Some of the band members had been playing together since 1959 in Greg Webster and the Ohio Untouchables (drummer Webster being the namesake). When that band split in 1963, saxophonist Clarence “Satch” Satchell and bassist Marshall “Rock” Jones decided to put together another ensemble, including Webster on drums, and called themselves the Ohio Players. They worked as the house band for Compass Records in Nashville. Eventually, one of their demos made its way to Capitol Records in Hollywood, and in 1969 the band had a recording contract.

“Love Rollercoaster” was the second single released from their seventh album, Honey. “Sweet Sticky Thing” had gone to #33 in October of ’75 (I love Satchell’s saxophone on this one). “Love Rollercoaster” entered the singles charts at #51 in November and steadily rose over the next 11 weeks.

One of the weirder bits of trivia about “Love Rollercoaster” are the rumors that circulated about its recording. During an instrumental break in the song, screams by keyboardist William “Billy” Beck can be heard. The screams sparked a variety of rumors, ranging from being an actual recording of a girl dying on a rollercoaster that was added into the mix to being an actual murder in another studio that was picked up on the microphones during the band’s recording session (and even crazier myths in between involving a dying rabbit screaming from outside the building to the model of the Honey album cover entering the studio to yell at the band).

“Love Rollercoaster” was also a #1 hit in the UK and went to #2 in Canada. It’s become the signature song for the Ohio Players.
http://youtu.be/szgQiitsKAo

“Sweet Sticky Thing” went to #33 on the US singles charts.  http://bit.ly/OhioPlayersSweetStickyThing

 “I’d say the Founding Generation faced the same issue we face today, in that they were challenged by a very large percentage of their Countrymen who did not want independence, they did not want to be rid of the King.”

I emphatically disagree.

Our situation is very — almost categorically — different now. This is because all the ethical and political principles that resulted in the American Revolution were in their originally initial *ascent* at that point in history. They are actively being overthrown, now. I keep pointing out: this is unique in human history. It’s as completely unique as the Revolution in the first place. Freedom never existed before America, and it has never been destroyed before, after actual real-life institution anywhere. This whole idea is in *decline*.

Occidental Dissent had, by coincidence, posted something a few days earlier that bears on this topic:

 The United States became the richest and most powerful nation in the world because of a combination of factors that had little to do with the natural rights ideology of the American Revolution:

(1) America had the good fortune to be isolated in the Western Hemisphere and shielded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from the aggression of rival foreign powers which could have contained its expansion like France and Germany.

(2) America was perfectly positioned to expand into and dominate the temperate heartland of the North American continent and exploit all of its vast natural resources.

(3) America inherited from Britain and the Western world the full suite of European science and technology.

(4) America inherited from Britain and the Western world the greatest cultural achievements of Northern European civilization like a strong work ethic, the rule of law, the competitive ideal, and respect for property rights.

(5) America’s founding population was of above average intelligence relative to the rest of the world.

(6) America was underpopulated and possessed an overabundance of cheap land which attracted millions of enterprising settlers from Britain and Northern Europe.

(7) America lacked an entrenched hereditary class structure because of its unusual geographic circumstances.

(8) America’s religion encouraged high fertility, suppressed intragroup conflict, nurtured strong moral character, and promoted capital accumulation and scientific and technological progress as a way to glorify God.

(9) America’s commitment to racial nationalism and white supremacy moderated the natural rights ideology and restrained its self destructive tendencies.

(10) America’s lack of fidelity to the natural rights ideology facilitated the expansion of African slavery and the conquest of new territory at the expense of the Indians which enriched White America and fueled the expansion of its commerce and industry at the expense of foreign rivals.

Taken together these things were always the secret of America’s success … NOT the fashionable natural rights ideology of the eighteenth century which was latched onto and invoked as a justification to rebel against the British Empire.

The hateful truth is that all men are not created equal. God or Nature has molded the entire world into its present image on the basis of inequality. Natural selection upon hereditary inequality is the mechanism which carves species into races adapted to survive in their unique local environment. This principle applies to every species that has ever existed on this planet and modern humans are no exception.

He does point to “property rights” as being a positive point of the culture of the time, without really addressing the roots of this in natural rights ideology. But it is true that property rights weren’t really elaborated as a result of ideology and philosophy, but as a practical, trial-and-error series of accomodations between monarch, local officials, and subjects/citizens.  They are true because of natural rights, but humanity has not yet come close to fully understanding natural rights – we can see that from the disastrous results of applying equality everywhere.

I also take issue with the idea that men were never free before the founding of the USA.  That’s a definition of freedom that is almost solipsistic.

Beck is correct though about the ideas then being elaborated in such depth for the first time, and the opposite process holding now.  More and more, I see people who literally don’t know how to think.