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It's a Shame (The Spinners song) " It's a Shame " is a song co-written by Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright and Lee Garrett and produced by Wonder as a single for the Spinners on Motown's V.I.P. Records label. The single became the Detroit-reared group's biggest single on the Motown Records company since they had signed with the company in 1964 and ...
The album includes the first of the group's string of 1970s' hits, the Stevie Wonder produced "It's a Shame", which was their first U.S. Pop top-twenty (and third R&B top-ten) hit, as well as most of the group's singles released between 1968 and 1971 (the exception being the original version of "Message From a Black Man" and their second hit, "We'll Have It Made", which was their last hit ...
The Spinners are an American rhythm and blues vocal group that formed in Ferndale, Michigan, in 1954. They enjoyed a string of hit singles and albums during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with producer Thom Bell. The group continues to tour, without any original members, after Henry Fambrough retired in 2023. [1]
"It's a Shame" is a song co-written by Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright and Lee Garrett, and produced by Wonder as a single for The Spinners on Motown's V.I.P. Records label. [1] Recorded in 1970, it became the Detroit -reared group's biggest single on the Motown Records company since they had signed with the company in 1964 and also their biggest ...
September 21, 1945 (age 78) McCall Creek, Mississippi, U.S. Occupation. Singer. George Curtis Cameron is an American soul and R&B singer perhaps best known as the lead singer of The Spinners on their 1970 hit "It's a Shame" and for his 1975 hit "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday". He is credited with having "six different voices."
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 ...
It was co-written by Thom Bell and Phil Hurtt and produced by Bell. Recorded at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios, the house band MFSB provided the backing. The production of the song gives it a smooth, mid-tempo feel, with the signature guitar riff (in octaves) played by Norman Harris at the forefront and punctuation from female background ...
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 ...