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Soul! (also stylized in uppercase [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) is a performance/ variety television program that showcased African American music, dance and literature in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [ 3 ] It was produced by New York City public television station WNDT (later rebranded as WNET during its run), and distributed by NET and its successor PBS .
The Jackson 5 reached number one for the first time in January and by the end of the year had accumulated four chart-toppers.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1970 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres ...
Blue-eyed soul (also called white soul [1]) is rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul music performed by White artists. [2] The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists whose sound was similar to that of the predominantly black Motown and Stax record labels.
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937 – October 21, 2000) was an American disc jockey, VH-1 VJ, TV host and actor. Crocker helped grow WBLS, the urban adult contemporary and black music radio station, into the #1 station in New York City in the late 1970s.
Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is soul music or rhythm and blues performed by white artists. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is a list of soul musicians who have either been influential within the genre, or have had a considerable amount of fame. Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.
Gladys Knight & the Pips topped the chart with "If I Were Your Woman".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1971 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop ...
Progressive soul (often shortened to prog-soul; also called black prog, black rock, and progressive R&B) [1] is a type of African-American music that uses a progressive approach, particularly in the context of the soul and funk genres. It developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the recordings of innovative black musicians who pushed ...