Yarbrough & Peoples: Don't Stop The Music - Solid Gold - 2/28/81 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music On Solid Gold - February 28, 1981 (My "Stereo Studio Sound" Re-Edit)

"Don't Stop the Music" is a song by Yarbrough and Peoples, from the duo's 1980 debut album, The Two of Us. It was released as a single on Mercury Records in 1980.

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, 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. Radio promotion for the record was handled in Los Angeles by independent marketing firm Dudley-Gorov, while a young Russell Simmons shopped the record to New York club DJs as one of his early jobs.