Ohio Players

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Join us Friday, August 21, 2015 and Saturday, August 22, 2015 at the Lafayette Square Mall for a two days of fun, food and entertainment. Stone Soul Edition: Live performances on Friday from Full Force, Nice & Smooth, The Alumni featuring Kwame’, Chubb Rock, Special Ed, Monie love, and Dana Dane. Plus Kid N Play […]

The Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their double #1 hit songs “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster”. CLick below to listen to their hit “Fire”:

Via: Wikipedia.com Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Funk songs are often based […]

Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) 1743 Academy Place, Dayton, OH 45406 When: 1959 What: The Ohio Players are one of the greatest R&B and funk groups to come out of the Dayton scene in the 70s. The band’s grooves, fortified in funk, are still being raided by Hip-Hop producers today. «  PREVIOUS NEXT  » […]

jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.