Quiet Storm: How 1970s R&B changed late-night radio
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My favorite era of music really top tier
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I remember late night holiday or vacation drives with my family, and when the time was right you knew your parents were gonna find the quiet storm station no matter what city/state/etc you were in.
lochead
All Star
Melvin Lindsey still doesn’t get the flowers he so richly deserves for basically creating a whole new genre of music. I know Cathy Hughes and Smokey Robinson made a ton off the Quite Storm moniker 
lochead
All Star
Melvin Lindsey still doesn’t get the flowers he so richly deserves for basically creating a whole new genre of music. I know Cathy Hughes and Smokey Robinson made a ton off the Quite Storm moniker
Trot LaRoc
Superstar
I used to listen to quiet storm every night when I was a kid
Relaxing ass shyt
Relaxing ass shyt
TheYoungPolitician
Keepin It 3Hunna, Fam
This was a dope doc, DC radio influenced so much (WHUR creating Quiet Storm, WPGC being the template for Hot 97, Tigger turning into who he became, Steph Lova killing the radio with Live Squad so crazy she got a job at Hot, etc.)
Well played on the tags lol
Try to find a local slow jams station if you can. We dont have one in Decatur, IL. All we get is the nationwide sunday nite slow jams and they play bullshyt like Post Malone.
I got the tune in app on my phone though, so I listen to a station out of Dayton, Ohio and they play the classic joints. None of this new bullshyt rap music disguised as R&B
I got the tune in app on my phone though, so I listen to a station out of Dayton, Ohio and they play the classic joints. None of this new bullshyt rap music disguised as R&B
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Radio don’t provide dental plans? 
And KBLX was the GOAT growing up (even tho that was my parents station
) . Like they said, could get quiet storm all times of the day (plus all 60s-80s soul and 90s r&b like Toni, Whitney, Mariah, erykah, Maxwell). Of course the corporatization of radio ruined KBLX, it’s ratchet now and features a lot of smooth 90’s hip hop. It’s crazy how quick they are to erase stations that play older black music (50’s-80’s) yet there’s a Classic rock station in every city playing white music from those decades. I don’t like how we’re erasing an era of music.
And KBLX was the GOAT growing up (even tho that was my parents station
) . Like they said, could get quiet storm all times of the day (plus all 60s-80s soul and 90s r&b like Toni, Whitney, Mariah, erykah, Maxwell). Of course the corporatization of radio ruined KBLX, it’s ratchet now and features a lot of smooth 90’s hip hop. It’s crazy how quick they are to erase stations that play older black music (50’s-80’s) yet there’s a Classic rock station in every city playing white music from those decades. I don’t like how we’re erasing an era of music.
This nikka Melvin Lindsey had aids 