Smokey Robinsons like-titled hit single, A Quiet Storm, released in 1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the format and to the radio program that introduced it to the public.
Quiet Storm also drew inspiration from Marvin Gayes lush Lets Get It On LP, the orchestrations of Philly soul, and the gentle, ultra. Kelly Teddy Pendergrass soul / r&b Aaliyah Alexander ONeal Babyface. The album eventually gave its name to a style and radio format that aimed to create very similar moods. r&b soul Sade slow jams Luther Vandross The Isley Brothers Prince chill 80s Anita Baker Janet Jackson love Al Green Keith Sweat Mariah Carey R. The format first appeared in 1976 but initially it drew from songs recorded earlier. Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D.C. In 1975, Smokey Robinson released a smooth, sensuous solo LP of romantic adult soul titled A Quiet Storm. Quiet storm songs are a mix of genres, including pop, contemporary R&B, smooth soul, smooth jazz and jazz fusion – songs having an easy-flowing and romantic character. Slow jams with quiet storm elements continued to be produced through the 2000s and 2010s. Like all the volumes from the Slow Jams series, The 80s, Vol.
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The field adapted in the 1990s as new listeners embraced neo-soul experimentation, hip hop samples and beats, as well as more explicit themes. 1 takes the Slow Jams series into the 80s, concentrating on early 80s quiet storm R&B and urban soul. Quiet storm radio programs thrived in the 1980s, with many stations across the US carrying a quiet storm program at night, and a few stations broadcasting in the format all day long. This is a list of songs associated with the quiet storm radio format, widely heard in the United States starting in 1976 as a form of early evening/late night easy listening music aimed at a sophisticated African American audience.
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