Sweet Sticky Thing

"Sweet Sticky Thing"
Single by The Ohio Players
from the album Honey
B-side"Alone"
ReleasedAugust 9, 1975
GenreFunk[1]
Length3:25 (Single version)
6:12 (Album version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)William "Billy" Beck, Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, Marshall "Rock" Jones, Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence "Satch" Satchell, James "Diamond" Williams
Producer(s)The Ohio Players
The Ohio Players singles chronology
"I Want to Be Free"
(1975)
"Sweet Sticky Thing"
(1975)
"Love Rollercoaster"
(1975)

"Sweet Sticky Thing" is the name of a popular song by funk band Ohio Players, and released on the classic 1975 album, Honey. The song spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. It peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[2] It was the third of five songs that they would take to the top of the R&B chart.

  1. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (October 15, 1996). "Carnal Knowledge: Sexual Revolution". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 90. ISBN 031214704X.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 437.