The Platinum Collection by The Spinners - Uhune

COMPILATION

More than one writer has pointed out the jolly irony that the Spinners, proud sons of Detroit and billed as the Detroit Spinners in the United Kingdom, were perhaps the definitive Philly soul group, cranking out a long and memorable series of hits under the tutelage of producer Thom Bell in the city of Brotherly Love between 1972 to 1981. Few groups in R&B history have enjoyed as fruitful a relationship with their producer as the Spinners had with Bell -- Philippe Wynne's voice, strong but eminently flexible, was an ideal foil for Bell's sweet but soulful musical backdrops, lush but with plenty of open space to move, and the group could sound just as credible on a funky dancefloor filler like "The Rubber Band Man" as they were on a personal piece of social commentary such as "Ghetto Child." The Detroit Spinners' installment in the British Platinum Collection series features 20 classic songs from the group, and the folks who compiled this didn't have to worry about padding out the package -- nearly every song here was a major hit, and deservedly so, with Wynne and his vocal partners working their magic as Bell gave them one great song after another. "I'll Be Around," "Then Came You," "One of a Kind (Love Affair)," "I'm Coming Home," "Living a Little, Laughing a Little" -- quite simply, R&B in the '70s didn't get much better than this, and while the double-disc anthology One of a Kind Love Affair is the definitive overview of the Spinners' glory days, this is an excellent introduction to their body of work, and a pure pleasure to listen to.
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1. I'll Be Around

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Composer: Phil Hurtt
Thom Bell; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Phil Hurtt
Thom Bell; Production

2. Could It Be I'm Falling in Love

by Various Interprets

Featured Artist: The Spinners; Main Performer
Primary Artist: The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Composer: Melvin Steals
Mervin Steals; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Melvin Steals
Mervin Steals; Production

3. One of a Kind (Love Affair)

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Composer: Jefferson
Joseph B. Jefferson; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Jefferson; Production

4. Ghetto Child

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Composer: Thom Bell
Linda Creed; Composer
Composer: Linda Creed
Thom Bell; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production

5. Mighty Love

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Bruce Hawes
Joseph B. Jefferson
Charles B. Simmons
Charles Simmons; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Bruce Hawes
Charles B. Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Production

6. I'm Coming Home

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Alto Saxophone: Jack Faith; Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Composer: Linda Creed
Thom Bell; Composer
Background Vocals: Linda Creed
Barbara Ingram
Carla Benton
Yvette Benson; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Flute: Jack Faith; Performer
French Horn: Robert Martin
Joe Deanglis; Performer
Guitar: Norman Harris
Bobby Eli
Roland Chambers; Performer
Keyboard: Thom Bell; Performer
Composer: Thom Bell
Linda Creed; Composer
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Percussion: Larry Washington; Performer
Trombone: Ed Keskarella
Freddy Joiner
Richard Genevese
Bob Moore; Performer
Trumpet: Bobby Hartzell
Rocco Bene; Performer
Vibraphone: Vince Montana; Performer
Vocals: Billy Henderson
Bobbie Smith
Henry Fambrough
Pervis Jackson
Philippe Soul Wynne; Performer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor

7. Then Came You

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Dionne Warwick
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Lead Vocals: Dionne Warwick; Performer
Performer: Spinners; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Marshall
Pugh; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Marshall
Pugh; Production

8. Love Don't Love Nobody

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Simmons
Jefferson
Charles Simmons; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Jefferson
Simmons; Production

9. How Could I Let You Get Away

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell
Maurice King; Composer
Composer: Yvette Davis; Composer
Composer: Yvette Davis; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production

10. Living a Little Laughing a Little

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: T. Bell
Bell
Creed
L Creed Epstein
Linda Creed
Thom Bell; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Bell
Creed
L Creed Epstein
T. Bell; Production

11. Sadie (Single Version)

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Composer: Bruce Hawes
Charles Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Bruce Hawes
Charles Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Production

12. They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Ronnie Baker; Performer
Drums: Earl Young; Performer
Piano: Thom Bell; Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: C. Simmons
J B Jefferson
B Hawes; Composer
Composer: B Hawes
C. Simmons
J B Jefferson; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: J B Jefferson; Production

13. Love Or Leave

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Composer: Bruce Hawes
Charles Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Composer
Composer: Bruce Hawes
Charles Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Bruce Hawes
Charles Simmons
Joseph B. Jefferson; Production

14. Wake up Susan

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Sherman Marshall
Thom Bell
Marshall
Wortham; Composer
Composer: Sherman Marshall
Thom Bell; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Marshall
Wortham; Production

15. The Rubberband Man

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: The Spinners; Main Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Composer: Thom Bell
Linda Creed; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Linda Creed
Thom Bell; Production

16. You're Throwing A Good Love Away

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Background Vocals: Carla Benson
Barbara Ingram
Yvette Benton; Performer
Bass Guitar: Bob Babbitt; Performer
Drums: Andrew Smith
Charles Collins; Performer
Guitar: Bobby Eli
Leroy M. Bell
Tony Bell Sr.; Performer
Keyboard: Casey James; Performer
Percussion: Larry Washington; Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Sherman Marshall
Marshall
Wortham
Thom Wortham; Composer
Composer: Sherman Marshall
Thom Wortham; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Marshall
Wortham; Production

17. If You Wanna Do A Dance

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Performer: Spinners; Performer
Orchestra: Mfsb; Ensemble
Composer: Thomas Randolph Bell
Leroy M. Bell
Anthony Salvatore Bell
James Casey; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Anthony Salvatore Bell
James Casey
Leroy M. Bell
Thomas Randolph Bell; Production

18. Working My Way Back to You / Forgive Me, Girl

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Alto Saxophone: Gerry Niewood; Performer
Bass Guitar: Francisco Centeno; Performer
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg; Performer
Guitar: Cliff Morris
Steve Love; Performer
Keyboard: Pat Rebillot; Performer
Percussion: Rubens Bassini; Performer
Tenor Saxophone: Lenny Hambro; Performer
Trombone: Alan Raph
Warren Covington
Gerald Chamberlain; Performer
Trumpet: Danny Cahn
John Gatchell
Robert Millikan; Performer
Composer: Sandy Linzer
Denny Randell
Michael Zager; Composer
Conductor: Michael Zager; Conductor
Conductor: Michael Zager; Conductor
Executive Producer: Jerry Love; Production
Producer: Michael Zager; Production
Author: Denny Randell
Michael Zager
Sandy Linzer; Production

19. Cupid / I've Loved You for a Long Time

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Vocals: Spinners; Performer
Arranger: Thom Bell; Composer
Composer: Sam Cooke; Composer
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Conductor: Thom Bell; Conductor
Producer: Thom Bell; Production
Author: Sam Cooke; Production

20. Funny How Time Slips Away

by Various Interprets

Primary Artist: Spinners
The Spinners; Main Performer
Bass Guitar: Cornelius Mims; Performer
Drums: Ndugu Chancler; Performer
Guitar: Charles Fearing; Performer
Harp: Katie Kirkpatrick; Performer
Keyboard: Sonny Burke
Pete Robinson; Performer
Saxophone: Ernie Watts
Bill Green
Gary Herbig; Performer
Trombone: George Bohanon
William Frank Reichenbach Jr.; Performer
Trumpet: Jerry Hey
Gary Grant
Charles Davis
Ollie Mitchell; Performer
Composer: Willie Nelson; Composer
Producer: Freddie Perren; Production
Author: Willie Nelson; Production

Technical Specifications

Volume

1 volume only

Tracks

20 tracks available

Type

COMPILATION

Format

Digital Media

Duration

1 hour, 13 minutes and 8 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 1424x1424 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

CD Quality (Lossless)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

Lyrics

All tracks have lyrics

Synchronized Lyrics

14/20 tracks have synced lyrics

Genres

R&B, Soul, Quiet Storm, Disco, Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B

Label

Rhino

Music Distribution Service

Warner

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)

Popularity

Release Date

Mar 18, 2007

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site

UPC

603497993093