Yarbrough & Peoples - The Two Of Us (LP) (1980) - €10,00

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Yarbrough and Peoples was an American urban contemporary duo from Dallas, Texas. The duo’s biggest-selling release was “Don’t Stop the Music,” a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981.

The Two of Us is the debut album by the R&B duo Yarbrough & Peoples, 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 introduction of this debut album sparked a number of significant events.

Firstly, it started a great career: that much was evident. 

More specifically, it presented the duo’s smash hit, Don’t Stop The Music that was interesting for its hooks, catchy melody as well as its tempo.

The latter stood apart from many other disco hits of the time that focused on faster, club friendly songs. Don’t Stop was a more languorous, end of the evening song that inserted a heavy, deliberate, arguably more sexy, beat.
The song also introduced that dramatic, descending synth chord that would be exploited to its full by the likes of S.O.S. Band on their hot single, Just Be Good To Me.
Finally, the hit also introduced an imaginative blend of Alisa Peoples who presented the verse (and whose vocal sounds, again, remarkably like the S.O.S. Band’s Mary Davis) while Calvin Yarbrough appears on the chorus with the help of an electronic vocalizer supported by some animated backing vocals.
That single was the focus and focal point of the entire album because the duo’s second single from the LP, Third Degree, didn’t trouble the charts too much.

Don’t be too disturbed by this, however, because, unlike many other disco albums, this release includes more than the usual filler. 

Easy Tonight is a rather warm, cuddly ballad featuring a rich production while Come To Me retains the sense of easy going eroticism that is the trademark of the duo’s style.

Side A

A1.  Don’t Stop the Music - 7:49

A2.  Crazy - 3:54

A3.  Third Degree - 4:54

A4.  Easy Tonight - 3:38

Side B

B1.  Want You Back Again - 4:15

B2.  Come to Me - 4:36

B3.  You’re My Song - 4:58

B4.  Two of Us - 4:15

B5.  I Believe I’m Falling in Love - 3:52

Personnel

• Cavin Yarbrough & Alisa Peoples – Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Robert “Goodie” Whitfield, Temple McKinney – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Dionne “Flea” Oliver, Michael McKinney – Bass
• Victor “Widetrack” Hill – Bass, Backing Vocals
• Michael Wycoff, Patrick Moten – Keyboards
• J.P. “Sugarfoot” Moffett, Melvin Webb, Raymond Calhoun – Drums
• Butch Bonner, Jimmy Macon, Wes Blackman, Jonah Ellis – Guitar
• Loftin “Boots” Gray, Paulinho Da Costa – Percussion
• Benjamin Wright, Malvin “Dino” Vice – Horn & String Arrangements
• Jim Gilstrap, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Pat Peterson – Backing Vocals

Production

• Produced By Lonnie Simmons & Jonah Ellis for Total Experience Productions, except “Want You Back Again” & “Come To Me”; produced by Lonnie Simmons & Malvin “Dino” Vice
• Horn and String Arrangements by Benjamin Wright and Malvin Dino Vice
• Recording & Mix Engineers: Steve McMillan, Michael Evans & Jack Rouben, except “Crazy” & “Third Degree”; mixed by Rick Gianatos & Bob Stone
• Remixes by Michael Evans & Steve McMillan
• Mastered by Bob Carbone
• All Songs Copyright Blackwell Publishing

Notes

Release:  1980

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Soul, Funk

Label:  Mercury Records

Catalog#  9110162

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00