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Dayton OH, United States (1959 – present)

The Ohio Players are a funk and R&B band whose heyday was in the mid- to late 1970s. They formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables, and initially included members Robert Ward (vocals/guitar), Marshall “Rock” Jones (bass), Clarence “Satch” Satchell (saxophone/guitar), Cornelius Johnson (drums), and Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks (trumpet/trombone). The Ohio Untouchables broke up in 1963, with Ward leaving for a solo career, but the core members of the group returned to Dayton and added Gary Webster (drums) and Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner (guitar) in 1964. The group added two more singers, Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson, and became the house band for New York City-based Compass Records in 1967. They soon became one of the better known R&B bands of the 1970’s. They inspired many artists including The Mighty Majors (“You Can Never Go Back”), which opened a show for them once on the road.

Their song “Runnin’ from the Devil” inspired the Van Halen song “Runnin’ With the Devil”.

The group disbanded again in 1970. After again reforming with a line-up including Bonner, Satchell, Middlebrooks, Jones, Webster, trumpeter Bruce Napier, trombonist Marvin Pierce, and 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. Detroit vocalist Dale Allen shared co-lead vocals on some of the early Westbound material, although not credited on the albums “Pain” and “Pleasure”.
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  • kirayamik

    I just remember Final Destination 3. s2 [2] <З

    last month

  • helloneves

    I just remember Final Destination 3. s2

    October 2011

  • healallkillnone

    one last concert is all I ask of them then I could join all the great soul men in heaven

    September 2011

  • sodr2

    sing for me!

    August 2011

  • Firstlittlejo

    It takes an L and a O and a V and a E it takes you it takes me together.

    July 2011

  • placebosyndrome

    Unsung was so good!

    July 2011

  • CCCCCCCCICCCCCC

    me and the ohio players are gonna tell you bout a worm

    July 2011

  • healallkillnone

    jam, jam,jam jam,jam,

    May 2011

  • Suihkubad

    Ecstasy The sickest groove I've ever heard. FUCK

    April 2011

  • ahmadchaudhary

    O-H-I-O!

    March 2011

  • Firstlittlejo

    My Brother saw them at Yoshie's Oakland, Ca said they were rockin stayed for both shows I loved "Jones". Something about that turbin and yeah that bass!!!

    January 2011

  • Firstlittlejo

    Love all the jazzy parts have every album being the music lover that I am

    October 2010

  • FuckingKP

    Funky Worm. Maybe on of the most sampled track in the early 90's gangsta rap b

    September 2010

  • stubbornbastard

    oh shit man, the love rollercoaster chorus makes me high.

    August 2010

  • sickofevery

    ghetto funk and soul mixtapes! http://paybacktimeyouuglyskank.blogspot.com/

    August 2010

  • AllyM725

    Ohio Players set Wingate Field in Brooklyn on FIRE last night! I was loving every minute...funkin' under the stars - they held down a serious groove throughout their show (Skin Tight, Jive Turkey, Pain, Funky Worm (?) O-H-I-O, Sweet Sticky Thing, Heaven Must be Like This, Love Rollercoaster, Fire). The concert series is free, but their performance last night was so good that I'd have paid for admission. IMHO: they could/should have been the evening's closing act.

    July 2010

  • scoop423

    this made your first love seem so real

    May 2010

  • ricardocrvg

    gta san andreas

    May 2010

  • zaskorsky

    DO THE HUSSSTLE! <3

    April 2010

  • javiercabrerasa

    funky and aguant

    February 2010
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