'Soul Train' Founder Commits Suicide: Report

The world is a different place when you're 75.

I bet he had health problems and decided not to carry on. As I age myself, I tend to look upon those who end their life in much more sympathetic terms.

It's so funny when these racist get on here and spew their vial comments, look in the mirror and look at your own race before you start handing out racist comments

Thanks Don. I wish you love, peace, and rest for your soul.

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Its a shame that so many racists posted to this thread. I am a white guy and I used to watch and enjoy Soul train,and back then people actually sang songs...none of this rap garbage.

Very sad...Soul train was great programing. Too bad they don't make shows like that anymore. Rest in peace Don.

Peace, Love and Soooooul.

a cool show with afros so wide they would barely fit through a doorway,

Rest in Peace, Don... in parting, we wish you love, peace and soul!

thats very true, we dont know and will never know what don cornelious was feeling,or thinking , all we can do is pray for the family. I enjoyed soul train i too grew up with soul train watched it faithfully on sat afternoons in the 70's.

Very sad news....My condolences to his family, friends and fans.

My wife and I loved this show. We would wait for the Line Dance and we loved to try to guess the names of the two chosen to unscamble the famous person. RIP Don. You were an awesome man. Soul music lost an ICON today.

I grew up watching Soul Train when I was a kid and love the dance line. It took me awhile to figure out that the cameras were more biased towards the female dancers, as opposed to the male dancers, since the females seemed to get more camera time. Soul Train and American Bandstand were the orginal music shows. MTV and VH-1 started off that way, but all they show now is reality mess. I wish I could go back to the 70's and 80's when the music and people were genuine.

To see someone as iconic as Don take his own, hurts...especially when he gave us all something, that can never be taken away...a genre of Music that was wide spread and listened too throughout the entire world..., who doesn't listen to R&B now!!! RIP Don, you will be missed

Forget the color of our skin today--know that the saddest thing to do is commit a suicide. May we all learn to cope better with the problems that create havoc in our lives. May mr. Corneilus rest in--peace.--to all the rest of us that are still here---"i hope you dance!" --and celebrate a good life!

Peace, love and soooooul.

That show and that guy, simply put, was part of my youth. I liked to watch the 'chicks' dance and mimic "The Sooooooooooooooul Traaain". This is sad news.

PRAYERS FOR HIS FAMILY ON THEIR LOSS!

Wow. Sad news. Being a teenage "white guy" in the 70's (disco era), me and my friends tuned in to watch Don's show to catch a glimpse of performers. In those days, you never got to see groups unless they were on TV shows like Soul Train, Midnight Special, or American Bandstand. No internet, cell phones, small recorders (to sneak into shows) , NOTHING. To see some one perform on these shows was a real treat. There was such a lack of electronic media, me and my friends thought KC and the Sunshine Band were a group of bad a-- brothers until we saw them on tv. Too funny. News like this makes you feel like you are approaching your time. Rest in peace Don.