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The Ohio Players, Kool & The Gang: From Ohio to Japan

Robin Katz, Sounds, 15 February 1975

THE OHIO Players have been America's number one R&B band for the last two years. Kool And The Gang were the first instrumental based band to break through the vocal barriers and were fairly responsible for coining the current slang expression "funky", (previous to Kool and Co, funky meant smelly).

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