| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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Skin Tight (12" Version) | Ohio Players | 7:54 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Streakin' Cheek to Cheek | Ohio Players | 5:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
It's Your Night / Words of Love | Ohio Players | 8:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Jive Turkey | Ohio Players | 7:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Heaven Must Be Like This | Ohio Players | 7:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved? | Ohio Players | 5:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 6 Songs |
Album Review
Skin Tight was a major turning point for the Ohio Players, who had enjoyed several hits on black radio (including "Pain," "Funky Worm," "Varee Is Love," and "I Wanna Hear From You") but hadn't been huge. Switching from Westbound to Mercury, the Dayton funksters became exactly that — huge — and went from enjoying a cult following to being one of the most celebrated funk bands of the 1970s. With Skin Tight, the band's erotic album covers went from employing bizarre S&M/bondage imagery to being more Playboy-ish, and its music became less abstract (but remained quite risk-taking and unpredictable). The title song and "Jive Turkey" are down and dirty funk classics, and the jazz-influenced "Heaven Must Be Like This" illustrates the fact that the Players could also be captivatingly romantic.
Customer Reviews
Hall of Famers
The Ohio Players were without question the most unique sounding R&B group of the 70's, and created one of the most original sound styles of any musical era.Truth be told, Earth, Wind & Fire could not touch these brothers musicianship. If you listen real closely and compare the Ohio Players musical sound to other R&B group recordings of the 70's era, you can detect a Master student relationship and the Ohio Players were clearly the Masters. The 3 Albums, Skin Tight, Fire, and Honey, absolutely destroys the competition of any other R&B group of the same time period. This is not an opinion, this is a FACT!!! If you collect music and you do not have the 3 aforementioned albums within your collection you simply do not have a good ear for MUSIC.
Biography
Formed: 1959 in Dayton, OH
Genre: R&B/Soul
Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s
Top Albums and Songs By Ohio Players
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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1 |
Love Rollercoaster | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ohio Players | 4:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fire | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ohio Players | 4:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Fire | Fire | 4:36 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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I Want to Be Free | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ohio Players | 6:52 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Love Rollercoaster | Funk On Fire - The Mercury Anthology | 4:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Heaven Must Be Like This | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ohio Players | 7:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Love Rollercoaster | Honey | 4:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Skin Tight | Funk On Fire - The Mercury Anthology | 7:53 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Fire | Funk On Fire - The Mercury Anthology | 4:34 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Funky Worm | Pleasure | 2:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
