Some of the popular R&B singers,  songs and bands are:

Aretha Franklin “Respect”
Otis Redding “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
Marvin Gaye “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”,”What’s Going On?”,
Ray Charles “What’d I Say?”
Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”,”Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'”, “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”
Four Tops “(Reach Out) I’ll Be There”
Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles “Tracks of my Tears”
Prince “When Doves Cry”,”Sign O’ the Times”
Martha and the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street”
Al Green “Let’s Stay Together”
Ben E. King “Stand by Me”
James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”
Booker T. and the MG’s “Green Onions”
Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour”
Sam Cooke “A Change is Gonna Come”
The Temptations “My Girl”,”Papa was a Rollin’ Stone”
Sly and the Family Stone “Family Affair”
Rick James “Super Freak”
George Clinton “Atomic Dog”
Chaka Khan “I Feel for You”,”Tell me Something Good”,”Sweet Thing”
Black Box “Everybody Everybody”
Lenny Kravitz “It Ain’t Over til It’s Over”
Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher”
Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
Louis Jordan “Caldonia”