Discography and Biography of Ohio Players. Listen to all their hits.
Ohio Players Songs

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The Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster". Gold certifications, records selling at least one million copies, were awarded to the singles "Funky Worm", "Skin Tight", "Fire", and "Love Rollercoaster"; plus to their albums Skin Tight, Fire, and Honey. On August 17, 2013, The Ohio Players were inducted into the inaugural class of the Official R&B Music Hall of Fame that took place at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Below is a list of Ohio Players songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Mercury 73734
chart position: RandB #1, US #11, UK #51
written by: Billy Beck, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell
album: Honey...
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Love Rollercoaster
1975 Mercury
2 record label: Mercury 73643
chart position: RandB #1, US dance #10, US #1
written by: J. Williams C. Satchell L. Bonner M. Jones R. Middlebrooks M. Pierce W. Beck
album: Fire
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Fire
1974 Mercury
3 record label: Westbound 214
chart position: RandB #1, US #15
written by: Ohio Players
album: Pleasure
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Funky Worm
1973 Westbound
4 record label: Mercury 73814
chart position: RandB #1, US #18
written by: Billy Beck , Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell
album: Contradiction
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Who'd She Coo?
1976 Mercury
5 record label: Mercury 6167012
chart position: RandB #2, US #13
written by: Marshall Jones, Marvin Pierce, Leroy Bonner, James
album: Skin Tight
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Skin Tight
1974 Mercury
6 record label: Mercury 73713
chart position: RandB #1, US #33
written by: Billy Beck,Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones,Ralph Middlebrooks
album: Honey...
comments: [funk jazz]
Ohio Players Sweet Sticky Thing
1975 Mercury
7 record label: Mercury 73775
chart position: RandB #9, US #30
written by: Billy Beck , Leroy Bonner, Marshal Jones , Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell
album: Honey... / Gold
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Fopp
1976 Mercury
8 record label: Westbound 216
chart position: RandB #12, US #31
written by: Andrew Noland, Gregory Webster, Walter
album: Ecstasy
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Ecstasy
1973 Westbound
9 record label: Mercury 73480
chart position: RandB #6, US #47
written by: Jimmy Williams, Clarence Satchell, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks and Marvin Pierce
album: Skin Tight
Ohio Players Jive Turkey (Part 1)
1974 Mercury
10 record label: Mercury 73675
chart position: RandB #6, US #44
written by: Ohio Players
album: Fire
Ohio Players I Want to Be Free
1975 Mercury
11 record label: Mercury 73932
chart position: RandB #9, US #45
written by: Billy Beck (as William Beck), Clarence Satchell, James
album: Angel
comments: [instrumental]
Ohio Players O-H-I-O
1977 Mercury
12 record label: Mercury 73913
chart position: RandB #19
written by: Ohio Players
album: Angel
Ohio Players Body Vibes
1977 Mercury
13 record label: Westbound 188
chart position: RandB #35, US #64
written by: Andrew Noland, Gregory Webster, Walter
album: Pain
Ohio Players Pain (Part I)
1971 Westbound
14 record label: Mercury 74014
chart position: RandB #27, US #105
written by: Ohio Players
album: Jass Ay Lay Dee
Ohio Players Funk-O-Nots
1978 Mercury
15 record label: Mercury 73881
chart position: RandB #31, US #61
written by: Billy Beck (as William Beck), Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce
album: Gold
Ohio Players Feel the Beat (Everybody Disco)
1977 Mercury
16 record label: Mercury 73860
chart position: RandB #26
written by: Ohio Players
album: Contradiction
Ohio Players Far East Mississippi
1976 Mercury
17 record label: Westbound 204
chart position: Cashbox RandB #30
written by: Ohio Players
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Got Pleasure
1972 Westbound
18 record label: Mercury 73974
chart position: RandB #51, US #101
written by: Ohio Players
album: Mr. Mean
Ohio Players Good Luck Charm
1978 Mercury
19 record label: Arista 0408
chart position: RandB #33
written by: Ohio Players
album: Everybody Up
Ohio Players Everybody Up
1979 Arista
20 record label: Track 58812
chart position: RandB #33
album: Back
Ohio Players Let's Play (From Now On)
1988 Track
21 record label: Boardwalk 5708
chart position: RandB #40
written by: James Campbell, Reginald Connelly and Harry M. Woods
album: Tenderness
comments: [disco dance]
Ohio Players Try a Little Tenderness
1981 Boardwalk
22 record label: Westbound 204
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Ohio Players
album: Pleasure
Ohio Players Pleasure
1972 Westbound
23 record label: Boardwalk 02063
chart position: RandB #46
written by: L. Bonner, M. Jones, R. Middlebrooks, M. Pierce, D. Johnson
album: Tenderness
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Skinny
1981 Boardwalk
24 record label: Compass 7018
chart position: Cashbox RandB #47
written by: The Ohio Players
Ohio Players I've Got To Hold On
1968 Compass
25 record label: Compass 7015
chart position: RandB #50
written by: Ohio Players
Ohio Players Trespassin'
1968 Compass
26 record label: Track 58815
chart position: RandB #50
album: Back
comments: [funk]
Ohio Players Sweat
1988 Track
27 record label: Mercury 74031
chart position: RandB #53
written by: Ohio Players
album: Jass Ay Lay Dee
Ohio Players Time Slips Away
1978 Mercury
28 record label: Westbound 5018
chart position: RandB #69, US #90
written by: Belda Baine and Louis Crane
album: Rattlesnake
Ohio Players Rattlesnake
1976 Westbound
29 record label: Mercury 73956
chart position: RandB #77
written by: W. Beck, J. Williams, M. Jones, M. Pierce, R. Middlebrooks, C. Satchell, L. Bonner
Ohio Players Merry Go Round
1977 Mercury
30 record label: Air City 402
chart position: RandB #83
written by: B. Beck, G. Roebuck, M. Jones
album: Graduation
comments: [ballad]
Ohio Players Sight for Sore Eyes
1984 Air City
31 record label: Mercury 73983
chart position: RandB #93
written by: Ohio Players
album: Mr. Mean
Ohio Players Magic Trick
1978 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 1038
written by: W. Beck, C. Satchell, J. Williams, L. Bonner, M. Jones, M. Pierce, R. Middlebrooks
album: Honey...
comments: [album cut]
Ohio Players Honey
1975 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 73775
written by: W. Beck, C. Satchell, J. Williams, L. Bonner, M. Jones, M. Pierce, R. Middlebrooks
album: Honey...
Ohio Players Let's Love
1975 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 1038
written by: W. Beck, C. Satchell, J. Williams, L. Bonner, M. Jones, M. Pierce, R. Middlebrooks
album: Honey...
comments: [funk album cut]
Ohio Players Ain't Givin' Up No Ground
1975 Mercury
-- record label: Mercury 73713
written by: W. Beck, C. Satchell, J. Williams, L. Bonner, M. Jones, M. Pierce, R. Middlebrooks
album: Honey...
Ohio Players Alone
1975 Mercury




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