The Gap Band II

Gap Band II
Studio album by The Gap Band
Released	1979
Recorded	1979 at Total Experience Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
Genre	Soul Funk
Length	38:52
Label	Mercury Records
Producer	Lonnie Simmons
The Gap Band chronology
The Gap Band (1979) The Gap Band II (1979) The Gap Band III (1980)

The Gap Band II is an album by The Gap Band, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) on Mercury Records. Contrary to the title, the album is actually the Gap Band's fourth album.

Contents 1 Reception 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 Charts 4.1 Singles 5 External links 6 References

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album reached #3 on the Black Albums chart and #42 on the Pop Albums chart. The album produced the singles "Steppin' (Out)" (#10 Black Singles), "Party Lights" (#36 Black Singles), and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!) (#4 Black Singles, #52 Club Play Singles).

The album established the Gap Band as leaders in the R&B market, becoming their first gold album, selling over 500,000 copies through 1980. The album's most successful track, "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)", was their first to incorporate aspects of the P-Funk sound. The song also alludes to a well-known corruption of the childhood nursery rhyme, Jack & Jill (a pattern later continued on "Humpin'").

Track listing

1. "Steppin' (Out)" (Lonnie Simmons, Charlie Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 4:25
2. "No Hiding Place" (Simmons, C.Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 5:34
3. "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)" (Rudolph Taylor, Robert Wilson, Simmons, C.Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 8:39
4. Who Do You Call (C.Wilson, Simmons, Robert Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 4:57
5. "You Are My High" (Johnseye Smith, C.Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 5:38
6. "Party Lights" (Simmons, Taylor, C.Wilson, Ronnie Wilson) 3:54
7. "The Boys Are Back in Town" (C. Wilson, Malvin Vice, L. Simmons) 5:45

Personnel

• Charlie Wilson - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Robert Wilson - Bass, Backing Vocals
• Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Percussion, Synthesizer
• John Black, Louie Cabaza - Keyboards
• Emzie Parker III, Glenn Nightingale, James Macon - Guitar
• Raymond Calhoun - Drums, Percussion
• Ronnie Kaufman - Drums
• Malvin "Dino" Vice, Trumpet, Backing Vocals
• Oliver "Gussie" Scott - Trombone - Backing Vocals
• Malvin "Dino" Vice - Horn Arrangements
• Benjamin Wright - String Arrangements
• Bernard Baisden - Trombone
• Fernando Harkless - Tenor Saxophone
• Lois Peoples, Angela Smith, Calvin Yarbrough, Gail Johnson, Howard Huntsberry, Robert "Goodie" Whitfield, Rudolph Taylor - Backing Vocals

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums[2]	42
Billboard Top Soul Albums[2]	3

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[3]
		US R&B	US Disco
1980	"[I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)"	4	52
	"Party Lights"	36	-
	"Steppin' (Out)"	10	-

External links

• The Gap Band-The Gap Band II at Discogs

References