The Spinners Ain't No Price On Happine - The Thom Bell Studio Recordings 1972 - 1979 (7-CD Box-Set)

7-CD-Box-Set bestehend aus Single-Edits, Non-LP-Seiten und der allerersten Atlantic Records-Session von The Spinners) auf diesen erweiterten Ausgaben von "SPINNERS" (1973), "MIGHTY LOVE" (1974), NEW AND IMPROVED" (1974), "PICK OF THE LITTER" (1975), "HAPPINESS IS BEING WITH THE SPINNERS" (1976), "YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW" (1977), "SPINNERS 8" (1977) und "FROM HERE TO ETERNALLY" (1979).

Zu den wichtigsten Titeln gehören die Grammy-nominierten Chartstürmer "I'll Be Around", "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", "Then Came You" mit Dionne Warwick, "Mighty Love" und "The Rubberband Man" sowie Hits wie "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)", "One of a Kind (Love Affair)", "Sadie" und "Are You Ready for Love".

Auf dieser ultimativen Feier der Soul-Größen aus Philadelphia wurde jedes Album von Thom Bell produziert, und auf vielen Titeln sind die Original-MFSB mit Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young of the Trammps, Bobby Eli und The Sweethearts of Sigma zu hören!

Das Deluxe-Booklet enthält einen ausführlichen Essay von Joe Marchese von The Second Disc mit neuen und bisher unveröffentlichten Zitaten von Henry Fambrough von The Spinners, Steve Allen, Roadmanager von The Spinners, Barbara J. Harris, Leiterin der Künstlerbetreuung bei Atlantic Records, und dem verstorbenen Thom Bell.

Die luxuriöse 7CD-Kollektion (mit Artwork von Roger Williams) enthält erweiterte Ausgaben aller von Thom Bell produzierten Studioalben von The Spinners, remastered von Nick Robbins und mit Bonus-Single-Versionen, der Non-LP-Seite "Once in a Life Proposal", dem 12-Inch-Mix von "If You Wanna Do a Dance" und der kompletten Vier-Song-Session unter der Leitung von Jimmy Roach, die den Weg für die Zusammenarbeit der Gruppe mit Thom Bell ebnete.
Produziert von David Nathan von SoulMusic Records und Joe Marchese von der beliebten Wiederveröffentlichungsseite The Second Disc und kommentiert von Marchese mit neuen und unveröffentlichten Interviews, ist dies die ultimative Hommage an die außergewöhnliche - und außerordentlich gefühlvolle - Gruppe, die weltweit als The Spinners bekannt ist.

The Spinners

That's What Girls Are Made For

Naming The Spinners after their lead tenor's favorite spiffy Cadillac hubcaps apparently ensured the Detroit quintet getting off to a speedy start once they landed a recording contract. That's What Girls Are Made For, their debut on the Tri-Phi label, zipped out to a #5 R&B/#27 pop showing in the summer of 1961.

Tenors C.P. Spencer (born January 13, 1938 in Detroit), Billy Henderson (born August 9, 1936), and Edgar 'Chico' Edwards, baritone Henry Fambrough (born May 10, 1938), and bass Pervis Jackson (born May 17, 1938 in New Orleans) came together in 1954 as The Domingos. Bobbie Smith (born April 10, 1936) joined a couple of years later and ascended to the lead role when Spencer split to join The Five Jets. Harvey Fuqua, former lead singer of The Moonglows, had relocated to Detroit and teamed with Berry Gordy's sister Gwen to launch Tri-Phi. The Spinners were their first signing.

Harvey polished The Spinners and had them wax That's What Girls Are Made For, which he'd penned with Gwen, at Motown. By then Edwards had left temporarily; he was replaced by short-termer George Dixon. A Moonglows tinge distinguishes the lovely ballad, Tri-Phi's inaugural release that May with Harvey's discovery Marvin Gaye on drums. The rocking Heebie Jeebie's (penned by Fuqua and Smith) sat on the B-side. Their Tri-Phi encore Love (I'm So Glad) I Found You made it to #91 pop late in the year, but What Did She Use and She Don’t Love Me didn’t follow suit.

Motown absorbed Tri-Phi and its sister Harvey label in 1963, picking up The Spinners, Shorty Long, Johnny Bristol, and Jr. Walker in the process. It was late '64 before The Spinners had a Motown release, Sweet Thing. They nailed their first national hit for Berry Gordy's enterprise the next year with the soulful I'll Always Love You, and their inspiring Truly Yours did the same in 1966. During a long gap on the charts, the group busied themselves with various tasks at Hitsville.

"They chauffeured The Tempts around so much, they thought they were The Tempts' drivers," says G.C. Cameron, who replaced Edwards and sang lead on the quintet's 1970 smash It's A Shame, produced and co-written by Stevie Wonder. G.C. was contractually obligated to remain at Motown when The Spinners defected to Atlantic in '71 (Phillippe Wynne succeeded him). Working with Philly producer Thom Bell, The Spinners commenced a string of smashes in 1972 with the silky I'll Be Around and Could It Be I'm Falling In Love. With John Edwards coming in for Wynne in 1977, The Spinners endured decade after decade. Spencer died October 20, 2004; Henderson succumbed to diabetic complications on February 2, 2007, and Jackson passed away from cancer on August 18, 2008.

 

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