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The Spinners singles chronology. "Sadie". (1975) " Games People Play ". (1975) "Love or Leave". (1975) " 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 ...
Release. "Games People Play" is a protest song whose lyrics speak against various forms of hatred, hypocrisy, inhumanity, intolerance, and irresponsibility, in both interpersonal and social interactions between people. [citation needed] Billboard favorably reviewed the song some three months after its release and eight weeks before it finally ...
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).
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 ...
Music. "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 (album), a 1993 album by Pink Cream 69. The Games People Play (Paul Lamb ...
Joe South. Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden".
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 ...
The Spinners singles chronology. "I'm Coming Home". (1974) " Then Came You ". (1974) "Love Don't Love Nobody (Part 1)" " Then Came You " is a 1974 song recorded by American soul singer Dionne Warwick and American R&B group The Spinners. It was credited to Dionne Warwicke and the Spinners (from 1971 to 1975, Warwick added a final 'e' to her last ...