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Chart history. Roberta Flack spent five weeks at number one with "Feel Like Makin' Love", which Billboard ranked as the best-performing soul single of the year. Gladys Knight & the Pips (Knight pictured) had three number ones in 1974. "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae (pictured in later life) topped both the soul chart and the all-genre Hot 100 ...
Brook Benton had his first number one in ten years with "Rainy Night in Georgia". The Moments topped the chart for the first time with "Love on a Two-Way Street". Aretha Franklin had two number ones in 1970. Key. †. Indicates number 1 on Billboard ' s year-end soul chart of 1970 [11] Chart history. Issue date.
Labelle, Earth, Wind & Fire, Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony, Silver Convention and the Staple Singers each took a single to number one on both charts during 1975. [ 6 ] The Ohio Players reached the summit of both charts during 1975 with " Fire ", and their single " Love Rollercoaster ", which was the final soul number one of 1975, would go ...
"Bad Girls" was the first number one for Donna Summer (pictured in later life).. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1979 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 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since ...
Chart history. Stevie Wonder was the only act to achieve more than one number one in 1977. "Tryin' to Love Two" was a chart-topper for William Bell. Thelma Houston reached number one with her version of "Don't Leave Me This Way". Earth, Wind & Fire spent the last seven weeks of 1977 atop the chart with "Serpentine Fire".
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 ...
Fred Wesley received the featured credit on "Doing It to Death" by James Brown's regular backing band, the J.B.'s.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1973 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 ...
The Spinners topped the chart for the first time with "I'll Be Around".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1972 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 ...