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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 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.
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.
Even though the Gap Band and Yarbrough & Peoples still had high charting records through the mid-80s, the successes were ephemeral and they resulted in far fewer sales. Lonnie signed a plethora of new acts in 1984-85 and two established acts: Switch and Billy Paul. None of these acts managed to have any success with Total Experience.
The album went gold, headlined by the only Simmons co-penned single, "Party Train", which went to #3 on the R&B charts. Yarbrough and Peoples released Heartbeats that year, and it peaked at #25 R&B, and the title track went to #10 R&B. One of their 1984 singles, "Be a Winner", topped the R&B charts.
Documenting the career and trials of the R&B and Funk duo Yarbrough & Peoples. Interviews with Alisa Peoples, Cavin Yarbrough, Robert "Goodie" Whitfield, Malvin Dino Vice, Raymond Calhoun, Oliver A. Scott (of The Gap Band), Tyrone DuBose, and Steve Ivory. Episode 91 – "The Story of Force MD's" September 9, 2015 ()
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 ...