Omgoodness I watched soul train when I was a kid. Awesome. Miss them times. I'm white, raised on Motown and old blues...was wonderful life❤❤❤still listen to it all I'm 63
Oh Yes, I remember I was 13 and had this song on a 45. My brother & I were laughing at the dancers, they didn't quite know how to groove to it. Elton John is certainly on my list of Top 20 Golden Musicians!
According to BET, Elton *was* the 1st white entertainer on Soul Train. Instead of arguing about things, people really need to go to a good search engine (I use Bing because I'm a reasercher & it gives the best results), and ask a question, like, "who was the first white entertainer on Soul Train?" Also, Wikipedia has a master list of all the acts that appeared on ST.
I remember when Bandstand and Soul Train came on back to back on Saturday afternoons back in the day and there were nobody on the streets when these show were on.
Same here, I watch them both back to back, never missed them, I thought they came on Saturday mornings, but hey I was a teenager and what ever time we got up was our morning, missed them days, they were the best🫶✌️
Pick up an instrument and play! Buy a cheap bass guitar or a six string get some used drums. Just ham and fun! Make up goofy lyrics or come up with a message! It can be done!
Friggin Soul Train and Elton with rock song that immediately takes you back...love it...that stride piano is to die for...Elt resplendent in a leprechaun outifit...ahhh the 70s
I'm 71 now when this song came out this friend of mine named benny I gave him the nickname benny and the jets he's gone now from cancer I miss him song reminds me of him everytime I hear it 😢
👍👍😎😎🎧🎧🎸🎸🎵🎵🙏🙏💯💯🎶🎶💖💖💘💘📷📷one of the best song of my childhood 70s still here lisenting great time to be alive a lot fun carefree🙏🙏💯💯 miss forever good old days 😎😎 is 2024 💘it 🙌 🎧🎧🎸🎸🎵🎵🎶🎶💖💖💘💘📷📷🙏🙏💯💯
That was my shower song! Someone saved my life tonight. Not a lot ofcwyts made it to Don's SoulTrain!! I remember Tina aries Captain n ten illegal Hall and Oats Are just a few that I remember. Elton made his best number one singles during his indulging years.
my mothers dog Bennie passed away in my arms 2months ago he was named after this song ... i promised mom i would take care of him she passed 4-16-20 i know there together Bennie Bennie and the jets ... ☁️🌈🐕🧖🏼♀️
Did you ever ride in your car and as you drove in your driveway you didn’t turn off the car till this song ended I’m 80 and love his music Saturday Saturday Saturday
Happy Birthday Elton John born on March 25, 1947. He is a British singer, pianist and composer. Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s and for his lasting impact on the music industry, his music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John
I'm fifty eight and i can remember spending the night at my cousin's house and He had the album we would in his playing over and over and that's when we were 9 or 10 and I want to say I use to watch soul train and I don't remember Sir Elton coming out on the show the lad was a young whipper snapper here mate
Glam and barrelhouse in the ‘70’s and only Elton and Bernie could deliver it. The tempo, lyrics, and the piano are epic. Sunset Shakeys Pizza with the silent movies playing on the wall and pinball waiting for you.
That’s me dancing behind him in the peach colored suit and the high platform shoes. The piano was lucite Elmer. He signed a Perrier bottle for me and my mom still has it. It was before Perrier came to America. FYI.
This came out in May 74. It played at my 8th grade grad party.. I was dancing with Sue in a blue sequin dress. She was built like most 8th graders except she was stacked. Nicely. When the song ended. Had to peel her off me. Funny how you never forget something like that.
He sang this one on The Muppets too. a shortened version but it was definitely done as a live version. Not sure what's going on here, singing to a backing track?? Love the way he hams it up to the camera...he is too cute.
It almost could be, if the groove of the intro remained throughout the song than kinda cutting out for the piano in the verse... the bass and drum could work if it was a little faster
Every Saturday morning sitting in front of that big old TV, had to watch soul train and American bandstand, wow those were the days, 70s were the best for me, 🫶✌️
Beautiful College Girlfriend and I driving to New Orleans for Spring Break and this song comes on the AM radio .., still love the song and the girl. 🎵❤️
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One of the coolest musical Brits EVER!!❤ Sir Elton John!!❤❤❤
Don’t forget, JOHN, Paul and George, especially Ringo
Para mi sobre todos ellos el mejor de la historia
Oh man. I remember me and brothers watching Elton sing this on Soul Train.
I remember too!
Elton John was the first white artist to perform on Soul Train.
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Lip syncing but love this song
Omgoodness I watched soul train when I was a kid. Awesome. Miss them times. I'm white, raised on Motown and old blues...was wonderful life❤❤❤still listen to it all I'm 63
Watched Soul Train every Saturday morning. The days before MTV music videos where we could see our favorite artists performing on stage.
This show is timeless!
OMG!! Would too… and then after aw mom’s would turn to the Mexican channel.. lol
I was listening to this in 1974. Still listening in 2024. I love Elton we share the same Birthday!!!
47?
1973
That's nothin, you know most kids had their dogs lick their balls back in the 70s, well just like elton I licked my dog's balls....beat that,
Mine is the week before...listening since 1970 when I was six! My dad always had Elton playing...I'm so glad! I stil love him and always will!
Ick war 14.
Mein 1 Song auf Band.
Elton John on Soul Train? That's hard-hittin'!
Its Elton baby !
The Best ever!
Yep ❤
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Wonder if Be… Be… B… B……Bennie could be this very tall pink one be… be…behind Elton ……
Elto John was the first white singer to be on soul train. I remember this show
Oh Yes, I remember I was 13 and had this song on a 45. My brother & I were laughing at the dancers, they didn't quite know how to groove to it. Elton John is certainly on my list of Top 20 Golden Musicians!
@@l.a.w.4386me too !!
No he wasn't it was the average white band
@@DarrylHollis-p6yidk bro. Im pretty sure he was. This was around 75 or so.
According to BET, Elton *was* the 1st white entertainer on Soul Train.
Instead of arguing about things, people really need to go to a good search engine (I use Bing because I'm a reasercher & it gives the best results), and ask a question, like, "who was the first white entertainer on Soul Train?" Also, Wikipedia has a master list of all the acts that appeared on ST.
I'm listening! 33 year old female in 2024 and I feel a soul connection to him and his music like I should have been there😢
Girl, I'm 45 I hear you
Elton John on Soul Train…the soul of this Song is still being felt..❤
I remember when Bandstand and Soul Train came on back to back on Saturday afternoons back in the day and there were nobody on the streets when these show were on.
Same here, I watch them both back to back, never missed them, I thought they came on Saturday mornings, but hey I was a teenager and what ever time we got up was our morning, missed them days, they were the best🫶✌️
1973
Love that Elton & Bowie were on Soul Train. Groovy Brits & Good Times.
Cause they had soul in their music and body. 🙏🏽✌🏽
I never knew Elton was Soul Train. I knew Bowie was and I love him!! This is so cool!!
I was digging the hat and glasses myself I'd probably look retard in them but still digging them
I'M LISTENING TO THIS IN 2024!!!!❤👑 ELTON....A FOREVER SONG 💯🎼🎙️🎼🎶🎵🎹🎹🎹 G.O.A.T
I’m 73 still listening to it since it came out.
Me 2 at age 67 will listen to Elton 4ever❤
Bless
Me too
IM 56 and this shit rocked in 1979
I may only be 28, but man do I wish we had music like this still
And 50s... and 60s music also
My,my, you my dear have a endless world of music to explore. Your just getting started, cheers 🍻🔥🇨🇦
Pick up an instrument and play! Buy a cheap bass guitar or a six string get some used drums.
Just ham and fun! Make up goofy lyrics or come up with a message!
It can be done!
Good on you
I'm 28 and you look 40 stop the cap
I’m 65 and listening to this timeless masterpiece
67 and enjoying every minute of it. Love me some Elton John...
Me and you were born 50 years apart and both here enjoying the same music 😁
i love it - I’m a 70’s teen!!!!!!
1973
what a classic
Friggin Soul Train and Elton with rock song that immediately takes you back...love it...that stride piano is to die for...Elt resplendent in a leprechaun outifit...ahhh the 70s
He traveled around with that?
1973
@@brooks5656 Elton John would make Ru Paul and Liberace jealous!
Reminds me of good times with my old man
Love how they were all grooving the best they could to this.
Turn it uppppppp!!!! I’m 56 & still rocking!!! One of the best songs of all time!
I was 9 yrs old in 74. Loved as a kid; still loving it at 59!❤
I was 10
62 and still listening and loving it
I'm 61. And still listening.❤😊
1970
This song still holds up to this day
I'm 71 now when this song came out this friend of mine named benny I gave him the nickname benny and the jets he's gone now from cancer I miss him song reminds me of him everytime I hear it 😢
Elton's St.Patrick's suit is awesome!☘️😊
I “live” recording that was never “live”. The song defined my junior high experience in 1974.
Listen to some of the live versions of this if you haven’t already. There even better.
50 years ago, this was the #1 single.
❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤memories happy Happy Happy place music 🎶 music 🎶
👍👍😎😎🎧🎧🎸🎸🎵🎵🙏🙏💯💯🎶🎶💖💖💘💘📷📷one of the best song of my childhood 70s still here lisenting great time to be alive a lot fun carefree🙏🙏💯💯 miss forever good old days 😎😎 is 2024 💘it 🙌 🎧🎧🎸🎸🎵🎵🎶🎶💖💖💘💘📷📷🙏🙏💯💯
First white man on the Soul Train? He rocked this!!!
No, KC was the first.
@@cuse445
It was actually Elton John.
Yo también
Bowie 1st??
@@cuse445No it was Elton who was the first Caucasian who performed on Soul Train
Man ,this music was my medication ❤❤❤❤
I’m so happy he was on Soul Train 👍
Me too!
Heather, this record also went #1 on the R&B charts. BIG crossover hit for Elton.
1973
ICON FOREVER AND EVER. Thank you very much GOD bless always.
Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia
I am, just like I did ,when it came out in the 70s. I'll be there til I'm gone.😊
I'm a big Elton John fan. This song takes me back to a happy place.
That was my shower song! Someone saved my life tonight. Not a lot ofcwyts made it to Don's SoulTrain!! I remember
Tina aries
Captain n ten illegal
Hall and Oats
Are just a few that I remember. Elton made his best number one singles during his indulging years.
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Me too. Great Music Great Times 👍.
Me too
Ditto!!!😁👍
Same Here!❤😎😁🎹🎶🎼🎵🎹🎺🥁
70's For ME!!!💯😘
I am listening. 64 years old and reminiscing profusely.
I am 63 and listening with you. 😊
The best of times....
me too
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You and me both 64 sing myself on my high school campus jammin this
1975 in the house. Oh oh how I would love to have experienced this live 🍻🔥🇨🇦
😊 j adore elton John. Et je l écoute encore j ai 68ans .merci pour ce merveilleux moment. Bisous Gigi. 😚 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
Growing up in Detroit (Being a White male) I always listened to Soul Train over American Bandstand.
Apparently he was the first white performer on that show because of that song. He is an amazing musician!
You weren't allowed to watch both back then? I knew the 70s were weird but that's just a strange law.
@@Mike.T. LOL
I grew up in Toledo...spent a lot of time in Detroit and met a lot of white people with SOUL....❤❤❤❤😊
Great music transcends all… it is a gift to humanity.
my mothers dog Bennie passed away in my arms 2months ago he was named after this song ... i promised mom i would take care of him she passed 4-16-20 i know there together Bennie Bennie and the jets ...
☁️🌈🐕🧖🏼♀️
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This takes me back to my childhood! 👍🏾👌🏾🎵🎵👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯
May31, 2024! Still awesome!
Did you ever ride in your car and as you drove in your driveway you didn’t turn off the car till this song ended
I’m 80 and love his music
Saturday Saturday
Saturday
One of my brothers' favorites!!❤
Happy Birthday Elton John born on March 25, 1947. He is a British singer, pianist and composer. Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s and for his lasting impact on the music industry, his music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John
I miss Soul Train, so many great guests.
Same❤.
I miss both “Soul Train” and “American Bandstand”
I'm fifty eight and i can remember spending the night at my cousin's house and He had the album we would in his playing over and over and that's when we were 9 or 10 and I want to say I use to watch soul train and I don't remember Sir Elton coming out on the show the lad was a young whipper snapper here mate
Only 190.000 likes. It should be a billion.
Me too 64 year old here. Good times
When I saw him at the LA Forum in the early70s when he played this song the place went crazy
I watched this when it aired. It was a great show.
Glam and barrelhouse in the ‘70’s and only Elton and Bernie could deliver it. The tempo, lyrics, and the piano are epic. Sunset Shakeys Pizza with the silent movies playing on the wall and pinball waiting for you.
I just learned about this song 2 days ago and I can't stop playing it 🤦🏽♀️😂
what‼️
@@troygates5723 I'm only 30😂🤦🏽♀️
1973
It's on the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album."
I remember when he was on Soul Train. It was so awesome. 😅
He hit the black radio station and the rest is history😊
I’m 62 and still grooving to this jam!💃🏽✨💃🏽✨💃🏽
Maybe So But The Music 🎵🎶🎵 Still Rocks And Lives On 😎
For me, It's an ANTHEM! never forget seeing him in concert! Outstanding!!💯👍💞😘
What great memories I have of this great song
Music was so much better back then
The world was so much better...No mass immigration!
Still listening in 2024. I have this in my jazz collection. I'm still waiting to buy my mohair suit😂😂
I want my backstage pass ! ( Kingsmen ref. ) WORTH EVERY PENNY, I'm straight but metrosexual.
1973
I watched this, I was seven! I still love him!!!! (and that glass piano)
That’s me dancing behind him in the peach colored suit and the high platform shoes. The piano was lucite Elmer. He signed a Perrier bottle for me and my mom still has it. It was before Perrier came to America. FYI.
1973
🤗♥️♥️♥️♥️👍👍
@@williamswan3711LEGEND!❤❤❤
@@williamswan3711 WOW!!!
Miss those days
I was 14 years old when I heard this song and still love it
I was 7 are 8 years oĺd
Luv This. Memories.
Happy Birthday Sir Elton!!❤❤❤
Just amazing. I binge listen to
Bennie and the jets live...
I love this specific performance so much
Grandes viejas,pero buenas,en la vos y comentarios de .....
This came out in May 74. It played at my 8th grade grad party.. I was dancing with Sue in a blue sequin dress. She was built like most 8th graders except she was stacked. Nicely. When the song ended. Had to peel her off me. Funny how you never forget something like that.
Oh hell yes what a legend ❤
He sang this one on The Muppets too. a shortened version but it was definitely done as a live version. Not sure what's going on here, singing to a backing track?? Love the way he hams it up to the camera...he is too cute.
I am now 55 years old this year and a fan of Elton John
Me too!😊
I just love the Man, His Music, And How He MAKES that PIANO Talk to Him, TO ME! I''ve always loved ELTON!
He blew that song I give 💯 Stars!!! that song send chills through my body ✊🏾❤️❤️
I'm 69 I enjoy it now just like then🎉
Benn n the jets
I still likes Benny and the Jets
Zank you.
If you did not like this song I would guess that you have a bad memory.
1973
I been saying Betty all this time lol
72 still lisitening oh what a great time in life and great music Miss my husband been 7 yrs since he passed we loved Elton
Love how hard the people are trying to dance to this song.
Yeah, I love this song, but it is not a dance tune.
He’s not singing he’s lip singing to a track
I like the musics but it’s Not the typical Soul Train jam for dancing. Not many whites performed on the Train so props are due to
Ikr lol
It almost could be, if the groove of the intro remained throughout the song than kinda cutting out for the piano in the verse... the bass and drum could work if it was a little faster
This was always playing on FM radio stations back in the 70's Lots of great memories!
I can't believe that Elton John was on soul train
So was David Bowie the Doobie bros. Teena Marie, etc. If it was funky, it was on soul train .
why?
1972
Bennie and the jets still standing the test of time. Listening 11/4/2024.🎹
I'm still listen to this song
“Buh-buh-buh Bennie and the Jetssssssss!”-this song is from the soundtrack of my childhood! 61 yrs old now and still love this song!
We use to listen to this on an eight track cruising around Weigh Mouth in a hoted up ford cortina those were the days
Every Saturday morning sitting in front of that big old TV, had to watch soul train and American bandstand, wow those were the days, 70s were the best for me, 🫶✌️
2024 & Elton still hits HARD!!!
Saw Elton in like 1991 in Cleveland Ohio what an entertainer
My fave by EJ
Everybody's favorite!!❤❤❤❤❤
1973
It was great growing up in the 70s .Good times
loved Sat am watching soul train
I AM 70YRS STILLLOVE IT. KEEP ME YOUNG AND PLAY IT AGAIN 😅😊❤
2024pra mim ainda uma das melhores músicas de todos os tempos .
Soon to b 72 n I still back to high school/ college freshman year. Nostalgia!
60 years old and still listening to this man's music!
me too right on!!
My x husband loved him. 21 years he was gay
Me, love me some Elton John
Comparado con lo que suena hoy por hoy....,esto si que era música....
Straight classic.
Beautiful College Girlfriend and I driving to New Orleans for Spring Break and this song comes on the AM radio .., still love the song and the girl. 🎵❤️
Here in 2024....Dedicated to my son Jon who would sing his little heart out with this song ... while I was driving in the super 70s...🫶
A signature selection of Elton John's good work.