Grammy Award For Best R&B Song - 1970s

1970s

• 1979
  • Paul Jabara for "Last Dance"
    performed by Donna Summer
  • Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff for "Use Ta Be My Girl"
    performed by The O'Jays
  • Maurice White, Eddie del Barrio and Verdine White for "Fantasy"
    performed by Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Perry Kibble and Janice Marie Johnson for "Boogie Oogie Oogie"
    performed by A Taste of Honey
  • Bernard Edwards, Kenny Lehman and Nile Rodgers for "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)"
    performed by Chic

• 1978
  • Leo Sayer and Vini Poncia for "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
    performed by Leo Sayer
  • Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert for "Don't Leave Me This Way"
    performed by Thelma Houston
  • Lionel Richie for "Easy"
    performed by The Commodores
  • Maurice White and Al McKay for "Best of My Love (The Emotions song)"
    performed by The Emotions
  • Milan Williams, Walter Orange, Thomas McClary, William King, Lionel Richie and Ronald LaPread for "Brick House"
    performed by The Commodores

• 1977
  • Boz Scaggs and David Paich for "Lowdown"
    performed by Boz Scaggs
  • Bob Montgomery for "Misty Blue"
    performed by Dorothy Moore
  • Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch for "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty"
    performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Harvey Scales, Al Vance and Don Davis for "Disco Lady"
    performed by Johnnie Taylor
  • Pam Sawyer and Marilyn McLeod for "Love Hangover"
    performed by Diana Ross"

• 1976
  • Harry Wayne Casey, Willie Clarke, Richard Finch and Betty Wright for "Where Is the Love"
    performed by Betty Wright
  • Barney Perry for "Walking in Rhythm"
    performed by The Blackbyrds
  • Charlie Smalls for "Ease on Down the Road"
    performed by Consumer Rapport
  • Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch for "Get Down Tonight"
    performed by KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch for "That's the Way (I Like It)"
    performed by KC and the Sunshine Band

• 1975
  • Stevie Wonder for "Living for the City"
    performed by Stevie Wonder
  • Hal Davis, Don Fletcher and Dean Parks for "Dancing Machine"
    performed by The Jackson 5
  • Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch for "Rock Your Baby"
    performed by George McCrae
  • Kenneth Gamble for "For the Love of Money"
    performed by The O'Jays

• 1974
  • Stevie Wonder for "Superstition"
    performed by Stevie Wonder
  • Jim Weatherly for "Midnight Train to Georgia"
    performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips
  • Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff for "Love Train"
    performed by The O'Jays
  • Sylvester Stewart for "Family Affair"
    performed by Sly and the Family Stone
  • War for "Cisco Kid"
    performed by War

• 1973
  • Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield for "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"
    performed by The Temptations
  • Curtis Mayfield for "Freddie's Dead"
    performed by Curtis Mayfield
  • Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert for "Me and Mrs. Jones"
    performed by Billy Paul
  • Leon Huff, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead for "Back Stabbers"
    performed by The O'Jays
  • Rudy Clark, J.R. Bailey and Kenny Williams for "Everybody Plays the Fool"
    performed by The Main Ingredient

• 1972
  • Bill Withers for "Ain't No Sunshine"
    performed by Bill Withers
  • Clay McMurray, Laverne Ware and Pamela Sawyer - "If I Were Your Woman"
    performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips
  • Clifton Davis for "Never Can Say Goodbye"
    performed by The Jackson 5
  • Joseph Broussard, Carol Washington and Ralph Williams for "Mr. Big Stuff"
    performed by Jean Knight
  • Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield for "Smiling Faces Sometimes"
    performed by The Undisputed Truth

• 1971
  • Ronald Dunbar and General Johnson for "Patches"
    performed by Clarence Carter
  • Greg Perry, General Johnson and Angelo Bond for "Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed"
    performed by 100 Proof (Aged in Soul)
  • Russell Lewis and Herman Davis for "Groovy Situation"
    performed by Gene Chandler
  • Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett, Syreeta Wright and Lulu Hardaway for "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
    performed by Stevie Wonder
  • Thom Bell and William Hart for "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"
    performed by The Delfonics

• 1970
  • Richard Lewis Spencer for "Color Him Father"
    performed by The Winstons
  • Clarence Carter, George Jackson and Raymond Moore for "I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart"
    performed by Candi Staton
  • Herbert "Tim" McPherson and Mel Hardin for "Backfield in Motion"
    performed by Mel and Tim
  • Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Jerry Butler for "Only the Strong Survive"
    performed by Jerry Butler
  • Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Ronald Isley for "It's Your Thing"
    performed by The Isley Brothers