Ohio Players - Honey
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Personnel: Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion), Claren "Satch" Satchell (vocals, saxophone, flute), Ralph "Pee-Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet), Marvin Pierce (trumpet, trombone, percussion), Billy Beck (keyboards, vocals), Mars......more
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Artist: Ohio Players
- Description:
- Personnel: Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion), Claren "Satch" Satchell (vocals, saxophone, flute), Ralph "Pee-Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet), Marvin Pierce (trumpet, trombone, percussion), Billy Beck (keyboards, vocals), Marshall Jones (bass), Jimmy "Diamond" Williams (vocals, drums, percussions). Recorded and mixed at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago. This is a DTS CD, which features DTS 5.1 Surround Sound technology and is playable on a DTS-capable 5.1 Surround Sound system. Personnel: Leroy "Sugar" Bonner (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion); Claren "Satch" Satchell (vocals, saxophone, flute); Jimmy "Diamond" Williams (vocals, drums, percussion); Marvin Pierce (trumpet, trombone, percussion); Ralph "Pee-Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet); Billy Beck (keyboards); Marshall Jones (bass). Recorded at Paragon Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois. The follow-up to FIRE, the band's breakthrough smash, HONEY continued the Ohio Players' golden streak by building on the elements that made FIRE such a hit: smooth soul balladry, churning funk, and plenty of freaky, outrageous attitude (due in large part to the cartoonish lead vocals of Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner). Slow songs and balladry seem to play a larger part here, as the lush leadoff title track and the carpe diem anthem "Let's Do It" indicate. "Alone" strikes an unusually somber note for the Players in its sincerity, a mood marked by the song's comparatively spare arrangements. But the Players thrive on pulse-quickening jams, too, and "Ain't Givin' Up No Ground," with its jittery pop-and-lock rhythms, and the stomping groove of "Fopp" rank with the band's best sweaty workouts. Of course, the irrepressible "Love Rollercoaster" may be HONEY's highlight. (Its instantly memorable three-chord riff and vocal hook have been sampled endlessly in the decades since.) Add to all this some rather explicit and provocative cover art (the photo, of a naked female model covered in honey, was the band's most ...
- See Also:
- Honey, Gold, Funk on Fire: The Mercury Anthology, Skin Tight, Fire
- See Influences:
- Jimi Hendrix, Charles Wright, Rufus Thomas, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, The Isley Brothers, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart, The Temptations (R&B), Sly & the Family Stone, Jimmy Castor, James Brown
- See Contemporaries:
- Tower of Power, The Bar-Kays, Heatwave, Charles Wright, War, The Average White Band, Wild Cherry, Brick, Bootsy Collins, Parliament, Mandrill, Graham Central Station, Kool & the Gang, The Meters, The Gap Band, Slave, L.T.D., Rufus, Bohannon, The Falcons, George Clinton (Funk), Con Funk Shun, Brass Construction, Maze, Cameo, Funkadelic, The J.B.'s, Zapp, Isaac Hayes, Hot Chocolate (UK), Jimmy "Bo" Horne, Commodores, Kleeer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dazz Band, B.T. Express
- Track Listing:
- Disc 1:
- 1 Honey
- 2 Fopp
- 3 Let's Love
- 4 Ain't Givin' up No Ground
- 5 Sweet Sticky Thing
- 6 Love Rollercoaster
- 7 Alone
- Type:
- Performer
- Genre:
- R&B
- Subgenre:
- Funk
- Label:
- Mercury Records
- Producer:
- Ohio Players
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Format:
- Compact Disc
- Studio or Live:
- Studio
- Mono or Stereo:
- Stereo
- SPARS Coding:
- n/a
- Runtime:
- 31 : 47
- UPC:
- 042284834728
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