| Fire | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Ohio Players |
| Cover: | Ohio players fire.jpg |
| Released: | November 1974 |
| Recorded: | Paragon Studios (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Genre: | Funk, soul |
| Length: | 36:27 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Producer: | Ohio Players |
| Prev Title: | Climax |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | Honey |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
Fire is the sixth studio album by the Ohio Players and the second released through the Mercury label.
Fire is the third of five Ohio Players albums that were also available in quadraphonic (4-channel stereo), released as an 8-track tape in the U.S. and on vinyl in Japan. DTS Entertainment released the quad mix as a DTS Audio CD in 2001.
The album's lead single "Fire" was serving in the mid-2010s as the theme song to the US television series Hell's Kitchen. Fire topped both the Billboard Pop Albums chart and the Billboard R&B Albums chart (where it held for five weeks) in early 1975.
| Chart (1974–75) | Peak [1] |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top LPs | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs | 1 |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B | ||
| 1974 | "Fire" | 1 | 1 |
| 1975 | "I Want to Be Free" | 44 | 6 |