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Yarbrough and Peoples was an American urban contemporary duo from Dallas, Texas. [1] The duo’s biggest-selling release was " Don't Stop the Music ," a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981. [ 2 ]
The Two of Us is the debut album by the R&B duo Yarbrough & Peoples, [1] [2] released in 1980 on Mercury Records. It was produced by LA based producer Lonnie Simmons , who would go on to form Total Experience Records the following year, and veteran songwriter Jonah Ellis.
"Don't Waste Your Time" is a 1984 single by Yarbrough & Peoples. The song was written and produced by Jonah Ellis [1] and was the duo's second number one on the R&B chart and also charted on the Hot 100 peaking at number forty-eight.
"Don't Stop the Music" has been heavily sampled by other artists, primarily in the hip hop genre, on songs including “Tops Drop” by Fat Pat, “Can’t Stop The Southland” by Brownside, "Gangsta Lovin'" by Eve, "All Night Long" by Common, "Let It Go" by Keyshia Cole, and "Crazy in Love" (Rockwilder Remix) by Beyoncé and "Let's Do It Again" by TLC.
He was always acutely aware of the bass guitar parts in songs and mimicked them on the bass drum. [4] Moffett was never musically trained and learned to play drums on his own by ear. [ 5 ] He was nicknamed " Sugarfoot" for his quick, articulate, and pronounced bass drum work, which requires a lot of precision and stamina for a drummer.
I used to cover, and I still do, a song by Yarbrough and Peoples called “Don’t Stop the Music,” which is very decidedly a ‘80s soul, Rare Groove genre-type song. I covered Anita Baker’s ...
Billboard published a weekly chart in 1981 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
That year, Simmons co-wrote two songs which peaked on the R&B charts at #1 back-to-back: "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)", which was released on The Gap Band III, and "Don't Stop the Music", which was released on Yarbrough & Peoples' debut album, The Two of Us. The latter album went gold, while the former went platinum, selling over ...