I'm 53 white country boy this is a legendary song! The beat and words work! Dropped a bomb another untouchable song!! Badass band
@barbee411325 күн бұрын
I'm am a Black native NEW YORKER who will never forget this song .
@reachlove67793 сағат бұрын
😊
@stanhutchins43655 күн бұрын
I’m a southern white boy and I grew up listening to the Gap Band and still do. This music 🎶 is for ever.
@vernabond41248 күн бұрын
This Hit Is "EPIC"!! The World Was Filled With "LOVE" In This ERA!! So Thankful I Was A Part Of It. The "70"s & 80's Music Was OFF THE CHAIN & Sounds Even Better In 2024. I Put on My Earphones & Listen To It ALL DAY! ❤️ I Loved Marvin Gaye's Sultry, Sexy Voice.
@darrellhudson1693 Жыл бұрын
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.
@shantalbin-ali9986 Жыл бұрын
Awesome u know music, I 50 an still love this.
@ionlycompetewiththewomaniw5429 Жыл бұрын
ROCK ON My Friend!!!!!!!!!!
@amancalledhawk5575 Жыл бұрын
Keep on dancing
@Jordn336 Жыл бұрын
Stay funky for life my brother. Good Funk Good Music Good Times!
@haydenpearson9545 Жыл бұрын
Haha get ir done brother
@itslbabywilson34884 жыл бұрын
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❤
@John-gk3ph4 жыл бұрын
It's L baby Wilson Your dad was the man. Me and my buddies grew up loving The Gap Band.
@itslbabywilson34884 жыл бұрын
@@John-gk3ph Thank you much appreciated❤
@313DETROIT4 жыл бұрын
🙏
@harish714 жыл бұрын
really wow ... grew up listening to them way back in the early 80s still rockin sorry bout your Dad Rest in Funk !
@itslbabywilson34884 жыл бұрын
@@harish71 Thankyou!❤
@karagranshaw27752 ай бұрын
Their outfits are outrageous! Their smiles contagious! Their beats timeless!
@mrsplanetmaster92 ай бұрын
Always an entertainment DELIGHT 💃🏼💙💚
@Darronsanderson2 ай бұрын
June, 2024, I never stopped listening. 🍻👏👏
@DaMusicluvTАй бұрын
July 2024 😎🎵
@teresabrown-simms3438Ай бұрын
Can't stop and won't stop, Aaaayye!
@edwardarismendez625524 күн бұрын
July 27,2024🍻
@Darronsanderson24 күн бұрын
@@edwardarismendez6255 ✌🏽
@bethlovett761211 күн бұрын
August 24❤
@Zoyous Жыл бұрын
The more I listen to the Gap Band, the more I realize they are musical geniuses
@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Жыл бұрын
@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
@debraallen1984 Жыл бұрын
❤❤Debra 🎉😅Debra ❤❤🎉😅😅❤❤
@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Жыл бұрын
@@debraallen1984 This song makes me think of the Sao Paulo city in the early morning
@alltimeklazzikz Жыл бұрын
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
@MontecristotoValjean Жыл бұрын
I think so too - BTW the drumming here is used by Dave Grohl on Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
@brianrobinson1412 Жыл бұрын
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!
@reesesm37305 ай бұрын
I feel you, class of 1969.
@kishiagoins25413 ай бұрын
Sounds pretty cool😍😍😍
@virginiabrady35362 ай бұрын
So sorry you chose nyc.
@johndanley4534Ай бұрын
Greenwood, Archer, and Pine. Nothing but respect. Funky, yet smooth. No one does it better.
@gregc6007Ай бұрын
You bet Brian! Great story!!
@loydmcintosh31319 ай бұрын
Let's start a movement: The Gap Band for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
@DPSLee5 ай бұрын
They not in there???
@TheOlmonroe15 ай бұрын
Seriously???
@drdvs695 ай бұрын
You know ... we could do that but , I'm just really more of a night owl , honestly .
@CanadianAmerican755 ай бұрын
I guess the ones who decide who gets in or not don't get up early in the morning.
@krystingrant62925 ай бұрын
Yessssssssss and WAR
@frankgaliana7442Ай бұрын
Just turned 76 and me and my wife are dancing. Get up!!!!
@FartyMcNuggetsАй бұрын
*That’s right Frank !!!!* 🎶🎶🕺🏻🎼🕺🏻🎶🕺🏻🎼🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻🎼🎼🎶🕺🏻🎼🕺🏻🎼
@briannasims7646 Жыл бұрын
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
@Iceriv Жыл бұрын
They hear it alright. 💃🕺
@PAULO-zv3vy Жыл бұрын
I Feel really sorry for your loss...
@briannasims7646 Жыл бұрын
@@PAULO-zv3vy from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
@briannasims7646 Жыл бұрын
@@Iceriv thank you 😇I really appreciate that
@glo7802 Жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry!💔🙏
@ashley_aleece3959 Жыл бұрын
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.
@vallerolokote Жыл бұрын
Rip to ur mom ❤🙏🏼she’s looking down on u while u 💃 dance 🕊️
@onedayati Жыл бұрын
Sorry For Your Loss.
@onedayati Жыл бұрын
Thank You .All The Best.
@not-so-smartaleck8987 Жыл бұрын
I guess you were only 22 when you lost your mom--so sorry for your loss.
@saidou5939 Жыл бұрын
Appreciet
@darlenejohnson426510 күн бұрын
1970 babies awake. Listened to this every morning on the way to school me, my Dad. Lets go. Nuf. Let go get another.
@coxval2635Ай бұрын
See him live. He's still great! 2024!
@sheilawhite84932 жыл бұрын
RIP Ronnie Wilison These brothers are musical geniuses. Charlie is the only one left now. :(
@djstorm402 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that info because I was Wondering...
@deborahthemisses2 жыл бұрын
Wow didn't know that
@armybeef682 жыл бұрын
On my record player they're all still alive.
@dailmcdavid9981 Жыл бұрын
Amen he's my idol. And favorite person I like him BETTER with his brothers from ,1974-1988
@asafaust88693 ай бұрын
The gap band along with their band, back up singers and dancers are incredible. 😊
@kevinbranch60082 жыл бұрын
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!
@RyanOnWeather3 ай бұрын
Its the place they grew up
@pamelakain48793 ай бұрын
Totally agree.
@NickShears7722 күн бұрын
A mister of funk
@charleshill5093Ай бұрын
Old white guy here was 61 the last time I checked in no I'm 64 checking in again still kickin it 👍
@sandyaw305711 күн бұрын
You’re not old! I’m 67 and feel like 47…don’t stop kickin!
@Bbmangood3 жыл бұрын
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
@TheIrishrogue683 жыл бұрын
So true..great music is timeless...
@0221serendipity3 жыл бұрын
👍🏽👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I agree Mark Dowling!
@ikonic_cheats60193 жыл бұрын
@@TheIrishrogue68 DC's ddd
@bijoubijou64463 жыл бұрын
Mark, you got up early in the morning and had an epiphany! I concur!
@hooperad823 жыл бұрын
This music brought people together regardless of race, class, gender etc. It was peace and love
@sheiladaniels81574 жыл бұрын
They always looked like they were having a blast! Which is how music should be!
@agag48664 жыл бұрын
I was having a blast. As a matter of fact, I'm still having a blast!
@ia97054 жыл бұрын
Real MUSIC.!!!
@b-24234 жыл бұрын
Cocaine
@io76644 жыл бұрын
What happen to real artists
@angelofdeath2754 жыл бұрын
then xanax happened lol
@95KIPPIE4 ай бұрын
Love love Love the Gap Band!!! Awesome group with amazing hits!!!!
@kimberlyreeder57182 күн бұрын
They are amazing, even the backup dancer in yellow. No shame in anyone's game. I love it. ❤
@texarican_776 ай бұрын
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!
@MothGirl0076 ай бұрын
That's so cool!
@texarican_776 ай бұрын
@@MothGirl007 Ronnie was a great man of God! I miss him.
@aarondigby50543 ай бұрын
Get up early in the morning and you might just catch Ronnie, ijs ??? RIHP
@aarondigby50543 ай бұрын
You gotta get up early in the morning, Ronnie knows.
@davidclavier31532 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Ronnie...go on home knowing you made thousands and thousands of us smile to your music
@margaretsingletary15382 жыл бұрын
I love thist song
@florencemiller78262 жыл бұрын
I always loved all the music of The Gap band when I was young and still today
@youngbeefjerky31262 жыл бұрын
Millions, not thousands
@tonylamontbillings66072 жыл бұрын
Charlie is the only one left of that trio of brothers.
@MomentPhotographyG1 Жыл бұрын
Faxx❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾
@kayangelique644510 жыл бұрын
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
@stephaniespeer49099 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that.. It made my day..
@rickyrsd9 жыл бұрын
You are not alone.. A lot of us have great memories with this song and many more like it. San Diego, Ca
@Tirrell259 жыл бұрын
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.
@laniandrade22649 жыл бұрын
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.
@mgdiaz21587 жыл бұрын
Kay Angelique good memories.
@thomaswallenius64312 ай бұрын
65 white woman still jamming to this ever since it came out!
@bethlovett761211 күн бұрын
You know it's on when you hear the rooster ❤
@TagTab6379 жыл бұрын
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!
@Kinikia958 жыл бұрын
+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 :)
@petitlouis50108 жыл бұрын
+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
@michellesavarese24708 жыл бұрын
+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...
@lateshiachilds36408 жыл бұрын
+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.
@ms.nhardin47448 жыл бұрын
I already like yout 'cause you are who you are! You do you, baby!
@qweets4172 жыл бұрын
Ronnie did his thing. Gone, but never forgotten.
@MaryKingsborough-st3kk28 күн бұрын
STILL GETS ME MOVING. TIMELESS. GLAD I GREW UP DANCING WITH THEM!!!
@isrealneal75525 ай бұрын
There's nothing like the original gap band for life 🤘👍💯
@destinyjohnson42122 жыл бұрын
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. 😂❤️
@itslbabywilson34882 жыл бұрын
💃💃💃aww get it lil princess 💃💃💃
@tarablake35732 жыл бұрын
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
@armybeef682 жыл бұрын
My mom just turned 23 when I was born, keep those memories alive for her, it's something she will always cherish.
@BigBlackRod2 жыл бұрын
@@armybeef68 I was BORN on my mom's 23rd birthday, May 10th, 1960. Hey, I smelled cake...
@DerEinsameSoldat2 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! 🥰
@daughterofolaf3 жыл бұрын
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.
@wgol3 жыл бұрын
Drunk and drugs. But so cool
@daughterofolaf3 жыл бұрын
@@wgol 🤣
@daughterofolaf3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@wgol3 жыл бұрын
@@daughterofolaf for shure i agrre Charlie always rocks Nice person was a joke I love Uncle Charlie
@CodyCole802 жыл бұрын
@@daughterofolaf People react to drugs and alcohol differently. Some folks get happy. Some folks get mean.
@markmiller45953 күн бұрын
I took my now wife to a Gap Band show in Cleveland on one of our first dates. I'm sure she thought I was nuts as there weren't too many people that looked like us, lol. Still one of my two favorite funk bands of all time (SOS is the other). How I wish I could see these guys in concert again. I miss em'.
@kennedymuitherero376224 күн бұрын
When musicianship was authentic and unadulterated by celebrityhood
@patriksl6599 Жыл бұрын
It's 2023 and it's still a masterpiece! It never goes out of style.
@charleshill5093 Жыл бұрын
You got that right
@ljmarti6 Жыл бұрын
Can’t say that about current music. 😂
@scottsargent8346 Жыл бұрын
No they don't make music like this anymore 80s music is the best it had soul back then unlike today
@tldavidson Жыл бұрын
So true. 🎶😎😎🎶
@7thDay-is-Holy Жыл бұрын
@@tldavidson pp0p
@2nd2none92 жыл бұрын
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 .
@BigBlackRod2 жыл бұрын
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...
@carlvinmyers55822 жыл бұрын
I wish I could give you more likes 👍
@jackienuttall75492 жыл бұрын
True
@Cindee-Schnitman2 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah 🤙🏻🤙🏻 I lose my collective shit when I hear this play on my Prince Pandora channel.
@jwatwater2 жыл бұрын
There's no reason we can't live in a world where this as well as "Stir Fry" by Migos can't both slap. Cause they do. It's just different vibes my G.
@junosynth5 ай бұрын
These guys wrote timeless songs.
@AJMiro-Quesada3 ай бұрын
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 ❤
@davewollenberg15182 ай бұрын
@@AJMiro-Quesada Uncle Charlie's still with us.
@giannak563111 ай бұрын
Wowww!!! I remember this masterpiece ❤! First heard this song when I was 24 now I’m 67…..still Love Love Love this song 🎧
@kellywittmann18932 жыл бұрын
RIP Ronnie Wilson, you absolute genius.
@matthewcollins51573 жыл бұрын
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!
@hmwelding63884 ай бұрын
My bus driver use to play this every morning in elementary this is etched in my core memories lol
@user-mp4js7xm5j4 жыл бұрын
Is anyone going to mention the drummer using ON FIRE sticks? That's a flex right there.
@jave624-d5u4 жыл бұрын
Hot sticks on 🔥
@byronpitts46444 жыл бұрын
I thought I was trippin
@rastachavez88874 жыл бұрын
Yeah i thought i saw that but was distracted
@rickshaw50764 жыл бұрын
Flex b4 flex. That's tuff.
@alonsorhea64724 жыл бұрын
Facts. They got that fire sound
@willarcher23563 жыл бұрын
How cool are these guys. Flaming drumsticks?! Who does that? These three are epic legends. The best R&B Funk ever.
@nocreeps99872 жыл бұрын
I saw them live bud!!
@vistalite-ph4zw2 жыл бұрын
Ive been playing drums 30+years and never played with flaming drumsticks...🤣😅😁
@diosoth2 жыл бұрын
I've seen Rammstein do flaming drumsticks so this video feels way head of its time.
@wpflesh65102 жыл бұрын
I would be concerned about damaging my drums by using flaming sticks in a live setting
@alonzoneloms5651 Жыл бұрын
@@wpflesh6510 You are rich by then!
@elcasettedelosmelofilos6652Ай бұрын
My crush for Charlie Wilson never dies 😂 he is so FINE!!! Love The Gap Band
@thetruesoulofanaquarius930211 ай бұрын
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❤❤❤
@richardortiz87045 ай бұрын
God bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤
@richardortiz87045 ай бұрын
😊😊😊❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@LadysugarshaftАй бұрын
🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
@nicholezimmerman71544 жыл бұрын
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!
@Alejandro-AlexLopez3 жыл бұрын
Takes me way back!
@househome36543 жыл бұрын
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🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
@eargasm10722 жыл бұрын
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?
@stevenserna910 Жыл бұрын
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!
@claresamorris2087 Жыл бұрын
I totally Agree ❤👍
@hootengooten850224 күн бұрын
56 year old music fanatic, here. This brings back memories, of high school. It's possible to love R&B, soul, hip hop, heavy metal, country, punk, blues, and jazz. We are all connected by positive vibrations. Let the music flow through you. Peace. Love. Happiness.
@marilynross59657 ай бұрын
love you Uncle Charlie i love the band way back in the day you guys were smokin rip Robert
@kennethhubler16934 жыл бұрын
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!
@sylviagernitz51263 жыл бұрын
So ist es!!!!🌹
@hooperad823 жыл бұрын
Roll Call!!!!
@yourmanufacturingguru0013 жыл бұрын
It was an incredible time for music! In college and GAP band rocked!
@alexadair58714 жыл бұрын
People don't realize how BIG these guys and this band were back in the day.
@marygale-manuel55143 жыл бұрын
"FIRST NAME "CHARLIE "LAST NAME WILSON", IS STILL BIG!! TODAY, WITH HIS STILL FINE AZZ😍😘🥰😗😙😚☺🤗🤩😛😋😁🤣🤣
@marygale-manuel55143 жыл бұрын
@@zb7858 -u must be cray cray, crazy😂😂😂, how old are you?🙄🤔🤨😣😫🥱
@MrHernanromero3 жыл бұрын
I do my friend ,I Danced, and still do, to their music like crazy !!!
@paulb95963 жыл бұрын
I know about these guys because my teacher was talking about them. But that was still back in like 96.
@dwightlove37043 жыл бұрын
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.
@DinahReid27 күн бұрын
I'm 60 yrs young and still rocking to this in 2024...real music❤❤❤🔥🔥
@destinessstoker6 ай бұрын
❤I'm 34 years of age. My grandfather and my mother introduced me to The Gap Band at a young age & I've been vibing to This Band for decades ‼️💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾Rip to my mother, thanks for introducing me to this type of music, ma 💕❤️🥺.
@hollyloma73175 жыл бұрын
So who still here '2019' JAMMIN & LISTENING with the...GAP BAND! 🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼💿🎼
@robertbell85165 жыл бұрын
"KILLABEE"
@mariondebose30325 жыл бұрын
💃💃💃💃💃💃EARLY n the Morning🚗🚗
@timothysirewop22515 жыл бұрын
best dam group that came out in the disco era
@CarlosLopez-yz3mb5 жыл бұрын
Charlie wilson the greatest
@priscillamarquez85 жыл бұрын
Me
@jrcampbell8070 Жыл бұрын
I'm 53 and my older brother would play this every morning to get us up for school . Good times
@kayshawnsimmons55858 ай бұрын
Yeah, man. I was 8 but I remember how good life was back then
@ronaldindian59068 ай бұрын
I was in Juvenile Camp, and they'd wake us up with this as well. I'm 56 now.. Love this group !!
@mr.g30297 ай бұрын
12-29-2023 Still KICKING with THE GAP BAND..
@blackqueen1646 ай бұрын
2-14-2024👍🏾❤
@edwardsantos95875 ай бұрын
Kicking with the coolest nicca
@cynthiakennie97273 күн бұрын
Me too and age don't matter. Good musc
@josaczyn2 ай бұрын
Used to see them in Tulsa during the early days! The walls would rock. There was an old church downtown! Amazing!
@TheNelsonmonteiro4 жыл бұрын
These brothers were ahead of their time and so unique. Whenever you hear one their songs you say: the gap band !
@franciscocosta50233 жыл бұрын
Bingo!!
@househome36543 жыл бұрын
train your heart body and mind to awaken in reality it's R&B from the 1980 through 1990 and 1970
@beverlyhoward35122 жыл бұрын
Nooo they were right on time!!!!!!!!
@househome36542 жыл бұрын
Beverly Howard they thank they are the Lord know what he's doing I'm still going to keep it real my childrens
@robertgoodman18672 жыл бұрын
Say: "PARTY ✌🏿
@Ty_James214 жыл бұрын
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!
@helenniles31393 жыл бұрын
Sorry for your loss 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼
@barneyroberts73853 жыл бұрын
Dad was dancer
@michaelsambrano67083 жыл бұрын
Remember this from Circus Disco Days the floor was actually moving to the beat.
@richardannulli23873 жыл бұрын
God Bless ya...my baby girl is just like me..her Pop...NOTHING WRONG THERE MY LADY .STAY STRONG..🙏
@itslbabywilson34882 жыл бұрын
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@traelewis-vh5ji10 ай бұрын
A Latino lady used to play this every morning. I worked with her at family dollar. I play every know in then when I need a push
@leehughes53364 ай бұрын
"DEFINITELY, SOME FUNKY STUFF" .... brings back some good memories of a less complicated time in our world .... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😊
@intoxman98324 ай бұрын
🎉😗👋
@brendatorres9765 Жыл бұрын
This is always and forever will be one of those songs that you never get sick of no matter how old!!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉
@DugEphresh Жыл бұрын
Most def, like Brick house. This fire is always gonna burn❤🔥❤🔥🔥🔥❤🔥❤🔥
@brendabarber7459 Жыл бұрын
One of my 90 YEAR OLD MOTHER'S FAVORITE SONGS AS SHE GOT READY for work early in the morning 🌄 🙃
@soniaaegerter5521 Жыл бұрын
i know its so gay
@kayshawnsimmons55858 ай бұрын
I remember being a kid my upstairs neighbor woke the whole building up at 7:30am every playing this song 😹😹😹😹😹🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🥰
@1Mic1Life2 жыл бұрын
Rip Ronnie 🙏 🕊 your music will live on forever !!! My dad would be so upset if he was still here !!! Thanks for everything you left us with !!!
@Moonstrike98511 ай бұрын
The best music ever this generation missing out
@ms.v33072 жыл бұрын
I saw Mr. Charlie Wilson perform in Boston 1 week ago and he still has the Voice!!!
@rodneybrazier3325 Жыл бұрын
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.
@BritonAD10 ай бұрын
👍👍
@tiffanywilliams95455 ай бұрын
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
@eLGaLLo1ortega56227 күн бұрын
This is one of my favorites of all time...Cruisin through the "one Way Calles" in Varrio Norwalk listing to this jam full blast during the eighties and ninties...Those were the dayz...
@HarveyAlston3 жыл бұрын
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.
@juanitaschumacher65692 жыл бұрын
Wow Leon Russell I'm in awe of theses guys
@PocketAces2Start2 жыл бұрын
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.
@mozthumble22585 жыл бұрын
Whos listening in 2020? 🎶🎼 This that Wave🌊
@jimmyvaldez47274 жыл бұрын
here here !!!
@ronpeer46354 жыл бұрын
Man this slappppppp
@didiermarchant28074 жыл бұрын
I do.
@monikabater20654 жыл бұрын
yeahhhh !
@kameldeiboune39904 жыл бұрын
Me
@user-um6lz9hg3r8 ай бұрын
This is a video that you don't want to ever end.
@user-nu4no7mu2r2 жыл бұрын
This song never gets old! Love me some Gap Band!
@anitathompson70232 жыл бұрын
Oh yes!!! Me too.
@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 Жыл бұрын
@@anitathompson7023 Nice song
@terryannmaes5538 Жыл бұрын
The sheer talent of this band is just amazing
@darcydiamond86458 ай бұрын
I will dance & watch this incredibly fab clip all night long. This (& lots of others: Rosalia, bad bunny, Temptations,) helped me thru pandemic “stay safe @ home.” I cared little that windows were open, that my dance space was teeny. I played this, plus Gap Band “Early In The Morning” really loudly on my flatscreen & got my groove on. Thank you to all groups mentioned. ❤
@ygaltuil16 сағат бұрын
This group is intemporel ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@charlessedlacek5754 Жыл бұрын
If you don't like the gap band....you have no taste. Great funk and limitless talent. Long live the 80's.
@maryjernigan7335 Жыл бұрын
Yes, the best of times!
@virginiabrady3536 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@treydance7429 Жыл бұрын
Yes sirrrrrrrrr!
@michaelbracken17149 ай бұрын
Honey 🍯 boom 💥
@fernze.64782 жыл бұрын
RIP RONNIE!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GEMS OF GREAT JAMS YOU GAVE US...
@colleenrichards14799 ай бұрын
My eldest brother, Glynn would buy all these LPs and on a Saturday, while doing our chores, I would be the resident DJ while they done the garden work. Rest in Peace, Hearty, Lips and Strangz. Red Cup 🥤 Approval Tune 🇿🇦 Memories in Music! Oh Yeah! 🗣️
@MaintainCampaign9 ай бұрын
Shoutout to OG GLYNN!!
@soonerangel3837Ай бұрын
Living in Oklahoma as a young girl dancing to this song everywhere i went....Good times from one of the best 👌🏽soul brother bands ever from Tulsa Oklahoma 🎉🎉🎉
@phoenixproto31492 жыл бұрын
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!
@PacificDark Жыл бұрын
It's not the artists, it's the execs. They are gatekeeping the means of production.
@ladydivine8615 Жыл бұрын
Too many evil forces controlling and industry.
@PeterSpaeter96 Жыл бұрын
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'.
@tracygavin6776 Жыл бұрын
It’s just something about this song, no one can do it like this band ! 38 years old and it makes me feel good!
@debrahelicke7204 Жыл бұрын
I'm 70 and it makes me feel good too
@melissamear53916 ай бұрын
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.
@susankern54494 ай бұрын
I pray one day we will get "THIS AMERICA" back again 🤦🤷💔 Where we all loved each other inspite of our differences 🤦🤷🫂
@robertwilliamsbigrob2 ай бұрын
We need to just keep mixing our races and become one big family then everyone and everything will be okay
@nanp9582Ай бұрын
Social media has ruined everything
@yankeedoodle1963Ай бұрын
It was never like that.
@marcushudson1749Ай бұрын
@@yankeedoodle1963much more than today! Mainstream media divides us a lot and political garbage ! IMO. Much love to everyone. #onelove
@bencolwell2260Ай бұрын
Now that WE know it was manipulated and NOT natural.. Won't be long now darlin.. Constitutional Republic or bust.. GOD have mercy on OUR souls 🇺🇸
@carlalaudicina24493 жыл бұрын
The Wilson Brothers and Uncle Charlie... Glorious legends. The best of all time. One of the best days of my life, meeting Charlie and his phenomenal wife, Mahin, and the amazing crew, at Charlie's book signing. Beautiful. I play The Gap Band and Charlie when I need good feels. Works everytime! 😄🙌
@antoniodimartino65683 жыл бұрын
This music was great than and now I miss it
@70foolio Жыл бұрын
These songs always give energy and motivation. Just brings me love and happiness. 😊
@kruklown20 Жыл бұрын
always! pure joy
@patriciamarcum321910 ай бұрын
The Gap Band ROCKS And I'm 70 yrs. Young 2023 ❤💋♥️💯💯💯
@spencerbainter6772 ай бұрын
As a Daytonian gotta say, folks may have a preconceived notion bout us, but great example is me. Mom raisin me in the ‘Creek and T’Wood daddy. We all family here, so hearin these lovely memories from ya’ll is a blessing. Stay bless an stay up fam. From many we are one!❤️
@user-re7ul5kt3p7 ай бұрын
The Gap Band will always be the best in old school music
@timmytube122 жыл бұрын
It's sad they don't make music like this anymore.
@danilodietschi95162 жыл бұрын
they do look at coolfunk
@MrHowells872 жыл бұрын
We must preserve them and keep them a secret. They’re too good to share!!
@Carlos.m_space2 жыл бұрын
@@MrHowells87 Don't gatekeep
@frederickporter86772 жыл бұрын
All we got left is samples
@Dark_Knight_USA2 жыл бұрын
Hell no they don't!.
@OZARKMOON19602 жыл бұрын
RIP Ronnie Wilson. Still a classic and one of my fav bands!
@florida5451 Жыл бұрын
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
@virginiabrady3536 Жыл бұрын
Folks gotta make a livin...drug dealer saved my life as a cop. Dont be quick to judge.
@tracie25422 ай бұрын
I'm Almost 51 in July 6 , I loved this song since 6 yrs old my Dad drove Schlitz beer trucks in the early 70's to be exact 73 to Miller my dad wore 🎉the Moose Head 🙏
@texasvice18 жыл бұрын
The legacy of the Gap Band. Everything they made was fire. This here.....put them on top of the Funk pile.
@johnwadd44328 жыл бұрын
yep or earth wind an fire !! funk funk rick james bitch !! dave chapllee
@keepondjw8 жыл бұрын
+texasvice1 yess they played this on rock 103 here in memphis it was all over the place bumping
@mike55568 жыл бұрын
"Charlie Murphy!"
@TheSpaLife698 жыл бұрын
......SAY WHATTTTT ?!?!?
@kennethminor53407 жыл бұрын
mike5556 it's charlie wilson aka uncle charlie
@rastachavez8887 Жыл бұрын
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-
@ericwalker8775 Жыл бұрын
That's cool man. Great way to keep his memory alive. His energy and spirit is in the ❤ groove brother.
@ibarraf83 Жыл бұрын
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
@druss6387 Жыл бұрын
Respect man. Cool story.
@susanhurst329213 күн бұрын
Great story!
@rachelsaenz20435 ай бұрын
Man! !! I LOVE THIS SONG IM 55 Yrs old Hispanic Woman I used to listen to this song everyday while I got dressed for school That's my jam 😊
@jwahartalchabhadell67219 ай бұрын
Gap Band, Spinners, and Commodores are a pleasure to listen to at 3 in the morning.
@IrisMG5 жыл бұрын
Tulsa's finest! RIP Robert Wilson
@andyhinds5423 жыл бұрын
It's 2021. This song is nearly 40 years old and it still sounds fresh and funky!
@sandracravens81863 жыл бұрын
Right
@TILEROB3 жыл бұрын
It does
@horseygurl1433 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite all time songs! Cool video, too!
@funkesola39153 жыл бұрын
Originality
@samramos14703 жыл бұрын
This track is one of my favourites of all time and this coming from a youngster! 19
@DamienBittner7 ай бұрын
Just another white dude loving The Gap Band. RIP GOOD MUSIC