The Ohio Players
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Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 25 August 1972
THE OHIO Players started life a decade ago as the Ohio Untouchables and their first real claim to fame is that they were featured vocalists ...
Overview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, April 1974
IN A HAPPIER world, pigeon-holes would be strictly for pigeons. Yet the fact remains that terms like "R and B" and "Soul" are no longer ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975
With an album racing up the US charts, the Ohio Players are big timers. CHRIS CHARLESWORTH in New York meets the tour de force behind ...
Ohio Players: Fiery, Freaky and Funky
Profile by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 1 February 1975
CURRENTLY THE HOTTEST item on Billboard's album chart is The Ohio Players Fire (Mercury). Phonogram must have burnt their fingers in the rush get it ...
The Ohio Players, Kool & The Gang: From Ohio to Japan
Profile and Interview by 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 ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 18 February 1975
AS ANYONE who witnessed the one and only Ohio Players concert in London will gladly testify, they rank as one of the most colourful and ...
Ohio Players, Graham Central Station, Funkadelic: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 24 February 1975
Progressive Soul: Where Were You? ...
Ohio Players, Graham Centra! Station, Parliament-Funkadelic: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1975
ONLY TWO weeks after Sly Stone scaled his decline by falling on his face at Radio City Music Hall, two of his most popular heirs ...
The Funk Masters #1: The Ohio Players
Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, April 1975
The Ohio Players and Kool & the Gang hit town last month, and suddenly dreary ol' London town became Bump City. Tony Cummings reports... ...
Ohio Players: Taking Hit Parade Mountain By Strategy
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, June 1975
SATCH SATCHELL, prime mover of The Ohio Players, is standing backstage at Radio City Music Hall mumbling something to himself about "we the #1 group ...
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 22 July 1975
OVER THE past year or so, I can't think of a group who has made as much impact on our music as the Ohio Players. ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 20 September 1975
EARLIER THIS YEAR Ralph 'Pee Wee' Middlebrook, trumpeter with The Players, admitted in an interview "now we've made it after all that scuffling I suppose ...
Money, 'Honey': Ohio Players on the Royalties Road
Profile and Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 20 November 1975
NEW ORLEANS — It's midafternoon as the limousine containing the Ohio Players is swallowed up by the giant, saucerlike shell known as the Louisiana Superdome, ...
Kool and the Gang: Spirit Of The Boogie; Ohio Players: Honey
Review by Richard Williams, Let It Rock, 1 December 1975
OCCUPYING ROUGHLY the same area in the impressively wide spectrum of contemporary Black music, these two orchestras both play for dancers but nevertheless perform entirely ...
War & The Ohio Players: Say It Loud, I'm Black an' My Bank Manager's Proud
Profile and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 3 July 1976
WAR and THE OHIO PLAYERS fall into a similar category –- two flash, young(ish) outfits with artistic and financial freedom and an interesting line in ...
The Ohio Players: The Spirit of '76
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 6 July 1976
IT HAD to be more than just coincidence. Here I was in Ohio Player Satch Satchell's luxurious hotel suite overlooking Grosvenor Square writing for our ...
Ohio Players Come Out Of Hibernation
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1 August 1978
John Abbey talks to Satch Satchell, the Ohio Players' spiritual leader. ...
The Ohio Players: Up An' Dancin'
Report and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 July 1979
"Arista are famous for their pre-programming scheme and they could afford us!" ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
William Beck; Leroy Bonner; Marshall Jones; Ralph Middlebrooks; Walter Morrison; Marvin Pierce; Clarence Satchell; James Williams ...
Essay by James Maycock, Nine, October 2002
A look at how black pimp culture has crossed into black popular culture, for which I interviewed Antonio Fargas. I refer to Miles Davis, the ...
Comment by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 24 July 2013
MICHAEL A. GONZALES REFLECTS ON P-FUNK, THE OHIO PLAYERS, EARTH WIND & FIRE, ETC. AND WONDERS WHERE THE FUNK HAVE ALL THE FUNK GROUPS GONE? ...
see also Junie Morrison
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