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The Gap Band

Yearning for Your Love

1980 · via A Tribe Called Quest

The Gap Band’s 1980 recording of “Yearning for Your Love” is the earliest release on file. Oliver Scott and Ronnie Wilson are credited as its writers. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Pad & Pen” (1998) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

The Gap Band – Yearning for Your Love
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Tribe lifted "Pad & Pen" out of this Gap Band record from 1980, so drop the needle on the original and you can hear the ground they built on. Then flip back to Tribe and notice how little they had to add to make it theirs.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Oliver Scott and Ronnie Wilson.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1980.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s “Pad & Pen” (1998) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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A Tribe Called Quest's "Pad & Pen" samples a soul record called "Yearning for Your Love." Which act had that song on record before Tribe got to it?The Gap Band
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