After a decade or so of sporadic and modest success, The O'Jays needed a change to reach their potential. Philadelphia International Records needed a group that would be the ideal conduit for the sounds the label's house producers were brewing. Hence, it was a musical marriage made in heaven. And the first evidence of this came on the 1972 smash single "Back Stabbers," which called two-faced friends to the carpet.
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