In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz, R&B, and pop to create a new soft style: yacht rock.
Jersey music fans certainly do this summer as the ... Yacht Rock is a rebranding of late '70s and early '80 soft rock, and it's become a hit on stages and in dance clubs in Jersey.
The website Really Smooth Music provides the definition of the term Yacht Rock as being "a variation of popular Soft Rock that peaked between the years of 1976 and 1984 (as featuring a) highly ...