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A Ohio Players come the funk band whose heyday was in the mid- to late 1970s. It formed around Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables, & ab initio involved members Robert Ward (vocals/guitar), Marshall "Rock" Jones (bass), Clarence "Satch" Satchell (saxophone/guitar), Cornelius Johnson (drums), and Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet/trombone). A Ohio Untouchables broke higher around 1963, with Ward allowing for a solo career, however the core members of the class action returned to Dayton & added Gary Webster (drums) and Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (guitar) in 1964. A class action added deuce additional singers, Bobby Lee Fears & Dutch Robinson, & became a home band for Future York City-depending Compass Records in 1967. It shortly became one of a better known R&B bands of the 1970's. A class action disbanded once more within 1970. Fallowing once again reforming by owning the line-higher including Bonner, Satchell, Middlebrooks, Jones, Webster, trumpeter Bruce Napier, trombone player Marvin Pierce, & keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison, the Players had a minor hit on the Detroit-based Westbound label in 1971 with "Pain," which reached the Billboard R&B Top 40. A band signed by using Mercury Records in 1974; by this time their lineup experienced changed once more, using keyboardist Billy Beck instead of Morrison & Jimmy "Diamond" Williams in drums instead of Webster. Bonner sang lead vocals in virtually all of the band's hits. A band’s foremost large hit was “Funky Worm,� which hit #1 on the Hoarding R&B Charts and made the pop Top 15 in May 1973. A b& experienced vii further Top 40 hits between 1973 and 1976, including the smashes "Fire" (#1 in each a R&B and pop charts for two weeks and one week respectively in February 1975) and "Love Rollercoaster" (#1 on both the R&B and pop charts for 1 week in January 1976). A class action's go large hit was "Who'd See Coo," the #1 R&B hit in August 1976. A b& became widely known non just for their healthy, which has been sampled and copied by unnumerable R&B and hip-hop artists since, but for their sexually provocative album covers, including the cover of 1974's Ecstasy, which featured a man and a woman in a pose of arousal wearing chains and leather, and 1975's Honey, which featured a nude woman holding an overflowing jar of honey and dropping some into her mouth with a ladle. There exists besides an urban legend that has it that a scream in "Love Rollercoaster" that precede a 2nd verse was a healthy of somebody existence flushed in a studio when the track was existence recorded. [http://snopes.com/music/hidden/roller.htm] A band did non discredit this hearsay at a instance, because, when 1 band member put it afterwards, "that makes you sell more records." Clarence Satchell died inside January 1996 after he had the brain aneurysm. Ralph Middlebrooks died within November 1997.
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Ohio Players Funk Up Tha Web Band member list, photographs and images, interviews and articles, FAQ, and discography. HOB.com: Ohio Players Concert Archive HOB.com presents Ohio Players in an on-demand Video concert recorded live 2/11/2000 at the House of Blues Sunset Strip. Rollingstone.com: The Ohio Players Includes biography, recordings, and message board. |
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