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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 .
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."
Straight from the Heart (David Houston and Tammy Wynette album), 1971; Straight from the Heart (Patrice Rushen album), 1982; 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
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).
The song had mixed chart success, only peaking at No. 60 R&B, but busting into the top-20 on the dance charts. "Humpin'" is a fan-favorite, featured on almost all of the band's compilation albums [ 2 ] Like their previous release, "Burn Rubber on Me", "Humpin ' " was later packaged and placed as part of a single with " Yearning for Your Love ...
Gap Band 8 is the 10th album (contrary to the title) by American R&B and funk band the Gap Band, released in 1986 on Total Experience Records.It is the first (and only) album in the band's self-titled series to be subtitled with a regular number instead of a Roman numeral, as well as their final self-titled album.