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Gap Band II
Studio album by the Gap Band
Released	November 19, 1979
Recorded	1979
Studio	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood)
Genre	Soul, funk
Length	38:52
Label	Mercury
Producer	Lonnie Simmons
The Gap Band chronology
The Gap Band (1979) Gap Band II (1979) The Gap Band III (1980)

The Gap Band II is the fourth studio album by the Gap Band, released in 1979 on Mercury Records. It is their second major label release, and produced by Lonnie Simmons.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The album reached No. 3 on the Black Albums chart and No. 42 on the Pop Albums chart. The album produced the singles "Steppin' (Out)" (No. 10 Black Singles), "Party Lights" (No. 36 Black Singles), and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)" (No. 4 Black Singles, No. 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 and Jill (a pattern later continued on "Humpin'").

Track listing

Personnel

• Charlie Wilson - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Robert Wilson - Bass, Backing Vocals (Lead vocals on "Who Do You Call")
• 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, Horn Arrangements
• 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

Singles

References

1. Henderson, Alex. The Gap Band: The Gap Band II > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 271.
3. "The Gap Band Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
4. "The Gap Band Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
5. "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1980". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
6. "The Gap Band US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved September 11, 2011.

External links

• The Gap Band II at Discogs

• 1979 albums
• The Gap Band albums
• Mercury Records albums
• Albums recorded at Total Experience Recording Studios