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

(Soul Music Records) 92 tracks incl. 25 bonus tracks, paper sleeves + booklet (English) in slipcover box, featuring all original Atlantic studio albums by 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Spinners, produced by the legendary Thom Bell.
7 CD box set consisting of single edits, non-LP sides and the very first Atlantic Records session by The Spinners) on these expanded editions of "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) and "FROM HERE TO ETERNALLY" (1979).

Key tracks include the Grammy-nominated chart-toppers "I'll Be Around", "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", "Then Came You" with Dionne Warwick, "Mighty Love" and "The Rubberband Man" as well as hits such as "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)", "One of a Kind (Love Affair)", "Sadie" and "Are You Ready for Love".

On this ultimate celebration of Philadelphia soul greats, each album was produced by Thom Bell, and many tracks feature the original MFSB with Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Earl Young of the Trammps, Bobby Eli and The Sweethearts of Sigma!

The deluxe booklet features a comprehensive essay by Joe Marchese of The Second Disc with new and previously unpublished quotes from Henry Fambrough of The Spinners, Steve Allen, road manager of The Spinners, Barbara J. Harris, head of artist relations at Atlantic Records, and the late Thom Bell.

The deluxe 7CD collection (with artwork by Roger Williams) includes expanded editions of all of The Spinners' Thom Bell-produced studio albums, remastered by Nick Robbins and featuring bonus single versions, the non-LP side "Once in a Life Proposal," the 12-inch mix of "If You Wanna Do a Dance" and the complete Jimmy Roach-led four-song session that paved the way for the group's collaboration with Thom Bell.
Produced by David Nathan of SoulMusic Records and Joe Marchese of the popular reissue site The Second Disc, and annotated by Marchese with new and unreleased interviews, this is the ultimate tribute to the extraordinary - and extraordinarily soulful - group known the world over as The Spinners.

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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