• GQ

  I Do Love You –

• Gwen McCrae

  Keep The Fire Burning –

• Harold Melvin

  Where Are All My Friends –

  
  

  Wake Up Everybody –

  
  

  Bad Luck –

  
  

  Satisfaction Guaranteed –

  
  

  Love I Lost –

• Heatwave

  The Groove Line –

  
  

  The Groove Line –

• Herman Kelly

  Let’s Dance To The Drummers Beat –

• Howard Hewett

  Once Twice Three Times –

• Ike and Tina Turner

  I Want To Take You Higher –

  
  

  I Want To Take You Higher – 

  
  

  Proud Mary – 

• Ike Turner

  Rocket 88 –

• Intrigues

  In A Moment –

• Intruders

  Together –

  
  

  I Wanna Know Your Name –

  
  

  Cowboys To Girls –

  
  

  (We’ll Be) United –

  
  

  Sad Girl –

  Love Is Just Like A Baseball Game –

  
  

  I’ll Always Love My Mama –

• Isaac Hayes

  Do Your Thing –

  
  

  I Stand Accused –

• Isley Bros

  For The Love Of You –

  
  

  Caravan Of Love –

• Jackie Moore

  This Time Baby –

• Jackson 5

  This Place Hotel  –

  Good Times –

• Jaheim

  Age Aint A Factor –

• James Brown

  Super Bad –

  
  

  Mother Popcorn –

  The Big Payback –

  Make It Funky –

  Its Too Funky In Here –

• James Mtume

  Juicy Fruit –

• Janet Jackson

  That’s The Way Love Goes –

• Jeffrey Osborne LTD

  Stay With Me Tonight –

  
  

  Holdin On –

• Jerry Butler

  Cooling Out –

  
  

  Your Precious Love –

  Only The Strong Survive –

• Jimmy Castor Bunch

  E-Man Party –

• Joe

  Express Yourself –

• Joe Hinton

  Funny How Time Slips Away –

• John Legend

  Ordinary People –

• Johnnie Taylor

  Can’t Strike Gold In A Silver Mine –

  
  

  I Had A Dream –

  
  

  Big Head Hundreds –

  
  

  Somebody’s Sleeping In My Bed –

  
  

  Juke Joint –

  Disco Lady – 

  
  

  Who’s Makin Love To My Old Lady –

  
  

  Too Many Memories –

  
  

  This Is Your Night –

  
  

  Lady My Whole World Is You –

  Last Two Dollars –

  
  

  It’s Cheaper To Keep Her –

  Play Something Pretty –

  Just Because –

• Johnny Bristol

  Love No Longer Has A Hold On Me –

• Johnny Guitar Watson

  Ain’t That A Bitch –

• Jr Walker and the All Stars

  Pucker Up Buttercup –

  Shake and Fingerpop –

• Junie Morrison

  Super Jay –

• Keb Mo

  My Baby’s Tellin Lies Again –

• Kem

  I Can’t Stop Loving You –

• Klymaxx

  Meeting In The Ladies Room –

• Kool and The Gang

  Chocolate Buttermilk –

  
  

  Let’s Go Dancing (ooh la la la) –

  
  

  Open Sesame pt. 2 –

  
  

  Misled –

  
  

  Tonight –

• Lakeside

  Fantastic Voyage –

• Lalah Hathaway and Joe Sample

  Fever –

• Larry Graham

  One In A Million –

• Lenny Williams

  Cause I Love You –

• Linda Jones

  Hypnotized –

• Lionel Richie

  Penny Lover –

  
  

  Sail On –

  
  

  I’m Easy –

  
  

  Lady You Bring Me Up –

  Love Will Find A Way –

• Little Anthony and The Imperials

  I’ve Got A New Attitude –

  
  

  I’m On The Outside Looking In –

  
  

  Hurt So Bad –

 

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R&B MIDI Files

Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term “rhythm and blues” or ” R&B ” in 1948 as a musical term in the United States. It replaced the term “race music”, which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world. The term “rhythm and blues” was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its “Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles” chart was renamed as “Best Selling Soul Singles”.
Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues as “a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans”. He has used the term ” R&B ” as a synonym for jump blues. However, Allmusic separates it from jump blues because of its stronger, gospel-esque backbeat. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that “rhythm and blues” was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience. According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts. Well into the 21st century, the term R&B continues in use (in some contexts) to categorize music made by black musicians, as distinct from styles of music made by other musicians.
In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, and saxophone. Arrangements were rehearsed to the point of effortlessness and were sometimes accompanied by background vocalists. Simple repetitive parts mesh, creating momentum and rhythmic interplay producing mellow, lilting, and often hypnotic textures while calling attention to no individual sound. While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control. The bands dressed in suits, and even uniforms, a practice associated with the modern popular music that rhythm and blues performers aspired to dominate.
This excerpt is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%26B