Groovin' to this! First time hearing Ohio Players "Fire" Reaction | Asia and BJ 

The song is still funky fabulous 48 years later.

The Ohio Players made some CLASSICS!! You should listen to "Skin Tight" next!

🔥🔥🔥They were a funky, cool band. Don't forget "Love Rollercoaster". I was just a little kid when these came out.

Real musicians who played their own instruments. Someone already suggested Skin Tight which is even MORE funkier than this which doesn't seem possible but is IMO. Love your reactions

That 70’s funk! Love it. Remember this one well 💙💙

They were SUPER STARS long before FIRE came out. "SKINTIGHT" was their first Platinum ALBUM. Their bedroom ballads " Honey" "Sweet Sticky Thing" "Heaven Must Be Like This" plus many more are one of the greatest funk R+B BANDS EVER !!!

As a young bass player in the mid-1970s, my first band was multi racial. The brothers in the band taught this white boy all about 70s funk and this song is still at the top of my list. Love it! Rock on kids!

There is an amazing live version of this, and Love Rollercoaster on Midnight Special. Great musicians.

Lookie here... the Ohio Players were totally badass! Some of the sexiest tunes in R&B ever! STILL jamming on them. Long damn time. Can't WAIT to see your faces when you hear this!!!

I heard this song so many times, I never get tired of it !

It was a really jam song. I’m 61 and still have it on my phone!

My older brother bought this album when it came out. I was 13 at the time and when I turned 18, I was dancing to it in the clubs. Love Rollercoaster is good, too. Another funk band he played for me all the time was Sly and the Family Stone.

Oh, the Ohio Players! Their album covers always featured a very beautiful woman, undressed, doing something that had to do with the album title. This one had a model wrapped in a fire hose and wearing a fireman's hat - and nothing else.

I saw The Ohio Players in concert back in 1975 in Fayetteville NC and they sounded even better in person.

We used to play the Ohio Players song "Love Rollercoaster" as we were warming up in High School in the late 70's for basketball games, way up in New Hampshire. Love Rollercoaster was also featured in the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America, Has to be seen to be fully appreciated, Band B in Las Vegas, dancing to the Oho Players. Unbelievable.

I remember when this came out and we did a dance called the bump to it. A great freaking song by a great freaking band. They were good live too 😉

Love The Ohio Players: 'Sweet Sticky Thing", "Fopp" ... "Love Rollercoaster" of course too.

I can tell you, if it's funk, r+b you want, it needs to be The Dazz Band (another) from Ohio (Cleveland). They are top 5 of all-time r+b funk. Another really good band (again from Ohio, it must the water) is Lakeside. Not as well-known (Coolio sampled) Fantastic Voyage, their biggest hit.

My 70's soul/funk. What a great time to be a teen. Love Ohio Players. They had many hits!

70's funk is always welcome.

That funky music style was always my favorite time in my life. The music, the style, the groove and the flow of life was the best daze of my life.

They don't make cool shit like this anymore!! ❤️❤️❤️

Best show I ever saw---Paramount Theatre, Portland, Oregon, 1977---K.C. & The Sunshine Band and the Ohio Players as the opening band ...it was hard to say who out-performed who that night, but every one of the 9,000-plus crowd went home happy, sweaty and exhausted from dancing so much!!

Ohio Players, classic 1970's soul-funk. Right on! Check out "Love Rollercoaster", and "Funky Worm". And for more classic 1970's soul-pop-funk check out The O'Jays, "For the Love of Money," "Back Stabbers," and "Use Ta Be My Girl"; Earth, Wind & Fire "Shining Star", "Fantasy", "That's the Way of the World", "Boogie Wonderland", "September"; The Spinners "I'll Be Around", "It's a Shame", "The Rubberband Man", and "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" along with many others.

In the day we did the bump to this song,🔥🔥. My brother could bump aii the way to the floor. 💃🕺. Great times on a lighted dance floor. 💞💞

great reaction! their music can fit in any time of music history. many hits and classics...keep them on your rotation.

One of the greatest songs EVER!

First concert I ever went to when I was 16. Still have that song on my phone!!!

My favorite lyric not just based on the words but how he sings it is “I'm 'bout to choke from the smoke, got to tighten up my stroke”. It’s…well…FIRE!

Literally Fire!!! I had a 75' Volkswagon "Rabbit" with rims and a hatchback... blaring this in between Led Zeppelin and Foghat... I had a play list before there was such a thing ... Pionneer Cassette Deck turned up to 10! Good Times! thanks for your great reactions! gt

VH-1 had a special hosted by QuestLove a few years back called "Finding the Funk" where he goes over the history of funk. The Ohio Players are part of that discussion as well as other funk bands from the Dayton (DayTown!), Ohio area. Anyway, worth a watch for sure.

Ohio players have deep history. They used to have a female singer, Towanda Barnes. Northern soul classics like "you don't mean it".

I recommend you react to these songs by Ohio Players “Pain, Heaven must be like this, I want to be free, Skintight”.

Aside from my childhood memories, whenever I hear this song now, I also think about The Movie Roll bounce

They were incredible and we danced to them at parties all the time. Their song called roller coaster is totally iconic. It's got this really cool beat Rhythm to it that I've heard sampled many times over many years following.

You guys are hittin' and appreciating the best our best years had to offer! The next party you host, your dj-ing is gonna blow everyone's minds! ♡

That drum semi-solo towards the end always got me moving.

Yes!!!! This and so good. Was suggested during the live! They have a few other songs too, I’m from Ohio so this makes me happy to hear!

Yes, BJ, that was "PLAYERISHESS". I like your new word. This song was a big hit at the discos and clubs back in the day. I remember grooving to this song many times. Loved your reactions!

THE 70'S WAS THE GREATEST HITS IN MUSIC INDUSTRY BACK IN THE DAYS. THEY WERE CALLED THE GROOVES BACK THEN WHICH THEY CALLED THE HITS NOW, I'VE GOT MORE HITS FOM THE 70'S THEN I DO ANY YEARLY RECORDS FOR WHICH I STILL GROOVE TO WHENEVER I BE DRIVING TO FROM HERE TO FAR.

You should listen to their hit “Love Rollercoaster”. All of the great Funk Soul bands of the 70s came out of Ohio.

Sugarfoot is just amazing with his vocals and he plays a double neck Gibson SG the man has skills. This whole band is just a solid music machine, horns, bass, keyboards, drums, conga drums, so much talent.

Pain, Pleasure, Ecstasy, and Climax...those were the names of the Ohio Players' early albums. And then they woke the world up with the albums Skin Tight, Fire, and then Honey. There are a ton of great cuts to pull from those albums.

The 70’s, the era of the best black funk bands giving you that good dance grooves and slow dance love songs! The Ohio Players were one of best and most talented singers, songwriters and musicians , you bought the albums, grooved to the music , and went to see them live in concert. This song was the hottest of that year, on the radio , at the parties and clubs everywhere! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The legendary Sugar Foot on lead vocals. RIP. You guys need to watch the video for the song. SugarFoot had the coolest Fro.

LOVE Ohio Players!!!! Hope you listen to lots more. Don't forget to listen to Brick House. ✌

One of my all-time favorite bands EVER!!! The Ohio Players are among the gods of Funk music along with Sly & the Family Stones and Parliament......Just Funky!!!! Great musicianship!!! I feel this BJ singing and expressing this song to Asia!!!! lol.......y'all Hahaa

Honestly, we all need more black BANDS, musicians, artists!

BJ killing it with the MOVES!!

There had to be an alternate mix of this song (with the sirens turned off) for a lot of radio stations to play it. Back when radio stations considered it important to be a member in good standing of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), they had to abide by the NAB Code of Good Practices. That included not airing sirens, as doing so could cause traffic accidents caused by unsuspecting drivers who were listening to their radios and hearing sirens playing then pulling over to the side of the road to let the emergency vehicles (which didn't exist) pass by, while other drivers who weren't listening to the same radio station at the time would have no clue why these other drivers were pulling over. The mix of the song that I remember playing on the radio in the '70s didn't have sirens. So naturally, I find them shrill and annoying. But it's a great example of '70s R&B and funk. The Ohio Players had quite a string of hits from about 1976 to about 1981 or so. Check out "Skin Tight" and "Love Rollercoaster." Get on the floor and dance! By the way, I see that you're in the Dallas/Fort Worth "metroplex." I spent about 25 years there "playin' the hits" on the radio and livin' life to the fullest. And when I think of this era of '70s R&B, I can't help but think back to a song that we played on KNUS-FM (98.7 FM, now an oldies station called K-Love) that very few top 40 stations in America had the cajones to play. But I added it to our playlist, and DFW listeners went wild. Now think just how totally outrageous it was in 1975 to hear Leon Haywood sing "I Wanna Do Something' Freaky To You." Check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K8OZux6hp1Q.html and get nasty!

It’s a pre-disco song. Ohio Players and Earth Wind & Fire dominated funk in the early to mid-1970s. I bought this record along with Love Rollercoaster and wore them both out. This is a vintage Soul Train era jam.

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Dang this takes me back to when I was a youngin! Y'all talkin bout the skatin rink, I remember doin my own showin off to a lot of the old groove tunes! Lol

One of the greatest songs of my childhood.

The Brothers Johnson "Stomp" will get you groovin'

I was grade 6 when this beast hit the airwaves. Amazing funk

YES! Rollerskating! This was an item back in 1973 when we skated. I was 15 going on 16. All it took was hearing the fire engines in the beginning and we were beatin' it to the floor. And, yes, we did the boogie moves while we skated. I so miss that so much. We also jammed to Love Rollercoaster which was the favorite. Skin Tight was also played. If you haven't done Love Rollercoaster yet, you need to. You would not be disappointed.

Yeah, I know I'm 2 yrs down the road but I thoroughly enjoyed watching both of you thoroughly enjoy this song - great reaction guys!💯 👍

These guys had quite a few dance club hits. Definitely a groove more than a vibe. 👍

the Ohio Players were on the jukebox at the town pool...i'd play their tunes on it, and you could see everyone get their swagger on...the 70's was such a great time to be alive...so much good music

they were extremely underrated

Ohio Players were also known for their risque album covers with the foldout front and back -my mom had a fit when she saw those covers!!

Ohio Players. They were the epitome of pre-80s funk. There was no one else like them.

Oh, glorious mid-1970s funk!!! Gotta love it! Asia and BJ, try another funk jam from the same era: Dazz, by the band Brick. You'll love it!

These guys were huge when I was in high school.

Lord, I remember dancing the bump to this one until I couldn't dance anymore. Great song to dance to with someone you were into, it could get pretty r-rated...

In rapid succession albums 'Pain', 'Pleasure', 'Extasy', 'Climax', 'Fire', 'Skin Tight', 'Honey', 'Contradiction', 'Angel', ''Mr Mean' 'Jass-Ay lay dee', came out through seventies. Sometimes two in the same year! C

Still one of my favourites. Especially Marshal “Rock” Jones on bass.

Man oh man, whew. Bringing back memories of real funk. This song and Rollercoaster, man. This song was jamming at the Roller Skating rink in the day. Thank you. I got platform shoes, my glitter shoe laces. ❤

The bruddahs had the BEST album covers back in the day! LOL!

The Ohio Players were all about that Funk in the 70's. Great songs by the Ohio Players are ""Love Rollercoaster"(1975) "Sweet Sticky Thing"(1975) "Skin Tight"(1974) "Jive Turkey"(1974). Other great Funk music in the 70's were B.T. Express "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)"" (1974) and Slave "Just A Touch Of Love" (1979) and "Slide" (1977). Also a great Funk group out of Miami was Cameo with "Shake Your Pants" (1980) and "Flirt" (1982) with many others.

In the 1970s, I went to school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which has a fairly large black population. In Grade 5-6, I heard a lot of funk including the Ohio Players, and it led to this Jewish boy’s lifelong love of all things funky. Loved Soul Train too!

If you can sit still while this is playing, you're dead! 😂🔥🔥

Its my birthday to day . Love Ohio Players seen the in concert many times .Party On !

Yasss! Finally someone doing the Ohio Players! I’m from Ohio and was in high school when this song came out. Love their funky groove! Like everyone is saying you have to hear Love Rollercoaster and Skin Tight.

These funk tunes are also a treat to be experienced thru a large ol' speaker system, home or club type, that pushes the air. Feeling the music punch back in the day.

Ohio players in concert was great. Love to see people enjoying music I grew up with

Oh,this was the best song to skate to! This one, and Love Rollercoaster, which you definitely need to react to next! Great band, love the Ohio Players!

One of my favorite groups "Honey was a great album too!

Did somebody else say this first? This song is FIRE!!

Dayton, OH represent!! Nice reaction, guys! (The whole album is FIRE, fr!)

Now your talkin!! Sweet!! Back in da days Jams🤜🏼🤛🏼🎸🎼❤️🎼

EXCELLENT SONG and group!! Gets you movin

One of the greatest Funk tunes ever. Check them out on The Midnight Special.

For me, one of the funkiest bands ever! Thank you for this, brought back some great memories!

I wore this cassette out in my car back in the day. saw them live in 76 at the l.a. sports arena..Was FIRE!

I remember disco days with mirror ball in the ceiling,with lights reflecting and lit glass tiled floors.....oh and weed,lol.

Back in the 70’s, the Ohio music scene was awesome… lots of local talent… with fire tunes…

This was one of the best bands back in the day..checkout Heaven must be like this, Skin tight, and Love RollerCoaster.

You two bring a lil joy in my life, and I thank you.

Still an A+ jam after all these years! Check out Sweet Sticky Thing!

My introduction to the Ohio Players in 1974 was their first hit song "PAIN". They were on 🔥 from the start!

Kings of the Dayton sound.... these cats gave so much to black music. Rest in power all the original members who passed on. Sugar, Rock Jones, Satch... forever remembered

I have this Fire and Cameo ”Insane” on vinyl and back to back on an old cassette tape from the early 80’s. And on my Spotify playlist. Never(!) get tired. 😎🤩🇸🇪👍🏼

hollywood swingin is my favorite by kool and the gang

Growing up in central Ohio this song was always part of our party playlist. Can't deny the funk. Lol

I remember playing basketball at the rec center to this when I was maybe 14. Brings back a lot of memories.

Yes, The Ohio Players. "Fire, Skin Tight" were Hits in 1974, "Love Roller Coaster, Sweet Sticky Thing" were Hits in 1975. You have to check out - "Sweet Sticky Thing" off the "Honey" Lp. I have the original release on Cassette! :)

Shout out from Ohio! These guys were FIRE that whole year when this came out. 🔥

Ohio Players always had the sexiest album covers.