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A year ago I came across a series of amazing youtube videos of a dance show that wasn’t soul train but stood out because of the great music and even a better cast of unique dancers on the show.

The show is called The Scene. A television dance show that ROCKED Detroit from 1976 to 1987 on WGPR TV 62. The Scene featured many national and local guests artists as well as young dancers from the community. The show ran for a record 12 consecutive years from 1975 to 1987 and retired as one the most popular and successful shows in the history of WGPR-TV channel 62. The Scene had a strong loyal audience that included both the city and suburbs, all races and nationalities, the young and the young at heart. Nat Morris, Executive producer and host of the show, provided opportunities for local artists to launch their careers some of which went on to achieve national and international fame. The Scene paved the way for all the Detroit local entertainment TV shows that followed and had the impact on Detroit Black Television the same way that Soul Train and Don Cornelius had on a national level.

All the dancers on the show were Detroit locals. Recently Nat Morris has been trying to reunite the cast and crew of The Scene on a web page he made to help preserve and introduce to people outside of Detroit about The Scene. Its free to join and is a great flashback to the era.  http://www.scenedanceshow.com/