O'Jays - Ship Ahoy

Limited vinyl LP repressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. Ship Ahoy is a soul/R&B album by Philadelphia trio The O'Jays, originally released on November 10, 1973 on Philadelphia International Records. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching #1 on Billboard's Black Albums chart and #11 on the Pop Albums chart and launching two hit singles, "For the Love of Money" and "Put Your Hands Together." Conceived as a theme album built around the title track, Ship Ahoy includes socially relevant tracks and love songs under a cover that is itself notable for it's serious subject matter. Ship Ahoy was the highest selling R&B album on the Billboard Year-End chart for 1974.