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The Gap Band III

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Released
  
December 8, 1980

Label
  
MercuryPTG Records

Artist
  
The Gap Band

Producer
  
Lonnie Simmons

Length
  
44:45

The Gap Band III(1980)
  
Gap Band IV(1982)

Release date
  
8 December 1980

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Recorded
  
1980 at Total Experience Recording Studios, Hollywood, California

Genres
  
Funk, Soul music, Rhythm and blues

Nominations
  
American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album

Similar
  
The Gap Band albums, Funk albums

The Gap Band III is the fifth album (contrary to the title) by The Gap Band, released in 1980 on Mercury Records. It was produced by Lonnie Simmons. It was their first album to achieve platinum status. The album was remastered by PTG Records in 2009 including the radio edit of "Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)".

Contents

Reception

The album reached #1 on the Black Albums chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 200. The album yielded 3 charting singles: the #60 R&B song "Humpin'", "Yearning for Your Love", a #5 R&B single which peaked at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the #1 R&B hit "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)", which reached #19 on the dance charts and #84 on the Hot 100.

This would be the group's final release by Mercury Records. The Gap Band's next six albums were released on Total Experience Records.

Personnel

  • Charlie Wilson - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
  • Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Robert Wilson - Bass, Backing Vocals (Lead vocals on "Gash Gash Gash")
  • Oliver Scott - Horns, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals
  • Raymond Calhoun - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
  • Melvin Webb, Ronnie Kaufman - Drums
  • John Black - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Malvin "Dino" Vice - String Arrangements, Backing Vocals
  • Cavin Yarbrough - Synthesizer
  • Robert "Goodie" Whitfield - Keyboards
  • Fred Jenkins - Guitar
  • Glen Nightingale - Guitar
  • Marlo Henderson - Guitar
  • Wilmer Raglin- Horns, Backing Vocals
  • Earl Roberson - Horns
  • Katie Kilpatrick - Harp
  • The Gap Band, Howard Huntsberry, Jonah Ellis, Marva King, Maxanne Lewis, Rudy Taylor, Val Young, Lonnie Simmons, Malvin "Dino" Vice - Backing Vocals

    • Songs

    1When I Look In Your Eyes5:02
    2Yearning for Your Love5:43
    3Burn Rubber On Me5:33

    References

    The Gap Band III Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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