Posted: Tue., Aug. 25, 2009, 8:00pm PT @ www.VARIETY.com
WB taps Spellman to write film based on show
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Warner Bros. has hired Malcolm Spellman to write a feature based on the classic TV show “Soul Train.”
Darryl Porter and Aaron Geller of Porter/Geller Prods. will produce with Don Cornelius, the host and producer of the famed show, which ran from 1971-2006.
Spellman said that he’s writing a film set in the 1980s.
See the VARIETY article in its entirety here.
I sure wish this was going to be set in the 1970s … but I’ll take what I can get
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- T.S.O.P. aka The Theme From Soul Train as Performed by MFSB (1973)
- “Soul Children” – The Soul Children (1968) Part 3 of 3
- “Soul Children” – The Soul Children (1968) Part 1 of 3
- "Soul Man" – Performed by Sam & Dave (1967)
- “Mother-in-law” Performed by Ernie K. Doe (1961)
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you almost got me with this one. at first i thought you meant it was going into sydication or something! i was about to get so happy LOL. i wish it was set in the 70′s too. imagine if we got see this on tv nowadays…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MiG2fe8lE
i LOVE that clip to death!!
Aw sookie, sookie now (LOL). Afros and plaid pants. Love it. Thanks for the link SupaS. So many of those great Soul Train (and Temptations clips) come and go from YouTube. When I was transferring the blog data I notice quite a few videos had been removed over the past year. I will favorite this one, but think I shall save it too. PS. Did you see my plaid skirt and my daddy’s striped pants. Check my “About” page and you will see that we were watching Soul Train too back in the day!
i love it tooo! your welcome! just like you i save rare/favorite things too. Youtube deletes all the good stuff so you gotta catch em when you can.
i read your About page and i neva saw that pic! you looked too fly SonDan! go ‘head! lol you and ya daddy looked like yall shouldve been dancing down the Soul Train line too. LOVE it! were those really blue tights or is it jus the pic?
I probably had on white tights SupaS. I had a thing for them for a while as I recall — who knows why? Probably was the style. I hope big plaids and stripes don’t come back anytime soon though (HAHAHA). And those wire rimmed “John Lennon” glasses – argh those wire frames would bend out of shape like no body’s business!
I saved that awesome Tempts videos and I am gonna spend some time this weekend saving as many “Soul Train” videos as I can. It may be a while before they ever get to the store on a DVD and I don’t want to have to wait to see resurface after YouTube gets around to deleting them again.
As always, great chatting with you.
Hugs!
LOL all women wore white tights at some point in their lives. i used to run them when i was young. idk about big plaid but plaid is a big trend nowadays, everybody wears it! and i remember those glasses! i had a pair of reading glasses like that lol.
good! i save em as i see em. then convert it and put it on my ipod and save it on my flash drive…i dont play! lol
Always fun talkin to you to!
Yep – my fave videos go on my Zune. Gotta have music and videos wherever I go!
And I love our chats too. Makes blogging special!
remember my first reply? they are bringing Soul Train back! look and see if you have a new channel called “Centric”. i saw the first episode and it was The Jacksons and Jermaine. i LOVED it!
Ok I w ill check it out. I have Comcast cable. Is that what you have?
nah, i have Time Warner Cable.
Yipee! I found the new network CENTRIC on my Direct TV today while looking for a movie to watch while uploading music for this blog. Saw “Soul Train” with Al Green and Mel & Tim as guests. And to my surprise AL Green was performing live and sounding great! He must be one of the very few artists (I remember Marvin Gaye and Stevie both doing live sets) who did not lip sync on “Soul Train!” Gosh this brought back so many memories.
And now I am watching a live performance by Isaac Hayes at the Montreux Jazz Festival! This station is totally awesome. Gotta go now to google it and see how it came about while listening to Hayes doing “Walk on By”. I’ll upload music tomorrow here for OSML (BIG GRIN)
Talk with you soon SupaS.
SonDan.
Great!! ive seen every episode so far execpt for the Tribute to Minnie. i only caught the end of that one. Since i kno you love Eddie you have to see the episode with Gladys and The Pips. Eddie’s in that one and he sings Its So Hard For Me To Say Goodbye and I Did It All For You. and a group i’ve neva heard of called the Honey Cones. they jus got a new fan because i loved both of their performances and i will get those song on my ipod. i LOVED that episode wit Al! he was (and still is) such a cutie! i felt like that one girl who got shy when she was about to ask him a question and whe he started to sing to her during For The Good Times LOL
Hi SupaS,
Oh I love the Honey Cone: they had some great songs including “Want Ads” and “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”! And I can hardley wait to see my sweet Eddie on the repeat! What is the regular air time of the show?
Hey SonDan
yea! they performed Want Ads (which Mary Mary had recently sampled. i noticed as soon as i heard this note Edna did lol) and Stick Up (LOVE this one!) im not really sure but i kno i catch a new one evey saturday
SupaS,
I won’t be home this Saturday but next Saturday I will park in front of the TV as long as I can until I see an episode of classic “Soul Train.” Now I have something to look forward too. I might even have to finally bring my recording habits into the 21st century and start saving pennies to purchase a DVD recorder since I can’t locate blank VHS tapes for my recorder/player any more. (SMILE)
omg, i didnt kno there was such a thing lol i feel so slow! i should get one of those too. we have some many VHS tapes but nobody really uses VCR’s any more (and ours dont work lol) since i see we have DVD recorders now, i should look for a VHS converter or somethin like that lol
I thought I was the only one behind the times without a DVD recorder! I too have literally hundreds of VHS tapes and hundreds of Beta tapes as well! One day I want to convert them to DVD but I don’t have the $ right now. That is a task for my wish list along with converting all of my Vinyl to digital.
vinyl to digital and VHS/Beta tapes to DVD…sounds like alot of time and money lol good luck SonDan
You are right on all points. But I WILL get it done.
Yet another great addition to the blog addiction. cant get the rss to work though
–Amber
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Welcome aboard and Happy 2010 Amber,
I checked the feed subscription link at the upper right of the blog and it seems to be working ok: it is supposed to convert my old WordpPress.com feed to my new Feedburner feed using a WordPress Plug-In. If this is not working for you, please try entering my direct feed as follows in your reader:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/OldSchoolMusicLover
Let me know how it works for you.