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And for those who don't know The Ohio Players the band formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untou
Ward leaving for a solo career, but the core members of the group returned to Dayton and the following year added Gregory Webster (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
him as = founding Untouchable, others even as the band's early leader. In =ny case, by 1967, with the su
ubsequently exited for a solo c=reer, the group essentially disbanded. At that point, the nucleus of Middlebrooks, Jones, an= newly added guitarist Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner returned to Dayton; ther= they recruited saxophonist Andrew Noland and drummer Gary Webster, the latt=r a somewhat elusive figure whose true involv
s The Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known
in November 1997; and Robert Ward (born 15 October 1938) died at home 25 December 2008. Cornelius Johnson (born 12 July 1937) died 1 February 2009. Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (born 14 March 1943, Hamilton, OH) died 26 January 2013 at age 69. Marshall Jones (born 1 January 1941, Dayton, OH) resides in Jamestown, Ohio, and
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