Best Dance Band
The Gap Band IV is a 1982 album by the Gap Band, the Tulsa group led by brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson. Its electronic keyboards, synthesizer bass, percussion, and call-and-response vocals place it at the transition between 1970s funk and 1980s electro-funk. The album contains "Early in...
American Bandstand was a pioneering television program showcasing popular music and dance culture in the United States. Beginning in 1952, it became synonymous with early rock and roll and later pop music, largely through its live broadcasts featuring prominent artists. Dick Clark hosted the show fo...
Gap Band V: Jammin' is a 1983 studio album by the Gap Band, the Tulsa, Oklahoma group led by brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson. It includes "Party Train," a dance-oriented funk single built around synthesizers, electronic rhythms, group vocals, and Charlie Wilson's lead performance. The al...
Gap Band VI is a 1984 studio album by the Gap Band, a funk and R&B group formed by brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The record continued the group's use of synthesizers, rhythm machines, prominent bass lines, and Charlie Wilson's lead vocals during its commercially est...
Published in 1930 by Wayne King and Gus Kahn, this romantic dance tune earned Wayne King his nickname, 'The Waltz King,' during the American big band era.
The Gap Band's 1986 studio album, among the later entries in the Wilson brothers' decade-long run of funk and R&B records released throughout the 1980s.
