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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.
James Brown, known as the "Godfather of Soul", had two number ones in 1969, "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" and "Mother Popcorn".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1969 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B), soul, and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the ...
The Bar-Kays is an American funk band [4] formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US Billboard Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in 1972, and "Boogie Body Land" (R&B number 7) in 1980.
Otis Redding had a posthumous number one with "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay".. In 1968, Billboard published a weekly chart ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) 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 ...
Sons of Funk, R&B group from Richmond, CA with brothers G-Smooth and Dez Dynamic, and their cousins Renzo and Rico; Soul Brothers Six, an American rhythm and blues band formed in Rochester, New York, during the mid-1960s, with five brothers; Soul for Real, an R&B group from Wheatley Heights, New York (aka Soul 4 Real and Soul IV Real)
The Soul Children was an American vocal group who recorded soul music for Stax Records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1] They had three top 10 hits on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart – "The Sweeter He Is" (1969), "Hearsay" (1972), and "I'll Be the Other Woman" (1973) – all of which crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 .
Mtume (pronounced em-tu-may) was an American funk and soul group that rose to prominence during the early 1980s and had several R&B hits during its career. Its founder, former percussionist James Mtume, previously played and toured with Miles Davis in the early 1970s. [1]
Their 1972 debut album, Don't Turn Around, became a top 20 hit spending 19 weeks on the Billboard R&B albums chart and peaking at No. 13. [6] Black Ivory scored three top 40 R&B hits in 1972, including the singles "Don't Turn Around" (No. 38) and "You and I" (No. 32) from their debut album. Another single from that album, "I'll Find a Way (The ...