Billboard Hot Soul Singles – November 17th 1979

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Enjoy the 40 best of this week's Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart from 1979! It was all in there: soul, funk, disco and with the early hip hop from Fatback and Sugar Hill Gang you could catch a glimpse of the future in it as well. The eighties were definitely not far away.
"The Commodores' sublime and soulful "Still" moves into the top singles spot on the Hot 100 this week, becoming the Motown family of labels’ 45th to hit No.1 pop. It's often said that Motown had its real heyday in the '60s— and of course it did in that era when there was far less competition from majors like CBS and Warners— but the company has actually had more chart-topping singles in the ‘70s, by a margin of 25 to 20.”

(Billboard Magazine 11-17-1979)

Tracklist:

Phyllis Hyman – You Know How To Love Me
Dynasty – I Don’t Want To Be A Freak
Archie Bell & The Drells – Strategy
Peaches & Herb – Roller-Skatin' Mate
Lowrell – Mellow Mellow, Right On
Spinners – Body Language
Jimmy “Bo” Horne – You Get Me Hot
Deniece Williams – I Found Love
KC & The Sunshine Band – I Betcha Didn't Know That
Cameo – I Just Want To Be
Rick James – Love Gun
Five Special – You’re Something Special
L.T.D. – Stranger
Shalamar – The Second Time Around
Fatback – King Tim III (Personality Jock)
Stevie Wonder – Send One Your Love
Earth, Wind & Fire ‎– In The Stone
Foxy – RRRRRRock
The Whispers – A Song For Donny
Donna Summer – Dim All The Lights
Pleasure – Glide
Curtis Mayfield & Linda Clifford – Between You Baby And Me
Michael Jackson – Rock With You
Marvin Gaye – Ego Tripping Out
GQ – I Do Love You
Brenda Russell – So Good, So Right
David Ruffin – Break My Heart
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Isaac Hayes – Don’t Let Go
Switch – I Call Your Name
Bar-Kays – Move Your Boogie Body
Herb Alpert – Rise
Sugar Hill Gang – Rapper’s Delight
Funkadelic – (Not Just) Knee Deep
Nature’s Divine – I Just Can’t Control Myself
Rufus & Chaka – Do You Love What You Feel
Smokey Robinson – Cruisin’
Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover
Commodores – Still
Kool & The Gang – Ladies Night

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