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Here is a preview of the big 9th Annual San Francisco White Party 2009 @ Ruby Sky on Saturday, June 20, 2009. A view from the upper level looking down on the main dance floor.
Assocated Press July 2, 2009 - Concert promoter AEG Live released this clip of Michael Jackson rehearsing his 'This Is It' tour two days before his death in Los Angeles. Images are from June 23, 2009.
Screen shot of his last rehearsal on June 23, 2009.
Here is the original video from the Ed Sullivan Show aired on December
14, 1969. This was the first time The Jackson Five, featuring Michael
Jackson, played on national TV. They were the lead music act that
night before the main gig, Diana Ross & The Supremes:
The Jackson Five - I Want You Back! (This is the best version of this clip on the net.)
A shot of the Jackson Five featuring Michael Jackson that night from the Ed Sullivan Show on Dec 14, 1969.
I know many of you have attended this super party over the years, but for those of you who haven't. In the link are 339 cool pictures of SF White Party 2007 or alternatively you can see the album in the slideshow below:
Group of dancers wearing MC Hammer Pants flashmob a trendy store and surprise hipsters in skinny jeans.
With rapper, entertainer, preacher, music producer, and internet entrepreneurMC Hammerat the San Francisco 1st Annual Twitter Conference "TWTRCON 2009" at the Nikko Hotel on Sunday, May 31, 2009.
In case you didn't know (as if), tomorrow is the big day for the new 44th President of the United States - Barack Husein Obama!
Now here is a quick look at a 21 year old Obama in 1981 "durin' his thang" on the dance line at the 70's and 80's soul & funk music show - Soul Train! LOL!!!
(Expand the media player below so you can view the video full-screen.)
Picture (foto) of Barack Obama dancing on Soul Train.
For all you youngsters out there in the U.S. born after 1975, the original Soul Train produced and hosted by Don Cornelius was the "syckest" and "doppest" music show on TV in the 70's and early 80's in the U.S. All the white kids in America saw Dick Clark's American Bandstand on Saturday at 12 noon, while a hour earlier (at 11:00 AM) all the cool black, Latino, and white kids saw the latest dance moves on "Sooooul Train"......