"Yearning For Your Love"

"Weekend Girl"

Two of the greatest R&B bands of all time.

Both from the South. Both hit their commercial peak in the 1980's. Both influential to the mainstream music scene yet largely unsung outside of the R&B and funk communities. Both with similar tunes...

The SOS seems to have taken a page out of The Gap's book as they fashioned "Weekend Girl" from their 1984 album, Just the Way You Like It after the latter's "Yearning for Your Love" from their 1980 release, The Gap Band III. The similarities lie in the main 3 chord progression that play throughout both songs as well as the way SOS sings the bridge of their song (you can hear it at 3:58).

WG's lyric of "I never let nothin' keep me from what I want" in sung in the same rhythmic pattern as YFYL's "You can't keep runnin' in and out of my life". Intriguing!

I know I'm not the only person to notice these uncanny likenesses! Anybody else or am I going even crazier than I already am?

To me, the 2nd song sounds like this one slowed down a little