Spinners (album)

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Spinners
Spinners cover.jpg
Studio album by
The Spinners
ReleasedApril 1973
Recorded1972-1973 at
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre
Length40:14
LabelAtlantic
ProducerThom Bell
The Spinners chronology
2nd Time Around
(1970) 		Spinners
(1973) 		Mighty Love
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]
BBC(favorable)[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[3]
Tom Hull – on the WebA–[4]

Spinners is the third studio album recorded by American R&B group The Spinners, produced by Thom Bell and released in April 1973 on the Atlantic label. The album was the group's first for Atlantic after leaving Motown.

History[]

Spinners includes their first American top-ten and R&B number-one hit "I'll Be Around", along with the successful songs "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", "One of a Kind (Love Affair)", "Ghetto Child", and "How Could I Let You Get Away". The album was also the second of fourteen straight studio albums to make the Billboard 200, and their first in the Top-twenty, as it reached #14 on the charts. Additionally, it was their first of three consecutive R&B albums chart-toppers - and the second to hit those charts overall.

Thom Bell created a sound for the group that was "lush" yet gritty. Bell's insistently soulful orchestral arrangements played perfectly to their harmonic strengths. "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" (later a hit for David Grant and Jaki Graham) is the keynote; sung by Smith, it is beautiful, optimistic and upbeat. Often cited as the birth of the Philadelphia Sound, Spinners yielded five American top 100 hits, and two UK chart successes."[5]

Track listing[]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind"Vinnie Barrett3:42
2."Just You and Me Baby"Yvette Davis2:56
3."Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You"Jerry Akines, Johnny Bellman, Victor Drayton, Reginald Turner4:01
4."I Could Never (Repay Your Love)"Bruce Hawes6:56
5."I'll Be Around"Thom Bell, Phil Hurtt3:12
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."One of a Kind (Love Affair)"Joseph B. Jefferson3:31
7."We Belong Together"Yvette Davis4:12
8."Ghetto Child"Linda Creed, Thom Bell3:47
9."How Could I Let You Get Away"Yvette Davis3:46
10."Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"Mystro & Lyric (Melvin and Mervin Steals)4:13

Personnel[]

Production[]

  • Thom Bell – producer, arranger, conductor
  • Joe Tarsia – recording engineer, re-mix engineer
  • Merrill A. Roberts, Jr. – photography
  • Loring Eutemey – album design

Charts[]

Chart (1973) Peak
[6]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 14
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 1
Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions
US
[6] 		US
R&B
[6] 		US
A/C
[6] 		UK
[7]
1972 "How Could I Let You Get Away" 77 14 — —
"I'll Be Around" 3 1 31 —
"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" 4 1 14 11
1973 "One of a Kind (Love Affair)" 11 1 19 —
"Ghetto Child" 29 4 20 7

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Wynn, Ron. Spinners review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
  2. ^ Easlea, Daryl. "Spinners review". BBC Music. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: S". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Hull, Tom (May 31, 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
  5. ^ BBC Music Review by Daryl Easlea. The album was featured on Trevor Nelson's Radio 2 show, 23 June 2010 when he called it " a brilliant, brilliant album"
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "US Charts > The Spinners". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  7. ^ "UK Charts > Detroit Spinners". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-09-24.

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