Not only did this era emerge different subgenres like Philadelphia soul and quiet storm ... here's a list of some of the hottest R&B songs that was released in the '70s.

Roberta Flack, the iconic R&B singer ... penthouse soul crowd,” Peter Shapiro wrote in The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B. Flack’s chart dominance slackened by the end of the ‘70s, but she ...

On the “fABLE” songs ... on an R&B aura built around his formidable falsetto. At times it seems he’s about to launch into “Betcha By Golly, Wow,” or some other ’70s soul hit.

Economically summarizing her appeal in “The Rough Guide to Soul and R&B,” Peter Shapiro wrote, “Urbane, genteel and jazzy, Roberta Flack was, in many ways, the perfect soul act of the early ’70s ...