>Stephanie Mills, Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Cameo, The Gap
>Band, and plenty others made popular, credible music in the
>80's. And almost all those timeless jheri-curl funk anthems
>were made by 70's carryovers.


some might even argue that Cameo had MORE success in the 80's than they did in the 70's. ( Chaka Khan too, for that matter. The majority of her Solo releases were in the 80's and beyond)