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GQ was an American musical group formed in The Bronx, New York, primarily noted for its success in funk, R&B, soul music and disco. The core membership of the group commenced playing professionally, under different group names, as of 1968.
Brooklyn Dreams were an American singing group of the late 1970s, mixing R&B harmonies with contemporary dance/disco music and best known for a number of collaborations with singer Donna Summer. The band consisted of Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson and Bruce Sudano. Esposito provided lead vocals for the band and played guitar, while Sudano ...
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...
At the same time, Edwards and Rodgers composed, arranged, performed, and produced many influential disco and R&B records for various artists, including Sister Sledge's albums We Are Family (1979) and Love Somebody Today (1980); Sheila and B. Devotion's "Spacer"; Diana Ross's 1980 album Diana, which included the successful singles "Upside Down ...
Change's 1982 album Sharing Your Love moved the band further away from disco and club music and into genres such as R&B and Funk. The lead single, "The Very Best in You," was one of the foremost examples of the group's take on R&B. The album also marked a new process in the writing of the band's albums.
They coined their own term for disco-jazz, "dazz". [2] They released their first single "Music Matic" on Main Street Records in 1976, before signing to the independently distributed Bang Records. Their next single, "Dazz", (#3 Pop, #1 R&B) [3] was released in 1976. The band continued to record for Bang records until 1982.
Do It Any Way You Wanna is a 1975 crossover hit by the Philadelphia-based R&B/disco group, People's Choice, written and produced by Leon Huff. [1] and recorded and mixed by Jay Mark. "Do It Any Way You Wanna" was a gold record for The People's Choice.
Apollo was an American R&B/disco group that recorded for Motown in the late 1970s. They are best known as the band of future music executives Benny Medina and Kerry Gordy . [ 1 ]