Biography

Although they got a bit of a slow start, Tulsa, Oklahoma's the Gap Band became one of the most popular funk/R&B outfits of the early-to-mid 1980s. The band relied heavily on synth-based, hands-in-the-air party jams of the P-Funk variety, with the occasional bedroom ballad tossed in for good measure--an approach that as quietly permeated much of the R&B and hip-hop that developed in its wake. The younger generation got the opportunity to show its respect for the band when lead singer Charlie Wilson released his 2005 solo album, CHARLIE, LAST NAME WILSON, which featured a bevy of noted guest performers, Snoop Dogg and R. Kelly among them.

Top Tracks

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• Beep A Freak

• Burn Rubber (why You Wanna Hurt Me)

• Drop The Bomb

• Early In The Morning

• Going In Circles

• Humpin'

• I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (oops!)

• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

• Open Up Your Mind (wide)

• Outstanding

• Party Train

• Season's No Reason To Change

• Shake

• Steppin' (out)

• The Sun Don't Shine Every Day

• Wide

• Yearning For Your Love

• You Can Count On Me

• You Dropped A Bomb On Me

Discography

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• Y2K: Funkin' Till 2000 Comz

  Mercury / Crash Music, Inc.

  1999

• Live & Well

  Intersound

  1996

• Ain't Nothing But a Party

  Raging Bull Records

  1995

• Humpin'

  Special Music

  1994

• Testimony

  Rhino

  1994

• Round Trip

  Capitol

  1989

• Straight from the Heart

  Total Experience Records

  1988

• The Gap Band VIII

  Big Break

  1987

• The Gap Band VII

  1986

• The Gap Band VI

  1985

• Gap Band V: Jammin'

  Mercury

  1983

• The Gap Band IV

  Universal Special Products / Mercury / Special Products

  1982

• The Gap Band III

  Mercury

  1980

• The Gap Band II

  Mercury

  1979

• The Gap Band [1979]

  Mercury

  1979

• The Gap Band [1977]

  Tattoo Records

  1977

• Magician's Holiday

  Shelter

  1974