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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.
The song reached number 26 on the dance charts, number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and fared even better on the US R&B chart, where it hit number one, [2] Outside the US, "Don't Stop the Music" went to number 7 in the UK. The song's success helped to earn a gold record for the duo.
It was the first of three consecutive debut number ones, as it was followed into the top spot by "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" by the Gap Band and "Don't Stop the Music" by Yarbrough and Peoples, each act's first single to reach the peak position. [5] A number of other artists also reached number one for the first time later in ...
"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.
The Baron (song) Be Alright (Zapp song) Be True; The Beach Boys Medley; Beat Crazy (song) Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) Beautiful Boys; Beautiful World (Devo song) Bedsitter (song) Before I Let Go; Being with You (song) Belinda (song) Bermuda Triangle (song) Berserk Warriors; The Best Is Yet to Come (Clifford T. Ward song) The Best of Times (song ...
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 ...
His drum beat on "Don't Stop the Music" (1981) which he recorded with the Yarbrough and Peoples has been sampled by a multitude of modern artists (over 45 times) including on TLC's "Let's Do It Again" (1994), Nuttin' Nyce's "Froggy Style" (1995), P. Diddy's "Don't Stop What You're Doin'" (1997), on the soundtracks Soul Food and Playa, and by ...