More 60s

ANDY WILLIAMS
Moon River

BEE GEES
Massachusetts

BOX TOPS
The Letter

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Fortunate Son

Bad Moon Rising

I Put a Spell on You

Down on the Corner

DANCE
Goin' Out of My Head

HERMAN'S HERMITS
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

I'm Into Something Good

There's a Kind of Hush

JACK JONES
The Impossible Dream

Call Me
w/Joanie Sommers

Dear Heart

Once Upon a Time

Wives and Lovers

Girl Talk

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
White Rabbit (1969 Woodstock)

JOE COCKER
With a Little Help From My Friends (1969 Woodstock)

NINA SIMONE
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

PROCOL HARUM
A Whiter Shade of a Pale

SAM COOKE
Chain Gang

SANDY SHAW
Those Were the Days

SIMON & GARFUNKLE
The Sounds of Silence

Homeward Bound

I Am a Rock

SKEETER DAVIS
The End of the World

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Dance to the Music

Everyday People

I Want to Take You Higher (1969 Woodstock)

Thank You

Hot Fun in the Summertime

THE ANIMALS
House of the Rising Sun

THE HOLLIES
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Bus Stop

THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
California Dreamin'

Monday Monday

THE MOODY BLUES
Nights in White Satin

Tuesday Afternoon

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Unchained Melody

THE ROYALETTES
It's Gonna Take a Miracle

THE SHANGRI-LAS
The Leader of the Pack

More 70s

ABBA
Voulez Vous

The Name of the Game

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Money, Money, Money

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

S.O.S.

Fernando

Take a Chance on Me

Dancing Queen

ALBERT HAMMOND
It Never Rains in Southern California

ANDY GIBB
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything

Don't Throw it All Away (Our Love)

ANITA WARD
Ring My Bell

BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

BEE GEES
How Deep is Your Love

Night Fever

BILLY PAUL
Me and Mrs. Jones

BLONDIE
Heart of Glass

BREAD
Make it With You

If

Baby I'm-a Want You

Everything I Own

Guitar Man

Aubrey

CAT STEVENS
Father & Son

Wild World

Moon Shadow

Peace Train

Oh Very Young

Sad Lisa

Lady d'Arbanville

CHICAGO
25 or 6 to 4

Saturday in the Park

Feelin' Stronger Every Day

Just You 'n' Me

If You Leave Me Now

Baby, What a Big Surprise

No Tell Lover

CREAM
White Room

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
Have You Ever Seen the Rain

Up Around the Bend

Who'll Stop the Rain

Lookin' Out My Back Door

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
Teach Your Children

DENIECE WILLIAMS
Free

DENIECE WILLIAMS & JOHNNY MATHIS
Too Much Too Little Too Late

DONNA SUMMER
Love to Love You Baby

I Feel Love

Last Dance

MacArthur Park

Heaven Knows
w/Brooklyn Dreams

Hot Stuff

No More Tears (Enough is Enough)
w/Barbra Streisand

On the Radio

EAGLES
Peaceful Easy Feeling

Best of My Love

One of These Nights

Lyin' Eyes

Take it to the Limit

Hotel California

The Long Run

I Can't Tell You Why

Rocky Mountain Way

EARTH, WIND & FIRE
Boogie Wonderland

September

Let's Groove

FLEETWOOD MAC
Go Your Own Way

Sara

Dreams

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN
Alone Again

Claire

GLORIA GAYNOR
I Will Survive

GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
The Message

HALL & OATES
Sarah Smile

Rich Girl

HARRY CHAPIN
Cat's in the Cradle

HUES CORPORATION
Rock the Boat

JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Miracles

KANSAS
Dust in the Wind

KOOL & THE GANG
Jungle Boogie

Hollywood Swinging

Ladie's Night

Too Hot

LED ZEPPELIN
Stairway to Heaven

LINDA RONSTADT
Blue Bayou

Long Long Time

LIPPS INC.
Funkytown

MARY MACGREGOR
Torn Between Two Lovers

MUSICALS
Life is a Cabaret

Mein Herr

OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN
Have You Ever Been Mellow

Hopelessy Devoted to You

PATRICK HERNANDEZ
Born to Be Alive

RARE EARTH
Get Ready

ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY
Where is the Love

SANTA ESMERALDA
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Family Affair

Sly on Dick Cavett

STEVIE WONDER
Superstition on Sesame Street

SUGARHILL GANG
Rapper's Delight

TAVARES
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel

It Only Takes a Minute

She's Gone

Never Had a Love Like This Before

TERRY JACKS
Seasons in the Sun

THE BAND
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

THE BEATLES
The Long & Winding Road

Let it Be

THE BROTHERS JOHNSON
I'll Be Good to You

Strawberry Letter 23

Stomp

THE CRUSADERS
Street Life

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
What a Fool Believes

Minute by Minute

Long Train Running

Listen to the Music

Black Water

THE FOUR SEASONS
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)

THE HOLLIES
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress

The Air That I Breathe

THE PERSUADERS
Thin Line Between Love & Hate

THE ROLLING STONES
Angie

THE TRAMMPS
Disco Inferno

TODD RUNDGREN
Hello It's Me

VAN McCOY
Do the Hustle

Commodores

Machine Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m-I9eD2jQQ

Just to Be Close to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6A9VtT2Cg

Sweet Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbtmvgc2rqE

Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFHbGuSRAwg

Brick House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48

Three Times a Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7C_ocGy5tE

Sail On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE

Still
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgsIkL6ink

Lady (You Bring Me Up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4

Oh No
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAbVzPiwZs

Nightshift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlsfYDj2HWA


FYI
The Commodores were a highly successful funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

The Commodores originally called themselves the Jays, but had to change their name because of the similarly named O'Jays. To choose a new name William King opened a dictionary and randomly picked a word. "We lucked out," he remarked with a laugh when telling this story to People Weekly Magazine. "We almost became The Commodes!"

Lionel Richie was an original member of the group.

"Nightshift" (a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson) won the Commodores their only Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

For more on the Commodores: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodores

Chaka Khan

Tell Me Something Good
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P23WCKgZGgo

Sweet Thing
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzIArLPDDA

Do You Love What You Feel?
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1OSK1nXDc

Hollywood
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2vrcrbPm7Q

Once You Get Started
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldRl9UqJEV8

Little Boy Blue
Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4n8QLXOBUc

I'm Every Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXRI1Ce19Q

Clouds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTf8OAZqv8

What Cha' Gonna Do For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLCJkmgOp4

Night In Tunisia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emR8gVhntEI

Ain't Nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeKFA-IWTp0

I Feel For You
no audio avail. on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4qOxW8kU

Through The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLQ_hvWQh4

I'll Be Good To You
w/Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDHFXdUPLQ

Love You All My Lifetime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZR5Vw-okk&feature=related

It Ain't All Good
w/De La Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhFHn5wB3s

What's Going On
w/The Funk Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTRUpALajc

The National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSfff2H-jY8&feature=related

Walk With Me Lord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICxKhtC_TY

I'm Still Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsndnHTixM&feature=related

The End of a Love Affair
w/Herbie Hancock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9PSpZOnXTo&feature=related

Hey Big Spender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3FWJCgWGk

Reading Rainbow theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABOVPcTMrWQ



FYI

Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel For You" and "Through the Fire". She also sung the theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow.

She was first featured as a member of the funk band Rufus before beginning her solo career.

Though regarded as an R&B singer, she has performed numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, pop and blues standards.
Her contributions to funk and soul music in her early career earned her the title of the "Queen of Funk Soul"

Kahn is known for her perfectly pitched contralto vocals.

Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens. She adopted the African name "Chaka" while working as a volunteer on the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program in Chicago.

At the age of 11 she formed her first group, the Crystalettes.

Chaka's fortunes changed when she teamed with ex-American Breed member Kevin Murphy and Andre Fischer to form Rufus. In the meantime, she married bass guitarist Hassan Khan.

By decade's (70s) end, Rufus was among the most successful funk groups, rivaling the popularity of Earth Wind & Fire & The Commodores, among others.
With the help of Stevie Wonder, Rufus broke into both the pop music and R&B charts in 1974 with the gold-selling hit "Tell Me Something Good".

Rufus earned eight platinum albums and three gold singles before Khan went solo full time in 1980.

On December 3, 2004, Chaka Khan received an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music. She is also active in the autism community, as she has family members who have been diagnosed with this condition.

For more on Chaka Khan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan

Barry White

Walkin' In the Rain With the One I Love
Love Unlimited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtQbajGElk

Love's Theme
Love Unlimited Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3S6UVS2JDE&feature=related

I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN38uI2oKkA

I've Got So Much To Give
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXur958KRAQ

Can't Get Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvHRnGe940

You're the First, the Last, My Everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS2Fve72AZg

Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_M5PcJQmU

The Secret Garden
various artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE0WmzYjchs

All Around the World
w/Lisa Stansfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_kO6gbIMo

Practice What You Preach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIp-KO11QE


Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer, songwriter and singer.
A multiple Grammy Award-winner known for his deep bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul and disco songs. Worldwide, White had many gold and platinum albums and singles, with combined sales of over 100 million, according to critics Ed Hogan and Wade Kergan.

White was born in Galveston, Texas and grew up in the high-crime areas of South Central Los Angeles, where he joined a gang at the age of 10. At 17, he was jailed for four months for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires.

While in prison, White listened to Elvis Presley singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.
After his release, he left gang life and began a musical career at the dawn of the 1960s in singing groups before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.
He was responsible in 1963 for arranging "Harlem Shuffle" for Bob & Earl, which became a hit in the UK in 1969.

In August 1969, he got his break producing a girl group called Love Unlimited. Formed in imitation of the legendary Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members honed their talents with White for the next two years until they all signed contracts with 20th Century Records.
White produced, wrote and arranged the classic soul ballad "Walking in the Rain (With The One I Love)", which hit the Top 20 of the pop charts. The group would score more hits throughout the '70s and White eventually married the lead singer of the group, Glodean James.

While working on a few demos for a male singer, the record label suggested White step out in front of the microphone, to which he reluctantly agreed.
His first solo chart hit, 1973's "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby", rose to #1 R&B and #3 Pop. That same year, the Love Unlimited Orchestra's recording of White's composition "Love's Theme" reached #1 Pop in 1974, one of only two instrumental recordings ever to do so. Some regard "Love's Theme" as the first disco hit ever.

Other chart hits by White include "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" (1973), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (1974) and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (1974).

Although White's success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era came to an end, he maintained a loyal following throughout his career. In the 1990s, he mounted an effective comeback with the albums The Icon Is Love (1994), whose biggest hit, "Practice What You Preach" reached the top of the charts.
In addition, his music was often featured on the sitcom Ally McBeal and he appeared on the show twice.

Barry White had been ill with chronically high blood pressure for some time, which resulted in kidney failure in the autumn of 2002. He suffered a stroke in May 2003, after which he was forced to retire from public life.
On 4 July, 2003, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from renal failure. White was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by his family off the California coast.

On 20 September, 2004, he was posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York.

White's recordings featured a distinctive sound that combined orchestral instrumentation (string section, woodwinds, horns, harpsichords, etc.) with a steady drumbeat and as many as five electric guitars. His arrangements were influential on the emerging sound of disco music in the early 1970s.
A distinctive feature of White's music was the steamy spoken introductions and interludes that appeared in many of his songs.

Over the course of his career White occasionally did work as a voice actor.
He was featured in several episodes of The Simpsons.
White had been offered the chance to play the voice of Chef in the cartoon series South Park (who had been modeled after White), but declined; as a devout Christian, White was uncomfortable with South Park's often irreverent humor. The part was eventually played by Isaac Hayes.

(Wikipedia)

The Isley Brothers

Shout!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL9xOLpwI0I

Twist & Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPivnegGtgg

This Old Heart of Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGyszX-Hs30

It's Your Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v2-DSKx3Eg

Love the One You're With
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1y4OatoR6s

Pop That Thang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0UemPDkGww

I'll Always Come Back to You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ66GVuIPc4

That Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

Hello It's Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHp1Tr_4_A8

Summer Breeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0g1y7irKk

Fight the Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAkHRK2pI8

For the Love of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2sOqbIcaM

Harvest for the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_OsEISBGo

Footsteps in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLnUwUpnb8

It's a Disco Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLptdeApq8

I Wanna Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8KsX5fqiI

Don't Say Goodnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2v9GrU35U

Between the Sheets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhdcJ7K3XM

Smooth Sailin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFW3TtBh6kE

Caravan of Love
(by Isley-Jasper-Isley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc

The Isley Brothers are a Grammy-winning American R&B/soul group who are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, disco, urban adult contemporary and hip-hop soul in the last six decades with a variation of lineups ranging from a quartet to a trio to a sextet to finally a duo.

Originally raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the original group consisted of the four elder sons of O'Kelly Isley, Sr. and Sally Mae Isley: Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon Isley originally singing nothing but gospel music starting in 1954.
The group disbanded in 1955 shortly after a road accident claimed the life of Vernon Isley and reformed in 1957 with Kelly, Rudy and Ronnie, who recorded with small labels singing doo-wop and rock 'n' roll.
After modest success with singles such as "Shout", "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single, "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", and a brief tenure with Jimi Hendrix as a background guitar player, the group settled on a brand of gritty soul and funk defined by the Grammy-winning smash "It's Your Thing", in 1969.
After reforming the group as a six-member lineup in 1973 featuring younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and brother-in-law Chris Jasper, they became known to fans as 3 + 3 and charted gold and platinum success with albums such as 3 + 3, The Heat Is On, Go For Your Guns and Between the Sheets, while charting a succession of hit singles such as "That Lady", "Fight the Power", "For the Love of You", "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" and "Between the Sheets", between 1973 and 1983.
After the younger brothers splintered from the group in 1984, the remaining trio continued recording until Kelly's death from a cancer-related heart attack in 1986.
Rudy left the group for a career in the ministry in 1989 disbanding the group once again with Ron releasing solo records, sometimes performing under the Isley Brothers name.
In 1991, Ron reformed the group with Ernie and Marvin returning to the lineup.
In 1992, the group was inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Since 1997, after diabetes forced Marvin into retirement, the lineup has been Ron and Ernie, now on hiatus due to Ron's current prison sentence after a tax evasion conviction in 2006.

During his court case, it was revealed Ron Isley, now 66, has kidney cancer and failing organs. Isley's lawyers have tried pleading with the judge to give leniency to the singer, who was sentenced to serve 37 months (at least three years) in prison but have been denied. Isley is currently serving his sentence and will be released on a tentative date of April 2010.

In 2000 Michael Bolton unsuccessfully tried to buy the Isley Brothers' catalogue after the Isleys won a lawsuit alleging that Bolton's song "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" plagiarized their 1966 Motown track of the same title.

The Isley Brothers were inducted to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.

Much like The JB's, Parliament-Funkadelic, DeBarge and Zapp, the Isleys are among one of the most sampled groups in hip-hop history with their recordings sampled by the likes of 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G.,Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg among others.

(Wikipedia)

James Brown

Please,Please,Please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5aVhLjT7UE

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqdYBT-b2aI

It's a Man's Man's Man's World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2RdEJb156k

Good Foot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DAfBZbz3tI

Sunny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-PZtAfNbk

James gives dancing lessons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo

Eddie does James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7kP35jI7Go

Rollins on Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1UdYsKOcI

James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul", "King of Funk", and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business", was an American entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, Brown was a pivotal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical genres, including rock, jazz, disco, dance and electronic music, reggae and hip hop. Brown's music also left its mark on the rhythms of African popular music, such as afrobeat, jùjú and mbalax, and provided a template for go-go music.

Brown began his professional music career in 1953, and rose to fame during the late 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his thrilling live performances and string of smash hits. In spite of various personal problems and setbacks he continued to score hits in every decade through the 1980s. In addition to his acclaim in music, Brown was a presence in American political affairs during the 1960s and 1970s, noted especially for his activism on behalf of fellow African Americans and the poor. During the early 1980s, Brown's music helped to shape the rhythms of early hip-hop music, with numerous groups looping or sampling his funk grooves and turning them into what became hip hop classics and the foundations of the music genre.

Brown was recognized by numerous titles, including Soul Brother Number One, Sex Machine, Mr. Dynamite, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr. Please Please Please, The Boss, and the best-known, the Godfather of Soul.

(Wikipedia)

Stevie Wonder

Fingertips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIfgwNJkCMI

I Was Made to Love Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLWiJVdWkU

One Little Christmas Tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWkqD1JP5w&feature=related

Someday At Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ1-duv_zNk&feature=related

For Once in My Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxVyaYuGYE

Superstition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

Living for the City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSRyf5G2uI8

I Wish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0

Sir Duke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmUvVj2mxnY

Send One Your Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMvVYCV-d8E

Lately
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYfRSfG8uA

Ribbon in the Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO2-kIqsGL4

Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won 26 Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.

Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 150 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, organ, melodica, and clavinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocals.

(Wikipedia)

Funk

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk

Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony, and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Unlike R&B and soul songs, which had many chord changes, funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord.

Like much of African inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms. Funk bands also usually have a horn section of several saxophones, trumpets, and in some cases, a trombone, which plays rhythmic "hits".

Influential African American funk performers include James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, The Meters, The Funk Brothers, Bootsy Collins, and Prince. Notable 1970s funk bands included Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, Average White Band, The Ohio Players, The Commodores, and Kool & the Gang though many of these most famous bands in the genre also played disco and soul extensively. Funk music was a major influence on the development of 1970s disco music and funk samples are used in most styles of house music and hip hop music, and it's also the main influence of Go-Go. Funk even left its mark on New Wave, and its pulse was evident in post punk as well.

(Wikipedia)