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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
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 Gershwin's European Tour of Porgy and Bess. The group disbanded again in
him as = founding Untouchable, others even as the band's early leader. In =ny case, by 1967, with the su
nt 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 lone hit, "Where Is =he Party," before issuing their solo debut, "Trespassin'," which hit the R&B charts in e
s The Ohio Players were an American funk and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known
A_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 from George Gershwin's European Tour of Porgy and Bess. The group d
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