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The Gap Band

You Dropped a Bomb on Me

1982 · via The Gap Band

The Gap Band’s 1982 recording of “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” is the earliest release on file. Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor and Charlie Wilson are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Vanilla Ice (released 2008) and Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (released 2015), among 44 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Two of the band's own, Charlie Wilson and Lonnie Simmons, wrote this with Rudy Taylor, and it later turned up on a Vanilla Ice record. Put the Gap Band's original on first so you can hear what he was reaching for.

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Credited writers: Lonnie Simmons, Rudy Taylor and Charlie Wilson.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1982.

Other recordings on file · first release year

44 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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