Ohio Players Honey Rare 1975 Mercury Records Original Press Vinyl LP
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Honey Studio album by Ohio Players Released August 16, 1975 Recorded February–June, 1975 Studio Paragon Recording Studios
(Chicago, Illinois) Genre Soul, funk, R&B Length 31:47 Label Mercury Producer Ohio Players Ohio Players chronology Fire
(1974) Honey
(1975) Contradiction
(1976) Singles from Honey
- "Sweet Sticky Thing"
Released: August 9, 1975 - "Love Rollercoaster"
Released: November 9, 1975 - "Fopp"
Released: February 1976
Honey is the seventh studio album by American band the Ohio Players. Released on August 16, 1975 by Mercury Records. It is generally regarded as a classic, the band's best album, and the last great full-length release of their dominant era in the mid-1970s.
Like previous albums by the band, Honey is known for a racy cover photo. In this case image is a nude woman holding a sticky jar of honey in one hand while lasciviously swallowing a spoonful of it with the other. The inside cover photo shows the nude woman lying on her back with honey poured all over her body, and the Players looking at her with sheer delight and amazement. The model was Playboy magazine's October 1974 Playmate of the Month, Ester Cordet. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover Art.
The cover image also gained mild notoriety from urban legends involving one of the singles, Love Rollercoaster, one to the effect that the honey injured Cordet’s skin, ruining her career as a model, and another claiming that she was stabbed to death in the recording booth, with her scream captured on the song. These stories are false.
The album was recorded and mixed at Paragon Recording Studios in Chicago, with Barry Mraz as the recording engineer. Marty Link, Steve Kusiciel, Rob Kingsland, and Paul Johnson are credited as tape operators. Gilbert Kong mastered the final mix at Masterdisk in New York City.
The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 during the week of September 27, 1975, kept out of the top spot by Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus. In addition, it was the third album from the band to top the Soul/Black Albums chart, where it spent three weeks.
Track listing
All tracks are written by James Williams, Clarence Satchell, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, William Beck.
Side one No. Title Length 1. "Honey" 5:19 2. "Fopp" 3:45 3. "Let's Love" 5:15 4. "Ain't Givin' Up No Ground" 1:45 Side two No. Title Length 5. "Sweet Sticky Thing" 6:13 6. "Love Rollercoaster" 4:52 7. "Alone" 4:40price rating
