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The word out of Los Angeles is that the man who created “Soul Train” — the Chicago show that introduced America to countless soul and R&B acts, and some groovy dancing, too — has died. Don Cornelius was 75.
Cornelius was a police officer who started his broadcast career in Chicago as a news announcer and DJ on WVON radio. In 1970, he started the local version of “Soul Train” on WCIU-TV, with Jerry “The Iceman” Butler, The Chi-Lites, and The Emotions as his first guests. “Soul Train” moved to Hollywood in 1971, and took us on the hippest trip in America until 2006.
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