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The Ohio Players - Official

 

The Ohio Players are a famous funk and R&B band whose heyday was in the mid- to late 1970s. They formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables. The band’s first big hit was "Funky Worm", which hit #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts and made had seven more Top 40 hits between 1973 and 1976, including the smashes "Fire," Love Rollercoaster," and "Funky Worm;" and "Love Rollercoaster" were later included on the soundtrack of the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (playing on fictional Funk radio station Bounce FM). The group's last big hit was "Who'd She Coo" a #1 R&B hit in August 1976.