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Gap Band IV is the sixth album (contrary to the title) by The Gap Band, released in 1982 on Total Experience Records. The album reached #1 on the Black Albums chart and #14 on the Pop Albums chart, achieved platinum status, and is considered their most successful project.

Gap Band IV
Studio album by The Gap Band
Released	May 17, 1982
Recorded	1981–82
Studio	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood, California)
Genre	R&B, soul, funk
Length	42:05
Label	Total Experience
Producer	Lonnie Simmons
The Gap Band chronology
The Gap Band III (1980) Gap Band IV (1982) Gap Band V: Jammin' (1983)
Singles from Gap Band IV
"Early in the Morning" Released: April 1982 "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" Released: August 1982 "Outstanding" Released: November 1982

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B+[2]

The album produced the singles "Early in the Morning" (#1 Black Singles, #13 Club Play Singles, #24 Pop Singles), "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" (#2 Black Singles, #39 Club Play Singles, #31 Pop Singles), and "Outstanding" (#1 Black Singles, #24 Club Play Singles, #51 Pop Singles). It also achieved a rare feat in which every song on the album received radio airplay.

It was the first album producer Lonnie Simmons released directly on his label, Total Experience Records. The album was later reissued on CD in 1994 by Mercury Records.

Track listing

#	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	Early in the Morning	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor	6:30
2.	Season's No Reason To Change	Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson	4:49
3.	Lonely Like Me	Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor	5:21
4.	Outstanding	Raymond Calhoun	3:18
5.	Stay With Me	Ronnie Wilson	4:11
6.	You Dropped a Bomb on Me	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor	5:10
7.	I Can't Get Over You	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson	6:02
8.	Talkin' Back	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Robert Wilson, Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor	6:42

Personnel

• Charlie Wilson - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Backing Vocals
• Robert Wilson - Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals
• Oliver Scott - Horns, Synthesizer, Keyboards
• Raymond Calhoun - Drums, Percussion
• Melvin Webb, Ronnie Kaufman - Drums
• Dionne Oliver - Bass
• Fred Jenkins, Glen Nightingale, Jimi Macon - Guitar
• Robert "Goodie" Whitfield, Louis Cabaza - Keyboards, Synthesizer
• Wilmer Raglin- Horns, Backing Vocals
• Andy Ward, Earl Roberson, Larry Stone - Horns
• David Drew, Marva King, Maxayn Lewis, Alisa Peoples, Calvin Yarbrough, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor, Sheila Young, Val Young - Backing Vocals

Charts

Chart (1982)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums[3]	14
Billboard Top Soul Albums[3]	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[4]
		US Pop	US R&B	US Disco
1982	"Early in the Morning"	24	1	13
	"You Dropped a Bomb on Me"	31	2	39
1983	"Outstanding"	51	1	24

See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1982

References

External links

• Gap Band IV at AllMusic
• Gap Band IV at Discogs

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