{"id":2255,"date":"2012-02-01T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:26:45","slug":"don-cornelius-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2255","title":{"rendered":"Don Cornelius RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr Don Cornelius<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -The Ramrods – Soul Train Pts 1&2 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download -The Rimshots – Soultrain Pts 1&2 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I come to you on what would normally be a \u2018between-posts\u2019 day because the news came down today that the great Don Cornelius<\/strong> had died.<\/p>\n

Cornelius was the host of the long-running \u2018Soul Train\u2019, the premiere showcase for black music on national TV in the 70s, 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n

I spent many a Saturday morning watching the best dancers in America groove on the Soul Train line and listening to his deep, rich voice end every show with the phrase \u201cYou can bet your last money it\u2019ll be a stone gas honey!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cornelius got his start as an insurance salesman, but moved into entertainment as a DJ on Chicago\u2019s legendary WVON in 1966.<\/p>\n

Soul Train started as a local Chicago show on 1970, moving into national syndication in 1971 (Cornelius was the host until 1993).<\/p>\n

Though the theme that most people associate with the show is \u2018TSOP\u2019 by MFSB and the Three Degrees<\/strong>, <\/a>which was the show\u2019s theme from 1973 to 1975, the original theme was an unusual, very groovy, and totally recycled record.<\/p>\n

The original \u2018Soul Train\u2019, as credited by the Ramrods<\/strong> was used as the theme to the show from 1971 to 1973. It may very well have sounded familiar to some of the older heads in the audience, because it had originally been released almost ten years before as recorded by the Rinky Dinks<\/strong> (actually a group led by King Curtis<\/strong> on guitar) under the title \u2018Hot Potato\u2019.<\/p>\n

I had never heard this \u2018version\u2019 of the Soul Train theme until a few years after I picked up a copy of the Ramrods 45, when I saw a clip from the early years of the show and heard it playing in the background.<\/p>\n

When it was released on Rampage records in 1972 under the Ramrods name, it grazed the R&B Top 40, remaining on the charts for several weeks.<\/p>\n

That same year, the Rimshots<\/strong> covered the song and released their version on the All Platinum subsidiary A-1 records.<\/p>\n

I present both two-part versions in full today in remembrance of the mighty Don Cornelius, and because they both represent a good, greasy, soulful groove.<\/p>\n

He will be missed and we wish him love, peace and soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peace<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mr Don Cornelius Listen\/Download -The Ramrods – Soul Train Pts 1&2 Listen\/Download -The Rimshots – Soultrain Pts 1&2 Greetings all. I come to you on what would normally be a \u2018between-posts\u2019 day because the news came down today that the great Don Cornelius had died. Cornelius was the host of the long-running \u2018Soul Train\u2019, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,11,17,14,66,64,12,18],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-rb","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-An","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}