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"Don't Take Away the Music" is a hit song by R&B/disco group Tavares, released in the fall of 1976. It peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart [1] and at number four in the UK. Along with the track "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", the song spent two weeks at number 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. [2]
Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.
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.
"Love On Top" is an up-tempo R&B and disco song viewed as a modern take on old school music. [7] [8] [9] It also exhibits elements of retro-soul music, [10] [11] retro-pop, [12] 1980s pop music, [8] funk music, [13] [14] jazz, [15] and 1970s classic disco music, as stated by Joanne Dorken of MTV UK, Cameron Adams of the Herald Sun and Thomas Conner of Chicago Sun-Times.
The uptempo R&B, [6] [7] disco groove, [8] soul [4] infused song contains influences from both Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The song incorporates tinny, "keyboard-set-to-emulate-clavichord" synthesizers of The Neptunes ' late 90s productions, [ 7 ] overlaid with "keys and a propulsive drum vamp". [ 7 ]
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]
"Good Times" is a disco soul song by American R&B band Chic, released in June 1979 by Atlantic Records as the first single from their third album, Risqué (1979). It ranks 68th on Rolling Stone ' s list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ", [ 1 ] and has become one of the most sampled songs in music history, most notably in hip hop music .
It's Your Night is the debut album by American singer-songwriter James Ingram, released by Qwest Records/Warner Records on July 27, 1983. The album was commercially successful, as it peaked at number 46 on the Billboard 200 album chart and reached number 10 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart.