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Originally Posted by djchameleon
okay I got it now, I just kind of skimmed over the first few posts
I'd like to hear some examples from you of what you consider 60s R&B
maybe I need to brush up on the history of Rhythm and Blues but imo R&B didn't really kick off til the mid to late 80s.
Edit: well I did some quick research and found out that basically soul and funk was grouped in with R&B in the 60s/70s....it was a blanket term for those two genres back then. I always thought Soul and Funk were seperate and that R&B didn't come around til later on....what's considered modern R&B is what I thought was just R&B in general.
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Jerry Wexler the great producer for Atlantic records, who also produced Aretha Franklin coined the phrase Rhythm & Blues to the replace the deragatory phrase "race records" as a more appropriate term to describe the genre of music.
I think there's no doubt that contemporary R&B did evolve from Rhythm and Blues and soul, but I think some disasterous turns were made along the way. Most of which can be attributed as much if not more to the industry than to the artists themselves.