Name: Fire
Brand: The Ohio Players

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FRM01101

Colour

Colour details

Translucent Red Vinyl

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, Limited Edition, Gatefold

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-02-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

829421011019

Total Cap

Red LP

Artist

The Ohio Players

Genre US

Funk / Soul

Label US

The Ohio Players formed in 1959 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Originally named The Ohio Untouchables, they were the studio house band at King Records.
Renamed the Ohio Players, the group signed to Capitol Records in Los Angeles in the mid '60s. In 1972, the band signed to Westbound Records in Detroit and achieved commercial success, after which it recorded for Mercury Records.
The original band members of The Ohio Players are Leroy Bonner, Billy Beck, Clarence Satchell, Ralf Middlebrooks, Marshall Jones and Jimmy Williams.

This band ladies and gentlemen, this is the pure, out and out, the dead-on definition of that freaky word. Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Herbie Hancock, "Parliament", "Earth, Wind, and Fire", etc... etc... are all right up there on the Mt. Rushmore of Funkadalia, but arguably the funkiest of them all were the "Ohio Players". That's not to say the above mentioned quintet takes a back seat in my opinion to this incredible funk/soul group, on the contrary, these players are more like 2nd ballot hall-of-famers compared to the five no-brainer first balloters mentioned above. Yet, in the mid-70's (1974 and 75 to be exact) almost no band of their ilk could touch them as they punched out three consecutive hit records - "Skin Tight", "Fire", and "Honey" in that order.

Fire

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