The Ohio Players thing is at the beginning of the song,you hear a very high pitched scream in the background,which according to a radio DJ in the '70s after he played it,it sounded like a woman got murdered during the recording.This is not true.The singer(if I remember correctly)did a kind of vocal harmonic thing where he screamed from the back of his throat.But at first,they never said anything about it,confessed the bass player years later,"because it sells records."Hope that cleared it up.
The Ohio Players thing is at the beginning of the song,you hear a very high pitched scream in the background,which according to a radio DJ in the '70s after he played it,it sounded like a woman got murdered during the recording.This is not true.The singer(if I remember correctly)did a kind of vocal harmonic thing where he screamed from the back of his throat.But at first,they never said anything about it,confessed the bass player years later,"because it sells records."Hope that cleared it up.