Gap Band V- Jammin' is the seventh album (contrary to the title) by the Gap Band, released in 1983 on Total Experience Records.[3] The album was reissued on CD in 1997 by Mercury Records. In 2009, the album was remastered by PTG Records.
The album reached #2 on the Black Albums chart and #28 on the Pop Albums chart. The album produced the singles "Party Train" (#3 R&B) and "Jam the Motha'" (#16 R&B). Other less successful singles include "Shake A Leg", "I'm Ready (If You're Ready)" (which were both released as remixes); and the UK-only singles "Jammin' In America" and "Someday". To date, it is the Gap Band's last gold album.
"Someday" (a loose cover of the Donny Hathaway song "Someday We'll All Be Free") and the single remix of "Shake A Leg" as a form of a dub version was on the Party train maxi single. With the exception of "Party Train" and "Smile" (which were co-produced by label owner Lonnie Simmons), the album was produced by oldest brother Ronnie Wilson.
Critical receptionEdit
Robert Christgau wrote: "Like Cameo and Rick James before them, these old pros blew their sure shots on the breakthrough--this drops no bombs. But once again the follow-up album compensates for never getting up by never letting up--the uptempo stuff steadfastly maintains their hand-stamped party groove, and like Cameo (forget Rick James), they've figured out what to do with the slow ones."[2]
Track listingEdit
#
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
Introduction - Where Are We Going? (Instrumental)
Oliver Scott
1:35
2.
Shake A Leg
Charlie Wilson, Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor
3:58
3.
I'm Ready (If You're Ready)
Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hamilton, Maurice Hayes Nestor
Charlie Wilson in-depth interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' August 2011
October 22, 2023
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