Quiet Storm Essentials

Apple Music R&B

Editors' Notes Lovers of love songs never had it so good as they did when this storm arrived. Starting in the mid-’70s, urban radio DJs began filling the late-night airwaves with a scintillating array of silky soul and R&B ballads. Named after a stellar track by Smokey Robinson, the Quiet Storm format showcased the era’s smoothest slow jams as performed by such masters as Al Green, Roberta Flack, Teddy Pendergrass, and Anita Baker. Spacious arrangements, laidback grooves, and sumptuous strings all became trademarks of the sound, along with lyrics that spoke straight from the heart.
Al Green
Let's Stay Together
3:19
 
Patti LaBelle
I'm in Love Again
4:45
 
Luther Vandross
Never Too Much
7:07
 
Rick James, Teena Marie
Street Songs
7:20
 
Heatwave
Too Hot to Handle (Expanded Edition)
4:50
 
The Commodores
Commodores
4:16
 
Teddy Pendergrass
TP (Expanded Edition)
3:41
 
Earth, Wind & Fire
I Am
4:38
 
Bobby Caldwell
What You Won't Do for Love
4:46
 
Anita Baker
Rapture
4:26
 
Debra Laws
Very Special
4:28
 
Marvin Gaye
Midnight Love
3:58
 
Shalamar
Three for Love
5:04
 
L.T.D.
Love to the World
4:35
 
Con Funk Shun
Funk Essentials: The Best of Con Funk Shun
5:17
 
Maze
Joy and Pain (feat. Frankie Beverly) [Remastered]
7:14
 
Zapp
The New Zapp IV U
4:43
 
The Deele
Eyes of a Stranger
4:18
 
Force M.D.'s
Chillin'
3:54
 
Midnight Star
No Parking On the Dance Floor
4:18
 
Lionel Richie
Can't Slow Down
4:08
 
G.Q.
Disco Nights (Expanded Edition)
4:48
 
Bobby Womack
The Poet
5:29
 
Sade
Diamond Life
4:58
 
DeBarge
In a Special Way
3:45
 
Chaka Khan
I Feel for You
4:46
 
The Whispers
Just Gets Better With Time
4:32
 
Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On (Remastered)
4:53
 
Prince
Sign O' the Times
6:31
 
Surface
2nd Wave (Expanded Edition)
4:54
 
Smokey Robinson
A Quiet Storm
7:48
 
Bill Withers, Grover Washington, Jr.
Winelight
7:23
 
The Spinners
Spinners
4:09
 
The Gap Band
The 12" Collection and More (Funk Essentials)
6:15
 
The Isley Brothers
The Heat Is On
5:39
 
Barry White
I've Got so Much to Give
8:17
 
Bloodstone
The Essentials: Bloodstone
4:09
 
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Neither One Of Us
4:24
 
The Emotions
Rejoice
4:27
 
Cameo
Anthology
4:52
 
Stephanie Mills
If I Were Your Woman
5:02
 
Ready for the World
Long Time Coming
6:31
 
The Whispers
And the Beat Goes On
5:05
 
Norman Connors
You Are My Starship
4:30
 
Aretha Franklin
Sparkle (Music From the Warner Bros. Motion Picture)
6:23
 
Average White Band
Soul Searching
5:33
 
Shirley Brown
Woman to Woman (Stax Remasters)
3:58
 
Tower Of Power
Bump City
5:37
 
The Jones Girls
The Jones Girls
3:24
 
Sylvia
Pillow Talk: The Sensuous Sounds of Sylvia
4:25
 
Anita Baker
Rapture
5:17
 
Atlantic Starr
All In the Name of Love
5:26
 
The Commodores
Nightshift
5:03
 
Diana Ross
Swept Away
4:05
 
Deniece Williams
Niecy (Expanded Edition)
4:08
 
Freddie Jackson
Rock Me Tonight
7:12
 
The Isley Brothers
Between the Sheets
4:42
 
Earth, Wind & Fire
Gratitude (Live)
4:50
 
Lionel Richie
Tuskegee (Deluxe Edition)
4:59
 
Marvin Gaye
I Want You
4:33
 
Maze
Silky Soul (feat. Frankie Beverly)
5:16
 
Teena Marie
The Masters Series: Slow Soul, Vol. 2
5:16
 
Howard Hewett
I Commit to Love
4:45
 
Alexander O'Neal
Hearsay
5:09
 
Smokey Robinson
Being With You
4:06
 
Michael Jackson
Thriller
4:05
 
Anita Baker
The Songstress
5:00
 
René & Angela
Rise
4:38
 
Quincy Jones
The Dude
4:33
 
The Manhattans
After Midnight (Expanded Version)
3:48
 
Freddie Jackson
Rock Me Tonight
4:44
 
Billy Paul
360 Degrees of Billy Paul (Expanded Edition)
3:41
 
Cheryl Lynn
Instant Love
5:34
 
Shirley Murdock
Shirley Murdock!
5:59
 
Rose Royce
In Full Bloom
4:51
 
Champaign
How 'Bout Us (Expanded Edition)
3:19
 
Larry Graham
One In a Million You
4:12
 
Major Harris
My Way
5:33
 
Blue Magic
Blue Magic
4:11
 
Ray, Goodman & Brown
Heart of Soul Classics
4:20
 
Klymaxx
Meeting In the Ladies Room
5:33
 
A Taste of Honey
Twice As Sweet
3:45
 
Levert
Bloodlline
5:55
 
The Moments
A Moment With the Moments
3:48
 
The Persuaders
Thin Line Between Love & Hate: Golden Classics
3:27
 
Stacy Lattisaw
Let Me Be Your Angel
3:59
 
Aretha Franklin
Let Me In Your Life
3:28
 
The Commodores
Midnight Magic
5:37
 
Bobby Caldwell
Cat in the Hat
3:45
 
Deniece Williams
This Is Niecy (Expanded Edition)
5:58
 
Earth, Wind & Fire
All 'N All
4:22
 
The Isley Brothers
Harvest for the World
5:23
 
Kool & The Gang
Ladies' Night
4:55
 
George Benson
Breezin'
8:02
 
Vesta Williams
Vesta 4 U
4:25
 
Quincy Jones
Love, Q
6:40
 
Billy Preston
Heart of Soul Classics
3:43
 
Gregory Abbott
Shake You Down (Expanded Edition)
4:05
 
98 SONGS, 8 HOURS, 4 MINUTES

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