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Yearning for Your Love

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Released
  
1981

Genre
  
R&B Quiet Storm Funk

Recorded
  
1980

Label
  
Mercury

B-side
  
"Oops Upside Your Head" "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" "Humpin'" "When I Look In Your Eyes"

Length
  
3:59 (single) 5:43 (album version)

"Yearning for Your Love" is a quiet storm ballad recorded and released by The Gap Band on Mercury Records. The single was the third release off the band's fifth album, The Gap Band III. Four different singles, each with a different B-side, were released in 1981.

Contents

The song became a modest hit on the US and UK charts when it was released; it arose to number five on the Hot Soul Singles chart and number sixty on the Billboard Hot 100. Written by Gap Band backing member/keyboardist Oliver Scott and keyboardist Ronnie Wilson, it was a romantic love song dedicated to Wilson's wife at the time and was performed by Ronnie's brother Charlie Wilson.

Structure

The song was markedly different in style from the past few hits, with less emphasis on synthesizers, instead on "light slices of guitar, smooth keyboard pads and soft percussion". It is said Charlie's smooth baritone take on the song helped the song become influential to contemporary R&B singers such as Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill; and Gerald Levert.

Releases

  1. Yearning For Your Love/Burn Rubber
  2. Yearning For Your Love/Humpin'
  3. Yearning For Your Love/When I Look In Your Eyes
  4. Yearning for Your Love/Oops Upside Your Head

Credits

  • Lead vocals by Charlie Wilson
  • Background vocals by Oliver Scott, Ronnie Wilson and Robert Wilson
  • Drums by Ronnie Kaufman
  • Guitars by Fred Jenkins, Glenn Nightingale
  • Bass by Robert Wilson
  • Synthesizers by Ronnie Wilson
  • Keyboards by Oliver Scott

    • Cover versions

    In 1989, French pianist Alex Bugnon covered the song from his popular album "Love Season."

    In 1990, Guy also covered the song on their 1990 album The Future.

    In 2001, keyboardist Kevin Toney covered the song from his album "Strut". The song featured Evelyn "Champagne" King on vocals.

    Sampling

    The song has been sampled several times including some of the following:

  • "Gank Move" by Big Mello (1992)
  • "Life's a Bitch" by Nas feat. AZ and Olu Dara (1994)
  • "Outta My Life" by Paris (1994)
  • "My Woman" by Coop MC (1995)
  • "Sacramento Summertime" by Gangsta Dre (1996)
  • "Keep Hustlin" by WC feat. E-40 and Too Short (1998)
  • "Keep It Comin'" by Heavy D (1997)
  • "Watcha Wanna Do" by Mia X feat. Charlie Wilson (1998)
  • "It's Going Down by Parle (2000)
  • "I-95" by Styles P feat. Tre Williams (2007)
  • "Love Like This" by Natasha Bedingfield feat. Sean Kingston (2008)
  • "Lifes a Bitch" by Elzhi feat. Royce da 5'9 & Stokley Williams (2011)
  • "Real" by Common feat. Elijah Blake (2014)

    • References

    Yearning for Your Love Wikipedia
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