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The Spinners were a folk group from Liverpool, England, who formed in September 1958. They variously had four albums in the UK Albums Chart between September 1970 and April 1972. One of them, Spinners Live Performance (1971), spent three months in the listing and peaked at No. 14.
The Original Spinners (released in the UK as The Detroit Spinners) is the 1967 debut album by The Spinners for Motown Records. The LP includes the group's earliest singles on the label (such as Top 20 R&B hits "I'll Always Love You" and "Truly Yours"), as well as their first ever single "That's What Girls Are Made For" (which was released on the already defunct Tri-Phi Record label).
Samuel Smiles (band) The Sand Band; The Settlers (band) Show of Hands; The Silkie; Silly Sisters; Sol Invictus (band) Songs of Separation; Sons of Noel and Adrian; Spiers and Boden; The Spinners (English band) Spirogyra (band) The Springfields; Stars in Battledress (band) Stick in the Wheel; Stornoway (band) Strawbs; Swan Arcade; Swarb's Lazarus
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 Years — — — Tri-Phi 2001 ...
The group's contract expired in 1972 and most of the band members decided to leave Motown, but vocalist G. C. Cameron had married Gwen Gordy and had a different contract than the rest of the performers, so he departed the Spinners and encouraged them to add Philippé Wynne; [1] the renewed line-up recorded a string of successful albums produced ...
"The Rubberband Man" is a song recorded by American vocal group the Spinners. The song, written by producer Thom Bell and singer-songwriter Linda Creed, is about Bell's son Mark, who was being teased by his classmates for being overweight. Intended to improve his son's self-image, the song eventually evolved from being about "The Fat Man" to ...
Pick of the Litter is generally considered the last of the quartet of classic Bell-produced studio albums the Spinners released between 1973 and 1975, and to mark the end of the most creative phase of the group’s career – while future releases would have memorable moments, contemporary critical opinion is that none of the group’s later material matches the enduring quality and top-notch ...
In 2008, G.C. Cameron began working with reggae band Dub Nation on their album Rising Force For Change. Released in early 2012, the album features reggae renditions of his hits "It's A Shame" and "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" in addition to a collection of new songs. [6] In 2009, Cameron released the album Enticed Ecstasy.