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Jan 24, 2015

McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - On McFadden & Whitehead (1979)

McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" is a 1979 disco song performed by R&B duo McFadden & Whitehead, from their debut album McFadden & Whitehead. They wrote and produced the song along with keyboard player Jerry Cohen. Released as the lead single from the album, the song spent a week at number one on the R&B singles chart. It also proved to be a successful crossover hit, peaking at number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached number 5 in the UK. The single also made it to number ten on the disco charts. It eventually went double platinum, selling over 2 million copies.



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"Ain't No Stopping Us Now" is about succeeding despite having faced previous disadvantages ("so many things that held us down"). It was widely interpreted to be about the experience of the African American community, and after attaining popularity, became referred to as "the new black national anthem" (the original being the 1900 song "Lift Every Voice and Sing"). McFadden & Whitehead would revisit the song in their 1984 single "Ain't No Stoppin' (Ain't No Way)."

3 comments:

  1. Dedicated to the memory 2 great songwriters & singers gone, John Whitehead one half of the dynamic duo who was shot dead aged 54, the other Gene Mcfadden died of liver cancer in 2006, their memory will always live with us, especially through this generation gazing anthem, another philly classic.

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  2. this is why 70s and 80s musics are the best. there were times when music like this was the "mainstream" music. but now, all the mainstream music are the shits they called music. 

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