Humpin'
1981 single by The Gap Band
"Humpin'" | ||||
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Single by The Gap Band | ||||
from the album The Gap Band III | ||||
A-side | "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" | |||
B-side | "No Hiding Place" | |||
Released | 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1980 | |||
Genre | Funk, P-Funk | |||
Length | 5:16 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Songwriter(s) | Charlie Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor | |||
The Gap Band singles chronology | ||||
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"Humpin'" is a 1980 song by The Gap Band, from their fifth album The Gap Band III released as a single in 1981. The original B-side, "No Hiding Place", was originally released on The Gap Band II.[1] The song had mixed chart success, only peaking at #60 R&B, but busting into the top-20 on the dance charts. "Humpin'" is a fan-favorite, featured on almost all of the band's compilation albums[2] Like their previous release, "Burn Rubber on Me", "Humpin'" was later packaged and placed as part of a single with "Yearning for Your Love" as the A-side.
Sampling
To date, the song has been sampled four times:[3]
- "Humpin'" by the College Boyz from their 1992 album Radio Fusion Radio.
- "Bumpin'" by Paperboy from his 1992 album The Nine Yards.
- "You Got Me Humpin'" by Adina Howard from her 1995 album Do You Wanna Ride?
- "Doggfather" from Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1996 album Tha Doggfather. This song featured the Gap Band's lead singer, Charlie Wilson, who worked extensively with Snoop on the whole Tha Doggfather album.
References
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- Charlie Wilson
- Ronnie Wilson
- Robert Wilson
- Magicians Holiday (1974)
- The Gap Band (1977)
- The Gap Band (1979)
- The Gap Band II (1979)
- The Gap Band III (1980)
- Gap Band IV (1982)
- Gap Band V: Jammin' (1983)
- Gap Band VI (1984)
- Gap Band VII (1985)
- Gap Band 8 (1986)
- Straight From The Heart (1988)
- Round Trip (1989)
- Testimony (1994)
- Ain't Nothin' But a Party (1995)
- Y2K: Funkin' Till 2000 Comz (1999)
- Live & Well (1996)
- Gap Gold: The Best of The Gap Band (1985)
- The Best of Gap Band (1995)
- "Oops Up Side Your Head"
- "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"
- "Humpin'"
- "Yearning for Your Love"
- "Early in the Morning"
- "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
- "Outstanding"
- "Party Train"
- "Going in Circles"
- "All of My Love"