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* [[Long Runner]]: Every weekend for 35 years.
**[[Revolving Door Casting]]: Of course, this is endemic to a show that has probably had thousands of dancers over the years. Even Don Cornelius himself was AWOL for the show's final years. However, many of the show's dancers also count as long runners, many continuing to dance on the show for years even after making it big. The most famous example is fan favorite "the Asian Girl with the Long Hair", Cheryl Song, who was a show regular and dancer for the better part of 14 years or almost half the show's run (1976-1990).
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Many people think "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" was written specifically for ''Soul Train''...and actually, it was. In an interview for a [[VH-1]] documentary about the show, Cornelius stated that he hired the Philadelphia-based songwriting team of Gamble and Huff to write a song for the show. He liked it, but he was adamant about '''not''' calling the song "Soul Train", so they called it "TSOP" and he approved. Cornelius went on to say that he regretted that move.▼
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: During the mid-1970s, a rumor began floating around that Cornelius had died of a drug overdose, prompting him to make an announcement at the beginning of a subsequent episode that he had not died of a drug overdose and his attorneys were trying to find whoever had spread that slander. The interesting thing is that while Cornelius had carefully stated he did not ''die'' of a drug overdose, he never stated that he hadn't used drugs.
** Now [[Harsher in Hindsight]] since [[Author Existence Failure|Cornelius died in 2012.]]
▲* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Many people think "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" was written specifically for ''Soul Train''...and actually, it was. In an interview for a [[VH-1]] documentary about the show, Cornelius stated that he hired the Philadelphia-based songwriting team of Gamble and Huff to write a song for the show. He liked it, but he was adamant about '''not''' calling the song "Soul Train", so they called it "TSOP" and he approved. Cornelius went on to say that he regretted that move.
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''"And as always, in parting, we wish you love...peace...and '''SOOOOOOOUL!'''"''
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