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On the Charts This Day 54 Years Ago, Roberta Flack Kicked off the Year’s Longest Run at No. 1 (Thanks to Clint Eastwood)

On the Charts 54 Years Ago, Roberta Flack Kicked off the Year’s Longest Run at No. 1 (Thanks to Clint Eastwood)

On the Charts 57 Years Ago, This Psychedelic Soul Hit by the 5th Dimension Spent a Whopping Six Weeks at No. 1

Eric Clapton performing

3 Forgotten Slow Dances That Defined Young Love in the 1970s

3 Feminist Anthems That Were Originally Written by Men

Labelle, group portrait, London, 1975, L-R Patti Labelle, Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

On the Charts 51 Years Ago, This Underrated Girl Group Scored Their Only No. 1 Hit With a Song Later Covered by Early 2000s Divas

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    On This Day in 1970, We Lost an Incredible Motown Crooner After She Collapsed Onstage Into Marvin Gaye’s Arms

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  • Bobby Womack performs on stage in 1976 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He plays a left-handed Gibson Les Paul Junior guitar. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

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    Born on This Day in 1944, the Underrated Singer-Songwriter Who Helped Propel Sam Cooke and the Rolling Stones to Fame

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    This 1971 Soul Hit by The Temptations Is So Smooth, You’d Never Know How Tense the Studio Was While They Recorded It

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  • 4 Roberta Flack Songs to Help You Celebrate Her Legacy–That Aren't "Killing Me Softly"

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    On This Day in 2025, We Lost the Legendary Grammy-Winning Singer and Pianist Behind Some of the Greatest Songs of the 1970s

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    3 of the Most Perfectly Written Soul Lyrics of the 20th Century

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  • Shirley Jones, US actress and singer, Brian Forster, US actor, Suzanne Crough, US actress, Susan Dey, US actress, Danny Bonaduce, US actor, and David Cassidy, US actor and singer, pose leaning out of the windows of a bus in a group portrait issued as publicity for the US television series, 'The Partridge Family', USA, circa 1973. The sitcom starred Jones as 'Shirley Renfrew Partridge', Forster as 'Chris Partridge', Crough as 'Tracy Partridge', Dey as 'Laurie Partridge', Bonaduce as 'Danny Partridge', and Cassidy as 'Keith Douglas Partridge'. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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  • LOS ANGELES - 1965: Singer Mel Carter poses for a photo in 1965 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

    The Story Behind the 60s Soul Classic by Mel Carter That Ended Up Becoming an Easy Listening Classic

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    4 Luscious, Lovely Ballads From the Philly Soul Era

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