These three songs created new genres, or at the very least, popularized them. And each of them still has heavy listening ...
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 ...
Funk music was transforming rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1976, many hits already felt timeless because they sounded like the ...
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Top 40 Funk Songs

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Betty Davis, an icon of future-funk, fashion and bold sexuality in the 1970s, died Wednesday at age 77 in her longtime home of Homestead, Pennsylvania. Davis, who was once ...
The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...