Fire (Ohio Players album)
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Track listing
- All Songs Written By Ohio PlayersOhio PlayersThe Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their double #1 hit songs "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster".- Biography :...
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- "FireFire (Ohio Players song)"Fire" is a hit song by R&B/funk band The Ohio Players. The song was released in late 1974 and it is the opening track from the album of the same name and peaked at the top of both the pop and soul charts. It spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and five weeks at the top of the...
" (4:36) - "Together" (3:08)
- "Runnin' From The Devil" (4:48)
- "I Want to Be Free" (6:56)
- "Smoke" (5:59)
- "It's All Over" (4:15)
- "What the Hell" (5:38)
- "Together/Feelings" (listed on the back cover as "Together (Reprise)") (1:11)
Production
- Arranged & Produced By Ohio Players
- Recorded & Engineered By Gilbert Kong & Barry Mraz
- Assistant Engineer: Rob Kingsley
- Mastered By Lee Hulko
Personnel
- James "Diamond" Williams - drums, chimes, percussion, lead & background vocals
- Billy BeckBilly Beck (musician)Billy Beck is a keyboardist, pianist, and songwriter for the Original and New Ohio Players, as well as Zapp and Roger.A graduate of Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, he was born on the South Side of Youngstown, Ohio....
- Fender Rhodes piano, ClavinetClavinetA Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
, ARPARP Instruments, Inc.ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties...
synthesizer, keyboard bass, percussion, lead & background vocals - Mervin Pierce - trumpet, flugelhornFlugelhornThe flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
, valve trombone & background vocals - Marshall 'Rock' Jones - Fender bass
- Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner - guitar, percussion, lead & background vocals
- Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks- trumpet, trombone & background vocals
- Clarence "Satch" Satchell - baritone sax, tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, percussion, lead & background vocals
Charts
| Year | Album | Chart positions | |
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| US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
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| 1975 | Fire Fire (Ohio Players album) -Track listing:*All Songs Written By Ohio Players.#"Fire" #"Together" #"Runnin' From The Devil" #"I Want to Be Free" #"Smoke" #"It's All Over" #"What the Hell"... |
1 | 1 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart positions | ||
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| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
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| 1975 | "Fire" | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| "I Want to Be Free" | 44 | 6 | — | |
See also
- List of number-one albums of 1975 (U.S.)
- List of number-one R&B albums of 1975 (U.S.)