Soul Train/Season Twelve

Season Twelve
Soul Train
Season Premiere	October 16, 1982
Season Finale	July 16, 1983
Episode Count	24
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Season Twelve of Soul Train premiered on October 16, 1982.

This season was cut short after Episode 410, due to Don Cornelius having major brain surgery in December 1982. The show was rerun for much of the spring of 1983 until Don came back to produce new episodes. Upon Don's return, a new theme song was instituted starting with episode 411. The new theme is the LP version of "Soul Train's a Comin'" by O'Bryan (from his 1983 LP "You and I"), which began the new episodes on April 30, 1983.

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate
399	1	Show 399 A Tribute to Joe Tex			October 16, 1982
400	2	Show 400 Evelyn "Champagne" King; Glen Edward Thomas; Alice Arthur			October 23, 1982
401	3	Show 401 A Salute to Jermaine Jackson; DeBarge			October 30, 1982
402	4	Show 402 Larry Graham; The Busboys			November 6, 1982
403	5	Show 403 Salute to Lionel Richie; Ozone			November 13, 1982
404	6	Show 404 Jerry Butler; Daryl Hall & John Oates			November 20, 1982
405	7	Show 405 Luther Vandross; Cheryl Lynn			November 27, 1982
406	8	Show 406 Johnnie Taylor; Tavares			December 4, 1982
407	9	Show 407 Chuck Mangione; Howard Johnson			December 11, 1982
408	10	Show 408 Michael McDonald; Janet Jackson			December 18, 1982
409	11	Show 409 The Time; Magic Lady			December 25, 1982
410	12	Show 410 Vanity 6; Carl Carlson			January 1, 1983
411	13	Show 411 The Bar-Kays; O'Bryan			April 30, 1983
412	14	Show 412 The Gap Band; Yarbrough & Peoples; Robert "Goodie" Whitfield			May 7, 1983
413	15	Show 413 DeBarge; Champaign			May 14, 1983
414	16	Show 414 Evelyn "Champagne" King; Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five			May 21, 1983
415	17	Show 415 Angela Bofill; Con Funk Shun			May 28, 1983
416	18	Show 416 The Temptations; Anita Baker			June 4, 1983
417	19	Show 417 A Tribute to Marvin Gaye			June 11, 1983
418	20	Show 418 Deniece Williams; Kiddo			June 18, 1983
419	21	Show 419 The Whispers; Nona Hendryx			June 25, 1983
420	22	Show 420 Lakeside; High Inergy			July 2, 1983
421	23	Show 421 Thelma Houston; The System			July 9, 1983
422	24	Show 422 O'Bryan; Imagination			July 16, 1983