Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Release Highly Anticipated Album "Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons

Music Icons, multiple Award-winnders and multi-platinum selling artists Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. released "Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons", the legendary couple's first album in three decades (EE1/BMG). The celebrated album can be streamed and prchased here.

Since it became available for purchase, "Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons" has hit the top spot on both the iTunes R&B pre-order and Barnes & Noble all bestselling music charts. The single from the album, "Ticket to Ride", a tribute to Rosa Parks and husband Raymond Parks, is currently receiving wide success on Blues and Southern Soul radio nationwide, including attaining the #3 spot on the Soul of the Shoals radio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, considered the birthplace of Soul music. The Blackbird R&B Remix by Mike City, as a single, has picked up radio play on a dozen new radio stations this week.

"Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons" continues to garner glowing reviews from media and music fans alike. Legendary critic Roger Friedman says: "Wait til you hear this whole album!" as well as "wonderful new album of Beatles songs".

On returning to the recording studio after three decades, the couple says: "In 2021, mothers throughout our country live in the fear that our blackbirds may prematurely not be able to return to the nest of home, because of bigotry and violence...Blackbird, is dedicated to the life and humanity of every backbird, whether living now or lost in battle." In their sixty-plus-year career of performing, Marilyn and Billy have broken countless racial and cultural barriers. Culturally known as The First Couple of Pop & Soul, Marilyn & Billy are credited in the media as "the originators of the blueprint followed by Jay Z and Beyoncé for a blend of talent, romance, marriage, and commerce". Their variety television series on CBS was a first for a Black couple.