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  • ‘Skin Tight’ And Out Of Sight: The Ohio Players In 1974

    09/08/2025 8:49:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | September 8, 2025 | Paul Sexton
    The funk group’s September 1974 chart entry debuted even higher than Hot 100 resident Elton John’s ‘The Bitch Is Back.’The funk and soul group from Dayton, in the state that inspired their name, were hot as a pistol in 1974. The Ohio Players had wriggled to the top of the R&B chart the year before with their “Funky Worm,” a Top 15 crossover pop success, and now they were reaching both audiences again with a new success, “Skin Tight.” The album of the same name had entered the chart in April, and the single started its ascent of the...
  • Arab man sets himself on Fire at the White House

    11/15/2004 11:00:29 AM PST · by Dog · 850 replies · 43,418+ views
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  • Sherman still burns Atlanta

    05/08/2004 3:37:03 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 290 replies · 4,204+ views
    Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | May 7, 2004 | CAMERON McWHIRTER
    One hundred and forty years ago this month, 100,000 Union soldiers marched into Georgia. Less than eight months later, the Yankees captured Savannah. Along the way, they fought more than 20 major battles, crushed Confederate resistance, destroyed at least $100 million worth of railroads, warehouses, plantations and factories, and left Atlanta in smoking ruins. It remains one of the most famous military campaigns in American history: Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's March through Georgia. It's still taught to cadets at West Point as an example of how to break an enemy's will to fight. And without the trauma of Yankees plowing...