The Spinners were on their way up to the top with this album. The song Sadie is dear to many hearts in the vein of "I'll Always Love My Mama" and "Color Him Father" as some of the best ode to good parents imaginable. Yeah Spinners! Keep On Spinning!
The Spinners(and Thom Bell) kept right on spinning with this classic. The group and Bell at this point had a sense of consistancy, whether in groove, or with the slow drags. It took me forever the give Dionne Warwick props as it was, so showing up on "Then Came You" was genius by Bell. What a producer!! Then you had "Sadie", this song just melted everyones heart, and made them go give theirs mothers hugs and kisses. The most underrated song to me is "Smile, We Can Have Each Other". Man!, that song to me has one of the best arrangements a song could have. There are other notables, but it doesn't matter, because it's worth all the downloads!!!!
There's really no debating that 2007 will be remembered, first and foremost, as the year Radiohead gleefully suicide-bombed those last stubborn fragments of the old music industry and swept the smoldering remnants into the new millennium. That story has already been told several thousand times over, though, so let's instead turn our attention to its polar opposite: Daptone Records, a tiny time-capsule studio and label in Brooklyn which channels the decades-gone glory days of R&B… more »
