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Art Neville

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Septuagenarian keyboardist & vocalist Art Neville aka "Poppa Funk" is an R&B legend from New Orleans, who founded the Hawkettes and had a solo career on Specialty records in the late 1950's before becoming a founding member of influential funk & soul group The Meters in the late 1960's.

Percy Sledge

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The Chi-Lites

641,202 plays (141,926 listeners)

The Chi-Lites were a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period to not come from Memphis or Philadelphia. They were led by Eugene Record, and scored eleven Top Ten R&B hits, in the early part of the decade.

Smokey Robinson

889,218 plays (184,486 listeners)

William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.

Allen Toussaint

538,767 plays (61,100 listeners)

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Lou Rawls

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Linda Ronstadt

1,580,220 plays (210,074 listeners)

Linda Marie Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American singer most closely associated with the country rock genre prevalent in the 1970s. Though an occasional songwriter herself, she is better known as an interpreter of other songwriters' works.

The Manhattans

358,341 plays (80,075 listeners)

A long running male vocal group from Jersey City, New Jersey, with roots in the doo-wop era. They first formed as the Manhattans, circa 1963, and hit the charts on Carnival Records in the mid 60's, maintaining chart popularity well into the the 1980's when their hit "Shining Star" topped the charts.