The Best of the Spinners | ||||
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Released | 1978 | |||
Recorded | Various sessions from 1970 to 1977 | |||
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Genre | Soul | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Thom Bell | |||
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The Best of the Spinners is a 1978 greatest hits album from Philly soul vocal group The Spinners, released on Atlantic Records.
This is the second domestic Spinners compilation (after a 1977 British compilation, Smash Hits) and includes recordings from a series of successful albums produced by Thom Bell for Atlantic Records in the 1970s. [1] A previous compilation by the same name from 1973 collects the group's first singles and tracks from their two Motown albums. [2] By 1977, vocalist Philippé Wynne left the group for a solo career and to work in the music business, [3] leading to a commercial decline for the group and a pair of less successful albums in 1977. This compilation came at the end of their collaboration with Bell: they would record the 1979 release From Here to Eternally with him, as well as a few tracks for his film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, [4] but the group enlisted a different producer for their disco release Dancin' and Lovin' later that year. [5]
The editors of AllMusic Guide scored this compilation 4.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Ron Wynn calling this "a definitive work" until Atlantic released a two-disc set in the compact disc era. [6]
The Best of the Spinners reached 56 on the R&B chart and peaked at 115 on the Billboard 200. [7]