As the pioneering frontman of the legendary group Sly & the Family Stone, Sly Stone, who died Monday (June 9) at age 82, blazed a trail that merged funk and R&B with tastes of rock and soul for an ...

These nostalgic songs from 1971 were some of the best, if not most underrated, songs in funk, soul, and rock that year.

In 1971, a teen idol scored a three-week stint at the top of the Billboard charts with a song first recorded in the early 1960s, knocking a Beatle from the No. 1 spot in the process.

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...