Yearning for Your Love

"Yearning for Your Love"
Single by The Gap Band
from the album The Gap Band III
B-side
ReleasedJanuary 1981
Recorded1980
Genre
Length3:59 (single)
5:43 (album version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
  • Oliver Scott
  • Ronnie Wilson
The Gap Band singles chronology
"Humpin'"
(1980)
"Yearning for Your Love"
(1981)
"Early in the Morning"
(1982)

"Yearning for Your Love" is a 1980 ballad recorded and released by The Gap Band on Mercury Records. The single was the third release off the band's fifth album, The Gap Band III (1980). Four different singles, each with a different B-side, were released in 1981.

The song became a modest hit on the US and UK charts when it was released; it arose to number five on the Hot Soul Singles chart and number sixty on the Billboard Hot 100. Written by Gap Band keyboardist Oliver Scott and keyboardist Ronnie Wilson, it was a romantic love song dedicated to Wilson's wife at the time and was performed by Ronnie's brother Charlie Wilson.

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