1980 was a great year for funk and "Humpin'" by The Gap Band was one of the greats. Anybody feeling this one?

you got me humpin...day and night,oh baby


oh hell yeah,this jam is da shit! I wonder why it never gets mentioned along with their other classics from this era.

You know how people like to do these days....especially radio. They like to pick two or three songs, wear them out, and forget about the rest.

My favorite Gap Band song, was just listening to their 12" Collection this past weekend.

Where are the humpin' people at??!!!

Where dey at??!!

I like this one, and it used to play all the time at my local radio station. My favorite songs by Gap Band are Party Train and Early In the morning.

Great song! Sounds like a Funkadelic tune.

Put ya back down sucka and raise your rump into a vicious hump....

Imagine my delight when I got to see them do this live last summer. This is my favorite Gap Band song.

Jam 2 tha motha !

http://funkvideos2.free.f..._motha.mpg

I love "The 12 Inch Collection". My favorite is the sirens in "You Dropped A Bomb On Me".

DavidEye said:

I love it when you swear.

RipHer2Shreds said:

It's strange that the Gap band were pretty much the chameleons of the Funk back then. Their first record had them copying EWF unapolegetically, the second record was a total lift of P-Funk, ("oops upside your head" = "the bomb") and then they came into their own on the third record with Humpin, Burn Rubber, and the other stuff, and then, BAM, they started copying their OWN damn hits, where Early in the Morning was just a ripoff of Burn Rubber, and then Party Train was a ripoff of Early In The Morning.

And THEN they did "You Dropped a Bomb On Me" and somehow that was the end of their originality.

Odd career, that band.

vainandy said:

never heard this song...it's not on my greatest hits or their LP I have...help me someone! love the G-A-P

(oops upside yo head)

It's delightful! I love me some WGAP!

badujunkie said:

"humpin" is on their 3rd album "gap band III"

vainandy said:

beauhall said:

Yeah they got that Parliament sound especially live!! Gap is very funky.

beauhall said:

i think u got it backward. by that 3rd album u had people bitin THEIR sound like Carl Carlton's "Bad Mamma Jamma" that's basically "Burn Rubber" in the key of F....the only familiar thread in their other songs was the 1-2-3-4/1-2-3-4 drum countoff.....

For me this is a very close second after Burn Rubber.

In their heyday, the Gap Band was the baddest band on the planet.

It's on "Gap Band III". If you can't find that one, it's also on "The 12 Inch Collection" (even though the version is the same as the album version).

I don't see "Outstanding" get much love.

GangstaFam said:

Get outta here that song gets ALOT of love!

DavidEye said:

Good. I haven't seen any on here. But maybe I wasn't paying attention.

DavidEye said:

I've seen these guys a couple of times in concert,
and "Outstanding" always got the biggest audience response.