Tag Archives: Ohio Players

Just Say “I Gotsta Get Me Some” (Then Go Get You Some… At the Recca-Sto’)

Yesterday I bigged up Blueprint for sampling classic Soul. Today I’ve gotta give it up to some folks who are recreating that vintage Soul sound the old fashioned way. Yeah, I know, the whole retro-Soul thing is like the biggest fad of the last two years and everything. But being the ubiquitous […]

Records at Random Vol. 55 - The Temptations A Song For You

I started the week on Monday with a post about a group called the Boom Clap Bachelors. And now I’m capping it off with a Friday Records at Random entry on a platter featuring a standout cut titled “I’m a Bachelor.” Coincidence, you ask? Well, let me assure you that if my life […]

Records at Random Vol. 54 - Roy Ayers Ubiquity Mystic Voyage

I’ve broken the “rules” I set up for myself in doing this Records at Random thing a couple of times by featuring a record simply because I felt like listening to it that day. On the flip side of that I’ve also been pleased to find an LP that happens to be a personal […]

Records at Random Vol. 47 - Ohio Players Ecstasy

If the cover of last week’s Records at Random entry from MFSB was subtly sexy then the record lurking behind it in a pile near the television in my living room which earns the spot this week is damn near pornographic. Coming from a group — the untouchable Dayton, Ohio-bred Funk outfit the Ohio Players […]