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Formats and Editions
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 1
10. Food Stamps Y'all 1
11. Sleep Talk 1
12. Climax 1
13. Skin Tight 1
14. Jive Turkey 1
15. Fire 1
16. I Want to Be Free (Single Version) 1
17. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce - Junie 1
18. Sweet Sticky Thing 1
19. Love Rollercoaster 2
20. Happy Holidays (Part 1) 2
21. Fopp (Single Version) 2
22. Suzie Thundertussy - Junie 2
23. Who'd She Coo? 2
24. Far East Mississippi 2
25. Feel the Beat (Everybody Disco) 2
26. Contradiction 2
27. Merry Go Round 2
28. Body Vibes 2
29. O-H-I-O 3
30. Good Luck Charm 3
31. Magic Trick 3
32. Funk-O-Nots 3
33. Time Slips Away 3
34. Everybody Up 3
35. Don't Say Goodbye 3
36. Take Da Funk Off, Fly 3
37. Love Has Taken Me Over (Be My Baby) - Junie 3
38. Try a Little Tenderness 3
39. Skinny 4
40. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay 4
41. Born to Hustle - Shadow 4
42. Just Me 4
43. Kiss - Sugarfoot 4
44. Fire 85 - Sugarfoot
More Info:
2018 three CD set. 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 and Boardwalk repertoire to make this unique compilation, but we did not stop there, we have also included material from band members Junie Morrison, Sugarfoot and Shadow (Billy Beck, Clarence Willis & Diamond) to give you a total career overview of this exceptional funk band. This package also includes a 28-page color booklet, that includes an essay by Christian John Wikane with contributions by the band's drummer and architect of the Ohio Players beat James "Diamond" Williams. Robinsongs have divided the package in three parts The Early Years, The Golden Years and The Later & Solo Years, the early years kicks the package off with two tracks from the Capitol Records album The Observations In Time where we can see the direction that the band is heading, onto Westbound where the band recorded their breakthrough single 'Funky Worm', a R&B #1 which featured Junie as the voice of Granny, other standout Westbound tracks are 'Pleasure', 'Pain' and 'Ecstasy', Disc One finishes with two cuts from their first Mercury album Skin Tight including the hit 'Jive Turkey'. 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 band's only UK chart single. Other stand out tracks on this disc are 'I Want To Be Free'
