℗ 2020 UMG Recordings; A Mercury Records Release
| Released | October 1, 1974 |
| Duration | 36m 25s |
| Record Label | Mercury Records |
| Genre | R & B |
Fire
Ohio Players
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Fire
Ohio Players |
4:33 | |||
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1.2
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Together
Ohio Players |
3:06 | |||
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1.3
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Runnin From The Devil
Ohio Players |
4:49 | |||
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1.4
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I Want To Be Free
Ohio Players |
6:51 | |||
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1.5
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Smoke
Ohio Players |
6:01 | |||
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1.6
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It's All Over
Ohio Players |
4:14 | |||
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1.7
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What The Hell
Ohio Players |
5:38 | |||
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1.8
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Together / Feelings
Ohio Players |
1:13 |
It’s sometimes forgotten just how much of an impact certain key soul-funk bands of the 1970s made on the American music scene, not just in their R&B stronghold but on the pop scene too. Among the most undervalued of those acts in the modern day are the Ohio Players, the collective from Dayton who were surely one of the funkiest outfits of them all.
Their sixth studio album, Fire, features one the band's most legendary crossover successes with the title track lead single. The track, which had topped the R&B chart two weeks earlier, moved to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on February 8, 1975. This lead to the album achieving similar success, reaching number 1 on both U.S. Billboards "Top LPs" and "Top Soul LPs" charts.
192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mercury Records Studio Masters
Tracks 1-8 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-8 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.20 -0.20 to -0.20 | -14.44 -18.67 to -12.72 | -11.41 -16.50 to -8.90 | 9 8 to 11 | |
| 1 | Fire | -0.20 | -14.25 | -10.9 | 10 |
| 2 | Together | -0.20 | -14.80 | -11.7 | 10 |
| 3 | Runnin From The Devil | -0.20 | -13.66 | -10.2 | 8 |
| 4 | I Want To Be Free | -0.20 | -13.64 | -10.8 | 9 |
| 5 | Smoke | -0.20 | -13.38 | -10.5 | 9 |
| 6 | It's All Over | -0.20 | -14.41 | -11.8 | 10 |
| 7 | What The Hell | -0.20 | -12.72 | -8.9 | 8 |
| 8 | Together / Feelings | -0.20 | -18.67 | -16.5 | 11 |