[ Robinsongs / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 March 2018
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• For the very first time you can now get your hands on a Definitive Collection of the Funk sensation that was The Ohio Players.
• Robinsongs are proud to be the first label to combine the Capitol, Westbound, Mercury, Arista & Boardwalk repertoire to make this unique set... but we did not stop there; it also includes material from Band members: Junie Morrison, Sugarfoot & Shadow (Beck, Willis & Diamond) to give you a total career overview of this legendary Funk Band.
• This package also includes a 28-page colour booklet, featuring an essay by Christian John Wikane a New York based music journalist, with contributions by the band's drummer and architect of the Ohio Players beat James "Diamond" Williams.
• DISC TWO kicks off with arguably the band's biggest hit 'Fire' which went to #1 in the R&B chart and the Album went to #1 in the Billboard album chart, three other #1 singles feature on this disc 'Sweet Sticky Thing', 'Love Rollercoaster' and 'Who'd She Coo' which was also the Bands only UK chart single. Other stand out tracks on this disc are 'I Want To Be Free', 'O-H-I-O' and 'Fopp'.
• The final CD covers the transition to Arista & Boardwalk Records, and features the full-length version of 'Everybody Up' plus tracks by Junie - 'Love Has Taken Me Over', Shadow - 'Born To Hustle' and Sugarfoot's 1985 cover of 'Fire'. This truly is a Definitive Collection.
Disc: 1
1. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
2. Find Someone to Love
3. Pleasure
4. Walt's First Trip
5. Varee Is Love
6. Funky Worm
7. Pain
8. Players Balling (Players Doin' Their Own Thing)
9. Ecstasy
10. Food Stamps Y'all
11. Sleep Talk
12. Climax
13. Skin Tight
14. Jive Turkey
Disc: 2
1. Fire
2. I Want to Be Free (Single Version)
3. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce - JUNIE
4. Sweet Sticky Thing
5. Love Rollercoaster
6. Happy Holidays (Part 1)
7. Fopp (Single Version)
8. Suzie Thundertussy - JUNIE
9. Who'd She Coo?
10. Far East Mississippi
11. Feel the Beat (Everybody Disco)
12. Contradiction
13. Merry Go Round
14. Body Vibes
15. O-H-I-O
16. Good Luck Charm
Disc: 3
1. Magic Trick
2. Funk-O-Nots
3. Time Slips Away
4. Everybody Up
5. Don't Say Goodbye
6. Take Da Funk Off, Fly
7. Love Has Taken Me Over (Be My Baby) - JUNIE
8. Try a Little Tenderness
9. Skinny
10. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
11. Born to Hustle - SHADOW
12. Just Me
13. Kiss - SUGARFOOT
14. Fire 85 - SUGARFOOT