Favorite song by THE OHIO PLAYERS?

[NightTrain]

As usual, if I inadvertently left out your favorite, please write it in!

[Servo300]

1. Never heard of any of those......

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers did a remake of Love Rollercoaster recently. n/t

[NightTrain]

3. Your loss!

n/t

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

6. Your kidding!

No?

These where the soundtrack to the 70s.....!!

[chaska]

4. Coolest band ever.

Funkier than James Brown after a week without a bath.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. Daytons musical claim to fame.

...there where other funk bands coming out of here (like "Lakeside"), but the Ohio Players where the best....

I voted Skintight....

[chenGOD]

7. Funky Worm without a doubt...

That break is legendary...:)

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Heaven must be like this............

Even 30 years later, it's a beautiful song.

[dbt]

9. YO, TRAIN! Thanks for including FOPP!

You know that one gave George Clinton some serious flashbacks!

Fopped last night and the night before
I had to fopp outside and then I went indoors
Fopped so hard I made the people warm
They stood back and gave me all the floor


I did the fopp, the fopp
they wouldnt let me stop
Yeah I was foppin and rockin
Had the house hoppin


Foppin, the way it makes you go, everybody was
Foppin, everywhere you go, do all your
Shoppin, wiggle to the floor, everybody was Foppin


Fopp with me and Ill fopp with you
Foppin is the brand new thing to do
Fopped so hard that I lost my shoe
I fopped so tough they had to make some room


Break your leg, dont you fopp your back
Do your thing, dont you give no slack
Shake your hips and then you turn around
Well first you fopp it up
And then you fopp it down


Fopp me right, dont you fopp me wrong
Well be here foppin all night long
Im too short, baby, and you're too tall
But when were foppin that dont mean a thing at all.

:loveya: The Ohio Players!
dbt

[NightTrain]

10. Kickin' it for the graveyard shift, yo!

n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

11. Fire --a good marching tune

Our high school marching band (of that time) was blessed to have a few talented students who could arrange music, so we had our own "Top 40" repetoire...this was one of my favorites for marching.

[nini]

12. I remember they had some pretty racy album covers back then

My Mom didn't like the sweet sticky thing one at all! :-)


those songs bring back a lot of memories.. thanks

[NightTrain]

13. Yep! And here are but a few of them.

[nini]

14. Honey was the one I was thinking of...

LOL.. SO scandalous back then!!! :-)

[TheWizardOfMudd]

15. "Fire" all the way!!!

Uh huh!

[Enraged_Ape]

16. They recorded a woman's dying scream on "Love Rollercoaster"

That's right. She was stabbed to death in the parking lot and somehow her blood-curdling scream made it onto the recording. I know this is true because my friend Corey told me so in the eighth grade. Although he's a big Bush campaigner now, he wouldn't have lied to me back then. Surely he wouldn't.

You can hear the unfortunate young woman's scream during the last instrumental break in that song. It's very chilling.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

18. I wonder if thats an urban legend..

..I remember that when I was in high school.

Maybe this is a job for Snopes.

[Enraged_Ape]

19. EVERYONE told this story when I was a kid

And yes, I'm pretty sure it's apocryphal. It would have to be a pretty rinky-dink recording studio to pick up a scream from the parking lot while laying down a track.

But that scream still gives me the creeps.

[NightTrain]

20. Yup! It's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/roller.htm

[dbt]

17. KICK!

For one of the BEST Funk bands EVER to rock the house!

:bounce:
dbt
(Daring to Fopp in the 21st Century!)