I can, though, highlight a few great funk songs from the 1970s as a showcase of what was around. That might help make a start to a case for the funky 70s. Here are five top funk songs from that ...

During this decade, R&B was used as an all-encompassing term to group the styles of soul, funk, and disco ... some of the hottest R&B songs that was released in the '70s.

Soft rock, soul, R&B, disco, funk and hard rock all hit the No. 1 ... We guarantee some of these '70s songs will bring back memories or, at the very least, become an earworm.

However their early ’70s recordings had more of a hard-core funk flavour. Our example is inspired ... How Shaboozey’s Country Spin on a 20-Year-Old Rap Song Became the Year’s Biggest Hit ...

Funk reached the height of its commercial appeal in the 1970s with huge hit songs from Chaka Khan, Kool & The Gang, The Commodores, Chic, and Stevie Wonder to name a few. In this decade ...

But changes were on the way. Signs of the '70s - from singer-songwriter introspection to down-and-dirty funk - began to surface here. And some artists so identifiable with the '60s, like the ...