The O'Jays Discuss Ohio Origins and the Possibility of a Biopic
Mar 10, 2024You guys are originally from Ohio, but you've become known for Philly soul mm-hmm, how did both your home state and the city, the city of brotherly love, influence your sound throughout your entire career? Okay, Eddie and I come to St. Mark's Baptist Church. in Canada and we started very young in Canada so we worked from Canton all over Ohio, we became known because we worked a lot in Ohio, but they had a team of writers in Philadelphia, Jenny Gamble, Leon Huff and when that chemistry came together, big explosion , CBS Philadelphia International. He exploited our talent and got us hit records.
We had to catch up on success. The Canton people they know and the Ohio people know where the talent comes from and now they know where the writers are and the music and all that stuff. It comes from there, so they put it together, no one was offended. There was a time when they said we were from Cleveland and Canton showed a little anger that we weren't from Cannon's Cleveland and that worked, but as you know, Ohio produced a lot of singers. and bands and people who were very successful in the business, from Nancy Wilson to ah oh, how the players, yeah, Isley Brothers, heat, drought, man, my God, go on, yeah, we, I think it's something in the water and, when you think about it, there was a lot of people coming out of there, almost as many as came out of Memphis and New York and all that, has there ever been a
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, do you want us to have been dirty and I mean, you know what they? look, we don't talk about that, okay, someone with a lot of talent, you know, I don't know if I don't know what they're going to do other than being I don't know well about their tragedy and I don't like telling my business and I don't do it and I don't do it I will reveal, but a certain amount of things because they are going to say well, how do you know all that?I don't know, I just don't know, I don't know how they did it. I'll do it anyway, you don't have to put much leaven either, you'll have to tell the truth.
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