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Ohio Players found formula for success with 'Fire'

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Today's Morning Edition music is the song "Fire," the title track from an album by the Ohio Players, which was No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart on this day in 1975.

It was the first No. 1 song for this band, which had been around in one form another since 1959. It started in Dayton, Ohio, as Greg Webster and the Ohio Untouchables. In the early days the group sang backup for Wilson Pickett.

Band members came and went throughout the '60s and the band was renamed the Ohio Players. It wasn't until the '70s that they found a hit-making formula that resulted in four straight albums that topped the R&B chart.

Here's a clip of the Ohio Players performing "Fire" live in 1974.

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