Reminder: Don Cornelius Public Memorial At The Museum Of Broadcast Communications
Doos will open in about a half-hour for this evening's public memorial service for Soul Train host Don Cornelius at the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
The service will run from 6-8 p.m. and is open to the public. Notable figures expected to speak at the service are WVAZ-FM's Herb Kent, WBEZ-FM's Richard Steele, WCIU-TV's Jeannie Sparrow, WVON-AM's Melody Spann Cooper, WKKC-FM's Marv Dyson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, singer/Cook County Commissioner Jerry "The Iceman" Butler. Cornelius was a news reader and producer at WVON-AM in the 1960s before moving on to WCIU to start the local version of Soul Train in 1970. A year later the program began national syndication and Cornelius moved to Los Angeles.
WVON is also broadcasting the memorial. If you can't pick up the station at 1690 on your radio tuner, it will be streaming online here.
Cornelius died last week in an apparent suicide. Last night Cornelius's son tony was on HLN's Showbiz Tonight where he said his father's biggest regret was passing on a Soul Train appearance by a certain Material Girl early in her career.
