Joe Cobb screamed out the show’s title in the iconic opening sequence of Don Cornelius’ hit series. Joe Cobb, the voice heard in the iconic “Soul Train” opening sequence, is suing to get royalties ...

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Leo D. Sullivan, a pioneering Black animation artist who created the opening sequence on “Soul Train” and contributed to cartoons featuring Fat Albert, Transformers and My Little Pony, died March 25.

Leo D. Sullivan, whose animation of a chugging train graced the opening of television dance party Soul Train for decades, died March 25 in Los Angeles. He was 82 and died of heart failure at Kaiser ...