07/09/2025

Gap Band "The Gap Band II" (1979) -Pop Soul / Westcoast Soul-



Label : Mercury Records


États-Unis Side A

01 - Steppin' (Out) (Charles Wilson, Lonnie Simmons & Ronnie Wilson)
02 - No Hiding Place (Ronnie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons & Charles Wilson)
03 - I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops!) (Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, Charles Wilson, Robert Wilson & Rudolph Taylor)

Side B

01 - Who Do You Call* (Robert Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson & Charles Wilson)
02 - You Are My High* (Ronnie Wilson, Johnsye Smith & Charles Wilson)
03 - Party Lights (Charles Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson & Rudolph Taylor)
04 - The Boys Are Back In Town (Charles Wilson, Malvin Vice & Lonnie Simmons)


Produced by Lonnie Simons for Total Experience Productions
Recording Engineer : Jack Rouben
Assistant Engineers : Gerry Brown, Tyrone Williams, Rudolph Taylor
Mixing Engineer : Jack Rouben
Technical Engineer : Barry Steinpress
Mastering Engineer : Bob Carboni
Recorded & Mixed at Total Experience Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA

Gap Band :
Charles Wilson : Lead vocals, Background vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizer & Percussion
Ronnie Wilson : Trumpet, Keyboard & Background vocals
Robert Wilson : Bass, Background vocals & Lead vocal on "Who Do You Call"

Musicians :
Guitar : Emzie Parker III, Glenn Nightingale, James Macon
Drums : Ronnie Kaufman, Raymond Calhoun
Keyboards : John Black, Louie Cabaza, Greg Phillinganes*
Horns : Malvin Vice, Gussie Scott, Fernando Harkless, Bernard Baisden
Percussion : Raymond Calhoun, Greg Phillinganes*
Synthesizer Mixing : Greg Phillinganes*
All Horn Arrangements by Malvin Vice
Strings Arrangements on "Party Lights" & "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Benjamin Wright
Background vocals : Lois Peoples, Calvin Yarbrough, Angela Smith, Gail Johnson, Gussie Scott, Rudolph Taylor, Robert Whitfield, Howard Huntsberry & our 'Gappers' (Casey Wilson, Val, Brenda, Linda, 'Stretch', Carlos, Johnny, Glenn, Boondoxatron (from the planet Alphil) & Malvin Vice)