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.

The 1970s had the largest variety of music genres over any other decade. Soft rock, soul, R&B, disco ... In the early part of the '70s, music was heavily laced with the symbolic representation ...

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 ...

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 ...