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Though The Spinners popularized, and came to epitomize, the lush sound of Philly Soul in the 1970s, they got their start in Detroit at Motown in 1961. The Spinners signed with Atlantic Records in 1972, teaming up with producer Thom Bell in Philadelphia where the group blossomed under his production aegis.
Jun 16, 2023 · the (detroit) spinners and the (liverpool) spinners In a year bejewelled with Motown magnificence, “I’ll Always Love You” was a diamond. “It’s the very definition of a Golden Age,” agreed Steve Devereux , author of the essential Motown Junkies website, “when even the supposed second-string acts can turn in a record as amazing as ...
A - Well, they lived in Liverpool, England and I think they were a Folk group. When they came to the United States, they had to call themselves The Liverpool Spinners and in England we were known as The Detroit Spinners. Matter of fact, we have a couple of albums that say The Detroit Spinners, but in the States we're known as The Spinners.
Their first album, Songs Spun in Liverpool (released under the group name of 'The Liverpool Spinners'), was recorded by Bill Leader from live performances. In 1962 Peter Kennedy of the English Folk Dance & Song Society recorded an album with them called Quayside Songs Old & New.
A Liverpool-based folk quartet, formed in 1958: The original line up of Tony Davis, Mick Groves, Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones was augmented by other short lived members including Jacqueline MacDonald who went on to form Jacqui And Bridie. Their first TV appearance was in 1960 and they also had their own BBC1 show in the 1960s that ran for many years.
Spinners, The/Detroit Spinners. Despite scoring a transatlantic hit in 1970 with It’s A Shame (co-authored by Stevie Wonder ), The Spinners remained overlooked at Motown in favour of The Temptations and The Four Tops. Their first record was That’s What Girls Are Made Of and it was issued on Tri-Phi and became an immediate Top 20 success for ...
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Record label US US R&B UK; 1973 The Best of the Spinners: 124 37 — Motown: 1977 Smash Hits — — 37 Atlantic: 1978 The Best of the Spinners: 115 56 — 1991 A One of a Kind Love Affair: The Anthology — — — 1993 The Very Best of the Spinners — — — Rhino: 1997 The Very Best of the Spinners, Vol. 2 — — — 2000 Their Early ...
