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ive noticed how he's concentrating more on the ass and pubic region with the female patients....he aint slick
Damita Jo Freeman.....nuff said!
Damita Jo: “He [Joe Tex] had asked me to dance with him before his performance so when the song (“I Gotcha”) started, he pulled me up on the stage and I danced. None of my dancing was choreographed. It was impromptu. I just did my own interpretation of the song through my dance moves. I remember Don Cornelius was looking at me angry the whole time I was dancing with Joe because he didn’t want the dancers to interact with the guest stars. I just knew this would be my last time on Soul Train. But after that episode aired, the show’s ratings went up. […] It was very exciting to me. I loved being on TV! I danced with Joe Tex two other times on Soul Train.”
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On just her second appearance on “Soul Train” — which is revisited in the new BET drama “American Soul,” premiering Tuesday — she sealed her spot as a regular dancer after R&B singer Joe Tex got her to step up for a performance of his 1972 hit “I Gotcha.”
“He put his hand out and pulled me onstage,” says Freeman. “On the other side of the camera, you could see a very nervous Don Cornelius. He walked back and forth, pointed, and said, ‘Get off the stage!’ All I knew is that the show must go on, so if Joe didn’t stop, I wasn’t gon’ stop.”
It was Freeman’s unstoppable talent that caught the attention of “Soul Train” scout Pam Brown in 1971, when the 17-year-old ballerina was dancing at a Los Angeles club called the Climax (and later Osko’s, the same multilevel venue used for the 1978 movie “Thank God It’s Friday”).
Soon after, Freeman had her first encounter with Cornelius — “He was as fly as Shaft,” she says. Then she was teamed with a regular dance partner, Don Campbell, with whom she brought “locking” moves to “Soul Train.”
But in addition to shaking it on the dance floor, Freeman, now 65, was shaking things up behind the scenes: She fought for the dancers — who weren’t paid unless they performed with an artist — to get basic needs such as tissues to wipe the sweat off of their brows and more than one soft drink each during long days of shooting two episodes.
Legendary “Soul Train” dancer Damita Jo Freeman knew that she had some superbad skills when the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, picked her to boogie with him onstage.
“He grabbed me real quick and said, ‘You gotta dance with me,’ ” recalls Freeman of a 1973 show. “But I’d never heard his song ‘Super Bad.’ So I went up, listened to the beat and just did whatever that beat would tell me to do.”
Damita Jo: “He [Joe Tex] had asked me to dance with him before his performance so when the song (“I Gotcha”) started, he pulled me up on the stage and I danced. None of my dancing was choreographed. It was impromptu. I just did my own interpretation of the song through my dance moves. I remember Don Cornelius was looking at me angry the whole time I was dancing with Joe because he didn’t want the dancers to interact with the guest stars. I just knew this would be my last time on Soul Train. But after that episode aired, the show’s ratings went up. […] It was very exciting to me. I loved being on TV! I danced with Joe Tex two other times on Soul Train.”
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On just her second appearance on “Soul Train” — which is revisited in the new BET drama “American Soul,” premiering Tuesday — she sealed her spot as a regular dancer after R&B singer Joe Tex got her to step up for a performance of his 1972 hit “I Gotcha.”
“He put his hand out and pulled me onstage,” says Freeman. “On the other side of the camera, you could see a very nervous Don Cornelius. He walked back and forth, pointed, and said, ‘Get off the stage!’ All I knew is that the show must go on, so if Joe didn’t stop, I wasn’t gon’ stop.”
It was Freeman’s unstoppable talent that caught the attention of “Soul Train” scout Pam Brown in 1971, when the 17-year-old ballerina was dancing at a Los Angeles club called the Climax (and later Osko’s, the same multilevel venue used for the 1978 movie “Thank God It’s Friday”).
Soon after, Freeman had her first encounter with Cornelius — “He was as fly as Shaft,” she says. Then she was teamed with a regular dance partner, Don Campbell, with whom she brought “locking” moves to “Soul Train.”
But in addition to shaking it on the dance floor, Freeman, now 65, was shaking things up behind the scenes: She fought for the dancers — who weren’t paid unless they performed with an artist — to get basic needs such as tissues to wipe the sweat off of their brows and more than one soft drink each during long days of shooting two episodes.
Legendary “Soul Train” dancer Damita Jo Freeman knew that she had some superbad skills when the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, picked her to boogie with him onstage.
“He grabbed me real quick and said, ‘You gotta dance with me,’ ” recalls Freeman of a 1973 show. “But I’d never heard his song ‘Super Bad.’ So I went up, listened to the beat and just did whatever that beat would tell me to do.”