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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.
Wilson performed the song with the band on the British television chat show Wogan in August 1989. In 1998, Wilson performed on Mystikal's Ghetto Fabulous album. Michael Paran, who is CEO of P Music Group, was responsible for rebranding the Gap Band in 1997 and repositioning them as one of the top R&B touring groups.
Chater and Withem left the band; Bement took over on bass guitar and keyboardist, Barry McCoy, and horn player, Richard Gabriel, were added. In 1970 Puckett began recording as a solo act, but with limited success; the Union Gap remained his live backing band until they were dismissed following an appearance at the 1971 Orange County Fair ...
Ronnie Wilson, multi-instrumentalist and founder of the popular R&B and funk group The Gap Band, has died. “Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn ...
Gary's first group was The Outcasts, which included Bobby Brown (bass), Dwight Bement (saxophone; also later member of the Union Gap), Bob Salisbury (saxophone), and Willie Kellogg (drums). [7] Originally formed as a Righteous Brothers -styled duo by Puckett and Brown, their manager Yale Kahn, owner of the Clairemont Bowl, added Bement ...
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, [3] country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, [4] blues rock, [5] folk, surf and the Tulsa sound.
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). Each album does not reflect which number they released, only which point it is in the series ( Gap Band IV , for example, is actually their sixth album).
(Reuters) -Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and 1970s rock group the Band, including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest ...