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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...