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"Love Rollercoaster" is a song by American Funk / R&B band The Ohio Players , originally featured on their 1975 album '' Honey ''. The song was a hit upon its initial release, reaching the top of both the R&B and pop charts, and still sees wide airplay on classic funk and R&B stations. The song uses the Roller Coaster , a common Theme Park attraction, as a metaphor for the ups and downs of Dating and romantic relationships. URBAN LEGEND While the song is known within the music community for its distinctive and influential sound, within the popular imagination it remains best identified with a persistent urban legend. During an instrumental portion of the song, a high-pitched scream is heard (between 2:32 and 2:35); according to the most common legend, this is the scream of LeRoy Phillips, but the victim's identity varies greatly depending on the version. The supposed sources of the scream have included an individual who was killed at some prior time, his scream inexplicably recorded and looped into the track, or a rabbit being killed outside the studio whose scream was accidentally picked up by the band's recording equipment (of all the explanations, this is the least plausible — professional recording studios are soundproof). The most widespread version of the myth, however, tells that LeRoy, who appeared seminude on the Honey album cover, had suffered permanent disfigurement due to the substance used to replicate honey for the photo; she interrupted the band's recording session, so the story says, at which point she was stabbed to death. Jimmy "Diamond" Williams explained that the scream was nothing eerie or disturbing:
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TRACK LISTING CD Single 1 # Love Rollercoaster # Lesbian Seagull - Engelbert Humperdinck CD Single 2 # Love Rollercoaster(Clean Edit) # Love Rollercoaster(Rock Rollercoaster Mix) # Love Rollercoaster(LP Version) 7" Vinyl # Love Rollercoaster # Lesbian Seagull - Engelbert Humperdinck IN THE MEDIA The song was featured briefly in the film '' Urban Legend '', where a reference is made to the myth associated with it. It makes a more prominent appearance in the Third ''Final Destination'' Film , where the song is played as death stalks and manifests itself to kill two teenage girls tanning in a tanning salon. This use is a dual reference used as a "sign" in the film citing the metaphoric legend of that song is known for, and the literal rollercoaster which plays an important deadly role in the film. The song was also featured in the movie '' After The Sunset ''. The song was played during a point when an FBI agent was locked in his car and the "villans" were flooding the car with sleeping gas. This song was used in the Nickelodeon series The Adventures Of Pete & Pete during a band scene. This song was featured in popular video game Grand theft Auto San Andreas, played on the game radio station Bounce FM. A cover version of the song, based on the Red Hot Chili Peppers version, is featured in the Nintendo Wii game Boogie . Some of the more sexually suggestive lyrics were changed.
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