Soul Train - Season 9

Dancers, record: "Seeing You This Way" (Minnie Riperton)

Vintage performance: Minnie Riperton - "Loving You" (from Soul Train #121, 28-Dec-1974)

Soul Train Scramble Board (MINNIE RIPERTON) record: "Reasons" (Minnie Riperton)

Performance: Wintley Phipps - "I Give You My Life" and interview.

Lorainne Fields and Larry Vickers (professional dancers) record: "Simple Things" (Minnie Riperton)

Midpoint song: "Dancin' And Actin' Crazy" (Minnie Riperton)

Interview: Stevie Wonder talks to Don Cornelius about Minnie Riperton.

Performance: Stevie Wonder (singing and playing piano) - "Perfect Angel" and "Loving You" medley.

Performance (Mike Douglas Show clip): Minnie Riperton - "Lover and Friend."

Performance: Wintley Phipps - "Sing a Song of Love"

Dancers, record: "I'm A Woman" (Minnie Riperton)

Performance (Mike Douglas Show clip): Minnie Riperton - "Memory Lane."

Don Cornelius closing comments & closing credits.

Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)

1st Dance Segment: "The Boss" Diana Ross

2nd Dance Segment: "Let Your Feeling Show" by Earth, Wind & Fire

Scramble Board (ANDREW YOUNG) "Good Times" Chic

Performance: Apollo - "Astro Disco"

Dance Routine: Michael Peters & Frances Morgan,"Dance Forever" by Ashford & Simpson

Midpoint Song: "Rise" Herb Alpert

Performance: Deniece Williams "I've Got The Next Dance" plus interview

3rd Dance Segment: "Sing A Happy Song" The O'Jays

Performance: Apollo "Right In Front Of You" plus interview.

Soul Train Line: Michael Jackson "Working Day And Night"

Performance: Deniece Williams - "I Found Love."

Closing Credits

Shalamar - "The Second Time Around" and "Right In The Socket."

Tata Vega - "I Need You Now" and "I Just keep Thinking About You, Baby."

Bonnie Pointer - "Heaven Must Have Sent You" and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (her new single, to be released Nov. 1979).

Switch - "Best Beat in Town" and "I Call Your Name."

David Ruffin - "Let Your Love Rain Down on Me" and "Break My Heart."

Heatwave - "One Night Tan" and "Raise a Blaze."

Music video: Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough."

Opening Theme ("Soul Train' 78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)

1st Dance Segment: "It's A Disco Night (Rock Don`t Stop)" The Isley Brothers

2nd Dance Segment: "Do You Love What You Feel" Rufus & Chaka Khan

Scrambleboard: (JESSE JACKSON) "In The Stone" Earth, Wind & Fire

Performance: Teena Marie - "Don't Look Back."

Dance Routine: The Bobcat,"Ladies Night" Kool & the Gang

3rd Dance Segment: "Lover And Friend" Minnie Riperton

Midpoint Song: "How Did You Know It Was Me?" Barry White

Performance: Rick James "Fool On The Street" plus interview

4th Dance Segment: "Deja Vu" Dionne Warwick

Performance: Teena Marie & Rick James- "I'm A Sucker For Your Love" plus interview

Soul Train Line: Michael Jackson "Don't Stop `Til You Get Enough"

Performance: Rick James - "Love Gun."

Closing Credits

Billy Preston - "Late at Night" and "Come in Time."

Creme D'Coca "Mr. Me, Mrs. You" and "Doin' the Dog."

Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)

1st Dance Segment: "Do You Love What You Feel" Rufus & Chaka Khan

2nd Dance Segment: "Ladies Night" Kool & the Gang

Scrambleboard: (DIONNE WARWICK) "Dim All The Lights" Donna Summer

Performance: The Bar Kays "Move Your Boogie Body"

Dance Routine: Jeffrey Daniels & Eclipse,"Working Day & Night" Michael Jackson; TRIVIA: This is the first time we were exposed to the dance that would later become the moonwalk, which was originally called "The Backslide"

Dance with Jeffrey and the rest of the Soul Train Dancers: "No One Gets The Prize" Diana Ross

Midpoint Song: "Deja Vu" Dionne Warwick

Performance: McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" plus interview.

3rd Dance Segment: "How Did You Know It Was Me?" Barry White

Performance: The Bar Kays - "You've Been" plus interview.

Soul Train Line: The Isley Brothers "It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)"

Performance: McFadden & Whitehead - "I've Been Pushed Aside."

Closing Credits

Herb Alpert - "Rise" and "Rotation."

Dynasty - "I Don't Want to Be a Freak (But I Can't Help Myself)" and "Satisfied."

Smokey Robinson - "Cruising" and "I Love the Nearness of You."

Keith & Darnell "Feel the Fever" and "Kickin' It Around."

Opening Theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)

1st Song, on record, Dancers: "(Ooh Wee)She's Killing Me" Johnnie Taylor

2nd Song, on record, Dancers: "Dim All The Lights" Donna Summer

Performance: Vernon Burch "Never Can Find A Way" plus an interview

Scrambleboard: (VERNON JORDAN) "Roller Skatin' Mate" Peaches & Herb

Comedy Routine: Tom Dreesen

Midpoint: "In The Stone" Earth, Wind & Fire

Performance: The Whispers "A Song For Donny" plus an interview.

3rd Song, on record, Dancers: "Get Ready" Smokey Robinson

Performance: Vernon Burch "Once Again In My Life."

Soul Train Line Song: Michael Jackson "Working Day And Night"

Performance: The Whispers "Homemade Lovin'."

Closing Credits

Opening theme ("Soul Train '78" by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band)

NOTE: All songs performed by Aretha Franklin

1st Song, on record, Dancers "Think" (1968)

2nd Song, on record, Dancers "You Send Me" (1968)

Scrambleboard (ARETHA FRANKLIN): "Ladies Only"

Performance: "I Was Made for You" (duet with Eric Robinson)

3rd Song, on record, Dancers: "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1973)

Choreographed Dance Spotlight: "Rock Steady" (1971)

Midpoint song: "Day Dreaming" (1972)

Don Cornelius with Aretha Franklin at the piano playing "Mary, Don't You Weep" (1972)

Smokey Robinson joins Aretha for a duet on "Ooh, Baby Baby".

4th Song, on record, Dancers: "Don't Play That Song" (1970)

5th Song, on record, Dancers: "Something He Can Feel" (1976)

Soul Train Line Song: "Respect" (1967)

Performance: "It's Gonna Get a Bit Better"

Closing credits