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Ohio Players
With some of the sexiest, most infectious funk grooves of the 1970s, the Ohio
Players created a cacophonous melting pot of jazz, disco, soul and rock and
produced a run of platinum-selling albums that hugely influenced hip hop's
strutting back beats. Formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables,
they started out as a backing band for Wilson Pickett's group The Falcons,
playing up-tempo R&B pop, but changed direction after hearing the revolutionary
sounds of Sly & The Family Stone in the late 1960s. Led by key members Clarence
"Satch" Satchell (saxophone, flute, vocals)...
