Yarbrough & Peoples

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Don't Stop The Music 03:31 Tools
Heartbeats 02:42 Tools
Guilty 06:03 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time 04:52 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Rework 04:58 Tools
I Wouldn't Lie 07:14 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Long Version 07:50 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Long Version) 00:00 Tools
Wrapped Around Your Finger 04:34 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (original 12" version) 00:00 Tools
Come To Me 05:36 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Long Version) - Long Version 00:00 Tools
Third Degree 00:00 Tools
You're My Song 00:00 Tools
Want You Back Again 00:00 Tools
Feels So Good 00:00 Tools
Two Of Us 00:00 Tools
Be a Winner 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (DJ Funkouse Edit) 00:00 Tools
Easy Tonight 00:00 Tools
Crazy 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - 80s R&B Burn And Groove 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music [Original 12'] 07:51 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 12'' Version) 07:51 Tools
I'll Give Anything To Have You Back 03:52 Tools
Innermost Feelings 00:00 Tools
Let The Music Play On 04:20 Tools
Don´t Stop The Music 04:05 Tools
Anytime 04:45 Tools
Heartbeat 00:00 Tools
I Believe I'm Falling In Love 00:00 Tools
Everything 04:42 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (12inch) 00:00 Tools
Don't stop the music 1980 00:00 Tools
Who Is She 00:00 Tools
Yarbrough & Peoples-Don't Stop The Music 07:51 Tools
I'll Be There 04:17 Tools
I'm In...I'm All the Way In! 00:00 Tools
I'm Ready To Jam 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
A Closer Love Affair 00:00 Tools
The Power 00:00 Tools
don’t stop the music 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats (12" version) 00:00 Tools
Don’t Stop The Music Remix feat. Toy Crazy & Gift 00:00 Tools
I Only Love You 00:00 Tools
Yarborough & Peoples - Don't S 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - '80s R&B Burn & Groove Mix 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 07:51 Tools
Party Night 03:43 Tools
SPECIAL 04:47 Tools
Let Me Have It (From The Start) 00:00 Tools
Who Said That 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music [Original 12" Version] 00:00 Tools
Dont stop the music (12inch) 00:00 Tools
Dont Stop The Music (Extended) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Radio Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 12 Inch Version) 00:00 Tools
As One 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Extended) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Rework) 00:00 Tools
Yarbrough And Peoples - Dont stop the music (12inch) 00:00 Tools
What's That You Slipped Into My Wine 00:00 Tools
I Gave My All (To You) 00:00 Tools
You Love Me, You Love Me Not 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Dio Remix 00:00 Tools
What About Me 00:00 Tools
I Wouldnt Lie To You (Space Duke edit) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 12inch Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music [Original Mix] 00:00 Tools
Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't stop the music 00:00 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Dio Remix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Lie (Extended) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (1980) 00:00 Tools
Pleasure Zone 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (12") 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music [Long Version] 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Lie (12 Inch Version) 00:00 Tools
Dont Stop The Music [12 Extended Mix] 00:00 Tools
Don'T Stop The Musc 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music ['All Night Long'] 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Rework Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Feeling - 12" Club Mix 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Rerecorded) 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Lie (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Lie To You (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (12'' Version) 07:51 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music ('80s R&B Burn & Groove Mix) 00:00 Tools
Don T Stop The Music 00:00 Tools
Don´t Stop The Music (Long Version) 07:53 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time (Club Mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music. 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 12 Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (80s R&B Burn And Groove) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats - (12" version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Rework Acapella 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Dudagruv Remix 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Yarbrough And Peoples 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music ['Don't Stop What You're Doing'] 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Feeling (12'' club mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Don't Chop The Music) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Original 12' Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (12 Inch) 00:00 Tools
Third Degree (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Long Version) (Slayd5000) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (12" Version) 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats - Alternative Version 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats - Rerecorded 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music [Original 12"] 00:00 Tools
christmas dreams 00:00 Tools
I Gave My All to You 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (extended mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (1981) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music [12'' Extended Mix] 00:00 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time [Original 12" Mix] 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (Ost Firm) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Feeling 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The People 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music Remix (feat. Toy Crazy & Gift) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music - Rerecorded 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats (Vocal) 00:00 Tools
Don't You Stop The Music 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop the Music (OST The Firm) 00:00 Tools
Dont Stop The Music [Late Nite Tuff Guy Muscle Mix] 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (Rework Acapella) 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats - DJ Megamix 00:00 Tools
Third Degree (12" Disco Mix) 00:00 Tools
Don't Stop The Music (D.N.Edit) 00:00 Tools
i wouln't lie 00:00 Tools
Heartbeats (Long Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Waste Your Time HQ RARE VIDEO!! 00:00 Tools
Dont stop the music-l (12inch) 00:00 Tools
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The singing duo of Yarbrough & Peoples burst on to the music scene with the million-selling single "Don't Stop the Music," a sinewy slab of synth-based R&B/funk that was ahead of its time and had a far-reaching influence in the years following. The sizzling track held down the number one R&B spot for five weeks and hit number 19 pop on Billboard's charts in the spring of 1981. Calvin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples first met when they were small children, growing up in Dallas, TX; he was six-years-old and she was four. They were both taking lessons from the same music teacher and attended the same neighborhood church, where both sang solos in the church choir. After their college years, Peoples worked a regular job while Yarbrough played keyboards and sang in a band called Grand Theft. Tulsa, OK, musicians Robert, Ronnie, and Charlie Wilson were in the audience for one of the band's shows and offered the keyboardist/singer a background vocals job on the Leon Russell tour that they were a part of. Once the tour was over, Yarbrough returned to Dallas, playing local gigs with Grand Theft. Around 1977, Peoples sang a song with the band during one of their club dates. Everyone there knew it was the beginning of musical magic. The Wilson brothers, then known as the Gap Band, were having hit after hit ("Shake," number four R&B, spring 1979, "Steppin' (Out)," number ten R&B, late 1979, "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)," number four R&B, early 1980). When the group came to Dallas to perform, Yarbrough had them listen to an audio tape he and Peoples had recorded. Impressed, Charlie Wilson enthusiastically woke up their manager/producer Lonnie Simmons in his hotel room. Wilson, followed by the singing duo, entered the room and stayed while Simmons listened to the tape. Simmons was taken by the couple's humble, genteel manner and good attitudes. Exchanging phone numbers, he bid them all a good night. One day while in the lobby of his Los Angeles-based label Total Experience Records, Simmons was surprised to see Yarbrough & Peoples. He suggested that the duo make a record demo and teamed them with staff producer Jonah Ellis. They recorded seven songs, the last of which was "When the Music Stops." Ellis felt the song was a filler; if they had enough studio time left, they would record it on the demo, if not it was no big deal. Yarbrough liked the song, so Ellis recorded a track with both a drum machine and drummer Jonathan Moffett. Retitled "Don't Stop the Music" and co-written by Peoples (producers Jonah Ellis and Lonnie Simmons, issued on Mercury), the song inherited the number one R&B spot from the Gap Band's "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" during February 1981. Their debut album The Two of Us went gold, peaking at number 16 on Billboard's album charts. The follow-up, The Third Degree, peaked at number 74 R&B, summer 1981. The next LP, Heartbeats, was issued on Total Experience as part of a distribution deal producer Simmons had with Polygram in spring 1982. Two singles were released with strong "Don't Stop the Music" leanings: "Heartbeats" (number ten R&B, late 1982) and "Feels So Good" (number 20 R&B, spring 1983). Their next album, Be a Winner, produced by Yarbrough, Ellis, and Oliver Scott, and released spring 1984, yielded another number one R&B single. Mixed by Nick Martinelli and David Todd (who co-mixed Evelyn Champagne King's "Shame" with Al Garrison), "Don't Waste Your Time" clocked in at number one R&B, spring 1984. The LP's title track climbed to number 20 R&B in summer 1984. Guilty was the name of Yarbrough & Peoples' best album, issued in late 1985. The title track "Guilty" — not to be confused with the Alexander O'Neal hit — went to number two R&B around the time of the LP's release. The track was written and produced by Jimmy Hamilton and Maurice Hayes of the band Prime Time, who had a hit on Total Experience with "I Owe It to Myself," number 21 R&B, fall 1984. The Hamilton/Hayes follow-up, the percolating "I Wouldn't Lie" went to number six R&B in spring 1986. The gentle ballad "Wrapped Around Your Finger" peaked at number 46 R&B, summer 1986. Although they're known for their up-tempo hits, "Guilty" proved that Yarbrough & Peoples could handle ballads. Listen to the airy, ethereal ballad "I'll Give Anything to Have You Back." Another standout track is the Oliver Scott-produced "Anytime," with its rumbling, tumbling, comin'-to-get-ya funk groove. The duo worked with the other acts signed to Total Experience including the Gap Band and Penny Ford. On the singer's Pennye LP, the singing duo co-wrote and produced the heart-tugging ballad "Never Let Go." Ford was featured on the Gap Band's "I Found My Baby," number eight R&B, spring 1985 (available on Smooth Grooves: Vol. 1-New Jack Ballads, Rhino, 1998), and was the lead vocalist on Snap's 1990 multi-platinum worldwide hit "The Power" and its gold follow-up "Ooops Up." Yarbrough & Peoples sang "Christmas Dreams" on the 1984 multi-artist LP A Total Experience Christmas on Total Experience/RCA. Sometime during the '80s, Yarbrough & Peoples became a married couple. Total Experience folded in the late '80s and the couple returned to Texas. PGD/Polygram Pop/Jazz issued Best of Yarbrough & Peoples (which includes the 12" version of "Heartbeats") in May 1997, and "Don't Stop the Music" is on the label's compilation Dance Funk, released November 1997. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.