'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius Remembered on ABC's 'The View' (Video)

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News of Don Cornelius’ tragic death rocked Hollywood on Wednesday, Feb. 1, but it also prompted fond memories of the iconic variety show he created back in 1971.

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“I don’t really know very many people of a certain age who don’t remember Soul Train,” said Whoopi Goldberg during The View. “I know that everybody danced in the room.”

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“Soul Train was like, this was the show for black people when you wanted to learn how to dance, they had the Soul Train line,” co-host Sherri Shepherd added. “ When he created it, it was in Chicago. My aunts danced on Soul Train.”

“It’s a huge loss,” said Goldberg.

Cornelius’ body was discovered by a family member at around 4 a.m. in his Encino home on Mulholland Drive. He was pronounced dead at 4:56 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of “an apparent suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner Ed Winter told The Hollywood Reporter. Winter said the department is investigating.

Watch the clip from The View below.