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Stay Free is an album by the American R&B duo Ashford & Simpson, released in 1979. [4] [5] It peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200. [6] "Found a Cure" peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Disco Top 100 chart. [7]
"Free Man" is a 1975 song by South Shore Commission. The song went to number one for one week on the Billboard disco/dance chart. [1] The single also peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the R&B chart. [2] "Free Man" was written by Bunny Sigler and Ronnie Tyson and produced by Sigler.
Disco was the main music 50 years ago, but even today the classics are still dance floor bangers — and what was bad then is still pretty awful. 'Stayin' Alive': The Best (and Worst) Disco Songs ...
"Kiss and Say Goodbye" was a chart-topper in 1976 for the Manhattans.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1976 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1]
Released from their self-titled 1976 album, the single spent a week at number 1 on the R&B singles chart in the spring of that year. It was also successful on the pop charts, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. [3] On the disco dance charts, "Movin'" went to number 1 for four weeks and spent a total of twelve weeks on the chart. [4]
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 ...
Barry White spent five weeks at number one with "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1977 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and since 2005 has been published as Hot ...
The track is regarded as a classic of the funk genre and was included on a list of 500 songs that shaped rock and roll compiled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [ 9 ] Several other acts gained the first soul number ones of their respective careers in 1978, beginning in the issue of Billboard dated January 7 when Con Funk Shun topped the chart ...