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Fire is the sixth studio album by the Ohio Players and the second released through the Mercury label.

Fire is the third of five Ohio Players albums that were also available in quadraphonic (4-channel stereo), released as an 8-track tape in the U.S. and on vinyl in Japan. DTS Entertainment released the quad mix as a DTS Audio CD in 2001.

The album's lead single "Fire" was serving in the mid-2010s as the theme song to the US television series Hell's Kitchen. Fire topped both the Billboard Pop Albums chart and the Billboard R&B Albums chart (where it held for five weeks) in early 1975.

Track listing

All tracks are written by James Williams, Clarence Satchell, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, William Beck.

Side oneNo. Title Length

1. "Fire" 4:36

2. "Together" 3:08

3. "Runnin' from the Devil" 4:48

4. "I Want to Be Free" 6:56

Side twoNo. Title Length

1. "Smoke" 5:59

2. "It's All Over" 4:15

3. "What the Hell" 5:38

4. "Together/Feelings" (listed as "Together (Reprise)" on back cover) 1:11

Personnel

James "Diamond" Williams – drums, chimes, percussion, lead & background vocals

Billy Beck – piano, organ, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, ARP, percussion, lead & background vocals

Marvin "Merv" Pierce – trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone & background vocals

Marshall "Rock" Jones – Fender bass

Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner – guitar, percussion, lead & background vocals

Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks – trumpet, trombone & background vocals

Clarence "Satch" Satchell – baritone sax, tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, percussion, lead & background vocals

Production

Ohio Players – producers

Barry Mraz, Lee Hulko – engineers

Jim Ladwig – art director

Len Willis – designer

Stan Malinowski – photography

Ohio Players oli 1970-luvun R&B -yhtye. Kappalemateriaali koostuu funkista ja soul-balladeista. Mustista muusikoista koostuva ryhmä aloitti jo vuonna 1959 nimellä Ohio Untouchables.

Yhtyeen kuuluisin hitti on "Love Rollercoaster". Muita parhaisiin luettuja kappaleita ovat esimerkiksi "Skin Tight", "Fire", "Funky Worm", "Sweet Sticky Thing" ja "Who'd She Coo". Näistä "Fire" ja "Love Rollercoaster" ylsivät R&B-listan lisäksi myös pop-listojen ykköseksi USA:ssa. Tunnetuimmissa kappaleissa päävokalistina on kitaristi Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner.

Vuonna 1972 julkaistut Pain ja Pleasure ovat onnistuneimpina pidettyjä levyjä ennen Mercury -yhtiön kautta. Niiden musiikki on enemmän jammailutyyppistä funkia pitkine sooloineen. Levyä Pain ei kannessa komeilevan piiskanaisen takia haluttu myydä kaikissa kaupoissa. Myös muut alkuaikojen levyt hyödynsivät S&M-tyyppistä tematiikkaa kansikuvissaan. Levyltä Pleasure löytyy listaykköseksi noussut "Funky Worm" single, joka aikanaan herätti huomiota syntetisaattorin vingutuksensa takia.

Varhaisilla levyillä tärkeässä roolissa ollut kosketinsoittaja Junie Morrison jätti vuonna 1974 yhtyeen, ja levy-yhtiöksi vaihtui Mercury. Tästä alkoi kuitenkin ryhmän menestynein kausi. Tunnetuimmaksi albumiksi kohosi vuoden 1975 Honey, jonka kansikuvan ja sisäkannen alaston nainen herätti aikanaan kohua (kuvissa käytetty aine ei ole aitoa hunajaa). Myös levyt Fire ja Skin Tight edustavat tunnetuine nimikkoraitoineen Mercury-kauden huippua.

"Love Rollercoaster" -kappaleeseen liittyneen urbaanilegendan mukaan kappaleen lopussa esiintyvä korkea kirkuminen herätti keskustelua ihmisten keskuudessa. Luullaan, että kappaleen levyttämisen aikana nainen murhattiin viereisessä huoneessa, studiorakennuksessa.[1]

Albumit

First Impressions (1968)

Observations in Time (1968)

Pain (1972)

Pleasure (1972)

Ecstasy (1973)

Climax (1974)

Skin Tight (1974)

Fire (1974)

Honey (1975)

Rattlesnake (1975)

Contradiction (1976)

Angel (1977)

Mr. Mean (1977)

Jass-Ay-Lay-Dee (1978)

Everybody Up (1979)

Tenderness (1981)

Ouch! (1982)

Graduation (1984)

Back (1988)

Ohio Players were an American funk band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster", and for their erotic album covers that featured nude or nearly nude women. Many of the women were models featured in Playboy.

The singles "Funky Worm", "Skin Tight", "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster" and their albums Skin Tight, Fire and Honey, were awarded Gold certification.

On August 17, 2013, Ohio Players were inducted into the inaugural class of the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame that took place at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.

History

The members first came together in Dayton, Ohio, United States, in 1959, as the Ohio Untouchables and initially included members Robert Ward[3] (vocals/guitar), Marshall "Rock" Jones (bass), Clarence "Satch" Satchell (saxophone/guitar), Cornelius Johnson (drums), and Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet/trombone).[4] They were best known at the time as a backing group for The Falcons.[5]

Ward proved to be an unreliable leader, who would sometimes walk off the stage during gigs, forcing the group to stop playing. Eventually, the group vowed to keep playing even after he left. Ward and Jones got into a fistfight in 1964, after which the group broke up.[6]

Ward found new backups, and the group's core members returned to Dayton. They replaced Ward with 21-year-old Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (guitar), who would become the group's frontman, and added Greg Webster (drums).[5][6] To accommodate Bonner's musical style preferences for the group ("R&B with a little flair to it") and to avoid competing with Ward, the group changed their format.[6]

By 1967, the group had renamed themselves the Ohio Players, reflecting its members' self-perceptions as musicians and as ladies' men.[6]

The group added two more singers, Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson and became the house band for the New York-based Compass Records. In 1967 they also added vocalist Helena Ferguson Kilpatrick.

The group disbanded again in 1970. After again re-forming with a line-up including Bonner, Satchell, Middlebrooks, Jones, Webster, trumpeter Bruce Napier, vocalist Charles Dale Allen, trombonist Marvin Pierce and vocalist/keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison, the Players had a minor hit on the Detroit-based Westbound label with "Pain" (1971), which reached the top 40 of the Billboard R&B chart. James Johnson joined the group at this time as vocalist and saxophonist. Dale Allen shared co-lead vocals on some of the early Westbound material, although he was not credited on their albums Pain and Pleasure.[7][8] It was at Westbound Records where the group met George Clinton, who admired their music. The two albums' avant-garde covers featured a spiked-black leather-bikini clad, bald model Pat "Running Bear" Evans, who would later grace additional Ohio Players albums, including Climax, Ecstasy, and Rattlesnake.[6][9][10][11][12]

The band's first big hit single was "Funky Worm", which reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and peaked at No. 15 on the Hot 100 in May 1973. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A.[13] The band signed with Mercury Records in 1974. By then, their line-up had changed again, with keyboardist Billy Beck instead of Morrison and Jimmy "Diamond" Williams on drums instead of Webster. On later album releases, they added second guitarist/vocalist Clarence "Chet" Willis and conguero Robert "Kuumba" Jones. Meanwhile, keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison recorded three albums on his own before joining Funkadelic as the force behind their hit One Nation Under a Groove. An internet story in advance of a June 2017 concert indicated that Billy Beck, Jimmy "Diamond" Williams, Clarence "Chet" Willis, and Robert "Rumba" Jones were still performing.[14]

The band had seven top 40 hits between 1973 and 1976. These included "Fire" (No. 1 on both the R&B and pop chart for two weeks and one week respectively in February 1975 and another million seller) and "Love Rollercoaster" (No. 1 on both the R&B and pop charts for one week in January 1976; another gold disc recipient).[13] The group also took on saxophonist James Johnson. The group's last big hit was "Who'd She Coo?" a No. 1 R&B hit in August 1976. It was their only success in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1976.[15] Their title track "Ecstasy" from the 1973 album Ecstasy was sampled by Jay-Z on "Brooklyn's Finest", featuring The Notorious B.I.G. from the 1996 album Reasonable Doubt.[16]

In 1979, three members of the group went on to form Shadow,[4][17] which released three albums. A reconfigured Ohio Players recorded through the 1980s, enjoying a minor hit single with "Sweat" (1988). They also released three albums in that decade, Tenderness, Ouch! and Graduation. Another collection, Orgasm, followed in 1993.[4]

In August 2013, the Ohio Players were inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame at the Waetjen Auditorium of Cleveland State University as part of the inaugural class.

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