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Straight from the Heart is the 11th album by the Gap Band, released in 1988 on Total Experience Records (their final release for the label). The album includes the single "Straight from the Heart", while the song "Sweeter Than Candy" was featured in the film Penitentiary 3 .
The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band consisted of three brothers: Charlie , Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, along with other members; it was named after streets (Greenwood, Archer, and Pine) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma .
"Straight from the Heart" is a song by American rock band the Allman Brothers Band, released in July 1981 as the lead single from the group's eighth studio album, Brothers of the Road (1981). Written by guitarist Dickey Betts and Nashville songwriter Johnny Cobb, the song was a conscious effort to produce a hit single .
Straight from the Heart (Peabo Bryson album), 1984; Straight from the Heart (The Gap Band album), 1988; Straight from the Heart: The Very Best of Bonnie Tyler, 1995; Straight from the Heart (Daryle Singletary album), 2007 "Straight from the Heart" (The Allman Brothers Band song), 1981 "Straight from the Heart" (Bryan Adams song), 1983 "Straight ...
According to engineer Jack Rouben, the foundation of the song started with its bassline: "[The track] was a musical idea that Charlie came up with on the Minimoog that turned into a groove, then a completed arrangement, and then they put the lyrics at the very end...This song was built upon that one repeating bass track, and that was the jam that blossomed into a whole complete song."
"Humpin '" is a 1980 song by The Gap Band, from their fifth album The Gap Band III released as a single in 1981. The original B-side, "No Hiding Place", was originally released on The Gap Band II. [1] The song had mixed chart success, only peaking at No. 60 R&B, but busting into the top-20 on the
The song peaked at number 72 in Australia. Later, the song was covered by teen band Rosetta Stone in 1982 (issued as a single in November that year, two months before Adams' version was released on his album). Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler released it as a single in the UK 11 August 1983, and in the US as a B-side to “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.
The Gap Band has released over 30 albums. Since their inception in 1967, the Gap Band has released 16 studio albums, 12 compilation albums and 2 live albums. They released nine self-titled albums (including two of the same name).