![]() INFORMATION ABOUT THE GAP BAND's RECORD "OOPS UPSIDE YOUR HEAD" After 43 years together, they retired in 2010.". The group shortened its name to The Gap Band in 1973. With the nucleus consisting of brothers Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, the band first formed as the Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band in 1967, in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. "The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band which rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. ![]() Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these video on YouTube. ![]() Thanks to all those who were associated with the performances of both the videos showcased in this post. I recognize that other compilations of these YouTube discussion threads would probably be different than the one that I'm compiling and sharing. ![]() I'm particularly interested in documenting and sharing the use of African American Vernacular English that may be found in any of these comments. Other comments are included about the Gap Band, and other 1970s-1980s Funk music. Most of the comments in this post are about Uptown Funk's use of aspect/s of the Gap Band's "Oops Upside Your Head" song. I believe that some YouTube discussion thread comments should be preserved, studied, and shared for educational and folkloric purposes alone or along with the YouTube sound files or videos that prompted them. The content of this post is presented for cultural and aesthetic purposes. Neither of these pancocojams posts include any comments from the featured YouTube discussion thread for the video "Uptown Funk". Two Youtube examples of "Jungle Love and a video of "Uptown Funk" are also included in that post. Part II provides selected comments about "Uptown Funk" from two YouTube discussion thread of The Time's 1984 record "Jungle Love". However, some of these selected comments include memories of and comments about "Oops Upside Your Head" and/or comments about other Funk records.Ĭlick for Part II of this series. Most these featured comments address the subject of "Uptown Funk" 'ripping off' (using the hook of) that Gap Band's song. Part I also provides selected comments about "Uptown Funk" from two YouTube discussion threads of the Gap Band's late 1979/early 1980 record "Oops Upside Your Head". One sound file and one video of "Oops Upside Your Head" and one video of "Uptown Funk" are also featured in this post. Information about the record "Uptown Funk" is also given in this post. Part I provides information about the Gap Band about their record "Oops Upside Your Head". Listen for similarities below.This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series on comments from selected YouTube discussion threads about the song "Uptown Funk!" and two other Funk records - the Gap Band's "Oops Upside Your Head" and The Time's "Jungle Love". This is all a bit surprising, considering that “Uptown Funk!” and “Oops Up Side Your Head” don’t actually sound all that much like each other. Given that “Uptown Funk!” spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard charts, this is going to mean a whole lot of money for the Gap Band. Music Week reports that Gap Band members Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, Charles Wilson, Robert Wilson, and Rudolph Taylor have all been given co-writer credits because of the similarities between “Uptown Funk!” and their 1979 hit “Oops Up Side Your Head.” They join the Ronson, Mars, and the song’s four other credited co-writers (including Nicholaus Williams and Devon Gallaspy, who are in there because of the way “Uptown Funk!” interpolates Trinidad James’ “All Gold Everything”). But another old-school funk group is getting paid. When Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars hit huge with their strutting pastiche “ Uptown Funk!,” people played a lot of spot-the-influence, and the consensus was that the song got its swagger from Morris Day & The Time. ![]() After the verdict in the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit, nobody is playing around when it comes to those pesky “hey, this song sounds like this other song” complaints. ![]()
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