Released March 16, 1990 Label Rhino Entertainment | Release date 16 March 1990 | |
Genres Rhythm and blues, Pop music Similar Billboard Top Hits: 1986, Billboard Top Rock'n'R, Billboard Top Hits: 1981, Greatest Hits |
Billboard Top R&B Hits is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1990 with each volume featuring ten hit rhythm and blues recordings from the 1970s. All tracks on the album were hits on the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart with many also achieving success on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
Contents
1970
- "Turn Back the Hands of Time" – Tyrone Davis
- "The Love You Save" — The Jackson 5
- "Rainy Night in Georgia" — Brook Benton
- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" — Diana Ross
- "Love on a Two-Way Street" — The Moments
- "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" — Temptations
- "I'll Be There" — The Jackson 5
- "Stoned Love" — The Supremes
- "Gotta Hold On to This Feeling" — Junior Walker & The All Stars
- "Super Bad (Pts. 1 & 2)" — James Brown
1971
- "Spanish Harlem" – Aretha Franklin
- "Make It Funky (Pt. 1)" – James Brown
- "Mr. Big Stuff" – Jean Knight
- "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" – The Temptations
- "Groove Me" – King Floyd
- "What's Goin' On" – Marvin Gaye
- "Never Can Say Goodbye" – The Jackson 5
- "Have You Seen Her" – The Chi-Lites
- "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" – The Persuaders
- "Clean Up Woman" – Betty Wright
1972
- "Lean on Me" – Bill Withers
- "Let's Stay Together" – Al Green
- "I'll Take You There" – The Staple Singers
- "Oh Girl" – The Chi-Lites
- "If You Don't Know Me by Now – Harold Melvin
- "I Gotcha – Joe Tex
- "Power of Love – Joe Simon
- "Me and Mrs. Jones" – Billy Paul
- "Freddie's Dead" – Curtis Mayfield
- "Get On the Good Foot (Pt. 1)" – James Brown
1973
- "If You're Ready Come Go with Me" – The Staple Singers
- "Why Can't We Live Together" – Timmy Thomas
- "Keep On Truckin' (Pt. 1)" – Eddie Kendricks
- "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" – The Four Tops
- "Masterpiece" – The Temptations
- "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" – Gladys Knight & The Pips
- "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" – Al Green
- "That Lady (Pt. 1)" – The Isley Brothers
- "The Love I Lost (Pt. 1)" – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- "Doing It to Death" – James Brown and the JB's
1974
- "Hollywood Swinging" – Kool & The Gang
- "Be Thankful For What You Got" – William DeVaughn
- "Lookin' for a Love" – Bobby Womack
- "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" – Gladys Knight & the Pips
- "The Payback" – James Brown
- "Rock Your Baby" – George McCrae
- "Let's Straighten It Out" – Latimore
- "She's Gone" – Tavares
- "Livin' for You" – Al Green
- "Woman to Woman" – Shirley Brown
References
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