"Fire"
#1 weeks: 1
weeks: 1975-02-08
genre: r&b, funk
artist: Ohio Players
album: Fire
writers: Billy Beck, Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, Marshall "Rock" Jones, Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks, The Ohio Players, Clarence "Satch" Satchell, James "Diamond" Williams
label:
lengths: 4:36 (album version), 3:12 (single version)
"Fire" is a hit song by R&B/funk band The Ohio Players.
The song was released from the album of the same name and
peaked at the top of both the pop and soul charts. It spent one
week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and five weeks at
the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1975. "Fire" was
the Ohio Players only entry on the new disco/dance chart, where
it peaked at number ten. The song is today considered one of
their signature songs.
The song was recorded at Mercury Record's Chicago-based
studio. While performing it in California, the band let Stevie
Wonder hear the basic track for the song and he predicted that
it would become a big hit. It is currently used as the theme
song to the FOX reality series
Hell's Kitchen.