The Ohio Express* – Yummy Yummy Yummy 45 RPM

https://www.discogs.com/release/5807866-The-Ohio-Express-Yummy-Yummy-Yummy

Joey Levine: Vocals

Dale Power: Guitar

Doug Grassel: Guitar

Dean Kastran: Bass

Jim Pfayler: Keyboards

Tim Corwin: Drums

Forming from the ashes of Rare Breed, Mansfield Ohio's The Ohio Express came together in 1967 and enjoyed some of the largest successes of the bubblegum rock craze of the late 60's. The initial line-up included Joey Levine on vocals, Dale Powers on guitar, Doug Grassel on second guitar, Jim Pflayer on keyboards, Dean Krastan on bass and Tim Corwin on drums. Under the aegis of producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, Ohio Express surfaced repeatedly on the late-'60s pop charts. Their first single, a reworked Rare Breed tune called "Beg, Borrow And Steal" cracked the charts, but it was with the sugary-sweet one-two punch of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and "Chewy Chewy," that the group found their biggest hits. These tunes were pair of million-sellers for the band and their label, bubblegum powerhouse Buddah Records. Future 10CC leader Graham Gouldman sang lead on their final chart bow in 1969, "Sausalito (Is the Place to Go)." The band had a somewhat nebulous existence for the next two decades. For a brief time in the mid-70's Kasenetz and Katz assembled a version of Ohio Express made up of completely new musicians to play the band's hits in Long Island clubs and dive bars. This in-name-only version of the band was short-lived. In the 1980's original drummer Tim Corwin assembled a new line up of the group and they began touring the oldies circuit playing the band's late 60's bubblegum hits. In 2012 this version of the band offered up Bubblegum Days, an album of newly recorded versions of both their most famous hits as well as other covers from the bubblegum era.

1.The Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy (2:21)

2.The Ohio Express - Zig Zag (2:10)

3.The Ohio Express - Down At Lulu's (1:55)

4.The Ohio Express - She's Not Coming Home (2:51)

American bubblegum pop band, formed in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1967.

Though marketed as a band, it would be more accurate to say that "Ohio Express" served as a brand name used by Jerry Kasenetz's and Jeff Katz's Super K Production to release music by several different musicians and acts. The best known Ohio Express songs, including their highest charting single, "Yummy Yummy Yummy") were actually the work of an assemblage of studio musicians working out of New York, including singer/songwriter Joey Levine.

Several other "Ohio Express" hits were the work of other, unrelated musical groups, including the Rare Breed, and an early incarnation of 10cc. In addition, a completely separate touring version of Ohio Express appeared at all live dates, and recorded some of the band's album tracks.

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