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Ohio Players
Dayton, United States · 1959-01-01 – 1997-01-01
Ohio Players is credited on 590 releases across 160 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
590
Credits
160
Albums
7
Decades active
592
In collections
Biography
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The Ohio Players formed in 1959 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Originally named Ohio Untouchables, they were the studio house band at
Renamed the Ohio Players, the group signed to Capitol Records in Los Angeles in the mid '60s. In 1972, the band signed to Westbound Records in Detroit and achieved commercial success, after which it recorded for Mercury Records.
Original band members are:
Leroy Bonner, Billy Beck, Clarence Satchell, Ralf Middlebrooks, Marshall Jones and Jimmy Williams.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
590 releases · 160 albums · active 1967–2025
- Production · 443
- Performance · 437
- Other credits · 33
- Engineering · 20
Studios: Paragon Recording Studios · Chicago Recording Company · Criteria Recording Studios · Record Plant, Los Angeles
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Straight Outta Compton
1989
Guero
2005
David Live
1974
Reasonable Doubt
1996
Beats, Rhymes And Life
1996
The Grind Date
2004
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
1997
Game Theory
2006
The Predator
1992
Honey
1975
Fire
1974
R & G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
2004
No Way Out
1997
Naughty By Nature
1991
Skin Tight
1974
Nastradamus
1999
What's The 411?
1992
Angel
1977
Ohio Players Gold
1976
Contradiction
1976
Tha Last Meal
2000
Greatest Hits
1996
Ecstasy
1973
Pleasure
1972
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