The Gap Band II explained

Gap Band II
Type:	Album
Artist:	the Gap Band
Cover:	GAPBANDII.jpg
Released:	November 19, 1979
Recorded:	1979
Studio:	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood)
Genre:	Soul, funk
Length:	38:52
Label:	Mercury
Producer:	Lonnie Simmons
Prev Title:	The Gap Band
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	The Gap Band III
Next Year:	1980

The Gap Band II is the fourth studio album by the Gap Band, released in 1979 on Mercury Records. 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 Pop Albums chart. The album produced the singles "Steppin' (Out)" (No. 10 Black Singles), "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 gold 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, Jack and Jill (a pattern later continued on "Humpin'").

Track listing

	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Steppin' (Out)		4:25
2.	No Hiding Place	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson	5:34
3.		Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Robert Wilson, Ronnie Wilson, Rudolph Taylor	8:39
4.	Who Do You Call	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Robert Wilson, Ronnie Wilson	4:57
5.	You Are My High	Charlie Wilson, Johnsye Smith, Ronnie Wilson	5:38
6.	Party Lights	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, Rudolph Taylor	3:54
7.	The Boys Are Back in Town	Charlie Wilson, Malvin Dino Vice, Lonnie Simmons	5:45

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")
• Greg Phillinganes - 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

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions^[2]
		US R&B	US Disco
1980	"I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops	)"	4	52
	"Party Lights"	36	-
	"Steppin' (Out)"	10	-

External links

• The Gap Band II at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1980. Billboard. July 8, 2021.
2. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4338/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} The Gap Band US singles chart history]. allmusic.com. September 11, 2011.