in the '70s. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> hi, there. welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on "the soul train." if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure, you bet your bottom, we got them, baby. >> "soul train" finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> i would run home from church to get home to see "soul train." it was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. >> there's no question that "soul train" broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences they never performed for before. ♪ she's a dynamite attraction >> ten years before he did the moonwalk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on