Platypus

Platypus was just a little known, short-lived disco-funk music group that was mixed up in past due ’70s and early ’80s. Shaped in Dayton, Ohio, in 1978, the music group contains Arthur Stokes (business lead vocals, percussion), Kerry Rutledge (business lead vocals, rhythm acoustic guitar), Lloyd Jones (bass), Curtis Sanford (drums, keyboards), and Larry “Irfaan” Hines (business lead acoustic guitar). They mixed their appreciation from the Ohio Players and Parliament/Funkadelic with a whole lot of disco gloss and occasionally added rock components. But unlike the Players or Parliament/Funkadelic, Platypus didn’t make use of any horns. In 1978, the five member music group authorized with Casablanca, which — soon after Hines’ existence was used by leukemia — released its self-titled debut LP the next year. Cherry, another album, was released in 1980. Neither recording sold, as well as the outfit split up.