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| Released | May 5, 1995 | |||
| Genre | R&B Funk New jack swing | |||
| Label | Raging Bull Records | |||
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Ain't Nothin But a Party is the 14th album by The Gap Band, released in 1995 on Raging Bull Records.
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | Where's My Glasses? | Cam Wilson | 0:09 |
| 2. | First Lover | Amanda Rushing, Cam Wilson | 4:47 |
| 3. | Closin' The G.A.P. | D-Low, Paris Turner | 5:26 |
| 4. | Got It Goin' On | Cam Wilson, Raymond Calhoun, Val Young | 6:17 |
| 5. | You Dropped a Bomb on Me [The Remix] | Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor | 3:57 |
| 6. | Love at Your Fingertips | Deyon Dobson, Lance Whitfield, Theoplas Florsett | 4:50 |
| 7. | Shake Dat Booty | Charlie Wilson, Sue Ann Carwell, Deyon Dobson, Lance "Jabaddi" Whitfield | 4:23 |
| 8. | Here We Go | Cam Wilson, Ronnie Wilson | 0:32 |
| 9. | Over the Funkin' Hill (Featuring George Clinton) | Cam Wilson, Ronnie Wilson | 4:22 |
| 10. | Closin' the G.A.P. [Edit][Extended Club Edit] | D-Low, Paris Turner | 6:39 |
| 11. | Why You Wanna Funk Around | Paris Turner, Mobb, D-Low, William H. Harris Jr., Fade, Charlie Wilson, Soulful Loco | 4:40 |
| 12. | Got It Goin' On, Pt. II | Raymond Calhoun, Ronnie Wilson | 0:51 |
The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band consisted of three brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson; and it was named after streets in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. After 43 years together, they retired in 2010.
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The Showstoppers was a four-piece African American vocal soul group formed in Philadelphia about 1967. They are best remembered for their 1967 hit, "Ain't Nothin' But a Houseparty", which was the debut release on three record labels: Showtime Records, Heritage Records, and Beacon Records.
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"I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" is the second single from Stevie Wonder's 1980 album, Hotter Than July. It reached number four on the Billboard R&B singles chart and number 11 on the Hot 100. It also hit number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is famous for Wonder's imitation of a seasoned country-and-western crooner and his inspiring drumming. Charlie and Ronnie Wilson of The Gap Band provide backing vocals on the song. It was covered by Eric Clapton in 2001.
Live & Well is a live album by The Gap Band, released in 1996. The songs "Gotta Get Up" and "Drop the Bomb" are both special live versions of "Early in the Morning" and "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" with similar instrumentations but modified lyrics.
"(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet" is a song by the American rock band Blues Magoos, released in October 1966. It was a chart hit in the United States in February 1967. It was written by Ron Gilbert, Ralph Scala and Mike Esposito. The Vox Continental organ riff was closely based on guitarist James Burton's riff to Ricky Nelson's 1962 rock recording of the old George Gershwin standard "Summertime", which also inspired Deep Purple's 1970 hit song "Black Night".
Total Experience Records was a record label founded by Lonnie Simmons. Its two major acts were The Gap Band and Yarbrough & Peoples. It originally began in 1977 as a production company whose albums were released by Mercury Records before becoming a label in 1981. From its inception in 1981 to late 1983, Total Experience was a subsidiary label of Mercury's parent company, PolyGram. In 1984, the label changed its distribution from PolyGram to RCA Records.
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"Party Train" is a 1983 song by The Gap Band, released on their seventh album, Gap Band V: Jammin'. It peaked at #3 on the R&B charts. The original release had "I'm Ready " on the A-side and "Party Train" on the B-side. Later, "Party Train was placed on the A-side, and a special dance mix was placed on the B-side.
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Gap Band VII is the ninth album by The Gap Band, released in 1985 on Total Experience Records. The album includes the single from original Jerry Peters's song "Going In Circles". As AllMusic's Amy Hanson said in her review of the album, "The band was quickly back to business across the eminently catchy tunes "Automatic Brain" and "Ooh, What a Feeling," leaving both "L'il Red Funkin' Hood" and "Bumpin' Gum People," which features funkier vocals than listeners had heard from the band in quite some time, to round out the set with some good-old Gap Band sonics. Elsewhere, the band pulled a quiet storm trick out of their bag on "I Know We'll Make It"."
Gap Band 8 is the 10th album by American R&B and funk band The Gap Band, released in 1986 on Total Experience Records. It is the first album in the band's self-titled series to be subtitled with a regular number instead of a Roman numeral, as well as their final self-titled album.
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Charles Kent Wilson, also known as Uncle Charlie, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and the former lead vocalist of the Gap Band. As a solo artist Wilson's been nominated for thirteen Grammy awards and eleven NAACP Image Awards, received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and was a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005. In 2009 and 2020, he was named Billboard magazine's No. 1 Adult R&B Artist, and his song "There Goes My Baby" was named the No. 1 Urban Adult Song for 2009 in Billboard Magazine.
