The Gap Band III

The Gap Band III is the fifth studio album (contrary to the title) by American R&B band the Gap Band, released in 1980 on Mercury Records. It was produced by Lonnie Simmons. It was their first album to achieve platinum status. The album was reissued in a remastered edition by PTG Records in 2009.

Gap Band III
Studio album by the Gap Band
Released	December 8, 1980
Recorded	1980
Studio	Total Experience Recording Studios (Hollywood)
Genre	Soul funk
Length	44:45
Label	Mercury PTG
Producer	Lonnie Simmons[1]
The Gap Band chronology
The Gap Band II (1979) Gap Band III (1980) Gap Band IV (1982)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

The album reached #1 on the Black Albums chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 200.^[5] The album yielded 3 charting singles: the #60 R&B song "Humpin'", "Yearning for Your Love", a #5 R&B single which peaked at #60 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the #1 R&B hit "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)", which reached #19 on the dance charts and #84 on the Hot 100.^[6]

This would be the group's final release by Mercury Records (via Total Experience Productions). The Gap Band's next six albums were released on Total Experience Records.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When I Look in Your Eyes"	Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor, Wilmer Raglin	4:59
2.	"Yearning for Your Love"	Oliver Scott, Ronnie Wilson	5:42
3.	"Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor	5:30
4.	"Nothin' Comes to Sleepers"	Oliver Scott, Ronnie Wilson	5:33
5.	"Are You Living"	Charlie Wilson, John Black	4:23
6.	"Sweet Caroline"	Charlie Wilson, Malvin Vice	3:20
7.	"Humpin'"	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor	5:13
8.	"The Way"	Oliver Scott, Ronnie Wilson	4:47
9.	"Gash Gash Gash"	Robert Wilson	5:18
10.	"Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) [Radio Version]"	Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor	4:09

Personnel

• Charlie Wilson - Keyboards, Synthesizer, Percussion, Lead and Backing Vocals
• Ronnie Wilson - Trumpet, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Robert Wilson - Bass, Backing Vocals (Lead vocals on "Gash Gash Gash")
• Oliver Scott - Horns, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals
• Raymond Calhoun - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
• Melvin Webb, Ronnie Kaufman - Drums
• John Black - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Malvin "Dino" Vice - String Arrangements, Backing Vocals
• Cavin Yarbrough - Synthesizer
• Robert "Goodie" Whitfield - Keyboards
• Fred Jenkins - Guitar
• Glen Nightingale - Guitar
• Marlo Henderson - Guitar
• Wilmer Raglin- Horns, Backing Vocals
• Earl Roberson - Horns
• Katie Kilpatrick - Harp
• The Gap Band, Howard Huntsberry, Jonah Ellis, Marva King, Maxanne Lewis, Rudy Taylor, Val Young, Lonnie Simmons, Malvin "Dino" Vice - Backing Vocals

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums[7]	16
Billboard Top Soul Albums[7]	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[8]
		US Pop	US R&B	US Disco
1981	"Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"	84	1	19
	"Yearning for Your Love"	60	5	-
	"Humpin'"	-	60	-

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1981 (U.S.)