Throwback Thursday: Yarbrough and Peoples - "Don't Stop the Music"

An Adult contemporary duo out of Dallas, Texas, Yarbrough and Peoples hit number one on the 1981 Billboard US R&B chart with the disco-centric and funk-driven single "Don't Stop the Music". Written by Jonah Ellis, Alisa Peoples and Calvin Yarbrough and produced by Ellis and Lonnie Simmons, "Don't Stop the Music", from the Yarbrough and Peoples' 1980 debut album, The Two of Us, also reached #26 on the dance charts, #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 before going gold.