Can someone please tell me why One Way is rarely mentioned amongst classic R&B groups?

Ever since coping the Detroit-bred band’s Who’s Foolin’ Who vinyl second-hand style back in college, I’ve become enlightened by the group’s garden variety of sample-ready Soul. But, I was wombed up during their prime years due to age. That’s why I’m legitimately curious to hear one of you elder statesman explain why Al Hudson & Co. never got the spins that a Gap Band or Earth, Wind & Fire got, despite displaying an equal amount of radio-ready, yet unheralded jams like “Dynomite,” “Pull Fancy Dancer” and Cedric The Entertainer’s favorite space shuttle serenade, “Cutie Pie.” On top of just crafting hits, their tendency to flip from freak nasty funk to pine-tree sappy has allowed for their music to be reincarnated into the catalogs of half our favorite artists, including Warren G, Too Short, Aaliyah, DJ Quik, Suga Free, WC, Monica and even Gangsta Gibbs.

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