The Gap Band was an R&B and funk group formed in 1967 by Charlie (born 1953),
Ronnie (born 1948), and Robert (born 1956) Wilson, the sons of a Pentecostal
minister. The group first adopted the funk style indelibly associated with them
in the early 1970s. Their roots were in the Greenwood, Archer & Pine Street
Band, which Ronnie Wilson had formed with Tuck Andress a few years earlier
before they took The Gap Band name from a Tulsa intersection. They failed to
ignite much interest until LA producer Lonnie Simmons signed them to his Total
Experience label and masterminded a more str...