Today's topic is about the National R and B Music Day and more. Last
year I mentioned the National R and B Music Day, which is observed on
the first Saturday of March each year. It is a national day of recognition
and celebration for R and B music, declared by the US National Day Archives
Organization. To find out more, go to National Archives dot com. So
who do you think of when you think of R and B music? I
think of the famous duet between Lionel Richie and Diana Ross singing Endless Love.
Lionel Richie and Diana Ross recorded the song for Motown and it was used as
the thing for Franco Zaffarelli's film adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel Endless Love. While
the film Endless Love was a modest box office success, the song became the
second biggest selling of the year in the United States and reached number one on
the Hot one hundred, where it stayed for nine weeks from August fifteenth to
October tenth, nineteen eighty one. It also topped the Billboard R and B
Chart and the Adult Contemporary Chart, and reached number seven in the United Kingdom.
I'm Gail Nobles tune in again next time for more