The funk and soul group from Dayton, within the state that impressed their title, have been scorching as a pistol in 1974. The Ohio Gamers had wriggled to the highest of the R&B chart the yr earlier than with their “Funky Worm,” a High 15 crossover pop success, and now they have been reaching each audiences once more with a brand new success, “Skin Tight.”
The album of the identical title had entered the chart in April, and the only began its ascent of the soul bestsellers totally 5 weeks earlier than it made its Sizzling 100 debut. However when it did, on September 8, it got here racing out of the traps, as the very best new entry of the week at No.45 — totally 18 locations increased than even that US chart resident Elton John, along with his new single “The Bitch Is Back.”
Pores and skin-tight funk
That chart, on which Paul Anka continued at No.1 with “(You’re) Having My Baby” additionally contained new entries for the Righteous Brothers, with “Give It To The People,” and Steppenwolf with “Straight Shootin’ Woman.” One of the ingenious novelty singles of the yr, Reunion’s fast-talking and celebrity-quoting “Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me),” additionally entered the Sizzling 100 that week, on its method to a No.8 peak.
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“Skin Tight,” in the meantime, cruised into the High 40 in its second week and spent two weeks at its No.13 peak in October. Earlier than the top of the yr, the Ohio Gamers’ scorching streak actually burst into flames, as the only “Fire” hit the pop and soul charts on its method to No.1 on each. By the summer time of 1976, they’d amassed a weighty 5 soul chart-toppers in little greater than three years. The Pores and skin Tight album of 1974, self-produced and recorded in Chicago, was additionally the one which started the group’s run of platinum-selling lengthy gamers.
Purchase or stream “Skin Tight” on the album of the identical title.
