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"Games People Play", also known as " ' They Just Can't Stop It' The (Games People Play)", is a song recorded by American R&B vocal group The Spinners. Released in 1975 from their Pick of the Litter album, featuring lead vocals by Bobby Smith , it was a crossover success, spending a week at number one on the US Hot Soul Singles chart and peaking ...
The song also reached the Top 3 of Billboard′s R&B and Easy Listening charts. The Spinners hit the Top 10 twice in the next two years with the Smith and Jackson-led "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)" (Billboard number 5) and the Wynne-led "The Rubberband Man" (Billboard number 2).
The album includes the distinctive "Games People Play", one of the group’s signature songs, which became their fifth single to top the R&B chart and a top 5 hit on the Billboard singles chart. The second single "Love or Leave" also made the R&B top 10.
"Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968. [1] It entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969 and won the 1970 Grammy Awards for both Best Contemporary Song and the Song of the Year.
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 ...
"Games People Play" (The Alan Parsons Project song), 1980 "Games People Play" (Joe South song), 1968; covered by Inner Circle, 1994 "Games People Play" (The Spinners song), also known as "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)", 1975; Games People Play, a 1993 album by Pink Cream 69; The Games People Play, a 2012 album by Paul Lamb
The song was written and produced by Joseph B. Jefferson, Bruce Hawes and Charles Simmons. Recorded at Philly's Sigma Sound Studios and released as the third single from their 1974 New and Improved album on Atlantic Records , "Sadie" would chart at number #7 on the U.S. R&B Singles Chart , [ 1 ] their 10th consecutive Top 10 Atlantic single on ...
Sung as a duet with Spinners main lead singer Bobby Smith and the Spinners, [3] who were one of the most popular groups of the decade, the song became Warwick's first ever single to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 [4] and also became her highest-charting R&B record of the 1970s, reaching number two on that chart, behind Barry White ...