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Today's topic is the Ohio Players.
Here Today, Going Tomorrow. Here Today

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and Gone Tomorrow sounds like an early
recording from the group The Ohio Players from

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their nineteen sixty nine debut album,
Observations in Time. The group is known

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by their hit songs like Fire and
Love Rollercoaster. The song Here Today and

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Gone Tomorrow sounds like soul blues.
It's the first track on the album.

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Their lyrics say here Today, Going
Tomorrow. Each time you come, you

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leave a little sorrow. The Ohio
Players is a funk band and most popular

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in the nineteen seventies. Like I
Said, They are best known for songs

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like Fire and Love roller Coaster.
On August seventeenth, two thy thirteen,

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they were inducted into the inaugural class
of the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of

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Fame that took place at Cleveland State
University in Cleveland, Ohio. The band

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formed in Dayton, Ohio, in
nineteen fifty nine as the Ohio Untouchables.

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am your host. Scale Nobles