A lot of whites seemed to stop listening to R&B music in the early '80s. I don't know what happened. They were the ones talking about Rick James and had their Peaches and Herb 8 track, but as soon as 1981 rolled around, it's like they had selective amnesia and or went "country."
That's what a lot of these songs are forgotten--and the only way a lot of these acts hit the pop charts again is when they watered-down their sound, like Atlantic Starr...Thankfully this seemed to end by the end of the '80s. The charts were so odd during the early '80s--yet they certainly reflected the times.
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