YOUR K-101.7 MONDAY HEY HEY SONG OF THE DAY-AY!

"Ain't no stopping us now/We're on the move."

June 1979, our song in question hit the coveted number one spot, released by two artists at odds with their own records label.  Though it has been interpreted to be about the experience of the African American community and came to be somewhat of a "black national anthem", it was in fact born of frustration.

Having written hits for Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, The Jacksons, not to mention "Backstabbers" for The O'Jays, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead, a team since they were teenagers and discovered by Otis Redding, were eager to branch out on their own as artists.

However, Philadelphia International Records owners Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, were holding the guys back, preferring them to be just house songwriters, choosing to keep them off the public stage. Even today's song might have gone to the O'Jays if the bosses had their way. And that situation gave birth to this song's lyrics.

It remains, to this day, a stand up on your chair, pump your disco fist go-for-it anthem. And that's why it's your-

-K101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!