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Today's topic is about the National R
and B Music Day and more. Last

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year I mentioned the National R and
B Music Day, which is observed on

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the first Saturday of March each year. It is a national day of recognition

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and celebration for R and B music, declared by the US National Day Archives

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Organization. To find out more,
go to National Archives dot com. So

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who do you think of when you
think of R and B music? I

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think of the famous duet between Lionel
Richie and Diana Ross singing Endless Love.

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Lionel Richie and Diana Ross recorded the
song for Motown and it was used as

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the thing for Franco Zaffarelli's film adaptation
of Scott Spencer's novel Endless Love. While

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the film Endless Love was a modest
box office success, the song became the

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second biggest selling of the year in
the United States and reached number one on

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the Hot one hundred, where it
stayed for nine weeks from August fifteenth to

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October tenth, nineteen eighty one.
It also topped the Billboard R and B

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Chart and the Adult Contemporary Chart,
and reached number seven in the United Kingdom.

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I'm Gail Nobles tune in again next
time for more