
Performance: McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" plus interview.
3rd Dance Segment: "How Did You Know It Was Me?" Barry White
Performance: The Bar Kays - "You've Been" plus interview.
Soul Train Line: The Isley Brothers "It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)"
Performance: McFadden & Whitehead - "I've Been Pushed Aside."
Closing Credits
Herb Alpert/ Dynasty
Herb Alpert - "Rise" and "Rotation."
Dynasty - "I Don't Want to Be a Freak (But I Can't Help Myself)" and "Satisfied."
Salute to Smokey Robinson/ Keith & Darrell
Smokey Robinson - "Cruising" and "I Love the Nearness of You."
Keith & Darnell "Feel the Fever" and "Kickin' It Around."
The Whispers/ Vernon Butch
Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)
1st Song, on record, Dancers: "(Ooh Wee)She's Killing Me" Johnnie Taylor
2nd Song, on record, Dancers: "Dim All The Lights" Donna Summer
Performance: Vernon Burch "Never Can Find A Way" plus an interview
Scrambleboard: (VERNON JORDAN) "Roller Skatin' Mate" Peaches & Herb
Comedy Routine: Tom Dreesen
Midpoint: "In The Stone" Earth, Wind & Fire
Performance: The Whispers "A Song For Donny" plus an interview.
3rd Song, on record, Dancers: "Get Ready" Smokey Robinson
Performance: Vernon Burch "Once Again In My Life."
Soul Train Line Song: Michael Jackson "Working Day And Night"
Performance: The Whispers "Homemade Lovin'."
Closing Credits
Tribute to Aretha Franklin
Opening theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)
NOTE: All songs performed by Aretha Franklin
1st Song, on record, Dancers "Think" (1968)
2nd Song, on record, Dancers "You Send Me" (1968)
Scrambleboard (ARETHA FRANKLIN): "Ladies Only"
Performance: "I Was Made for You" (duet with Eric Robinson)
3rd Song, on record, Dancers: "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973)
Choreographed Dance Spotlight: "Rock Steady" (1971)
Midpoint song: "Day Dreaming" (1972)
Don Cornelius with Aretha Franklin at the piano playing "Mary, Don't You Weep" (1972)
Smokey Robinson joins Aretha for a duet on "Ooh, Baby Baby".
4th Song, on record, Dancers: "Don't Play That Song" (1970)
5th Song, on record, Dancers: "Something He Can Feel" (1976)
Soul Train Line Song: "Respect" (1967)
Performance: "It's Gonna Get a Bit Better"
Closing credits
The Commodores
Johnnie Taylor/ Lakeside
War
Chic/ High Inergy
Lou Rawls/ Narada Michael Walden
Shalamar/ The Gap Band
The Whispers/ Patrice Rushen
L.T.D./ Cheryl Lynn
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes/ Brass Connection
Sister Sledge/ Randy Brown
The Spinners/ Con Funk Shun
Captain & Tenille/ Ritchie Family
Stephanie Mills/ Roy Ayers
Village People/ Side Effect
Jermaine Jackson/ Dramatics
Salute to Gladys Knight & the Pips
Ray, Goodman & Brown/ Ray Parker, Jr. & Raydio
Salute to the Temptations/ Syreeta
Leon Haywood/ LA Boppers
Salute to Barry White
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