{"id":12664,"date":"2012-02-06T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2012-02-06T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:36:42","slug":"soul-train-fans-pay-tribute-to-don-cornelius-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12664","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Soul Train&#8217; Fans Pay Tribute To Don Cornelius On Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Fans of &#8220;<em>Soul Train<\/em>&#8221; boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show&#8217;s late creator,<strong> Don Cornelius<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a &#8220;flash mob&#8221; organized through the Internet. As startled tourists looked on, they recreated one of the show&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Soul Train<\/em> lines&#8221; in which people would take turns dancing toward a TV camera while showing off their most outrageous moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Don Cornelius<\/strong> was a big influence in my life, and I just wanted to pay tribute,&#8221; said disc jockey Jon Quick, as he held up a speaker blasting disco grooves. &#8220;He was playing the music that nobody else wanted to play. He was an amazing man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cornelius<\/strong>, 75, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday. He had suffered from health problems, a difficult divorce, and had pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor spousal battery charge in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday fans praised <strong>Cornelius<\/strong>&#8216; vision in creating, hosting and selling &#8220;<em>Soul Train<\/em>&#8221; to television stations that were originally skeptical about programming aimed at blacks. The show aired from 1971 to 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Fans of &#8220;Soul Train&#8221; boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the TV show&#8217;s late creator, Don Cornelius. About 100 dancers descended on Times Square in a &#8220;flash mob&#8221; organized through the Internet. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}