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Genres

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  • 1940s

    • Big Band/Swing (Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra)

    • 1940s Easy Listening (Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett)

  • 1950s

    • Doo-Wop (The Marcels, The Platters, The Flamingos, Frankie Avalon, Herman’s Hermits, The Four Seasons)

    • Traditional (The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Vinton, The Chiffons, The Vogues, The Everly Brothers)

    • Easy Listening (Percy Faith, The Lettermen, Santo & Johnny Farina)

    • Rock and Roll (Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker, Fats Domino)

    • Rockabilly (Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis)

  • 1960s

    • Pop (The Beatles, Johnny Rivers, The Buckinghams, The Happenings, The Tokens)

      • Baroque (The Beatles)

      • Country (Bobby Goldsboro, Skeeter Davis)

      • Sunshine Pop (The Association, Spiral Staircase, The Lovin' Spoonful, The 5th Dimension, Simon & Garfunkel)

      • Bubblegum Pop (The Monkees, Brian Hyland)

      • Big Band (Petula Clark, Tom Jones)

      • Psychedelic Pop (The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Turtles)

      • Easy Listening (Dionne Warwick, Herb Alpert)

      • Blues Rock (The Animals, The Beatles)

    • Rock

      • Country (Janis Joplin)

      • Jazz (Blood, Sweat and Tears)

      • Psychedelic Rock (The Doors, Strawberry Alarm Clock)

    • Folk (Peter, Paul & Mary, Joni Mitchell, The Everly Brothers, M*A*S*H*)

      • Rock (The Mamas & the Papas, Simon & Garfunkle, The Byrds)

    • Motown

      • R&B (The Marvelettes, The Royalettes, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Sam Cooke, The Contours)

      • Soul (Martha & the Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson)

      • Pop (The 5thDimension, Aretha Franklin, Dione Warwick, The Rascals, Carole King, Freda Payne, Mel Carter)

    • Rock and Roll (Elvis Presley, The Beatles)

1970s

  • Rock

    •  Classic (The Steve Miller Band)

    •  Folk (America, The Eagles, Kansas, Paul Simon)

    •  Soft Rock (Bread, Todd Rundgren, Janis Ian)

    •  Glam Rock (Elton John)

    •  Latin Rock (Santana)

    •  Southern Rock (Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers)

  • Country

    •  Pop (Kenny Rogers, Crystal Gayle)

    •  Rock (The Eagles, Jimmy Buffet)

  • Disco (Gloria Gaynor, Van McCoy, The Hues Corporation, Lipps Inc., Soul Train (Gamble & Huff), Maxine Nightingale, A Taste of Honey, Chic, Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Band)

  • Funk

    •  Disco (The Commodores)

    •  Jazz (The Average White Band)

    •  Rock (Wild Cherry)

    •  Soul (Patti LaBelle, Stevie Wonder)

  • Jazz 

    •  Fusion (Chuck Mangione)

    •  Rock (Van Morrison, Lighthouse, Chicago)

    •  Funk (The Average White Band)

  • Pop

    •  Soft Rock (Barry Manilow, The Carpenters, Bread, The Captain & Tennile, Barbra Streisand)

    •  Pop Rock (Barry Manilow, Elton John, Paul Simon, Bob Seger)

  • R&B / Soul (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, Lionel Richie, Earth, Wind and Fire, George Benson, Al Green)

  • Soul 

    •  Funk (Billy Preston, Marvin Gaye, The O’Jays, Gamble & Huff, Aretha Franklin)

    •  Pop (Earth, Wind & Fire, Roberta Flack, Diana Ross)

    •  R&B (Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Donny Hathaway)

    •  Disco (The Spinners)

    •  Jazz (The Blackbyrds)

    •  Pop (The Three Degrees)

    •  R&B (The Spinners, The Stylistics)

  • Post 1970s

    • R&B / Acoustic Soul (Babyface, Boyz II Men, Alicia Keys, Anita Baker)

    • Hip Hop (Mariah Carey)

    • Disco/Funk (Lipps Inc.)

    • Pop (Rihanna, Billy Ellish, Sheena Easton)

    • Soul/Funk (Sybil)

  • Jazz

    • Ragtime (Scott Joplin)

    • Dixieland (Louis Armstrong)

    • Gypsy Jazz (Michel Legrand)

    • Jazz Standards (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Tony Bennett, Jerome Kern, Diana Krall, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme)

    • Big Band Swing (Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Bennie Goodman, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Dorsey)

    • Bebop (Charlie Parker, George Shearing, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis)

    • Cool Jazz (Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis)

    • Hard Bop (Horace Silver, Ahmad Jamal)

    • Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion (Jimmy Smith & Jimmy McGriff, Wes Montgomery)

    • Jazz R&B (George Benson)

    • Hard Bop (Benny Golson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Roy Hargrove)

    • Smooth Jazz (Grover Washington Jr, Bill Withers, Bobby Caldwell, Anita Baker)

    • Latin Jazz (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Horace Silver, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Byrd)

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