Ohio Players- Summertime

[zoisatheone]

hard in the paint

[grooveskin]

Coulda Been The Pink Panthers Funky Theme

[pamella757able]

soul brothers!

[MinisterLynne]

Yeah Baby!.....How to FUNK up a classic OP Style. Love it and Thanks for the post.

[lwolfclaw]

How to F...k up a classic

[galaxyz10]

Grew up on them and never heard this tone. Thanks for posting it!

[thesavoymediagroup]

Some of dat funk/blues/r&b all in one

[SpongeBobLady]

Wow Amazing LOVE IT

Eyes Close In The Era Enjoying My Time....

Wow Amazing Must Have This...

[miskittt]

Is that the same Sugarfoot that was playing the drums for Michael Jackson when he passed away?

[Greatersend]

I so dig that drum player. He could have stay during the 70's.

[clbzone]

Amazing solos. 

[cowboyfromdallas]

You can sense the summertime's heat, long days,crying for that quench of cool, refreshing , wet breeze(love)!



[grooveskin]

Sugar Foot Killin It As Only The Ohio Players/Untouchables Can - Funky Jazzy Groovin From The Masters

[dulaone]

was this b4 Junie Morrison?

[cgord37]

@dulaone yes, it was...junie came a few years later at the tender age of 17...

[dulaone]

@cgord37 17? wow

[cgord37]

@dulaone yes...on the PAIN album and monster hit of he same name...

[Greatersend]

@dulaone Yes. This song here came out in 1968 from album title "Impressions". Personally, they had better musicians and vocal singers before the 70's era.

[tavian1269]

Where can I purchase this? Is it on any of the Ohio Players albums? This is incredible!!!

[Greatersend]

@tavian1269 Yes, On amazon.com. It's call Ohio Player Mastercut. Note: The album cover showcase their live recording from the 70's, but the mastercut of all songs commenced from 1961-1968.

[dixielatino]

this is awesome, thanks for posting. 

[MrNextdoorscat]

proper heavy tune!!!

[wanna77]

I guess the one person who dislike this got a SUNBURN in the Summertime!

[thequango]

My speakers just made love to my ears... so tender!

[lekasha08]

@thequango wow...i like that! 

[Womackette]

You know what's even better than being a 70's child.......being a 60's child!!!

[wesja13]

I collect "SUMMERTIME" from Gershwin to Sublime. Funk u for funking it up

[fraz72]

@230966 I appreciate the history that you just shared with me, but yes sugarfoot is the business indeed

[jody808]

love the way Sugar sings the blues

[dwansa]

WOW!

[getdamoney08]

Beautiful!!!!!

[Amerikasnxt]

I was born in 1989 and wish i were a 70s child

[mirandafam13]

@Amerikasnxt ...yup, we feel very lucky!!! Always a downside tho, like school bussing and losing friends to drugs, big-time.

[Bombay159]

great ... 1966 ! ... thanks for posting

[N2itv2]

"The Ohio Players" fan all up in the '70s! Didn't know they had such fine lineage of nearly 10 years earlier. Love "Summertime" by them. Listening at them and looking at them, and the knowing! So meaniningful!!! Beauty through and in spite of hurt!!! Meaningful!!!! Ditto when I check out The Intruders' "Cowboys to Girls", and, and, and, and, . . ., . . . , . . .!!!!!!

Thanks, "HZ1975".

[wsdot6kid]

was this pressed on wax?

[MANUELABRAGA60]

milenar, muito bom

[cbazz68]

Classic. As only the Ohio Players could do. They put their "stank" all over this song. Too funky.

[LEGSUDESIRE]

Got this and I am so proud to own it too. Ohio the home of the funked one. You need this when you got that early afternoon entertaining going on. This and a few more

[sailingseb]

killer version of Sumertime ! well like the voice of the singer, the gitarist, and the brasssection ! the bass is there , but he is not putting himself in front, he is so much in there ! thx bass ! well the drums are perfekt ! ?are they ? well ,the only one who gets this-this kind of spirit-is -no jokin-is Helge Schneider ! check this boy out ! from germany ! HELGE wth Summertime ! i adore him for his Version of Summertime. have a ear!

[yoshluv7]

And I thought I heard all of the ohio players songs thanks to my mother but I never heard this one, i like this one.

[losmerdatutto]

some people consider this album still in search of a sound..

this was 1966

[Walib]

never heard this b4, thanks 4 posting

[STUDIOCHINCHAN]

Thanks for sharing this video

Eric - Studio ChinChan

[estygal]

Sugarfoot is alive and well....will see him in a concert in West Palm Beach ...a free outdoor concert :) Oct 24th

I can't wait....:)

[BigJfunkbass]

never heard this before. but i like it. real music not dumb down

[jpfunkk]

This is what you get when you learn a trade the correct way.When You listen to this & other works by them or EWF ; Kool & the Gang,you wonder if they had their say would the change in styles outside of monetary gain,what was the more desirable to play or listen to.

[lucaskidoo]

isso e uma musica do caralho

[oldschoolsituationz]

i see you are a real players fan man this was during their jazziac days wasnt it or was it after? is sugarfoot still living?

[jpfunkk]

I saw him 10-2-09 good show!

[sw052491]

Not used to this kind of music and didn't expect it when I saw ohio players. This is serious stuff!

[oldschoolsituationz]

thats how they started out as jazz musicians call the jazziacs or something like that. the ohio players were known for funk but these kats were some real serious musicians. like everybody they followed the money but you can hear their jazz influence in all their music especially their live performances.

[rodneynesbitt1]

This is bluesy, and a jazzy soulful horn

[cat3375]

Hey, this is good, but leave Janis alone. She did alright too.

[lrd9999]

The first version of this song I heard was a 78 my mother bought when "Porgy & Bess" first came out. With all the covers made since(Billy Stuart, JJ, even the bits and pieces Sublime threw into "Doin Time"), I can't think of a bad one. I think artists with bad taste tend to avoid this song.

Anyway, it's good to hear a record from the days when jazz actually had some balls.These days, lame NPR segway music, "Smooth Jazz" stations and the Weather Channel have given it an undeserved bad reputation.

[keezydadon]

dang your old i born in 1990.

[lrd9999]

Haha. Sounds like something I would have said in 1980, except the 1990 part ;-)) I wasn't alive when my mother bought that record; I'm not quite that old .... yet.

[elruchito]

where can i hear something else that sounds like this. this is awesome.

[thabigpill]

where can i buy this

[loosestudios]

Ohio Players lineup made their debut with the single "Pain," issued on for distribution by the Westbound label, reaching the R&B Top 40 in late 1971. An LP, also titled Pain, appeared that same year, and was followed in 1972 by Pleasure, which launched the hit "Funky Worm", their first number-one . Ecstacy appeared in 1973, and after 1974's Climax,1974 Mercury debut, Skin Tight, was their first big hit, l Its follow-up, Fire, 1975's Honey — "Love Rollercoaster" hits "Sweet Sticky Thing

[InneBrzmienie]

o.. m.. g.. how great it sounds!!!!! the best I've ever heard

[xmedical420Marijuana]

WOW.... this is INSPIRATIONAL

[caribind3]

Whoa dude, this version is on fire!

[Davidhuggar]

Good shit, fuck Janis joplin

[MrNextdoorscat]

@Davidhuggar shes dead, you`ll get in trouble

[android90beats]

ohio players are ill

[fraz72]

great tune, I know that sathc put this together in the very beginning, but sugarfoot was the addition tothis group that gave them thier polish with his unique artistry. especially when he sang with his guitar. just amaging and possibly original from him. I thought that george benson was the only one that done this until i heard sugar doing it and this 60s cut even verifies that he could have originated this hinself

[230966tf]

@fraz72

Wes Montgomery is generally thought to be the first to sing along to the guitar. George Benson readily acknowledges Montgomerey's influence on him. I believe Johnny Guitar Watson was also an early pioneer of the technique, long before he hit the big time in the early 70s. Sugarfoot is the business, no matter what though!

[louis15x]

I alwayz did like this one it takes me back to my youth one I first bought the cd back in the early ninties.

[CJtheCynic]

Didn't Pete Rock use this as an intro to a Rock Marcy(the UN)song(around 0:20)?

[tallcoolone1]

actually Janis Joplin has a great version of this.

[Not2Shaby]

This song has like an 'American Gangster' kinda vibe. This should of been in the movie, epically when Frank Lucas went to 8th and 116th to see his product being sold under cover and all the feens was out.

[Not2Shaby]

This a ill song to blaze to. 4.20.

[math1106]

LOL! Start it at 4:20 and listen through. Perfect blaze material!! What a coincidence!

[sodr2]

this is sampled by fat joe's "flow joe". prod. by diamond d

[zepolx3]

This is also sampled by RZA cant put my finger on the actual album but its on a Wu album.

[lowmoorclub]

SUPERB, SUPERB, SUPERB

[ploit2]

voice, even

[ploit2]

Guitar and voise reminds me more of Johnny Guitar Watson. Track is incredible though.

[superdrum3]

Sugar is DOIN it in this song! Side note, Rock kinda looks like Bernie Mac in this picture lol... peace

[OBENNARD]

How sweet it is!!

Really like rythm changes and tempo moves. How to have a few different style on the same track!

Congrats to the drum, he's really a funky one....

[OBENNARD]

euh sorry I mean drummer...

[toinettearea7]

The Ohio Players take Gershwin apart here! Never heard this version before - it sounds somewhat like Gil Scott-Heron to my ears. Thanks for posting!!!

[HZ1975]

Exactly Ohio Untouchables (in 1967 Ohio Players)

[huggydoo61]

@toinettearea7 This definitely has that Gil Scott flavor,  Yeah thanks for posting

[paul2nou]

@toinettearea7 i agree some of tha greats, hands down!!