Funky Worm
Ohio Players
1973
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Ohio Players
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Ohio Players became closely associated with 1970s funk and R&B. Their Mercury recording period included Skin Tight, Fire and Honey, while songs such as Funky Worm, Love Rollercoaster and Who'd She Coo? established a distinctive dance repertoire. International concerts and American television appearances accompanied the records. Later musicians returned to the catalog through covers and sampling, bringing the band's arrangements into different recording styles and audiences.
Artist background sources
Ohio Players - official band biography
Read 1970s funk/R&B, Mercury album period, representative repertoire, touring/television and later sampling/cover history. The current/original-member claims, documentary appearances, rankings, sales and comparisons are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Funky Worm by Ohio Players appears at number 84 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1973. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1973 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
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Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1973 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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