World Record for longest soul train line broken

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — As portion of Soul Train Awards play successful Harlem, the BET squad made an authoritative effort to interruption the satellite grounds for longest psyche bid line.

Hundreds of dancers of each ages lined up astatine Marcus Garvey Park to strut their stuff. Bernard Dove’s emotion for creation began successful Harlem, astatine the Apollo Theater connected signifier with James Brown.

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“I did similar a fractional divided and the radical screamed and that was like, I sensation blood,” the 81-year-old said, “and I said present I cognize this is what I privation to do.”

Alongside archetypal dancers connected the iconic tv shows were immoderate who were not adjacent live during the epoch of Apollo and Soul Train. Parents brought their children, and the Brooklyn United marching set was teeming with excited young performers.

The 40+ Double Dutch Club was archetypal successful enactment for the Soul Train. A radical of women implicit 40 from astir the country, they channeled their interior child, with jump-roping skills connected afloat display.

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“Soul bid is simply a portion of our civilization and a portion of our history,” said radical subordinate Pamela Robinson, “so we had to beryllium a portion of it.”

Cheering everyone connected was Angela Simmons, whose begetter Rev. Run performed some connected Soul Train and astatine the Apollo.

“It’s conscionable truthful brainsick however it comes afloat circle,” Simmons said. “This is iconic. This is great.”

A Guinness World Record authoritative was keeping a adjacent oculus connected the dancers arsenic well. They had to groove a afloat 40 feet down the enactment successful pairs to adhd to the count.

The fig to bushed was 426. It was a adjacent call, but with the assistance of the surrounding community, constabulary officers and passersby, the satellite grounds was breached astatine Marcus Garvey Park with a full of 536 dancers. One happening was ne'er successful question, though. Everyone had a large clip doing it.

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The Soul Train Awards aerial adjacent Sunday, Nov. 28 connected BET.

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