Classic R&B and Soul

It's been sampled a bunch but the original still a surprise.

Most people know him as Whitney's (ex) husband now but his biggest album was a classic.

Unpopular opinion--Johnny Gill's debut was even better Don't Be Cruel. The highs aren't as high but it's more consistent and Johnny is the better singer.

New Edition is the most influential boy band after the early Beatles.

The first En Vogue hit.

One of my favorite genres.

Evelyn Champagne King — Love Come Down and I’m In Love

Bobby Caldwell - What You Won’t Do, Do For Love

Change - Lover’s Holday

Shalamar - Second Time Around

On and on and on 🎶

R6, all great choices.

Everyone loves Gladys!

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Even New Edition knows that isn't true r4

R10, I don't think the Jackson 5 were as influential as New Edition. The Jackson 5 certainly had more classics, though.

70s R&B and soul will never be topped.

R2, that song is one of my all time favorites when I'm out for my walk.

Another fav.

Stephanie Mills is a lunatic. She still swears she was in a romantic passionate relationship with Michael Jackson. She has a screw loose.

Stephanie calls everything racist, and still supports Bill Cosby.

Ah, more whinging about being a token house slave/club act for whitey who "only wants you if you have a hit record." This woman is delusional.

I think Stephanie Mills is a smart woman and an R&B legend but she is definitely nuts in some ways. As someone above said, she thinks she was in a legit relationship with MJ and thought that she was close to becoming Mrs. Michael Jackson (nobody else believes this, including MJ biographers). She also said that black women need to protect their black men. And who was the black man she was referring to? R Kelly. She thought Gayle humiliated R Kelly in her interview and she said something like "IF he did something, THEN he should be in jail". Lady, what do you mean IF!? He was on video peeing on a young girl more than 20 years ago!

I love Ms. Mills and her new single.

Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin'the scene with a gangster lean...

R21, the Massive Attack cover is great, too.

Rap and Hip Hop replaced and killed traditional R&B.

Blame them, Stephanie.

I remember Lisa Fischer brought down the house with this song when she was the opening act for Luther Vandross at MSG way back when...

Adele may be a white woman who sings "blue-eyed soul", but for Stephanie to say that she has no respect for where that music originates is very presumptuous. Adele is a huge fan of many black female singers, and was inspired by them to become one herself. In Stephanie's warped universe, anyone who is not black is "disrespecting" the origins of soul music if they sing it. It's absurd, myopic thinking.

I'll do anything, for You!

Call me a basic bitch if you must, but I like the big R&B pop crossovers like Marvin Gaye, Earth Wind and Fire, and Sade.

Basic bitch

r6: I love Shalamar!

R27, nothing basic about your choices. All great stuff!

R25, I may be odd here but I never even thought Adele sang R&B. Her music has always came off more "pop" to me. Especially when I think about "Hello". Amy Winehouse is a different story, she was clearly singing blues/soul.

Blue eyed soul always sounds white to me.

The merging of hip hop and R&B in the mid 90s was one of the worst trends in popular music. It was fine at first and it produced some great work but I will never consider Mary J Blige on the level of the greats that came before her. The blurring of those lines resulted in hip hop winning in the long run and now we are stuck where we are.

I’m down for classic 80s r&b royalty. Some ❤️ faves…

Angela Winbush, Miki Howard, Regina Belle, Patti LaBelle, Angela Bofill, Phyllis Hyman, Patrice Rushen, Teena Marie, Ashford & Simpson, Cheryl Lynn, Stephanie Mills, Evelyn Champagne King, Melba Moore, Jaki Graham, Jenny Burton, Juicy, Mtume, Klymaxx, Karyn White, Miss Jody Watley, Lace/Shades of Lace, Laylah Hathaway, Loletta Holloway, Mai Tai, The Pointer Sisters, Denice Williams, The SOS Band, Change, Vesta, Meli’sa Morgan, Keith Sweat, Alexander O’Neal, New Edition, Mica Paris, Miss Chaka Khan

Just my faves

R34, Phyllis was really treated horribly by Clive Davis.

Elvis, Janis Joplin. Wasn’t this complaint made of them back in their era?

R36, yes, but I understand it given the times. It doesn't make too much sense now.

The first time I heard this (1976), I had to pull over to the side of the road and listen. Couldn't keep driving.

MARY! r38

Stephanie went postal on Sam Smith, all because he said that he felt that MJ was overrated. I don't even like Sam SMith but why is she so butt hurt over someone else's opinion?

Groove to this.

I NEVER liked Rap music.

But a C in front of it

Crap music

This woman should have been at least as big as Brandi. But no.

Same with this woman.

Stunning

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R19 truly surprising that someone who admires/loves MJ is also a fucked-up rape apologist

R47, it shouldn't be surprising to me but it is. I'm from Chicago and everyone here knows that R Kelly would do drive-bys at high schools. And this is a man who married Aaliyah when she was 15. And was caught on camera peeing on a middle school girl. My friend taught for years on the west side. Younger adults still love him and refuse to believe anything bad about him. What does this man have to do convince people he's a creep!? It's like Trump fans who refuse to believe he married a hooker.

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Keep your head to the sky

R50, Earth, Wind and Fire have so many great tracks, it's a pity that most people only care about September.

A great song that has nothing to do with dancing,