The Gap Band II is an album

Album

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 by The Gap Band, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music

1979 in music

See also:Record labels established in 1979* 1979 in music This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979.-January–February:*January 1...

) on Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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. Contrary to the title, the album is actually the Gap Band's fourth album.

Reception

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

RIAA certification

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 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'

Humpin'

"Humpin'" is a 1980 song by The Gap Band, from their fifth album The Gap Band III released as a single in 1981. The original B-side, "No Hiding Place", was originally released on The Gap Band II. The song had mixed chart success, only peaking at #60 R&B, but busting into the top-20 on the dance...

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Track listing

1. "Steppin' (Out)" (Lonnie Simmons
   Lonnie Simmons
   Lonnie Simmons is an American record producer from Los Angeles, California. He is founder and president of the now-defunct Total Experience Records. As a composer, he wrote several #1 R&B songs for his label's major acts, The Gap Band and Yarbrough and Peoples....
   
   , Charlie Wilson
   Charlie Wilson (musician)
   Charles Kent "Charlie" Wilson is an American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and the former lead vocalist for the Gap Band. As a solo artist he has been nominated for four Grammy awards, received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005...
   
   , 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" (Malvin Vice, Simmons) 5:45

Personnel

• Charlie Wilson
  Charlie Wilson (musician)
  Charles Kent "Charlie" Wilson is an American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and the former lead vocalist for the Gap Band. As a solo artist he has been nominated for four Grammy awards, received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005...
  
   - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Robert Wilson - Bass, Backing Vocals
• Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes is an active session keyboardist in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Cass Technical High School, Detroit Michigan....
  
   - 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, Gussie Scott - Horns, Backing Vocals
• Bernard Baisden, Fernando Harkless - Horns
• Lois Peoples
  Yarbrough and Peoples
  Yarbrough and Peoples was an American R&B duo from Dallas, Texas. Their biggest selling release was "Don't Stop the Music", a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981.-Career:...
  
  , Angela Smith, Calvin Yarbrough
  Yarbrough and Peoples
  Yarbrough and Peoples was an American R&B duo from Dallas, Texas. Their biggest selling release was "Don't Stop the Music", a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981.-Career:...
  
  , Gail Johnson, Howard Huntsberry, Robert "Goodie" Whitfield, Rudolph Taylor - Backing Vocals

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	42
Billboard Top Soul Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	3

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	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