
07/09/2025
The Gap Band "The Gap Band" (1979) -Pop Soul / Funk-
Label : Mercury Records

01 - Shake (Charles Wilson)
02 - You Can Count On Me (Charles Wilson & Buddy Jones)
03 - Open Up Your Mind (Wide) (Ronnie Wilson & Charles Wilson)
04 - Messin' With My Mind (Charles Wilson, Robert Whitfield & Rick Calhoun)
Side Two
01 - Baby Baba Boogie (Lonnie Simmons, Charles Wilson & Ronnie Wilson)
02 - I'm In Love (Ronnie Wilson)
03 - Got To Get Away (Robert Wilson)
04 - I Can Sing (Charles Wilson & Ronnie Wilson)
The Gap Band :
Charles Wilson : Lead vocal, Keyboards, Drums, Percussion, Background vocals
Robert Wilson : Bass, Lead vocal, Background vocals, Percussion
Ronnie Wilson : Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Piano, Percussion, Background vocals (except for "Baby Baba Boogie"; Lead vocal by Lonnie Simmons & The Gap)
Produced by Lonnie Simmons for Total Experience Productions
Recording Engineers : Ty Blair, Bart Chiate
Remix Engineers : Bob Hughes, Ty Blair
Second Engineers : Ty Williams, Gregory Steve MacMillan
Recorded at The Total Experience Recording Studio, Hollywood, California
Background vocals : Maxine Willard Waters, Julia Tillman Waters, Robert Whitfield, Howard Huntsberry, Mary Powdrill, Gary Glenn
Guitars : Jim Macon, Eugene Henderson
Drums : James Gadson, 'Moon' Calhoun
Keyboards : Louie Cabazoz, Billy Mitchell, Karen Childs, Huby Heard
Horns : Don Myrick, Louis Satterfield, George Bohannon, Fred Jackson Jr., Nolan Andrew Smith Jr., Michael Harris, Maurice Spears, Leslie Drayton, Sid Muldrow, Eugene Young, Albert Aarons, Robert Bryant, Barbara Korn
Strings : Concert Mistress - Janice Gower, Gina Kronstadt, Haim Shtrum, William Henderson, Henry Roth, Jerome Reisler, Marcia Van Dyke, Rollice Dale, Larry Woods, Marilyn Baker
Harp : Dorothy Ashby
Percussion : Shondu Akiem
Strings & Horns Arranged by Tom Tom 84 (with the exception of "Shake" Arranged by Mavin Vice)