Hit Parade: Killing Me Softly Edition Part 2

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The early ’70s was a great time for R&B queens on the charts: Roberta Flack. Dionne Warwick. Patti LaBelle. Chaka Khan. They had come through the ’60s—Dionne as a smooth pop-and-B star, Patti as a girl-group frontwoman, Roberta as a cabaret pianist—and found themselves in a new decade with limitless possibilities. Flack turned folk songs into chart-topping, Grammy-winning R&B. Warwick shifted from Brill Building pop to Philly soul. LaBelle threw her insane voice at rock, funk and glam. And a relative newcomer, Rufus frontwoman Chaka Khan, followed in their footsteps, commanding the band and converting to disco, then electro. By the ’80s, all four women were ready for a major chart victory lap. Join host Chris Molanphy as he traces four parallel careers that expanded the definition of soul from the ’60s through the ’80s and beyond. These soul sisters, flow sisters, bold sisters…killed us softly, walked on by and were, finally, every woman. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Host Chris Molanphy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.4	Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Sleet magazine
1:16.6	about the hits from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfee,
1:20.2	Chart Analyst, Pop Critic, and writer of Sleet's Why Is This Song No. 1 series.
1:25.6	On our last episode, we talked about the distinctive but parallel careers
1:31.3	of R&B vocal legends, Patti LaBelle, Dion Warwick, and Roberta Flack.
1:37.4	How they continually made songs theirs and redefined the boundaries for Black female artists.
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