Lyrics for this song are also included in this post.Ĭlick for Part II of this pancocojams series. Part I provides information about The Dazz Band and showcases a YouTube video of The Dazz Band performing their hit song "Let It Whip".
#Dazz band let it whip official video series#
Part III showcases The Dazz Band's "Let It Whip" and Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and includes comments about how the beginning of each record sounds the same.This is Part I of a three part pancocojams series that showcases the 1982 Funk song "Let It Whip" by The Dazz Band. The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes. Thanks to The Dazz Band for their musical legacy. Thanks also to all those who are featured in the Soul Train video and all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube. The Daz Band's song "Let It Whip" came to my mind as a result of United States' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripping up her copy of Donald Trump's State Of The Union address.
Yes, I know- the word "whip" doesn't have the same pronunciation and meaning as the word "rip".
But the two words sound almost the same and are spelled almost the same. (As for me, I celebrate Black history and Black culture all year long.) That said, sharing information about and examples of The Dazz Band's now iconic 1982 Funk song "Let It Whip", the television series Soul Train & the Soul Train line, and Michael Jackson's 1982 Beat It song, is one way of honoring Black history in the month of February that United States annually designates as "Black history month". Too often people think that the only way of celebrating Black history is to talk about slavery, famous African American inventors, and the civil rights movement in the United States. INFORMATION ABOUT SOUL TRAIN AND THE SOUL TRAIN LINE Our history is waaay more than that, and we are making history every day. " Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971, to March 27, 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, dance/pop, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists also appeared. The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer. Within the structure of the program, there were two enduring elements.
The first was the "Soul Train Scramble Board", where two dancers are given 60 seconds to unscramble a set of letters that form the name of that show's performer or a notable person in African American history. In describing the person's renown, the host concluded their description with the phrase ".whose name you should know". Cornelius openly admitted after the series ended its run that the game was usually set up so everybody won in an effort not to cause embarrassment for the show or African Americans in general. There was also the popular "Soul Train Line" (a variant of the 1950s fad then known as The Stroll), in which all the dancers form two lines with a space in the middle for dancers to strut down and dance in consecutive order. Originally, this consisted of a couple-with men on one side and women on the other. In later years, men and women had their own individual lineups. Sometimes, new dance styles or moves were featured or introduced by particular dancers.