![]() ![]() The use of synthesizers led to two songs, " Early in the Morning" and " You Dropped a Bomb on Me topping the R&B charts in 1982. By Gap Band IV, almost all the songs which were not Quiet Storm ballads were heavily laden with synthesizer.The Gap Band III featured "Humpin'" and " Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" which use even more synthesizer than this song.By 1982, most of the band's hits were synthesizer-laden Electrofunk. The band made little use of the synthesizer prior to this song, and the use of the synthesizer expanded with each passing album.The horn break is a direct lift from the intro to "Disco To Go" by The Brides of Funkenstein.The Jack & Jill line would later be continued on their next anthem, "Humpin'" The line, "the bigger the headache the bigger the pill, the bigger the doctor the bigger the bill" was said to be influenced by similar lines from Parliament-Funkadelic in the mid-'70s including the line "the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill" in "Dr.Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)", "welcome to radio station W-E-F-U-N-K, better known as WE-FUNK." Wilson's spoken intro, "this is radio station W-GAP", was a reference to Parliament's opening line in " P.The humorous monologues throughout the song by Gap Band lead singer Charlie Wilson were inspired by his cousin Bootsy Collins' own humorous slant in his songs. ![]() "Just because you don't believe that I wanna dance/don't mean that I don't want to" is also in the chorus, but is not as frequently mentioned and thus the shorter name is usually remembered.The song's repetitive chorus "say, oops upside your head/say oops upside your head", has led to the alternate name "Oops Upside Your Head".The song, which runs for nearly nine minutes in the full 12" single version, features an infectious driving bass-line with a simple repeated E-G-A-B pattern. ![]()
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