Released April 1973 Artist The Spinners Producer Thom Bell | Length 40:14 Release date April 1973 Label Atlantic Records | |
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Recorded 1972-1973 at
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Genres Soul music, Rhythm and blues Similar The Spinners albums, Soul music albums | ||
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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.
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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."
Personnel
Production
Charts
Songs
1Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind3:45
2Just You and Me Baby3:03
3Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You4:02