THE SOLAR RADIO REVISED TOP 300 JANUARY 2026
1 MARVIN GAYE – LP What’s going on
2 BRASS CONSTRUCTION – LP Brass Construction (Moving/Changing etc)
3 ROY AYERS – Running away
4 LIGHT OF THE WORLD – London town
5 SOUL II SOUL – Back to life
6 RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN – Ain’t nobody
7 LUTHER VANDROSS – Never too much
8 MAZE – Joy & pain
9 MICHAEL JACKSON – LP Off the wall
10 FATBACK BAND – Bus stop
11 DONALD BYRD – LP Places & spaces (Change/Wind parade/Places & spaces etc)
12 SLAVE – LP Slave (Slide/You & me etc)
13 CRUSADERS – Street life
14 FREEEZ – Southern freeez
15 ASHFORD & SIMPSON – It seems to hang on
16 ISLEY BROTHERS – LP 3 + 3 (That lady/Highways of my life etc)
17 MACEO – Across the tracks
18 ROBERTA FLACK & DONNY HATHAWAY – Back together again
19 ALEAXANDER O’NEAL – LP Alexander O’Neal (What’s missing/ One brojen heart/If you were here tonight etc)
20 KENI BURKE – Rising to the btop
21 SISTER SLEDGE – LP Sister Sledge (We are family/He’s the greatest dancer/Lost in music etc)
22 QUINCY JONES – LP THE DUDE (Betcha wouldn’t hurt me/Razzamatazz/Ai no corrida etc)
23 LOOSE ENDS – Hanging on a string
24 SUNBURST BAND – Everyday
25 TOM BROWNE – Funkin for Jamaica
26 TEMPTATIONS – Papa was a rolling stone
27 BOBBY WOMACK – LP The poet (If you think you’re lonely npw/Where do we go from here/Secrets etc)
28 LONNIE LISTON SMITH – Expansions
29 ANGIE STONE -Wish I didn’t miss you
30 McFADDEN & WHITEHEAD – Ain’t no stopping us now
31 Chic – Good times
32 Ronnie Laws LP – Every generation (Title track recommended to play)
33 Change LP Change of heart (Change of heart/You are my melody)
34 Next – Wifey
35 Harold Melvin – Love I lost
36 Azymuth – Jazz carnival
37 Heatwave LP Too hot to handle (Ain’t no half stepping/Too hot to handle/Always & forever etc.)
38 Patrice Rushen – Forget me nots
39 Garfield Flemming – Don’t send me away
40 Aretha Franklin – Respect
41 Marvin Gaye – Sexual healing
42 George Benson – Give me the night
43 Stevie Wonder LP Songs in the key of life (As/Another star/Sir Duke etc)
44 Idris Muhammed – Could heaven ever be like this
45 Anita Baker LP – Songstress (Angel/You’re the best thing yet/Sometimes etc)
46 Wilton Felder – Inherit the wind
47 Earth Wind & Fire LP Raise (Fantasy = recommended track to play)
48 George McCrae – Rock your baby
49 Dennis Edwards – Don’t look any further
50 George Duke – Brazilian love affair
51 Atmosfear – Dancing in outer space
52 O’Jays – Put our heads together
53 James Brown – Sex machine
54 Change – Glow of love
55 Sugarhill Gang – Rappers delight
56 Rose Royce – Carwash
57 Whispers – And the beat goes on
58 Jones Girls – Nights over Egypt
59 Phyllis Hyman – You know how to love me
60 Dexter Wansel – Life on Mars
61 Norman Hutchins – I really love you
62 Marvin Gaye – I heard it through the grapenine
63 Michael Jackson – LP Thriller
64 Teena Marie – Portuguese love
65 Jean Carn – Don’t let it go to my head
66 Gil Scott-Heron – The bottle
67 Prince – I wanna be your lover
68 Herb Alpert – Rise
69 Maxwell – LP Maxwell’s urban hang suite (Ascension/Something something etc)
70 Atlantic Starr – Circles
71 Maze – Before I let go
72 Manu Dibango – Big blow
73 Erykah Badu – LP Baduism (On & on/Appletree etc)
74 Frankie Knuckles – Tears
75 Grover Washington Jr – Sausalito
76 Herbie Hancock – I thought it was you
77 Mtume – Juicy fruit
78 Fatback Band – I found loving
79 Jaheim – Just in case
80 Mark Morrison – Return of the mack
81 4 Tops – Reach out I’ll be there
82 Mary J Blige LP – What’s the 411 ((You remind me/Reminisce/Real love – takemyour pick)
83 Sounds Of Blackness LP -Evolution of Gospel (Optimistc/Testify/Pressure)
84 Jocelyn Brown – Somebody else’s guy
85 Jade – Don’t walk away
86 Fat Laqrry’s Namd – Act like you know
87 Johnnie Taylor – what about our love
88 Aretha Franklin – I say a little prayer
89 D’Angelo – Brown sugar
90 Grandmaster Flash – The message
91 Rick James LP – Street somgs (Give it to me baby/Superfreak/Fire and desire etc)
92 Mario Biondi – This is what you are
93 Sherrick – Just call
94 Holland-Dozier – Why can’t we be lovers
95 Rufus & Chaka – I’m every woman
96 David Bendeth – Feel the real
97 Boz Scaggs – Lowdown
98 Jill Scott LP – Who is Jill Scott (Love rain/Getting in the way/Long walk)
99 Keith Sweat LP – Make it last forever (Make it last forever/I want her)
100 Soul II Soul – Keep on moving
101 Crown Heights Affair – Far out
102 Slave – LP Slave (You & Me/slide etc)
103 Ned Doheny – To prove my love
104 Isaac Hayes – Shaft
105 O’Jays – Put our heads together
106 Deodato – Whistle bump
197 Evelyn Champagne King – Shame
108 Marvin Gaye – Got to give it up
109 Martha & The Vandellas – Dancing in the street
110 Lauryn Hill – LP Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Doo-wop – that thing/Everything is everything/Ex-factor etc_
111 Players Assocation – LP Players Associatopn (I like it/Hustling etc)
112 Peoples Choice – Do it anyway you wanna
113 Patti LaBelle/Michael McDonald – On my own
114 Curtis Mayfield – Move on up
115 Keni Burke – Let somebody love you
116 David Ruffin – Walk away from love
117 Chairmen Of The Board – Give me just a little more time
118 Hall & Oates – I can’t go for that
119 Lowrell – Mellow mellow (right on)
120 Shalamar – Take that to the bank
121 Paris – I choose you
122 Lyn Collins – Think
123 Thelma Houston – You used to hold me so tight
124 Cameo – She’s strange
125 Lisa Lisa & cult Jam – Let the beat hit ’em
126 Sam Dees – After all
127 George Benson – Breezing
128 GQ – Disco nights
129 Roy Ayers – Turn me loose
130 Lamont Dozier – Going back to my roots
131 Timmy Thomas – Why can’t we live together
132 Otis Redding – (Sitting on the) dock of the bay
133 Louie Vega – Elements of life
134 Donny Hathaway – The ghetto
135 Average White Band – Pick up the pieces
136 SOS Band – The finest
137 Stevie Wonder – Superstition
138 Brothers Johnson – Stomp
139 Bobby Byrd – I know you got soul
140 Spinners – I’ll be around
141 Leon Ware – Why I came to California
142 Hiroshi Fukumura – Hunt up wind
143 Earth Wind & Fire – LP I am (After the love has gone/Boogie Wonderland/In the stone etc)
144 Kool & The Gang – Funky stuff
145 Maze – Twilight
146 Jackson V – I want you back
147 Shaun Escoffery – Days like this
148 Temptations – Just my imagination
149 Billy Griffin – Hold me tighter in the rain
150 Martine Girault – Revival –
151 Bobby Womack – Tell me why
152 C&C Music Factory – Share that beat of love
153 War – Me & baby brother
154 Paulinho Da Costa = Deja vu/Love till the end of time
155 Dioone Warwick – Walk on by
156 Ist Choice – Let no man put asunder
157 Archie Bell & Drells – Don’t let love get you down
158 Whispers – It’s a love thing
159 Roy Ayers – Love will bring us back together
160 Gladys Knight – Baby don’t change your mind
161 Quincy Jones – Secret garden
162 Earth wind & Fire – LP Raise (Let’s groove/Kalimba tree/I’ve had enough etc)
163 Major Harris – Love won’t let me wait
164 Junior Walker & All-Stars – Walk in the night
165 Willie Bobo – Al;ways there
166 Harold Melvin – Praying
167 Mass Production – LP Welcome to our world (Welcome to our world/Wineflow disco)
168 Marvin Gaye – Let’s get it on
169 D-Train – You’re the one for me
170 Odyssey – Native New Yorker
171 Cherelle & Alexander O’Neal – Saturday love
172 O’Jays – I love music
173 Nicole & Timmy Thomas – New York eyes
174 Soulutions – Who’s been kissing you
175 Sly & The Family Stone – Family affair
176 T-Connection – Do what you wanna do
177 Maze – Golden time of day
178 Omar – There’s nothing like this
179 Manfredo Fest – Jungle kitten
180 Smokey Robinson & Miracles – Tears of a clown#
181 Roy Ayers – Everybody loves the sunshine
182 Chuckii Booker – Games
183 Teena Marie – I need your loving
184 Anita Baker – LP Rapture (Sweet love/Caught up in the rapture of love//Same old love etc)
185 Jamiroquai – We’re too young to die
186 Isley Brothers – Harvest of the world
187 Mary Jane Girls – All night long
188 Spinners – It’s a shame
189 Players Association – Turn the music up
190 MFSB – Mysteries of the world
191 Yarbrough & Peoples – Don’t stop the music
192 Next -Too close
193 William DeVaughn – Be thankful for what you got
194 Two Man sound – Que tal America
195 Freddie Jackson – Rock me tonight
196 Slick – Space bass
197 Cheryl Lynn – Encore
198 Earth Wind & fire – September
199 J.T. Taylor – Feel the need
200 Imagination – Body talk
201 Young Disciples – Apparently nothing
202 James Brown – Funky drummer
203 Jarrod Lawson – LP Jarrod Lawson (All that surrounds/Walk in the park/Sleepwalkers etc)
204 Chaka Khan – I’m every woman
205 Bobby Caldwell – What you won’t do for love/Down for the third time
206 Willie Beaver Hale – Groove on
207 Billy Paul – Bring the family back
208 Level 42 – LP Level 42 (Love games/Turn me on/Starchild etc)
209 Diana Ross – Love hangover
210 Gene Dunlap & the Ridgeways – LP It’s just the way I feel (It’s just the way i feel/Before you break my heart/Love dancing etc)
211 Taste Of Honey – Boogie oogie oogie
212 Yusaka Agawa – LA night
213 Temptations – Treat her like a lady
214 Ola Onabule – Soul town
215 Narada Michael Walden – I shoulda loved you
216 Gwen McCrae – Funky sensation
217 Bo Birkland & Ruth Davis – You’re gonna get next to me
218 Bob Marley – Jamming
219 James Ingram – Yah mo b there
220 Chante Moore – LP Precious (Love’s taken over/it’s alright/Precious etc)
221 Gladys Knight – Taste of bitter love
222 Beginning of the end – Funky Nassau
223 Instant Funk – Got my mind made up
224 Steve Arrington – LP Dancing in the key of life (Feel so real/Dancing in the key of life etc)
225 Al Green -Let’s stay together
226 David Joseph – You can’t hide your love
227 Candi Staton – Young hearts run free
228 Lou Rawls – You’ll never find
229 Evelyn King – Love come down
230 Temptations – My girl
231 Curtis Hairston – I want you (all tonite)
232 Guy – Her
233 Natalie Cole – This will be
234 Bob James – Sign of the times
235 Sade – Sweetest taboo
236 Cameo -It’s serious
237 Jackson Sisters – I believe in miracles
238 Al Jarreau – LP Breaking away (Easy/Roof garden’ Teach me tonight etc)
239 Positive Force – We got the funk
240 Ten City – Devotion
241 Linda Clifford – Runaway love
242 Pharrell – Fronting
243 Shalamar – Night to remember
244 Brothers Johnson – Strawberry letter 23
245 GQ – Make my dream a reality
246 Blackbyrds – Walking in rhythm
247 Roy Ayers – LP You send me (Can’t you see me/Get on up get on down/Rhythm etc)
248 Rah Band – Clouds across the moon
249 New Jersey Connection – Love don’t come easy
250 Melba Moore – Standing right here
251 Soul Ii Soul – Fairplay
252 Sounds Of Blackness – I’m going all the way
253 Gap Band – Outstanding
254 Love Unlimited Orchestra – Love’s theme
255 James Brown – I got you (& I feel good)
256 Gwen McCrae – All this love I’m giving
257 Pasadenas – Tribute
258 Alphonse Mouzon – LP By all means (By all means/Do I have to)
259 80’s ladies – Turned onto you
260 Dexter Wansel – Sweetest pain
261 Dayton – Sound of music
262 Mac Band – Roses are red
263 Manu Dibango – Soul makossa
264 Kool & the Gang – Summer madness
265 Curtis Mayfield – LP Superfly (Give me your love/Freddie’s dead/Pusherman etc)
266 Patrice Rushen – Number one
267 Womack & Womack – LP Love wars (Baby I’m scared of you/TKO/Express myself etc)
268 Reuben Wilson – Got to get your own
269 Michael Wycoff – Looking up to you
270 Solo – Blowing my mind
271 Sylvester – You make me feel mighty real
272 Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t nothing goin’ on but the rent
273 Funkadelic – One nation under a groove
274 Incognito – LP Jazz funk (Shine on/Parisienne girl etc
275 Midnight Starr – Curious
276 Cheryl Lynn – Got to be real
277 Fatback Band – Spanish hustle
278 Bob & Earl – Harlem shuffle
270 Ramsey Lewis – Wade in the water
280 Melisa Morgan – Fools paradise
281 Roberta Flack – Killing me softly
282 Controllers – Stay
283 Brothers Johnson – LP Look out for no. 1 (I’ll be good to you/Running for your loving etc)
284 Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the music
285 John Legend – LP Get lifted (Ordinary people/Used to love U/Let’s get lifted etc)
286 Galaxy – Dancing tight
287 Breakwater – Say you love me girl
288 Fred Payne – Band of gold
289 Barbara Acklin – Am I the same girl
290 Princess – say Im your number one
291 Undisputed Truth – You + me = love
292 Blackbyrds – Rock creek park
293 Odyssey – Inside out
294 Family Stand – Ghetto heaven
295 Coolnotes – Have a good forever
296 Joe – I’m in love
297 Emotions – Best of my love
298 Edwin Starr – Contact
299 Gene Chandler – Get down
300 Arthur Adams – You got the floor