With those credentials, its safe to say that Simmons mark on funk music and on black music in general is indelible. Lonnie Simmons | Discography | Discogs The latter album went gold, while the former went platinum, selling over a million copies. Just happens I was listening to some Gap band 12 promos from the club. Spencer Dinwiddie continues to play pretty well, I don't love the matchup but he's going to look like a nice mid-range point guard option in this one. The signing hit immediate pay dirt with the 1979 hit Shake. The Gap Band followed later that same year with the top smash Oops Upside Your Head, which Simmons co-wrote, and which had a bit of a second life a couple years ago, when Simmons and company received co-writing credits on the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit Uptown Funk, for that songs similarity to Oops., With The Gap Band driving Total Experience forward, Simmons then signed the duo Yarbrough and Peoples, who went on to a successful recording career and the #1 hit Dont Stop the Music. Through the first half of the 1980s, it seemed that Total Experience could do no wrong, as The Gap Band and Simmons teamed for hit after hit such as Outstanding, You Dropped A Bomb On Me, and Early In the Morning. Lonnie Simmons Profile: Producer, songwriter and record label executive, founded the influential R&B label Total Experience Records in the 70s. Party Train, one of only two Gap Band V tracks actually produced by Simmons, peaked at No. I pray Lonnie got himself straight with God before he died. The band, consisting of twelve members, was reduced officially to the three Wilson brothers. 93 pop), Big Fun Gap Band (1987); (No. He formed Total Experience Records and had major hits throughout the 80s before turning his efforts into film and video production. Lonnie Simmons Total Experience.Pdf - eBook and Manual Free download ) (1980); (No. Gap Band IV, released in early 1982, was the first Total Experience album release. It originally began in 1977 as a production company whose artists recorded for Mercury Records before becoming a label in 1981. Simmons founded the influential R&B label Total Experience in the 70s, and hit the ground running by signing the Tulsa, Oklahoma act, The Gap Band, featuring the three Wilson brothers. *We have sad news to report on one of the black music industrys pioneers. Former Boston Celtic Paul Pierce to Pay SEC $1.4M After He Chris Brown Catches it for Mocking Disabled People At A Berlin Judge Says Brian Flores Lawsuit Against NFL Can Proceed | Video. 2 songs between Total Experiences top two artists would continue with the Gap Bands remake of The Friends of Distinctions Going In Circles, which hit No.

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