Soul Train was a weekly musical variety show that ran in first-run syndication from October 2, 1971, to March 25, 2006, spanning 35 seasons and over 1,100 episodes.
Soul Train stopped being just a dance show and became the place you had to be. That shift happened on the same date The Jackson 5 first appeared on the program in 1972, and it happened to land 57 years after I Want You…
The Jackson 5 first Soul Train appearance 1972
That moonwalk Michael made iconic? A Soul Train dancer named Caszper Canidate is the one who showed him the backslide that became it. He was also a pro dancer and choreographer who worked alongside Michael on the Beat…
Caszper Canidate taught Michael Jackson the moonwalk
