''The Gap Band II'' is the fourth studio album by

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, released in 1979 on

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. It is their second major label release, and produced by Lonnie Simmons.

Reception

The album reached No. 3 on the Black Albums chart and No. 42 on the

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chart. The album produced the singles "Steppin' (Out)" (No. 10

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), " 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

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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,

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(a pattern later continued on "

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").

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") *

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- 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

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

External links

*
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