Rampage Records

             THE RAMRODS-Rampage Records 1000-1971

The original ‘Soul Train’, as credited by the Ramrods was used as the theme to the show SOUL TRAIN from 1971 to 1973. It may very well have sounded familiar to some of the older listeners in the audience, because it had originally been released almost ten years before as recorded by the Rinky Dinks (actually a group led by King Curtis on guitar) under the title ‘Hot Potato’.

I had never heard this ‘version’ of the Soul Train theme until a few years after I picked up a copy of the Ramrods 45, when I saw a clip from the early years of the show and heard it playing in the background.