These brothers were making music with real instruments. No computers, real sounds. That's how I grew up with music. Blessed to born in 1962 real music. I'm not complaining about today. Just different eras is all....
"Top 40" radio stations became painfully full of cheep, commercial copies of disco in the '70s. I switched to Atlanta's 'Soul' stations, discovering Funk and real music like Ohio Players. Probably helped save my musical sanity! 📻 🎸🎼🎵🎶
This song was bumped all day long n the 70’s as were other Ohio Players songs. I remember riding the school bus and the driver would play the radio and all of the kids myself included would sing along with the Ohio Players this was n the 70’s....great fun and wonderful memories. What a great decade to b a teenager.😁✌🏿
THAT was a cool bus driver!🎉🎉 I bet nobody on your bus had fights or caused trouble after cruising to school singing to the infamous O H I O PLAYERS!!!! Good times🎉🎉🎉 jam on it!🥳🥳😎😎💓💥🙌🤜
We are truly God's property! If you grew up in the 60's and 70's you were able to experience our people on a higher frequency and spirituality. We still had our own dress code ,our own language and even a decent amount of businesses. Integration gentrification along with the drug plague really put us in a trick bag .
Great Group Of.. Creative..👆😎👉 Congregating Rethreading ..The Need's Of An Overture Tune And A . Much Needed.. Needle Of Levels Of Musical Composite And An.. Interesting Blend New Sound
Salute! Magical seventies here with the song Skin tight running neck to neck with Brick house by commondores who wouldn't or wish for that era it's was 🎉 back to back excitement I lived it 🎉🎉🎉
I was jamming this in elementary school, with War,&other great funky groups,EWFs Gratitude was about to be released,not to mention Dr.Funkenstein,70s music was the sh****tttt!!!
April 23, 1974: The Ohio Players release their first #1 album. One of the funkiest groups in the funkiest decade, the Ohio Players became the template for a generation of Midwest jamming groups. And on this day (April 23) in 1974, the group finally hit big time pay dirt, releasing their signature album and their first #1 disc, the iconic Skin Tight.
@@jacobbyerson5075 Their first studio album "Observations in Time" was released in 1969, but their FIRST #1 album was indeed "Skin Tight" released in 1974 which also went Platinum. They also had two other #1 Platinum albums released in 1974, "Fire" and "Honey" but their first #1 album was "Skin Tight."
Skintight is timeless :these guys were heroic in there playing style ;way better than EWF;but radio deejays liked the other groups more ,Ohio players were ahead of there time .
One of the funkiest basslines ever. Great band. Happy to say ,i met them in NJ at the Newark Symphony Hall, when they opened for Mandrill..Awesome guys!
FAZO, Slave, Dayton, Roger Troutmam & Zapp, Shirley Murdock and of course The State Players. Dayton was funky as a batch of old collars greenz back in the day. DeSoto Bass
Funny thing...in the spring of 1973, I was living in Urbana,IL and listened to WLS out of Chicago, and they played the Ohio Players' first hit, Funky Worm. While I enjoyed it, to me it was a borderline novelty hit, and I figured I'd never hear from them again. Moving up a year and a half, I was in Brooklyn NY listening to 99X (WXLO) and they played Skin Tight, and I was like, OK, these guys are for real. That was followed by their first #1 Fire, than about a year later their 2nd #1, Love Rollercoaster. Goes to show, you don't know sometimes.
If you can find an old 45 in your grandparents collections, do yourself a favor and look at the time of the songs.... They were all 2 to 4 minutes... That's it...... Tunes were amazingly short until Disco arrived
Are they a rock band?I love them but if you put them in the RHOF,then I guess the country music hall next?It would be like putting the Rolling Stones in R&B category.
Really cool, sophisticated stuff. Chicago and them had some great horn sections back in the day. Incredible music and we took it all for granted because there were so many great bands.
complex cord progression, it seems like the instruments are moving with different timing then it blends back together, really amazing. wish I knew music well enough to explain it. lol
Music that had guys that played instruments. Wow, what a concept. They also called woman ladies instead of hoes or bitches. These guys along with Parliament, Sly, and Earth, Wind and Fire truly were a force!!!! Oh... can't forget Tower of Power.
Never liked short versions but this is The Ohio Players and I will gladly take what I can get. Phenomenal band with great musicians (and that drummer, James "Diamond" Williams wow) yes they were popular but they should have been a lot bigger than they got. And those 3 killer albums all in a row at their peak ("Skin Tight," "Fire," and "Honey")!! Like 50 years later and still play them. When it came to music, the 70's had it all.
