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    Review: 'American Soul' brings the drama behind 'Soul Train,' the 'hippest trip in America,' to BET

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Feb 05, 2019 4 minutes

    Kids today can pull out a phone and watch pop stars sing and dance, anyway, anyhow, anywhere they choose. But TV was small once, and such appearances were rare - and all the more psychically powerful for it.

    Born in Chicago, transplanted to Hollywood and syndicated everywhere, "Soul Train," from 1971 to 2003, was a seemingly simple jukebox dance show that became one of the most culturally significant TV shows of its very long time. A beacon of young black music, dance and fashion, it lit up the nation with "love, peace and soul," in the words with which creator and velvet-baritone

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