April 7, 2024 • 30 mins
We all have a beat or song that reverberates in the back of our mind. The source of that beat and the time we hear it can determine if it plays in our consciousness for the rest of our lives. There is one such song "Don't Stop the Music", this song is anthem level in some circles. Today we chat with the originators and performers of this R & B Classic, Yarbrough and Peoples. Unsung alumni Yarbrough and Peoples, a decades-long husband and wife team, share their experiences, and challenges as well as what the future holds for them. Join us as Eddy Gee and Dr. B get the skinny on this iconic R&B classic group that provided us with one of the most popular hits of our generation. They also get help from a special family member as we pick their brains, a show that you simply can't miss!!!
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(00:18):
Hey, welcome to the Book ofDad Radio Show. I'm doctor Robert Benson.
As always, before we get started, we want to say thank you
to Jehovah, Thank you for sun, Jesus Christ, thank you for our
families, taking for work, andour ability to do the things we're able
to do. Book at Dad RadioShow. And I'm hanging out with my
man. Man, what's up?What's up? Brother? I'm excited today,
Man, I'm really excited. Yeah, man, you ain't no more
(00:40):
excited than I I'm I promise you. But today we have Cavin and Elisa,
your bro. But for the peoplewho wondering why who these people are,
you know them as your bro andpeoples. And one of the greatest
songs that ever came out was don'tstop the music, y'all, bro and
(01:00):
people. It's what's up, y'all? What's going on? How are you
doing? You know, doing great? We are. We are so so
very very happy about the fact thatyou guys are with us today. I
mean you you're over there in Dallas, how things going with all that fire
and smoke going on over there?You guys are packed it by that at
all. We didn't get it.You know. It's like way further north,
(01:25):
and what is it else? It'sclose to the Fort Worth. It's
western west. Yeah, it's way. We got right, We got right.
It's raining real good. Well,we didn't have to thank the Lord.
We didn't have to deal with thefire. Hey, you guys are
(01:47):
classic, and you're ringing me mypersonal soundtrack, because I'll tell you that
when I for Game first that songfirst came out, I was actually in
the military, and in the military, you definitely need something to get you
through. But let's talk about you, you guys, how did it all
start? Where did it all begin? For you all? Talk to us?
Well, it all began with Cavincoming back to Dallas after being on
(02:10):
the road with Leon Russell and them, and and realizing that he wanted his
own band, and he started hisband. He and I had been you
know, singing together in the churchand and that family function and he finally
said, let's put a band together, and we did and started playing in
several nice club locations. It was, you know, really nice club.
(02:35):
We're top band in town. Yeah, we were. We got and while
Caven was on the road with LeonRussell and them, he and Charlie Wilson
and the brothers met because the brotherswere playing for Leon at that time and
the Leon Russell at that time,and that was a good time back there.
(02:58):
They had the concert in the OrangeBowl and with the egos and everybody
like that. Imagine came to beingas young as he was and having experience
those amazing things with with with theseartists, these stellar artists like Leon Russell.
And I was so young. Iwas so young. I forgot my
(03:19):
age because I lied about it somuch. Now he's trying to call it
that, you know. The thingthat's that's that's fine interesting is that you
all have known each other since youfirst both really just started getting into music.
So y'all's a partnership if you willextends back to your adolescence. That
(03:42):
you will talk a little bit aboutthat I met I met her when she
when she was five to your fouryears but you were five five. Yeah,
I was need to tell you nothingelse, but you guys took the
fiano teacher, and it's impressive really. Yeah. The strange things was that
(04:06):
we were in and out of eachother's lives, but we would always come
back, you know, to eachother's lives, and that's what happened with
our meeting as kids, and thenwe went we both went our separate ways,
and then we ended up meeting againthrough church because his mother and dad
(04:27):
started going to the same church wewere going to, and that brought him
in there, and so we endedup seeing each other again. And then
he left, you know, togo on the road and whatever, and
then he came back home and weended up hanging out again. So it
was like it was just in andout all the while. Yeah, it
was like it was meant to do. You had a long career and you
(04:53):
worked together a lot of a lotof that time, but you didn't get
married until what nineteen eighty seven.Yep, you hit it on the not
so my oat, but that's nottrue, yeah, because he was still
sewing them shut up, I tellyou though. But in the industry there's
(05:27):
a whole lot of oat steps aroundtrying to get sold, I can imagine.
So you guys must have real,like like like the strongest love that
could possibly be to come back andbecome who you are today. But share
a quick story if you would,if you have anything to share about the
gap man, if you could tellus anything about them, Oh good,
(05:48):
my grandbaby said her friends too justcame out that that was wow. The
gap then this word for them,we probably would not have ever been discovered
because it was Charlie that introduced usto Lonnie Simmons, who who then told
(06:11):
us. He challenged us. Hesaid, if you guys make it to
California, then see what I'm saying. Oh yeah, hey, that's that's
love. We both have them,Then I'll get you a deal. And
that was the challenge. And soCaven's dad got him this volkswagon who who
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labor became famous because it's the it'sthe beginning of brother and my dad gave
us the gas money and a littlemoney to carry us over, and so
it was. It was a communityeffort get us there, got us to
our tree that slept under, andwe slept under the We were the people
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under the stairs. Yeah, weslept under the stairs at the total experience
for quite a lot because when wegot there, we just didn't immediately go
into a record deal or any kindof finance thing. I had to rent
my keyboards for us, and whennobody didn't rent them, we had to
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go to our treat. So itwas it was it was the first guy
there. It was a pretty prettytough time. It was pretty time.
Lonnie Simmons was was the guy whoowned the production company, and he was
pretty free about letting folks come inand be quiet, and he's pretty free
(07:47):
about letting folks come in and workfor free, you know, do anything.
Because everybody's excited. Oh, Iwant to come in and work with
the Gap Bell I want to comein and work with lot I want to
come in and they'll do it forfree. So O, us being artists
that we were, we came therewhat we came there for. We were
(08:07):
kind of demanded a little bit moreso, so we they didn't let us
come in. Don but can tellyou this. There was a collaboration on
both of our albums, our firstalbum and the Gap Bands album that was
coming out at that time. Wesang background, a lot of the background,
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and Charlie Wilson saying on our record, that's Charlie on the bridge of
Don't stop the music. Ca Wow, wow, Wow, that's great.
Hey, listen, guys, let'slet's take a quick break. Let's let's
take a quick break real quick.Okay. This is Doctor of Revens with
Eddie g with Cavin and Alisa.Y'all, bro this is great stuff and
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we definitely want to tick up whenwe come back on the other side.
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(09:15):
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Book at that radio show with doctorRobert Benson and me Eddig, and we
(09:37):
have the fabulous Yardborough and Peoples,the Classics, the Funk Masters. It's
a family affair in here. I'mloving it. You need to introduce us
(09:58):
when we're going on stage. So, so you guys are telling us a
little bit about your relationship with CharlieWilson, and I want to let you
finish that up before I ask youmy next question. Okay, well,
well tell you and uh, likeI said, tell them and I were
(10:20):
always good friends and Denny come inlove with Lois because that's very the lowest
mommy, what it was that startingWe call her Lois because her middle name
is lost and everybody who's closer inthe circle calls the loads. So that's
who talk about, Uh, matterof fact, that was. That's what
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The collaborations and the and the andthe and the joint forces and the and
the combination of sounds were quite that'sthat's on the double of you know,
want to part it, I cantell you want to that's her and I'm
seeing with Charlie on that part.Wow, that that is amazing. So
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we were up back then together andit was it became not just the gap
being sound and not just the yardrow and people's sound, which was two
separate you know, sounds all togetherbut still together. We all became and
Goodie and whoever else was there theTotal Experience sound, you know, which
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brought that tour that first tour wedid, uh, the Toll Experience Tour,
which was all of the artists fromthe Total Experience and it was amazing.
It was an amazing tour. Amazing, but up through too and to
today, the love has never changedbetween why and John Wilson. Absolutely your
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sound. We can't hear it asyou tour now. Now I want to
know if the experience is the same. You know, I know you have
so many fans, you're so wellknown around the world. What's it like
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touring now? We have a lotof the classic legendary acts that go out
that Earth, Wind and Fire,and those guys are still out there.
How has it been for you?Guys? We go out and do dates.
Promoters want want the giant pool updates, and so they get groups that
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when we support those those days whenwe go out and do dates. But
it's it's not it's it's what isit about? Two? Three? Yeah?
We we you know what we do. This is the difference. Lonnie
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bred us. Lonnie trained us fortelevision, for film, and while he
was breeding us for television and film, he was doing the same thing with
Charlie for the road, for beingon the road. So their thing is
mostly on the road. Ours isstill and though we do a lot of
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road you know, concerts and stuff. We love them because we love being
close to the people, but wealso do a lot of theater. We
also are in two movies, threemovies, so we've done something. And
one is The Rings That Find Usand it's on to b and uh Amazon,
(13:56):
Amazon Prime. It was it's afunny movie. If when you see
it, you're gonna screen. Andthen there's another movie. It's called what's
the second one? A Miracle,A Miracle Christmas and that's on I think
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it's on too be as well andPrime. And I can't remember the name
of the one, but Tanya OldThomas movie was Lord. It had a
big name in it too. Butanyway, we're in three three movies so
far. That's awesome. Well youknow my name. Well, my question
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was, was you kind of alludedto a little earlier, right around nineteen
eighty seven you guys kind of seemto kind of went by the wayside a
little bit. Talk about what happenedthere and what you guys were doing in
the interim where you weren't really recordingmusic anymore or had stopped, if you
want, we were through playing therecord company's game that if she she get
the guys, I get the girlstype thing. Anyway, so it was
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we want, we got married,and we discovered. We also discovered or
not discovered, but our eyes wereopen to a lot of things that was
not happening that should have been happeningas far as the record company of concerns,
and we were done. We hadfulfilled our contract in nineteen eighty seven.
(15:30):
We fulfilled our contract, but hewas still holding us to Lonnie Simmons
who was still holding us to something. We didn't know what, but it
was like, no, y'all leave, Yeah, now we still got we
still have some things we have todo. And we stayed there for a
while to live that contract down there. But then it was like, Okay,
(15:52):
this is not really working for us, and we became both of us
became discouraged and we then our parentsstarted to become older and getting ill and
stuff. So we came home andwe took care of our parents. We
went to Utah and State for ayear during the doing the Children's Network telethon
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with Donnie and Marie Osmond, MarilynMcCoo and Billy Davis and a lot of
other celebrities. We were doing that, and then we came on home and
took care of our parents for awhile. They became our first priority was
making sure that they were okay.We picked back up, We started our
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production company. We started recording.I can't wait for you all to hear
this song that we're getting ready toput out. I just can't wait.
It is. We got a realall right now, all right, hey,
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hey listen, I don't don't don'tdon't threaten us with a good time
because we're gonna ask for a sample, Okay, to start playing it.
Hey, We're gonna take one morebreak, Take one more break. But
when we come back, I wantto also talk to you all about the
fact that y'all are on Unsung andwe can visit that on the other side.
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Look at that radio, Eddie,Eddie g and Cavin and Alisa Yarbrough
To'll be right back. You havesomething special, you have greatness in you.
Hello, I'm Less Brown, missus, Mamie Brown's baby boy. I
want you to spread the word toyour family members and friends to listen to
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longest becomes the strongest. And nowmore than ever, when the suicide rate
has increased over thirty three percent,when the suicide rate of young children between
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five and eleven has doubled people feelinghopeless and stressed out and powerless. We
need programming that can bring out thegreatness in them, and that's what we
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will transform your life. Let's BrownGreatness Radio dot Com. That's my story
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and I'm sticking to it. Hey, welcome back again to the book.
At that radio show, doctor RobertBension of my main man Eddieg, who
happens to be famous in his ownright. But we're gonna touch that in
a minute. But right now,I want to talk to the grand baby.
Who is that in the background,Say hello, de little girl,
that's my baby, my grandbaby.Her name is Elisa. See hi Lisa.
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So Alisa name sounds familiar there,Alisa, Miss y'all, bro,
how is that working for y'all?See is the third? My name is
Alisa People's. My daughter's name AlisiaPeople and her name is Elisa People's.
And we are AP three A Pthree three Alisa People's three. Hey listen,
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when we left off, I wantedto visit the fact that you guys
were on unsung talk to us aboutthat experience if you would. It kind
of gave you an opportunity to revisitsand stuff that happened in the past obviously,
and we would know how that wentfor you talk to us. It
gave us a chance to revisit andaccess and also it increased our popularity once
(19:52):
again for doing work. People knewwe were are still here, you know,
and we were Hey, they're justin, but they're here, they're
still doing music. Well, weknow you're here too, and I know
Eddie G's got some stuff he wantsto go through. What you hear.
I don't mean to hug the time, so I'm back out unless you have
it for fu. Okay, I'msorry, I got to hug it.
I'm sorry. That's okay. Butyou know what I'll tell you. What
(20:17):
I love about you too, isyour family relationship, your genuine love with
each other because to be together allthose years, especially in the music industry,
you know, you have some groupsdon't last two weeks, and you
were able to last your whole lifetimeand continue. I can see the happiness,
(20:41):
I can see the communication, allthe great things that make a good
marriage. And that's why that's probablywhy your music is so good, because
of the collaboration tell us about howit is being married and working in the
industry that is a double side ofcorn. You know what we managed.
(21:11):
We managed because we don't. Letme try to see what that word is
for, so I can see thatit's not ugly. We're not we're not
competitive with one. We're not competitiveand we don't. I'm gonna tell you
this word right here. Fats arenot you know, and hang out in
(21:33):
the get in folks business and beknows it. You know what I'm saying.
We do what we're supposed to wantto get out of there. We're
kind of quiet yeah about it.And it's not like we're not in communication
or we try to go in communicadoor anything like that. It's just that
sometimes if you hang out too long, you get en messed. You don't,
(21:53):
you don't, you don't want tobe in Yeah, And we learned
that about the industry that you keepyour nose very can keep your house,
you know, and that way,you know, you guys are the way
they can't come back. You guyshave just no idea. But it kind
of leads me to another one becauseI was going to ask you, what
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advice do you give a young performers. I mean I was at a concert
last night of a pretty well renownedartist and their husband was in the band
as well. What advice do youall offer uh the the performers today to
keep uh to to be to endup being like you are right now?
(22:37):
What suggestions would you offer up?Or just plain old school knowledge that you
got to do. You've got tobe serious about your work. You got
to be first of all in thesentence. You've got to be serious and
take the sacrifices and dry the tearsand keep on pushing. My feelings and
(23:11):
thoughts are Let's do something original orcreative, creative. Let me say that
now. I don't say original becausenothing. Uh, Let's do something creative
with the music and not just letit go on once person, you know,
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mm hmm, not just let aroundyou used to keep around you.
Well, what I'm just saying,you know, artists are building themselves every
day, and I'm seeing where themusic industry used to be. We used
to have Temptations and Dale's and OJ'sand all that, and that. Now
(23:53):
we got standing islands we have.I'm just saying this. I'm not called
you know, we got jay Z's, We got puff, daddy, we
got it? And which are notputting you know, putting sounds together or
(24:14):
get together. See I'm from inthe in the old in old school days.
See we had every group was auh, every group was was a
start to well let's say, letme say to me that you know,
the the shylights and those kind ofgroups. When that's when I was back
there and the radio was much better. I thought the radio was that you
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could you could turn the radio onand get a little other announcers talking,
and but you get a music ora song that makes you feel a certain
way on itself. Today it's abeat beat, I understand. Yeah,
no message in it, No messagein it. You know, if I
(25:02):
if I had to say something tosomebody, and and and my husband has
heard me say this many times.If you want to be creative, you
have to connect to the creator exactly. And that's what I would tell them
to stay connected, you know,don't put a plug on him thinking that
(25:23):
you're going to do something by yourself, because it's not gonna work. Everything
that we do we have to acknowledgehim, and we have to pluge it
and get that the source. Everythingelse is a resource. We have to
plug into the source. And thatwould be what would lead to these young
(25:44):
people is remember to plug in,plug in to the source. Amen.
You know, it's a good advicebecause it's a stressful industry is a stressful
job because your creativity has to work. And once you get in a situation
where you're under the pressure of alabel, right and you say, okay,
(26:07):
we need ten songs by whatever,Well, that's kind of hard because
when you really create something, it'sa feeling. It's not something that to
sit down and throw out there.You have to have it spontaneously kick in,
right. So that's where your bestwork comes from. And that leads
me to my next question. Isyou mentioned that you have some new projects
(26:32):
coming on. I want to hearabout. I want to hear what you're
talking about. You have some newmusic, Yes we have. We have
new music in the cans right now. We're to get it out and yeah,
we're doing the finishing touches on everythingand it'll be ready. And the
(26:55):
part I think about it is thatthe music that we've done in this project
was targeted two. Have all theflavors, have all the flavors that you
know, we got, We gota little hip hop, little gospel.
We're not doing it like that,but if you will see the flavors of
(27:19):
it and how it's coming together,well, I don't know. I'm really
excited about this. I'm really excited. We've been studio for a while and
we've been in the studio with notjust ourselves but several other really good musicians
and so the project is not andKavin said, it's a moment ago.
(27:41):
It's always when you come together andand and don't stop. The music was
created when a bunch of us cametogether and weated that found the Gap band
songs. They came together when everybodycame together. And so we're going back
to the original recipe. We're allowingeverybody to come together and create. And
(28:06):
if I tell you, the songsthat are coming out of these creations are
amazing. They're amazing. Yes,And the Lord is blessing us that still
have a little bit of voice tobe able to sing them. Yes,
yes, yes, hey, listen. Thank you all for letting us come
(28:27):
into your home this evening. Ohmy goodness, I feel like I'm sitting
right there on the couch with youand trying to keep Lisa from running around
all over the house. Yeah,closing thoughts on the oh No, I
had a great time. I lovethe family atmosphere. You know, we're
a family show, so we loveit. We love it, and we
(28:51):
just want to thank you for comingon. We wish you the best.
We're going to continue to follow you. I can't wait to hear this music
because I love the music that youalready have, so I can't wait to
hear some more. So thanks forbeing on the show. Thank you guys
for your absolutely thank you for theinterview. Thank you for everything that you've
(29:15):
done for us. We appreciate everywhether you call it small, you call
it large, it's big enough theway you thought about it, and thanks
it means a lot to us too. Heart from the heart. But hey,
listen, it's the book of thatradio show, and I can't I
can't say anything other than that exceptfor thank y'all so much, Cavin and
(29:37):
Alisa, God bless y'all, andthank you so much, thank you so
much. Just look at that radioshow, my Maame and Eddie G.
We're gonna talk to y'all next time. Thank you so much. Allrect two day
Hey, welcome to the Book ofDad Radio Show. I'm doctor Robert Benson.
As always, before we get started, we want to say thank you
to Jehovah, Thank you for sun, Jesus Christ, thank you for our
families, taking for work, andour ability to do the things we're able
to do. Book at Dad RadioShow. And I'm hanging out with my
man. Man, what's up?What's up? Brother? I'm excited today,
Man, I'm really excited. Yeah, man, you ain't no more
(00:40):
excited than I I'm I promise you. But today we have Cavin and Elisa,
your bro. But for the peoplewho wondering why who these people are,
you know them as your bro andpeoples. And one of the greatest
songs that ever came out was don'tstop the music, y'all, bro and
(01:00):
people. It's what's up, y'all? What's going on? How are you
doing? You know, doing great? We are. We are so so
very very happy about the fact thatyou guys are with us today. I
mean you you're over there in Dallas, how things going with all that fire
and smoke going on over there?You guys are packed it by that at
all. We didn't get it.You know. It's like way further north,
(01:25):
and what is it else? It'sclose to the Fort Worth. It's
western west. Yeah, it's way. We got right, We got right.
It's raining real good. Well,we didn't have to thank the Lord.
We didn't have to deal with thefire. Hey, you guys are
(01:47):
classic, and you're ringing me mypersonal soundtrack, because I'll tell you that
when I for Game first that songfirst came out, I was actually in
the military, and in the military, you definitely need something to get you
through. But let's talk about you, you guys, how did it all
start? Where did it all begin? For you all? Talk to us?
Well, it all began with Cavincoming back to Dallas after being on
(02:10):
the road with Leon Russell and them, and and realizing that he wanted his
own band, and he started hisband. He and I had been you
know, singing together in the churchand and that family function and he finally
said, let's put a band together, and we did and started playing in
several nice club locations. It was, you know, really nice club.
(02:35):
We're top band in town. Yeah, we were. We got and while
Caven was on the road with LeonRussell and them, he and Charlie Wilson
and the brothers met because the brotherswere playing for Leon at that time and
the Leon Russell at that time,and that was a good time back there.
(02:58):
They had the concert in the OrangeBowl and with the egos and everybody
like that. Imagine came to beingas young as he was and having experience
those amazing things with with with theseartists, these stellar artists like Leon Russell.
And I was so young. Iwas so young. I forgot my
(03:19):
age because I lied about it somuch. Now he's trying to call it
that, you know. The thingthat's that's that's fine interesting is that you
all have known each other since youfirst both really just started getting into music.
So y'all's a partnership if you willextends back to your adolescence. That
(03:42):
you will talk a little bit aboutthat I met I met her when she
when she was five to your fouryears but you were five five. Yeah,
I was need to tell you nothingelse, but you guys took the
fiano teacher, and it's impressive really. Yeah. The strange things was that
(04:06):
we were in and out of eachother's lives, but we would always come
back, you know, to eachother's lives, and that's what happened with
our meeting as kids, and thenwe went we both went our separate ways,
and then we ended up meeting againthrough church because his mother and dad
(04:27):
started going to the same church wewere going to, and that brought him
in there, and so we endedup seeing each other again. And then
he left, you know, togo on the road and whatever, and
then he came back home and weended up hanging out again. So it
was like it was just in andout all the while. Yeah, it
was like it was meant to do. You had a long career and you
(04:53):
worked together a lot of a lotof that time, but you didn't get
married until what nineteen eighty seven.Yep, you hit it on the not
so my oat, but that's nottrue, yeah, because he was still
sewing them shut up, I tellyou though. But in the industry there's
(05:27):
a whole lot of oat steps aroundtrying to get sold, I can imagine.
So you guys must have real,like like like the strongest love that
could possibly be to come back andbecome who you are today. But share
a quick story if you would,if you have anything to share about the
gap man, if you could tellus anything about them, Oh good,
(05:48):
my grandbaby said her friends too justcame out that that was wow. The
gap then this word for them,we probably would not have ever been discovered
because it was Charlie that introduced usto Lonnie Simmons, who who then told
(06:11):
us. He challenged us. Hesaid, if you guys make it to
California, then see what I'm saying. Oh yeah, hey, that's that's
love. We both have them,Then I'll get you a deal. And
that was the challenge. And soCaven's dad got him this volkswagon who who
(06:34):
labor became famous because it's the it'sthe beginning of brother and my dad gave
us the gas money and a littlemoney to carry us over, and so
it was. It was a communityeffort get us there, got us to
our tree that slept under, andwe slept under the We were the people
(07:00):
under the stairs. Yeah, weslept under the stairs at the total experience
for quite a lot because when wegot there, we just didn't immediately go
into a record deal or any kindof finance thing. I had to rent
my keyboards for us, and whennobody didn't rent them, we had to
(07:20):
go to our treat. So itwas it was it was the first guy
there. It was a pretty prettytough time. It was pretty time.
Lonnie Simmons was was the guy whoowned the production company, and he was
pretty free about letting folks come inand be quiet, and he's pretty free
(07:47):
about letting folks come in and workfor free, you know, do anything.
Because everybody's excited. Oh, Iwant to come in and work with
the Gap Bell I want to comein and work with lot I want to
come in and they'll do it forfree. So O, us being artists
that we were, we came therewhat we came there for. We were
(08:07):
kind of demanded a little bit moreso, so we they didn't let us
come in. Don but can tellyou this. There was a collaboration on
both of our albums, our firstalbum and the Gap Bands album that was
coming out at that time. Wesang background, a lot of the background,
(08:33):
and Charlie Wilson saying on our record, that's Charlie on the bridge of
Don't stop the music. Ca Wow, wow, Wow, that's great.
Hey, listen, guys, let'slet's take a quick break. Let's let's
take a quick break real quick.Okay. This is Doctor of Revens with
Eddie g with Cavin and Alisa.Y'all, bro this is great stuff and
(08:54):
we definitely want to tick up whenwe come back on the other side.
Okay, we'll be right back.See why. Listeners from over one hundred
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(09:15):
online dot com, or subscribe tothe Book of Dad Radio Show on Apple,
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Book at that radio show with doctorRobert Benson and me Eddig, and we
(09:37):
have the fabulous Yardborough and Peoples,the Classics, the Funk Masters. It's
a family affair in here. I'mloving it. You need to introduce us
(09:58):
when we're going on stage. So, so you guys are telling us a
little bit about your relationship with CharlieWilson, and I want to let you
finish that up before I ask youmy next question. Okay, well,
well tell you and uh, likeI said, tell them and I were
(10:20):
always good friends and Denny come inlove with Lois because that's very the lowest
mommy, what it was that startingWe call her Lois because her middle name
is lost and everybody who's closer inthe circle calls the loads. So that's
who talk about, Uh, matterof fact, that was. That's what
(10:46):
The collaborations and the and the andthe and the joint forces and the and
the combination of sounds were quite that'sthat's on the double of you know,
want to part it, I cantell you want to that's her and I'm
seeing with Charlie on that part.Wow, that that is amazing. So
(11:09):
we were up back then together andit was it became not just the gap
being sound and not just the yardrow and people's sound, which was two
separate you know, sounds all togetherbut still together. We all became and
Goodie and whoever else was there theTotal Experience sound, you know, which
(11:35):
brought that tour that first tour wedid, uh, the Toll Experience Tour,
which was all of the artists fromthe Total Experience and it was amazing.
It was an amazing tour. Amazing, but up through too and to
today, the love has never changedbetween why and John Wilson. Absolutely your
(12:05):
sound. We can't hear it asyou tour now. Now I want to
know if the experience is the same. You know, I know you have
so many fans, you're so wellknown around the world. What's it like
(12:26):
touring now? We have a lotof the classic legendary acts that go out
that Earth, Wind and Fire,and those guys are still out there.
How has it been for you?Guys? We go out and do dates.
Promoters want want the giant pool updates, and so they get groups that
(12:48):
when we support those those days whenwe go out and do dates. But
it's it's not it's it's what isit about? Two? Three? Yeah?
We we you know what we do. This is the difference. Lonnie
(13:09):
bred us. Lonnie trained us fortelevision, for film, and while he
was breeding us for television and film, he was doing the same thing with
Charlie for the road, for beingon the road. So their thing is
mostly on the road. Ours isstill and though we do a lot of
(13:33):
road you know, concerts and stuff. We love them because we love being
close to the people, but wealso do a lot of theater. We
also are in two movies, threemovies, so we've done something. And
one is The Rings That Find Usand it's on to b and uh Amazon,
(13:56):
Amazon Prime. It was it's afunny movie. If when you see
it, you're gonna screen. Andthen there's another movie. It's called what's
the second one? A Miracle,A Miracle Christmas and that's on I think
(14:18):
it's on too be as well andPrime. And I can't remember the name
of the one, but Tanya OldThomas movie was Lord. It had a
big name in it too. Butanyway, we're in three three movies so
far. That's awesome. Well youknow my name. Well, my question
(14:41):
was, was you kind of alludedto a little earlier, right around nineteen
eighty seven you guys kind of seemto kind of went by the wayside a
little bit. Talk about what happenedthere and what you guys were doing in
the interim where you weren't really recordingmusic anymore or had stopped, if you
want, we were through playing therecord company's game that if she she get
the guys, I get the girlstype thing. Anyway, so it was
(15:05):
we want, we got married,and we discovered. We also discovered or
not discovered, but our eyes wereopen to a lot of things that was
not happening that should have been happeningas far as the record company of concerns,
and we were done. We hadfulfilled our contract in nineteen eighty seven.
(15:30):
We fulfilled our contract, but hewas still holding us to Lonnie Simmons
who was still holding us to something. We didn't know what, but it
was like, no, y'all leave, Yeah, now we still got we
still have some things we have todo. And we stayed there for a
while to live that contract down there. But then it was like, Okay,
(15:52):
this is not really working for us, and we became both of us
became discouraged and we then our parentsstarted to become older and getting ill and
stuff. So we came home andwe took care of our parents. We
went to Utah and State for ayear during the doing the Children's Network telethon
(16:19):
with Donnie and Marie Osmond, MarilynMcCoo and Billy Davis and a lot of
other celebrities. We were doing that, and then we came on home and
took care of our parents for awhile. They became our first priority was
making sure that they were okay.We picked back up, We started our
(16:42):
production company. We started recording.I can't wait for you all to hear
this song that we're getting ready toput out. I just can't wait.
It is. We got a realall right now, all right, hey,
(17:03):
hey listen, I don't don't don'tdon't threaten us with a good time
because we're gonna ask for a sample, Okay, to start playing it.
Hey, We're gonna take one morebreak, Take one more break. But
when we come back, I wantto also talk to you all about the
fact that y'all are on Unsung andwe can visit that on the other side.
(17:23):
Look at that radio, Eddie,Eddie g and Cavin and Alisa Yarbrough
To'll be right back. You havesomething special, you have greatness in you.
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(18:30):
and I'm sticking to it. Hey, welcome back again to the book.
At that radio show, doctor RobertBension of my main man Eddieg, who
happens to be famous in his ownright. But we're gonna touch that in
a minute. But right now,I want to talk to the grand baby.
Who is that in the background,Say hello, de little girl,
that's my baby, my grandbaby.Her name is Elisa. See hi Lisa.
(18:59):
So Alisa name sounds familiar there,Alisa, Miss y'all, bro,
how is that working for y'all?See is the third? My name is
Alisa People's. My daughter's name AlisiaPeople and her name is Elisa People's.
And we are AP three A Pthree three Alisa People's three. Hey listen,
(19:26):
when we left off, I wantedto visit the fact that you guys
were on unsung talk to us aboutthat experience if you would. It kind
of gave you an opportunity to revisitsand stuff that happened in the past obviously,
and we would know how that wentfor you talk to us. It
gave us a chance to revisit andaccess and also it increased our popularity once
(19:52):
again for doing work. People knewwe were are still here, you know,
and we were Hey, they're justin, but they're here, they're
still doing music. Well, weknow you're here too, and I know
Eddie G's got some stuff he wantsto go through. What you hear.
I don't mean to hug the time, so I'm back out unless you have
it for fu. Okay, I'msorry, I got to hug it.
I'm sorry. That's okay. Butyou know what I'll tell you. What
(20:17):
I love about you too, isyour family relationship, your genuine love with
each other because to be together allthose years, especially in the music industry,
you know, you have some groupsdon't last two weeks, and you
were able to last your whole lifetimeand continue. I can see the happiness,
(20:41):
I can see the communication, allthe great things that make a good
marriage. And that's why that's probablywhy your music is so good, because
of the collaboration tell us about howit is being married and working in the
industry that is a double side ofcorn. You know what we managed.
(21:11):
We managed because we don't. Letme try to see what that word is
for, so I can see thatit's not ugly. We're not we're not
competitive with one. We're not competitiveand we don't. I'm gonna tell you
this word right here. Fats arenot you know, and hang out in
(21:33):
the get in folks business and beknows it. You know what I'm saying.
We do what we're supposed to wantto get out of there. We're
kind of quiet yeah about it.And it's not like we're not in communication
or we try to go in communicadoor anything like that. It's just that
sometimes if you hang out too long, you get en messed. You don't,
(21:53):
you don't, you don't want tobe in Yeah, And we learned
that about the industry that you keepyour nose very can keep your house,
you know, and that way,you know, you guys are the way
they can't come back. You guyshave just no idea. But it kind
of leads me to another one becauseI was going to ask you, what
(22:15):
advice do you give a young performers. I mean I was at a concert
last night of a pretty well renownedartist and their husband was in the band
as well. What advice do youall offer uh the the performers today to
keep uh to to be to endup being like you are right now?
(22:37):
What suggestions would you offer up?Or just plain old school knowledge that you
got to do. You've got tobe serious about your work. You got
to be first of all in thesentence. You've got to be serious and
take the sacrifices and dry the tearsand keep on pushing. My feelings and
(23:11):
thoughts are Let's do something original orcreative, creative. Let me say that
now. I don't say original becausenothing. Uh, Let's do something creative
with the music and not just letit go on once person, you know,
(23:33):
mm hmm, not just let aroundyou used to keep around you.
Well, what I'm just saying,you know, artists are building themselves every
day, and I'm seeing where themusic industry used to be. We used
to have Temptations and Dale's and OJ'sand all that, and that. Now
(23:53):
we got standing islands we have.I'm just saying this. I'm not called
you know, we got jay Z's, We got puff, daddy, we
got it? And which are notputting you know, putting sounds together or
(24:14):
get together. See I'm from inthe in the old in old school days.
See we had every group was auh, every group was was a
start to well let's say, letme say to me that you know,
the the shylights and those kind ofgroups. When that's when I was back
there and the radio was much better. I thought the radio was that you
(24:41):
could you could turn the radio onand get a little other announcers talking,
and but you get a music ora song that makes you feel a certain
way on itself. Today it's abeat beat, I understand. Yeah,
no message in it, No messagein it. You know, if I
(25:02):
if I had to say something tosomebody, and and and my husband has
heard me say this many times.If you want to be creative, you
have to connect to the creator exactly. And that's what I would tell them
to stay connected, you know,don't put a plug on him thinking that
(25:23):
you're going to do something by yourself, because it's not gonna work. Everything
that we do we have to acknowledgehim, and we have to pluge it
and get that the source. Everythingelse is a resource. We have to
plug into the source. And thatwould be what would lead to these young
(25:44):
people is remember to plug in,plug in to the source. Amen.
You know, it's a good advicebecause it's a stressful industry is a stressful
job because your creativity has to work. And once you get in a situation
where you're under the pressure of alabel, right and you say, okay,
(26:07):
we need ten songs by whatever,Well, that's kind of hard because
when you really create something, it'sa feeling. It's not something that to
sit down and throw out there.You have to have it spontaneously kick in,
right. So that's where your bestwork comes from. And that leads
me to my next question. Isyou mentioned that you have some new projects
(26:32):
coming on. I want to hearabout. I want to hear what you're
talking about. You have some newmusic, Yes we have. We have
new music in the cans right now. We're to get it out and yeah,
we're doing the finishing touches on everythingand it'll be ready. And the
(26:55):
part I think about it is thatthe music that we've done in this project
was targeted two. Have all theflavors, have all the flavors that you
know, we got, We gota little hip hop, little gospel.
We're not doing it like that,but if you will see the flavors of
(27:19):
it and how it's coming together,well, I don't know. I'm really
excited about this. I'm really excited. We've been studio for a while and
we've been in the studio with notjust ourselves but several other really good musicians
and so the project is not andKavin said, it's a moment ago.
(27:41):
It's always when you come together andand and don't stop. The music was
created when a bunch of us cametogether and weated that found the Gap band
songs. They came together when everybodycame together. And so we're going back
to the original recipe. We're allowingeverybody to come together and create. And
(28:06):
if I tell you, the songsthat are coming out of these creations are
amazing. They're amazing. Yes,And the Lord is blessing us that still
have a little bit of voice tobe able to sing them. Yes,
yes, yes, hey, listen. Thank you all for letting us come
(28:27):
into your home this evening. Ohmy goodness, I feel like I'm sitting
right there on the couch with youand trying to keep Lisa from running around
all over the house. Yeah,closing thoughts on the oh No, I
had a great time. I lovethe family atmosphere. You know, we're
a family show, so we loveit. We love it, and we
(28:51):
just want to thank you for comingon. We wish you the best.
We're going to continue to follow you. I can't wait to hear this music
because I love the music that youalready have, so I can't wait to
hear some more. So thanks forbeing on the show. Thank you guys
for your absolutely thank you for theinterview. Thank you for everything that you've
(29:15):
done for us. We appreciate everywhether you call it small, you call
it large, it's big enough theway you thought about it, and thanks
it means a lot to us too. Heart from the heart. But hey,
listen, it's the book of thatradio show, and I can't I
can't say anything other than that exceptfor thank y'all so much, Cavin and
(29:37):
Alisa, God bless y'all, andthank you so much, thank you so
much. Just look at that radioshow, my Maame and Eddie G.
We're gonna talk to y'all next time. Thank you so much. Allrect two day
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