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RnB Soul 70s
JOURNEY THROUGH 800 RnB SOUL SONGS
RnB SOUL ∙ 1920-40s ∙ 50s ∙ 60s ∙ 70s ∙ 80s ∙ 90s ∙ Neo Soul 2000s-2010s ∙
RnB SOUL 70s
RnB Soul 70s: Stevie Wonder (born 1950) ∙ Roberta Flack (born 1937) ∙ Michael Jackson (1958-2009) ∙
In the 1970s, RnB FUNK , DISCO and SOUL was the commercially most successful music genre worldwide, while PROGRESSIVE RnB kept delivering stunning developments. RAP first hit the Charts in 1979.
SOUL
SINGERS ∙ 1970 ∙ Turn back the hands of time (Tyrone Davis) ∙ Be my baby (Cissy Houston) ∙ 1971 ∙ Let's stay together (Al Green) ∙ Ain't no sunshine (when she's gone) (Bill Withers) ∙ 1972 ∙ Me and Mrs Jones (Billy Paul) ∙ I can see clearly now (Johnny Nash) ∙ Didn't I (Darondo) ∙ This world today is a mess (Donna Hightower) ∙ Home is where the hatred is (Esther Philips, orig. Gil Scott Heron 1971) ∙ Sunshine over showers (Donny Hathaway) ∙ 1973 ∙ Killing me softly with his song (Roberta Flack) ∙ In the still of the night (Salena Jones) ∙ Midnight train to Georgia (Gladys Knight & The Pips) ∙ I can't stand the rain (Ann Peebles) ∙ Why can't we live together (Timmy Thomas) ∙ Let's get it on (Marvin Gaye) ∙ Power of love (Joe Simon) ∙ I choose you (Willie Hutch) ∙ Lean on me (Bill Withers) ∙
∙ 1974 ∙ You're the first, the last, my everything (Barry White) ∙ Power of love (Martha Reeves) ∙ Hang on in there Baby (Johnny Bristol) ∙ Let's straighten it out (Benny Latimore) ∙ Woman to woman (Shirley Brown) ∙ At the hotel (Eunice Collins) ∙ Rock your baby (George McCrae) ∙ 1975 ∙ Reach out (I'll be there) (Gloria Gaynor, orig. 1966 The Four Tops) ∙ Then came you (Dionne Warwick & The Spinners, ver. 1981) ∙ Loving you (Minnie Riperton) ∙ Do you know where you're going to (Diana Ross) ∙ 1976 ∙ Love hangover (Diana Ross) ∙ 1977 ∙ I'm so happy now (Willie Wright) ∙ Show some emotion (Joan Armatrading) ∙ 1978 ∙ Holdin' on (to your love) (Terry Callier) ∙ I will survive (Gloria Gaynor) ∙ 1979 ∙ Let's talk it over (Lee Field & the Expressions) ∙ What's your name (Leon Ware) ∙
GIRL GROUPS ∙ 1972 ∙ You've got to make the choice (The Sisters Love) ∙ 1973 ∙ I believe in miracles (The Jackson Sisters) ∙ 1977 ∙ You can't turn me off (in the middle of turning me on) (High Inergy) ∙ 1978 ∙ In the middle of the feeling (Three ounces of love) ∙ Fire (The Pointer Sisters) ∙
MALE GROUPS ∙ 1971 ∙ Never can say goodbye (The Jackson five) ∙ Treat her like a lady (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) ∙ Smiling faces sometimes (The Undisputed Truth) ∙ 1972 ∙ In the rain (The Dramatics) ∙ If you don't know me by now (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes) ∙ 1973 ∙ Could it be I'm falling in love (The Spinners) ∙ So very hard to go (Tower Of Power) ∙ 1974 ∙ You make me feel brand new (The Stylistics) ∙ Outside woman (Bloodstone) ∙ Sugar pie guy (The Joneses) ∙ 1975 ∙ I can't give you anything but my love (The Stylistics) ∙ 1977 ∙ Float on (The Floaters) ∙ 1978 ∙ Blame it on the boogie (The Jackson five) ∙ Oh honey (Delegation) ∙ Three times a lady (The Commodores) ∙ Ain't no time fa nothing (The Futures) ∙ 1979 ∙ Working my way back to you (The Detroit Spinners) ∙
PROGRESSIVE RnB
∙ 1970 ∙ Tobacco Road (War ft. Eric Burdon) ∙ War (Edwin Starr) ∙ (Don't worry) If there's a hell below, we're all going to go (Curtis Mayfield) ∙ 1971 ∙ Hard times (Baby Huey & the Babysitters) ∙ Curse upon the world (Ed 'Apple' Nelson & The Three Oranges) ∙ What's going on (Marvin Gaye) ∙ That lovin' feelin' (Isaac Hayes) ∙ Home is where the hatred is (Gil Scott-Heron) ∙ Family affair (Sly & the Family Stone) ∙ Smiling faces sometimes (Undisputed Truth) ∙ Proud Mary (Ike & Tina Turner) ∙ 1972 ∙ The ghetto (George Benson) ∙ Freddie's dead (Curtis Mayfield) ∙ Our lives are shaped by what we love (Odyssey) ∙ The world is a ghetto (War) ∙ Papa was a rolling stone (The Temptations) ∙ Superstition / You are the sunshine of my life (Stevie Wonder) ∙ 1973 ∙ If you want me to stay (Sly & the Family Stone) ∙ Would you believe in me (Jon Lucien) ∙ Keep your head to the sky (Earth Wind and Fire) ∙ Living for the city (Stevie Wonder) ∙
∙ 1974 ∙ Party down (Willie 'Little Beaver' Hale) ∙ The bottle (Gil Scott-Heron) ∙ Vulcan Princess (Stanley Clarke) ∙ Nothing from nothing (Billy Preston) ∙ Be thankful for what you got (William DeVaughn) ∙ Right on for the darkness (Willie Wright) ∙ Inspiration information (Shuggie Otis) ∙ Walking in rhythm (The Blackbyrds) ∙ Web (Hampton Hawes) ∙ 1975 ∙ Shining star (Earth Wind and Fire) ∙ Low rider (War) ∙ 1976 ∙ Isn't she lovely (Stevie Wonder) ∙ Good friends (Wah Wah Watson) ∙ 1977 ∙ Going back to my roots (Lamont Dozier) ∙ Turn this Mutha out (Idris Muhammad) ∙ I need a man (Grace Jones) ∙ 1978 ∙ September (Earth Wind & Fire) ∙ 1979 ∙ Street life (Crusaders ft Randy Crawford) ∙ Don't stop til' you get enough / Off the wall (Michael Jackson) ∙ I wanna be your lover (Prince) ∙
PROGRESSIVE RnB ROCK ∙ 1970 ∙ Come in out of the rain (Parliament) ∙ I got a thing, you got a thing (Funkadelic) ∙ 1973 ∙ Cosmic slop (Funkadelic) ∙ That lady (The Isley Brothers) ∙ 1975 ∙ F.U.N.K. (Betty Davis) ∙ 1978 ∙ Boogie Oogie Oogie (A Taste of Honey) ∙
FUNK
∙ 1970 ∙ Get up (I feel like being a sex machine) (James Brown) ∙ 1971 ∙ Clean up woman (Betty Wright & The Roots) ∙ Mr Big Stuff (Jean Knight) ∙ 1972 ∙ I'll take you there (The Staple Singers) ∙ Think (about it) (Lyn collins) ∙ Back Stabbers (The O'Jays) ∙ Everything good is bad (100 Proof (Aged in Soul)) ∙ 1973 ∙ Jungle boogie (Soul Train ft Kool & the Gang) ∙ Give me your love (Sisters Love) ∙ 1974 ∙ TSOP (The Soul Train theme) (MSFB & the Three Degrees) ∙ Fire (Ohio Players) ∙
∙ 1975 ∙ Slippery when wet (The Commodores) ∙ Give the people what they want (The O'Jays) ∙ 1976 ∙ Feel the spirit (Leroy Hutson) ∙ 1977 ∙ Give me the sunshine (Leo's Sunshipp) ∙ 1978 ∙ Can't you see me? (Roy Ayers) ∙ Disco inferno (The Trammps) ∙ 1979 ∙ You can't change that (Raydio) ∙ Ain't no stoppin' us now (McFadden and Whitehead) ∙ Knee deep (Funkadelic) ∙ Ladies night / Too hot (Kool & the Gang) ∙ Boogie butt (Skylite) ∙
DISCO FUNK
∙ 1974 ∙ Lady Marmelade (Labelle) ∙ 1975 ∙ That's the way (I like it) (KC & the Sunshine Band) ∙ 1977 ∙ I feel love (Donna Summer) ∙ 1978 ∙ Get down (Gene Chandler) ∙ (Let me) Be your lover (Jimmy "Bo" Horne) ∙ You make me feel (Sylvester) ∙ Le freak (Chic) ∙ 1979 ∙ He's the greatest dancer (Sister Sledge) ∙ The sweetest pain (Dexter Wansel ft Terri Wells) ∙ Ring my bell (Anita Ward) ∙
BLUE-EYED FUNK
∙ 1976 ∙ Play that funky music (Wild Cherry) ∙
BLUES / JAZZ
BLUES ∙ 1970 ∙ Love for sale (Roy Brown) ∙ 1972/73 ∙ To know you is to love you (B.B. King) ∙ I hated the day I was born (John Lee Hooker) ∙ 1976 ∙ Don't start me to talkin' (Good Rockin' Charles & the Aces) ∙ 1978 ∙ See my jumper hangin' on the line (R.L. Burnside) ∙
JAZZ ∙ 1973 ∙ Brother where are you? (Freddy Cole) ∙ Blackbyrd (Donald Byrd) ∙ 1977 ∙ Music is my sanctuary (Gary Bartz) ∙ Birdland (Weather report) ∙
BLUE-EYED SOUL/BLUES ∙ 1967-70 ∙ Ball of chain 1967 / Kozmic blues 1969 / Try just a little bit harder 1970 (Janis Joplin) ∙ 1968 ∙ Mean town blues (Johnny Winter) ∙ People got to be free (The Rascals) ∙ 1970 ∙ Tobacco road (Eric Burdon & War) ∙ 1974 ∙ People gotta move (Gino Vanelli) ∙ 1976 ∙ Lowdown (Boz Scaggs) ∙ 1978 ∙ I just wanna stop (Gino Vanelli) ∙ What you won't do for love (Bobby Caldwell) ∙
RAP
∙ 1979 ∙ Rapper's delight (The Sugarhill Gang) ∙ Spoon'nin' rap (Spoonie Gee) ∙ Superappin’ (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five) ∙ Rapping and rocking the house (The Funky 4+1) ∙ Funk you up (The Sequence ft Angie Stone) ∙ To the beat, y'all (Lady B) ∙ Rhymin' rappin' (Paulette & Tanya Winley) ∙