Epstein Secrets

(drums) along with Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (guitar), who would become the group's front man. The group added two more singers, Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson, and became the house band for the New York based Compass Records for Vocalist Helena Ferguson Kilpatrick in 1967 who had just returned from Gershwi

c by the R.I.A.A. in May of that year. The band signed with Mercury Records in 1974. By this time, their line-up had changed again, with keyboardist Billy Beck instead of Morrison and Jimmy "Diamond" Williams on drums instead of Webster. On later album releases, they added second guitarist/vocalist Clarence

as = founding Untouchable, others even as the band's early leader. In =ny case, by 1967, with the subsequent addition of singers Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson, the newly rechriste=ed Ohio Players were signed as the house band for the New York-based Compass Records, backing singer Helena Ferguson on her lon

y appea=ed in 1973, and after 1974's Climax, the Players signed to Mercury; the label c=ange also heralded yet more lineup changes, with keyboardist Billy Beck replacing Morrison (who later signed on with Parliament) and drummer Jimmy "Diamond" Williams taking over for Webster. At Mercury, the Ohio Players

-perceptions as musicians and as ladies' men. liPage of 5 EFTA_R1_02175191 EFTA02719170 The group added two more singers, Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson, and became the house band for the New York-based Compass Records. In 1967, they added vocalist Helena Ferguson Kilpatrick, who had just returned f

d disc by the R.I.A.A. in May of that year. The band signed with Mercury Records in 1974. By then, their line-up had changed again, with keyboardist Billy Beck instead of Morrison and Jimmy "Diamond" Williams on drums instead of Webster. On later album releases, they added second guitarist/vocalist Clarenc