Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This timeless era for Black musicians across genres such as R&B, funk, and pop preached messages of love, freedom, and fun. Let’s ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the ...

1970 is often considered a watershed for rock & roll. The years on either side - 1969 and 1971 - can make a stronger claim to being the "best," but none was more important than 1970. If it had only ...

Looking For Someone; The Knife (Part 1); The Musical Box; For Absent Friends; Watcher Of The Skies; Time Table; Can-Utility And The Coastliners; Dancing With The Moonlit Knight; I Know What I Like (In ...

We now continue with the solo hits of the Beatles from the 1970s and early 1980s, violating my own rules of engagement of ...

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...

The 1970s brought us some of the most enduring hit country songs of all time. Classics like “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain,” “Jolene,” “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and many more were hits during the decade ...