love rollercoaster

A month after hitting the top of the R&B chart the Ohio Players were on top of the pop chart with this loopy funk classic. The group wrote it flying through stormy weather in a twin engine Navajo airplane. "Sugar" Bonner wrote the lyrics around a comment of a band mate, who said that since the group loved what they were doing (in concert) they should consider the airplane ride a "love roller coaster."

An urban legend continues to surround the song that the girl on the album cover (Panamanian-born model Ester Cordet) was attacked or killed near the studio and her screams are heard on the song. This was a hoax; the scream was actually that of keyboardist Billy Beck. Another high-pitch in the song was also said to be the scream of the "victim", but actually it was the scream of a woman on a roller coaster ride, which the band recorded and looped in the song. Casey Kasem reported the urban myth of the girl being killed in the studio recording booth on 'American Top 40' in 1976. Jimmy "Diamond" Williams sets the record straight: “There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Ripperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, 'Did you kill this girl in the studio?' The band took a vow of silence because that makes you sell more records."

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You give me that funny feeling in my tummy
Ahw sh.., yeah, that's right huh
Rollercoaster of love say what
Rollercoaster yeah (oohh oohh oohh)

Oh baby you know what I'm talking about
Rollercoaster of love
Oh yeah it's rollercoaster time

Lovin' you is really wild
Oh it´s just a love rollercoaster
Step right up and get your tickets

Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)
Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)

Move over dad 'cause I'm a double dipple
Upside down on the big dip dipper
1, 2, 1, 2,3 I've got a ticket come ride with me
Let me go down on the merry-go-round
All is fair 'n' a big fair ground
Let's go slow, let's go fast
Like a liquorice twist gonna whip your ass

Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)
Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)

Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)
Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)

Move over dad 'cause I'm a double dipple
Upside down on the big dip dipper
1, 2, 1, 2,3 I've got a ticket come ride with me
Let me go down on the merry-go-round
All is fair 'n' a big fair ground
Let's go slow, let's go fast
Like a liquorice twist gonna whip your ass

Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)
Your love is like a rollercoaster baby, baby
I want to ride yeah (awawaw)

Rollercoaster say what

I will be there for you I will be your man

'Honey'
full album:




All tracks written by James Williams, Clarence Satchell, Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, William Beck.

Side one
1. "Honey" 4:15
2. "Fopp" 3:45
3. "Let's Love" 5:15
4. "Ain't Givin' Up No Ground" 1:45
Side two
5. "Sweet Sticky Thing" 6:13
6. "Love Rollercoaster" 4:52
7. "Alone" 4:40