J-Sette fans And Alumni look what I found!!!

If you know anything about J-Sette History and its beginnings then you would love this video. Here is a video of the late Hollis Pippins former JSU twirler who helped to create the J-Sette Choreography along with Shirley Middleton and Narah Oatis in the early 1970s. Here he is with the Soul Train Gang in 1976. He introduces himself at 1:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfHJIayE5s

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  • Come on through Mr. Pippins!!

  • Some say Hollis Pippins was the creator of J-Setting.

    • as in "Bucking?" lol

  • very nice

  • Yeah, he started out as drum major. When Helen Ford, who later became Miss Black America, came to J State, the two of them were twirlers who performed with The Boom as The Ebony Twins. At the same time, he was a stern task master as choreographer for the J-Settes. After he graduated and went to Hollywood, Helen became a J-Sette.
  • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yqj_9gcFE0

    Here's another video and short interview of The Soul Train Gang with Hollis Pippin and a former J-Sette, Denise Smith, one of Hollis' protégés, who joined the group.
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    • The thing I remember the most about the J-Settes in the early 80's was, they would go up the the concession stands,  hand and hand, they were so pretty and they worn false eyelashes. I would blush, I was just a kid. lol

      • Yea they still do the hand in hand thing, but they go down into their dressing room now.

  • I was watching another vid of the Soul Train Gang and noticed that Hollis snuck the tip-toe into their choreography, LOL

    • bawhahaha

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