Spinners Live!

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Spinners Live!
The Spinners - Spinners Live!.jpg
Live album by
The Spinners
Released1975 (1975)
Venue Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States
Genre Soul
Length66:19
LanguageEnglish
Label Atlantic
Producer Thom Bell
The Spinners chronology
New and Improved
(1974)		Spinners Live!
(1975)		 Pick of the Litter
(1975)

Spinners Live! is a 1975 live album from American soul act The Spinners. The release was a modest commercial success [1] and has received positive critical assessment.

Contents

Reception

The editors of AllMusic Guide scored Spinners Live! four out of five stars, with reviewer Andrew Hamilton particularly praising the compact disc re-release for its sound quality, summing up his review that this release is "a good, if not great, live album where the highs make up for the lows". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Fascinating Rhythm" (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) – 2:34
  2. "I've Got to Make It on My Own" (Bruce Hawes and Charles Simmons) – 4:04
  3. "Living a Little, Laughing a Little" (Thom Bell and Linda Creed  – 4:38
  4. "One of a Kind (Love Affair)" (Joseph Jefferson) – 3:36
  5. "Then Came You" (Sherman Marshall and Phillip T. Pugh) – 4:01
  6. "Sadie" (Hawes, Jefferson, and Simmons) – 7:33
  7. "How Could I Let You Get Away" (Yvette Davis) – 7:06
  8. "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" (Melvin Steals and Mervin Steals) – 4:26
  9. Superstar Medley – 11:31
  10. "Love Don't Love Nobody" (Part 1) (Jefferson and Simmons) – 4:51
  11. "Love Don't Love Nobody" (Part 2) (Jefferson and Simmons) – 4:48
  12. "Mighty Love" (Hawes, Jefferson, and Simmons) – 8:02

Note: songs 10 and 11 are a single track on the compact disc release.

Personnel

The Spinners

Additional musicians (see MFSB)

Technical personnel

Sales and chart performance

Domestically, Spinners Live! reached 20 on the Billboard 200 and fourth place on the R&B charts. [2] In Canada, it topped out at 72, according to RPM . [3] The album was certified gold by March 1976. [4] Billboard ranked this album the 35th best-selling soul album of 1976. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hamilton, Andrew. "The Spinners – Live!". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  2. ↑ "US Albums Charts > The Spinners". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  3. ↑ "CAN Charts > The Spinners". RPM . Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  4. ↑ Burgess, A. Ace (1976-03-25). "The Spinners Celebrate 20th Anniversary". Jet . Vol. XLIX, no. 26. Johnson Publishing, Company, Inc. p. 60. ISSN   0021-5996.
  5. ↑ "No. 1 Soul". Billboard . Vol. 88, no. 52. 1976-12-25. p. TA-39. ISSN   0006-2510.
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