R.I.P to my Dad Robert Wilson " God Father of Bass" was gettn it🔥💃💃💃💃💃💃Had to bring you in the 2020 with me spiritually.. I Love and Mss you # GapBandChild❤
I'm a 62 yr old white country boy that still loved the gap band. Dancin to this group got me more trim than anything. But married to a beautiful woman that loves this song we still dance too. Been married to this gorgeous woman for 40 yrs. Still dancin to the gap band.
@Nanette Hazelton Last Sunday I listened to this song on Ativa FM Radio. I like this music. This song reminds me of the Sao Paulo city in the early morning
the real inventors in terms of Funk delivering it to the next Level, Now you know How Westcoast Rap Hip Hop Beats are made and why they are the Dopest Instrumentals
May 5, 2023 - I'm 57 years old, playing businessman, in my office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in NYC. I'm married, 1 kid, and living in NYC for 30+ years, and then, I hear this song, and my heart stops: my mind takes me back to John Marshall High School Oklahoma City, around '82/'83. Testerone running out of control, walking down the hallways falling in love every 5 seconds, going to dances, or driving in someone's car who just got their driver's license, and you feel INVINCIBLE. Man, this song takes me back. Makes me feel 17 again. God bless Tulsa's hometown Heroes. You gotta LOVE The Gap Band!
I was 7 years old when this song came out, my mama played it to death. It reminds me of Saturday mornings when we would all be up cleaning and mama would turn the stereo on, Daddy cleaning the downstairs, me and my cousin cleaning my room, and mama cleaning the rest. I miss those times in my life... RIP Mama
I probably was around the same age as you just being a kid.but these songs put you in a time machine when you didnt know the artist name but you knew it was the jam as a kid.back then its seemed to common you expected hits ,now its just a nitemare.im pretty sure you will see your mother again on the other side.
Lol I'm nineteen and my dad would play this and songs like it on Saturdays while we cleaned the house and he was outside grilling. This music is my childhood.
I'm incredibly blessed to have met Ronnie Wilson later in his life. We sang together at church. What a blessing to have been able to stand side by side a legend. Rest in peace my brother in Christ. Till we meet again!
Is no one going to talk about the acronym GAP ? GREENWOOD ARCHER PINE ! BLACK WALSTREET... TULSA OKLAHOMA! How prophetic it is That the Wilson Brothers would name the Band in Homage to a Community that many of us knew nothing about when this music was being created in the early 80's Truly Outstanding!
My father passed away unexpectedly in 2022. He use to play this song everyday in the morning getting ready for work back in the day 😢. It use to get on my nerves now I'm thankful for this song/ol skool music. R.I.H. Daddy❤❤❤
I'm a 25 year old Asian American dude who was brought up in good old US of A. When I turn this music on in my car as I drive down the street, you wouldn't believe how many stares I get. I simply then just turn it up louder, roll down my windows and nod my head up and down with my shades on. showing some love to the Gap Band baby!
+Aastra Calidad We'll get there. People used to think my Asian stepfather was our gardener (he was a cardio thoracic specialist). Thanks for hanging in :)
+Aastra Calidad That's right, enjoy yourself and forgot about the haters...by the way the GAP band stands for a section in Oklahoma called black wall street that was a prosperous town and was bombed...
+Aastra Calidad Hi I wanted to send you message I love Asian men I think its great to hear other races listening to some great soul music. I used to live in Okinawa, Japan most of the 90s and I know Asians love R&B music.
then your daughter is special, god bless her and your family. if you could i would love to see a video of her here on youtube enjoying this classic track from back in the day, im here smilin from ear to ear thinkin about it, again god bless
They were history teachers they did the song "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" it was about the Tulsa Race Riots their band was named after three streets in the Greenwood section of Tulsa Greenwood Archer&Pine.
It's generational. I remember playing P-Funk in my room, and my mom having a conniption; "Turn that fuss down!" Well, P-Funk (and the GAP Band) sounds like Mozart now...
The sheer Freaking talent and soul flowing in them! My God! Charlie, if you ever read this, just know that you, and your brothers, and crew were the masters of the g/d universe! Y'all put out music and performances that people still enjoying, and always will enjoy!
This group had some really great songs. I was just a kid when this came out i am 50 now just turned 9/7/2023 and i still jam to this kind of music. This was pure with out all the dirty lyrics grinding on one another please bring this kind of music back.
@@wgol Your comment is funny but it can’t be that simple. Guns n Roses, for example, were trashed on booze and drugs and they seemed like miserable assholes. So, I have to think that even if those were factors, these guys were probably just more positive-energy people to begin with. LOL
If only modern artists realized that THIS is what so many people want, and what the world needs. Upbeat tone, check. Amazing vocals, check. Immaculate lyrics, check. Amazing music video, triple check!
Well, I like this song, too. But the lyrics, to be honest, seem a bit silly and bland to me. In quintessence: 'you left me (and only then I realized that I really loved you), therefor now I have to find another lover'.
2024 yep I love it I’ll always be a fan of the GAP BAND 🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤ RIP to those that’s gone on to heaven. Well done guys Thanks so much for all of your beautiful music 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤I love you and GOD BLESS YOU ALL
A lot of entertainers fell Off do the infidelity use of Every kind of Drug u can think of in the Entertainment World including food and liquor and know one tell you or make announcement when first become in the Entertainment Beware of the Stop and Go Carts ( meaning:Drugs::Liquor: Food:: Pain Killers and Don't Worry Meds) the Carts you see of Substance Abuse Drugs and so Forth/ We want others to Overcome and Survive🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
nice words gorgeous...I just find it ironic that people wax supportive of others only when they already get their shit together themselves, yet criticize and dismiss them when they are at their lowest point, in the throes of addiction and possibly homeless, and no one wants anything to do with them. How convenient isn't it, everything that people say and do?
Theres other people that are on the hall of fame and maybe they deserved it or not but its really a crime that one of the greatest soul funk bands like the Gap Band it's not in there. A # 1 in my list .
Mexican born but in CA since the age of 5, now 55 and grew up with this. I continue playing this song mostly every Friday for a friend I met when I was 12 and passed away before he reached 18- He loved this song so I come by now anf then but only Fridays and play this song for him. In fact, just finished playing it. Am parked at the Gonzales Ca cemetery and his resting place is just 50 feet away-
Believe that those souls in that cemetery are uniting every Friday dancing to this bc of you. May the great I_AM continue to bless you with more strength and life to continue it
This was one of my Dad's FAVORITE songs🎶 He passed away 9-22-2018. He use to get up early in the morning, RAIN SHINE SLEET OR SNOW, I am now my Father 💯 Rest Easy Don G. Harbor, your legacy will FOREVER live on!
When Soul music was at its best!!! Gap Band, the Whispers, the Daz Band, Midnight Star, Klymaxx, Orang Juice Jones, Chaka Kahn, SOS, Sister Sledge, Chic and many more! Hell yeah Luv it!
GAP BAND "You Dropped a Bomb On Me - Black Wall Street Founded in 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and comprised of multi-instrumentalist brothers Ronnie, Charlie, and Robert Wilson, the Gap Band surfaced as one of the most popular funk/rhythm-and-blues (R&B) groups of the 1980s. The brothers grew up performing in their father's Pentecostal church in Tulsa. There their mother was the church's pianist, and the boys sang every Sunday before their father's sermon. Ronnie, the oldest, started a group when he was fourteen and eventually recruited his younger brothers to play in the band, which they named after streets in the heart of Tulsa's historic African American Black Wall Street business district, Greenwood, Archer, and Pine. The Gap Band recorded their first album, Magician's Holiday (1974), for Shelter Records, owned fellow by Tulsan Leon Russell. Their success really took flight in 1979 after they moved to Los Angeles. The group scored a Top Five R&B hit with "Shake" (1979), followed by other 1980 R&B Top Ten hits "Steppin' Out" and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)." The 1982 pop hit "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" exhibits their trademark, bass-heavy style and the silky, smooth vocals of Charlie Wilson. The band continued recording into the twenty-first century.
One of my all time favorite bands, right up there with Stevie Wonder and Sade. I think I know just about all the words to most of their hits. I saw them live in Los Angeles one time.
Gap band kicks ass. I remember as a child in the 80s going to a giant block party thrown by what was the drug kingpin of the town at that time being taught to dance to this song. Still sends chills up my spine if I haven't heard in awhile. It was also the first time I ate soul food. Great memories
R.I.P to my Dad Robert Wilson " God Father of Bass" was gettn it🔥💃💃💃💃💃💃Had to bring you in the 2020 with me spiritually.. I Love and Mss you # GapBandChild❤
It's L baby Wilson Your dad was the man. Me and my buddies grew up loving The Gap Band.
@@John-gk3ph Thank you much appreciated❤
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really wow ... grew up listening to them way back in the early 80s still rockin sorry bout your Dad Rest in Funk !
@@harish71 Thankyou!❤
I'm a 62 yr old white country boy that still loved the gap band. Dancin to this group got me more trim than anything. But married to a beautiful woman that loves this song we still dance too. Been married to this gorgeous woman for 40 yrs. Still dancin to the gap band.
Awesome u know music, I 50 an still love this.
ROCK ON My Friend!!!!!!!!!!
Keep on dancing
Stay funky for life my brother. Good Funk Good Music Good Times!
Haha get ir done brother
These guys wrote timeless songs.
Rest In Power, Gap Band. You are Noe rockin' for Jesus in heaven where they have one H-E-L-L of a
Rock And Roll Band ❤
Let's start a movement: The Gap Band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
They not in there???
Seriously???
You know ... we could do that but , I'm just really more of a night owl , honestly .
I guess the ones who decide who gets in or not don't get up early in the morning.
Yessssssssss and WAR
The more I listen to the Gap Band, the more I realize they are musical geniuses
@Nanette Hazelton Last Sunday I listened to this song on Ativa FM Radio. I like this music. This song reminds me of the Sao Paulo city in the early morning
❤❤Debra 🎉😅Debra ❤❤🎉😅😅❤❤
@@debraallen1984 This song makes me think of the Sao Paulo city in the early morning
the real inventors in terms of Funk delivering it to the next Level, Now you know How Westcoast Rap Hip Hop Beats are made and why they are the Dopest Instrumentals
I think so too - BTW the drumming here is used by Dave Grohl on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
RIP Ronnie Wilison These brothers are musical geniuses. Charlie is the only one left now. :(
Thank you for that info because I was Wondering...
Wow didn't know that
On my record player they're all still alive.
Amen he's my idol. And favorite person I like him BETTER with his brothers from ,1974-1988
The gap band along with their band, back up singers and dancers are incredible. 😊
May 5, 2023 - I'm 57 years old, playing businessman, in my office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in NYC. I'm married, 1 kid, and living in NYC for 30+ years, and then, I hear this song, and my heart stops: my mind takes me back to John Marshall High School Oklahoma City, around '82/'83. Testerone running out of control, walking down the hallways falling in love every 5 seconds, going to dances, or driving in someone's car who just got their driver's license, and you feel INVINCIBLE. Man, this song takes me back. Makes me feel 17 again. God bless Tulsa's hometown Heroes. You gotta LOVE The Gap Band!
I feel you, class of 1969.
Sounds pretty cool😍😍😍
So sorry you chose nyc.
I’m 33 and this was my Momma’s cleaning house on Sunday’s music ❤ She passed away in 2012 and I dance for her now while I clean house.
Rip to ur mom ❤🙏🏼she’s looking down on u while u 💃 dance 🕊️
Sorry For Your Loss.
Thank You .All The Best.
I guess you were only 22 when you lost your mom--so sorry for your loss.
Appreciet
Lost my Mom & Dad to heart disease this year. This was their jam! Ma n Pop, this is for yall, I hope you can hear this in heaven 🙏🏼 RIP xoxoxo
They hear it alright. 💃🕺
I Feel really sorry for your loss...
@@PAULO-zv3vy from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
@@isaiahsamuelu5174 thank you 😇I really appreciate that
I'm so sorry!💔🙏
I was 7 years old when this song came out, my mama played it to death. It reminds me of Saturday mornings when we would all be up cleaning and mama would turn the stereo on, Daddy cleaning the downstairs, me and my cousin cleaning my room, and mama cleaning the rest. I miss those times in my life... RIP Mama
Thank you for that.. It made my day..
You are not alone.. A lot of us have great memories with this song and many more like it.
San Diego, Ca
I probably was around the same age as you just being a kid.but these songs put you in a time machine when you didnt know the artist name but you knew it was the jam as a kid.back then its seemed to common you expected hits ,now its just a nitemare.im pretty sure you will see your mother again on the other side.
Lol I'm nineteen and my dad would play this and songs like it on Saturdays while we cleaned the house and he was outside grilling. This music is my childhood.
Kay Angelique good memories.
There's nothing like the original gap band for life 🤘👍💯
Rest in peace Ronnie...go on home knowing you made thousands and thousands of us smile to your music
I love thist song
I always loved all the music of The Gap band when I was young and still today
Millions, not thousands
Charlie is the only one left of that trio of brothers.
Faxx❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾
I swear to God this music just gets better and better as the decades go on and makes me realize how much I can’t stand the music of today
So true..great music is timeless...
👍🏽👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I agree Mark Dowling!
@@TheIrishrogue68 DC's ddd
Mark, you got up early in the morning and had an epiphany! I concur!
This music brought people together regardless of race, class, gender etc. It was peace and love
I'm incredibly blessed to have met Ronnie Wilson later in his life. We sang together at church. What a blessing to have been able to stand side by side a legend. Rest in peace my brother in Christ. Till we meet again!
That's so cool!
@@MothGirl007 Ronnie was a great man of God! I miss him.
Get up early in the morning and you might just catch Ronnie, ijs ??? RIHP
You gotta get up early in the morning, Ronnie knows.
The best music ever this generation missing out
It's 2023 and it's still a masterpiece! It never goes out of style.
You got that right
Can’t say that about current music. 😂
No they don't make music like this anymore 80s music is the best it had soul back then unlike today
So true. 🎶😎😎🎶
@@tldavidson pp0p
Ronnie did his thing. Gone, but never forgotten.
2024 and this masterpiece is still 🔥🎼🎶💯
My bus driver use to play this every morning in elementary this is etched in my core memories lol
When Bands were Bands…
Is no one going to talk about the acronym GAP ?
GREENWOOD ARCHER PINE !
BLACK WALSTREET...
TULSA OKLAHOMA!
How prophetic it is That the Wilson Brothers would name the Band in Homage to a Community that many of us knew nothing about when this music was being created in the early 80's
Truly Outstanding!
Its the place they grew up
Totally agree.
I'm 53 and my older brother would play this every morning to get us up for school . Good times
Yeah, man. I was 8 but I remember how good life was back then
I was in Juvenile Camp, and they'd wake us up with this as well. I'm 56 now.. Love this group !!
The drumsticks on fire is on another level lol
Standing up at work and I’m trying so hard not to start dancing because this 40+ year old song is still a groove!!!!
They always looked like they were having a blast! Which is how music should be!
I was having a blast. As a matter of fact, I'm still having a blast!
Real MUSIC.!!!
Cocaine
What happen to real artists
then xanax happened lol
RIP Ronnie Wilson, you absolute genius.
My father passed away unexpectedly in 2022. He use to play this song everyday in the morning getting ready for work back in the day 😢. It use to get on my nerves now I'm thankful for this song/ol skool music. R.I.H. Daddy❤❤❤
God bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
😊😊😊❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Whos listening in 2024!!! Me!!
You're not alone on this planet!
March 6th 2024 😂
I was thinking of This Tune on a early Morning Walk to Family Fitness in Lake Jackson, TX
Are You Stalking Me
Meemeeeeeee
I Am listening the Cap Band
I'm a 25 year old Asian American dude who was brought up in good old US of A. When I turn this music on in my car as I drive down the street, you wouldn't believe how many stares I get. I simply then just turn it up louder, roll down my windows and nod my head up and down with my shades on. showing some love to the Gap Band baby!
+Aastra Calidad We'll get there. People used to think my Asian stepfather was our gardener (he was a cardio thoracic specialist). Thanks for hanging in :)
+Aastra Calidad Asian too, 38 years old, from Paris though, imagine when people see me listen to N.W.A. ... can't help it : it is good music
+Aastra Calidad That's right, enjoy yourself and forgot about the haters...by the way the GAP band stands for a section in Oklahoma called black wall street that was a prosperous town and was bombed...
+Aastra Calidad Hi I wanted to send you message I love Asian men I think its great to hear other races listening to some great soul music. I used to live in Okinawa, Japan most of the 90s and I know Asians love R&B music.
I already like yout 'cause you are who you are! You do you, baby!
Back when Uncle Charlie was just Charlie lol. Gap Band will forever get a party started.
The sheer talent of this band is just amazing
I’m 23 and my daughter is 9 months old. She LOVES this song and is always jumping up and down everytime I turn it on. 😂❤️
💃💃💃aww get it lil princess 💃💃💃
then your daughter is special, god bless her and your family. if you could i would love to see a video of her here on youtube enjoying this classic track from back in the day, im here smilin from ear to ear thinkin about it, again god bless
My mom just turned 23 when I was born, keep those memories alive for her, it's something she will always cherish.
@@armybeef68 I was BORN on my mom's 23rd birthday, May 10th, 1960. Hey, I smelled cake...
That's awesome! 🥰
People don't realize how BIG these guys and this band were back in the day.
"FIRST NAME "CHARLIE "LAST NAME WILSON", IS STILL BIG!! TODAY, WITH HIS STILL FINE AZZ😍😘🥰😗😙😚☺🤗🤩😛😋😁🤣🤣
@@zb7858 -u must be cray cray, crazy😂😂😂, how old are you?🙄🤔🤨😣😫🥱
I do my friend ,I Danced, and still do, to their music like crazy !!!
I know about these guys because my teacher was talking about them. But that was still back in like 96.
They were history teachers they did the song "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" it was about the Tulsa Race Riots their band was named after three streets in the Greenwood section of Tulsa Greenwood Archer&Pine.
Wowww!!! I remember this masterpiece ❤! First heard this song when I was 24 now I’m 67…..still Love Love Love this song 🎧
That intro drum break is a freakin iconic line
If you don't like the gap band....you have no taste. Great funk and limitless talent. Long live the 80's.
Yes, the best of times!
Absolutely.
Yes sirrrrrrrrr!
Honey 🍯 boom 💥
Is anyone going to mention the drummer using ON FIRE sticks? That's a flex right there.
Hot sticks on 🔥
I thought I was trippin
Yeah i thought i saw that but was distracted
Flex b4 flex. That's tuff.
Facts. They got that fire sound
Gap Band not in the rock hall of fame is criminal
The Gap Band will always be the best in old school music
This is the best I've ever seen or heard... It makes the garbage today sound even more crappy than it does... These dudes were off the chain .
It's generational. I remember playing P-Funk in my room, and my mom having a conniption; "Turn that fuss down!" Well, P-Funk (and the GAP Band) sounds like Mozart now...
I wish I could give you more likes 👍
It shows how good this song really was. It's fking timeless. I play this in my car and I see people bobbin' at stop lights.
True
Hell yeah 🤙🏻🤙🏻 I lose my collective shit when I hear this play on my Prince Pandora channel.
The sheer Freaking talent and soul flowing in them! My God! Charlie, if you ever read this, just know that you, and your brothers, and crew were the masters of the g/d universe! Y'all put out music and performances that people still enjoying, and always will enjoy!
I totally Agree ❤👍
Killing it before "killing it" was a thang!
😆 I like that ma'am.
This group had some really great songs. I was just a kid when this came out i am 50 now just turned 9/7/2023 and i still jam to this kind of music. This was pure with out all the dirty lyrics grinding on one another please bring this kind of music back.
You’ll never find music like this that’ll get you up and change your attitude and make you dance
Word !
You are so right there.
I'm dancing with GAP Band sometimes.
Me encanta como están vestidos
This should be EVERYONE'S alarm clock sound.
🙂Y ES! it is my tune to my alarm clock. . .my day starts at 3 30 AM🕞
Back in 2000-03 my local radio station played it everyday at 6am, i used to grove to it while driving my mom to work every morning
@@ishe728 sounds like good memories 😊
@@ishe728 This songs always brings back good memories for me. My husband and I would listen to it on or way to school back in the day. Good times!
I've been hooked on the Gap Band since I first heard them way back when. There's just something about their music that makes you feel good.
👍👍
12-29-2023
Still KICKING with THE GAP BAND..
2-14-2024👍🏾❤
Kicking with the coolest nicca
1. Their line dancing is solid. Love it.
2. The Wilson brothers always looks so happy. I love how positive the energy seems in their videos.
Drunk and drugs. But so cool
@@wgol 🤣
@@wgol Your comment is funny but it can’t be that simple. Guns n Roses, for example, were trashed on booze and drugs and they seemed like miserable assholes. So, I have to think that even if those were factors, these guys were probably just more positive-energy people to begin with. LOL
@@daughterofolaf for shure i agrre Charlie always rocks Nice person was a joke I love Uncle Charlie
@@daughterofolaf
People react to drugs and alcohol differently. Some folks get happy. Some folks get mean.
If only modern artists realized that THIS is what so many people want, and what the world needs. Upbeat tone, check. Amazing vocals, check. Immaculate lyrics, check. Amazing music video, triple check!
It's not the artists, it's the execs. They are gatekeeping the means of production.
Too many evil forces controlling and industry.
Well, I like this song, too. But the lyrics, to be honest, seem a bit silly and bland to me. In quintessence: 'you left me (and only then I realized that I really loved you), therefor now I have to find another lover'.
love you Uncle Charlie i love the band way back in the day you guys were smokin rip Robert
Still hitting 2024!
It's 2021. This song is nearly 40 years old and it still sounds fresh and funky!
Right
It does
One of my favorite all time songs! Cool video, too!
Originality
This track is one of my favourites of all time and this coming from a youngster! 19
Whos listening in 2020? 🎶🎼 This that Wave🌊
here here !!!
Man this slappppppp
I do.
yeahhhh !
Me
It's 2023. *** This song is nearly 40 years old and it still sounds fresh and funky!
2024 yep I love it I’ll always be a fan of the GAP BAND 🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤ RIP to those that’s gone on to heaven. Well done guys Thanks so much for all of your beautiful music 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤I love you and GOD BLESS YOU ALL
NO AUTO TUNE JUST REAL NATURAL TALENT
Charlie has had his ups and downs. So glad he made it through addiction and homelessness and has a testimony, love and new success. Love GAP Band!
Takes me way back!
A lot of entertainers fell Off do the infidelity use of Every kind of Drug u can think of in the Entertainment World including food and liquor and know one tell you or make announcement when first become in the Entertainment Beware of the Stop and Go Carts ( meaning:Drugs::Liquor: Food:: Pain Killers and Don't Worry Meds) the Carts you see of Substance Abuse Drugs and so Forth/ We want others to Overcome and Survive🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
nice words gorgeous...I just find it ironic that people wax supportive of others only when they already get their shit together themselves, yet criticize and dismiss them when they are at their lowest point, in the throes of addiction and possibly homeless, and no one wants anything to do with them. How convenient isn't it, everything that people say and do?
Just another white dude loving The Gap Band.
RIP GOOD MUSIC
and a brown gal too🤎❤💛💚
BOY! They were STEPPIN!!!!!!!!!
In 100 years people will still be grooving to this.
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hahaha ... I think so too!
Always. This is when music was music
So who still here '2019' JAMMIN & LISTENING with the...GAP BAND!
🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼
"KILLABEE"
💃💃💃💃💃💃EARLY n the Morning🚗🚗
best dam group that came out in the disco era
Charlie wilson the greatest
Me
Best band everrrr like if ur still listening in 2023🎉🎉🎉🎉
Early in the morning. Saturday precisely. I'm skating fast and spinning around in circles. Thank God for my youth. If not for that, I'd have nothing.
Been on a Gap Band kick all day, I dare you to be in a bad mood when you hear Charlie Wilson’s voice, Can’t be done! What an incredible band!
The drum beat was so hot the sticks caught fire.
Thats my point. Nobody will ever be that cool. In history.
Plus the bass line so funky I had to open the windows.
The keyboards got me. Discovered this song early in the morn 6am on the radio. ---Jan 2020
Yeah Raymond Calhoun is a bad boy he’s Family to us and thankful as a family for Gap being relevant today God is good ❤️🙏🏾
Nola Property Buyer I agree with u That Robert Wilson was a bad boy and he was self taught he was my husband May he RIP ❤️🙏🏾
HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY
CHARLES "CHARLIE" WILSON
(JANUARY 29, 2024)
Saw them in concert in the early 80s ..they were the bomb.
How cool are these guys. Flaming drumsticks?! Who does that? These three are epic legends. The best R&B Funk ever.
I saw them live bud!!
Ive been playing drums 30+years and never played with flaming drumsticks...🤣😅😁
I've seen Rammstein do flaming drumsticks so this video feels way head of its time.
I would be concerned about damaging my drums by using flaming sticks in a live setting
@@wpflesh6510 You are rich by then!
Im 56 and still jamming to this Dec 2019 !!💜 I listen while im cleaning the house but can't do nothing for dancing around like a fool ! Lol
Lol today is my birthday and I'm 49 I still listen and jam to this is 😂
December 22, 2019, yes, ma'am!
I'M JAMMIN AT THIS MOMENT, 1924 HRS, 23 DECEMBA, 2019, AND I'M 73!!
December 09, 1962
Thank God! We're 2! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Theres other people that are on the hall of fame and maybe they deserved it or not but its really a crime that one of the greatest soul funk bands like the Gap Band it's not in there.
A # 1 in my list .
Gap Band, Spinners, and Commodores are a pleasure to listen to at 3 in the morning.
It's sad they don't make music like this anymore.
they do look at coolfunk
We must preserve them and keep them a secret. They’re too good to share!!
@@MrHowells87 Don't gatekeep
All we got left is samples
Hell no they don't!.
Mexican born but in CA since the age of 5, now 55 and grew up with this. I continue playing this song mostly every Friday for a friend I met when I was 12 and passed away before he reached 18- He loved this song so I come by now anf then but only Fridays and play this song for him. In fact, just finished playing it. Am parked at the Gonzales Ca cemetery and his resting place is just 50 feet away-
That's cool man. Great way to keep his memory alive. His energy and spirit is in the ❤ groove brother.
Believe that those souls in that cemetery are uniting every Friday dancing to this bc of you.
May the great I_AM continue to bless you with more strength and life to continue it
Respect man. Cool story.
Driving into the big city at 11pm with a v-8 and a stereo. Over passes and tall buildings...Loved it and still do.
They should definitely do a biopic movie about the GAP Band!
This video isn’t just a music video...it’s a full experience
Or a TOTAL EXPERIENCE.
How music videos used to be!
Love this comment!
Only song I know of with a cowbell solo and it’s awesome
Right????
I went to a jazz festival with the Gap Band and almost lost my mind. They didn’t disappoint.
Awesome
The Gap Band seems timeless, and as good now as it ever was :-)
The Gap Band sound is TIMELESS! 🥳
This was one of my Dad's FAVORITE songs🎶 He passed away 9-22-2018. He use to get up early in the morning, RAIN SHINE SLEET OR SNOW, I am now my Father 💯 Rest Easy Don G. Harbor, your legacy will FOREVER live on!
Sorry for your loss 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼
Dad was dancer
Remember this from Circus Disco Days the floor was actually moving to the beat.
God Bless ya...my baby girl is just like me..her Pop...NOTHING WRONG THERE MY LADY .STAY STRONG..🙏
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
When Soul music was at its best!!! Gap Band, the Whispers, the Daz Band, Midnight Star, Klymaxx, Orang Juice Jones, Chaka Kahn, SOS, Sister Sledge, Chic and many more! Hell yeah Luv it!
So ist es!!!!🌹
Roll Call!!!!
It was an incredible time for music! In college and GAP band rocked!
Im 41 This my shit. Them boys didnt come to play grown folk shit.... This the grown and sexy section
Its 2024 i love this song and its before my time..i used to hear my mom jamming her axx off to it .. i missed those days bc them were the good ones
These brothers were ahead of their time and so unique.
Whenever you hear one their songs you say: the gap band !
Bingo!!
train your heart body and mind to awaken in reality it's R&B from the 1980 through 1990 and 1970
Nooo they were right on time!!!!!!!!
Beverly Howard they thank they are the Lord know what he's doing I'm still going to keep it real my childrens
Say: "PARTY ✌🏿
that drummer is savage af for that
2,29,2024. l, m 62 years masterpiece. it never goes out of Style. my. name. kirk😊
zapp , gap band , comondores , parliament , james brown !!! nothing compare ever to this energy !!!
This is always and forever will be one of those songs that you never get sick of no matter how old!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉
Most def, like Brick house. This fire is always gonna burn❤🔥❤🔥🔥🔥❤🔥❤🔥
One of my 90 YEAR OLD MOTHER'S FAVORITE SONGS AS SHE GOT READY for work early in the morning 🌄 🙃
i know its so gay
I remember being a kid my upstairs neighbor woke the whole building up at 7:30am every playing this song 😹😹😹😹😹🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🥰
I'm 64 and white and I still love the old school cool like this
Age is not an issue, just straight up clean music. peace
Thats dope
Hello, I am 75 and with you...
You got soul& class, m man!
Age color don't matter good music transcends that bro
Stage presence just contributes to great songs
so at one point in time people really did have fun listening to music, what a concept!
These songs always give energy and motivation. Just brings me love and happiness. 😊
always! pure joy
The Gap Band ROCKS And I'm 70 yrs. Young 2023 ❤💋♥️💯💯💯
GAP BAND "You Dropped a Bomb On Me - Black Wall Street
Founded in 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and comprised of multi-instrumentalist brothers Ronnie, Charlie, and Robert Wilson, the Gap Band surfaced as one of the most popular funk/rhythm-and-blues (R&B) groups of the 1980s. The brothers grew up performing in their father's Pentecostal church in Tulsa. There their mother was the church's pianist, and the boys sang every Sunday before their father's sermon. Ronnie, the oldest, started a group when he was fourteen and eventually recruited his younger brothers to play in the band, which they named after streets in the heart of Tulsa's historic African American Black Wall Street business district, Greenwood, Archer, and Pine.
The Gap Band recorded their first album, Magician's Holiday (1974), for Shelter Records, owned fellow by Tulsan Leon Russell. Their success really took flight in 1979 after they moved to Los Angeles. The group scored a Top Five R&B hit with "Shake" (1979), followed by other 1980 R&B Top Ten hits "Steppin' Out" and "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)." The 1982 pop hit "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" exhibits their trademark, bass-heavy style and the silky, smooth vocals of Charlie Wilson. The band continued recording into the twenty-first century.
Wow Leon Russell I'm in awe of theses guys
One of my all time favorite bands, right up there with Stevie Wonder and Sade. I think I know just about all the words to most of their hits. I saw them live in Los Angeles one time.
This group was the antithesis for the beginning of a lost style of music
Was a youngsters when this came out my dad was jamming to songs like this on Saturday while washing up the cars ❤
It’s just something about this song, no one can do it like this band ! 38 years old and it makes me feel good!
I'm 70 and it makes me feel good too
Man, I miss this classic early 1980s funk....
+Captain Quirk I THOUGHT IT WAS ME EARLY 80S R&B WAS THE BEST ESPECIALLY THE FUNK HUMPIN IS WHAT GOT ME HOOKED
i thought it was just me HUMPIN is got me hooked as a kid in 1980
Gap band kicks ass. I remember as a child in the 80s going to a giant block party thrown by what was the drug kingpin of the town at that time being taught to dance to this song. Still sends chills up my spine if I haven't heard in awhile. It was also the first time I ate soul food. Great memories
Folks gotta make a livin...drug dealer saved my life as a cop. Dont be quick to judge.
Lol. Brings back memories. I was 14, crimping my hair and dancing to the Gap Band.
The people who disliked this video dont enjoy getting up in the morning