Oops Up Side Your Head

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"I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops!)"
I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops Up Side Your Head) US vinyl 7-inch.jpg
One of side-A labels of the U.S. 7-inch vinyl single
Single by The Gap Band
from the album The Gap Band II
A-side "The Boys Are Back in Town" / "Steppin' (Out)" (UK MERX2)
B-side
  • Main title (UK MERX2)
  • "The Boys Are Back in Town" (UK MER22/X22)
  • "Party Lights" / "The Boys Are Back in Town" (Netherlands)
Released1979
Recorded1979
Genre Funk, disco
Length3:29 (7")
8:39 (12")
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor, Robert Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Charlie Wilson
Producer(s) Lonnie Simmons
The Gap Band singles chronology
"Steppin' (Out)"
(1979)
"I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops!)"
(1979)
"Party Lights"
(1979)

"I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops!)" (re-titled "Oops Up Side Your Head" on the single as well as being known by other titles such as "Oops Upside Your Head") is a 1979 song recorded by the R&B group the Gap Band. Released off their fourth studio album, The Gap Band II , the song and its parent album both achieved commercial success.

Contents

The single was released in several countries in different formats. In the United States, it was a 12" with the B-side being "Party Lights". In the Netherlands, the 12" B-side was "The Boys Are Back in Town". In France, the single was a 7" with no B-side.

In the UK, the track first surfaced in mid-late 1979 as the B-side of the 12" release of "The Boys Are Back in Town" / "Steppin' (Out)". Then in 1980, due to its popularity, it was flipped and re-titled with just "The Boys Are Back in Town" as the B-side. It was later released once again as the B-side to some copies of the remix version of "Party Lights". In 1987, a 12" remix was released in the UK with a dub version B-side.

The single became an international hit for the group upon its late 1979 release. Though it failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at number two on its Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart), the song hit the top ten on the US R&B and disco charts and became a big-seller outside the US where it peaked at number six in the UK in 1980 and number six in the Netherlands.

Structure

P-Funk influence

Nursery rhyme allusions

Legacy

In 1996 the song was heavily sampled in Snoop Dogg's Snoop's Upside Ya Head, which also featured Gap Band lead vocalist Charlie Wilson. In April 2015, it was announced that the writers of "Oops Up Side Your Head" had had their names added to the writing credits of Mark Ronson's hit single "Uptown Funk". [2]

Charts

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