RnB Soul 70s

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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

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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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)  ∙

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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)  ∙  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)  ∙

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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 Staples 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 nightToo 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)  ∙

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BLUES / JAZZ

 
BLUES  ∙  1972/73  ∙  How blue can you get? / 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)  ∙

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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)  ∙

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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  ∙