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Ohio Players (Musical group)

LC control no.n 91083840
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Corporate name headingOhio Players (Musical group)
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See alsoMember: Bonner, Leroy
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Member: Webster, Greg, 1938-
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Predecessor: Ohio Untouchables (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
Field of activityFunk (Music)
Found inIts Observations in time [SR] 1969: label (Ohio Players)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 29, 2013 (in obituary published Jan. 28: Leroy Bonner; b. 1943, Hamilton, Ohio; d. Saturday [Jan. 26, 2013], Trotwood, Ohio, aged 69; frontman of the Ohio Players, a funk band whose influence lasted well beyond the string of hits it had in the mid-1970s; singer and guitarist better known by his nickname, Sugarfoot)
Wikipedia, Feb. 21, 2017 (Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R & B band, most popular in the 1970s; formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables; by 1965, the group had renamed themselves Ohio Players)
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His The early years/The Ohio Players, 2011: t.p. (Gregory Webster) in text (Greg Webster, Sr.; predominant usage: Greg Webster; b. Jan. 1938, Hamilton, Ohio; drummer in The Ohio Players)