Spinners (album)

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."[4]

• Billy Henderson, Bobby Smith, Philippé Wynne, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson – vocals
• Roland Chambers, Norman Harris, Bobby Eli – guitars
• Thom Bell – pianos
• Ronnie Baker – bass guitar
• Don Renaldo – strings
• Earl Young – drums
• Larry Washington – congas, bongos
• Vince Montana – vibes, marimbas
• MFSB – orchestration
  • Jack Faith – alto saxophone, flute
  • Rocco Bene, Bobby Hartzell – trumpet
  • Joe DeAnglis, Robert Martin– French horn
  • Freddie Joiner, Bobby Moore, Richie Genevese, Eddie Keskarella – trombone
• Linda Creed, Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Yvette Benton – backing vocals

• Thom Bell – producer, arranger, conductor
• Joe Tarsia – recording engineer, re-mix engineer
• Merrill A. Roberts, Jr. – photography
• Loring Eutemey – album design

Singles

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1973 (U.S.)

• Spinners at Discogs (list of releases)