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The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in summer 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert, Walter Lee Williams, William Powell, Bobby Massey, and Bill Isles. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The O'Jays made their first chart appearance with the minor hit "Lonely Drifter" in 1963, but reached their greatest level of success once the ...
Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays — — Legacy: 1995 Let Me Make Love to You — — Give the People What They Want — — 1996 In Bed with the O'Jays: Greatest Love Songs — — EMI: 1998 Super Hits — — Legacy The Very Best of the O'Jays — — Sony Music: 1999 The Best of the O'Jays: 1976–1991 — — The Right Stuff: Ultimate ...
"Use ta Be My Girl" is a song by R&B vocal group The O'Jays. Released from their hit 1978 album, So Full of Love, it became a crossover hit. The song spent five weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart. It also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. [4] "Use ta Be My Girl" became one of the biggest and most familiar ...
Ship Ahoy is the seventh album by Philadelphia soul group the O'Jays, released in 1973 on Philadelphia International Records.The album was a critical and commercial success, entering Billboard on November 10, and reaching No. 11.
The song was covered by The Dynamics on their 2011 album 180,000 Miles and Counting. The song was covered by Tackhead on their 2014 album of the same name, For the Love of Money. The song was covered by Nektar on their 2012 album "A Spoonful of Time." The song was used as part of a medley on the soundtrack album to the musical MJ.
The Very Best of the O'Jays is a compilation album featuring all their greatest hits. It is part of Sony's Playlist album series , which covers 1972 through to 1978, when the O'Jays (and Gamble & Huff ) were at the peak of the Charts.
From those rides came The O'Jays, a chart-topping vocal group. "We had great harmony," Massey said. "First of all, we could all sing. Walt (Williams) could sing. Eddie (Levert) could sing lead.
It was the O'Jays' first and only number one record on the US pop chart. The song has been considered one of the first songs of disco music. "Love Train" entered the Hot 100's top 40 on January 27, 1973, [5] the same day that the Paris Peace Accords were signed. The song's lyrics of unity mention a number of countries, including England, Russia ...