The Spinners - Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. This was not the Spinners record I had hoped it would be. It really does not have any of the great hits on it. This one is from the correct year: 1977. The back jacket reads: Arranged, Conducted, and Produced by Thom Bell, with the exception of I'm In Love With You, wich was arranged by Tony S. Bell, Sr. As for Thom Bell, let's find out more: Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell was born in 1943 in Kingston, Jamaica, he is a well-known songwriter and music producer. He is best known as one of the creators of the the Philadelphia style and sound of soul music in the 1970s. To me, that is a smoother, deeper, and more soulful branch veering off from the brigher Motown sound. One of Bell's first gigs was producing records for the Stylistics. Bell later teamed up with Elton John on an EP called The Thom Bell Sessions, which featured the Spinners as Elton's back-up singers on the Top 10 hit "Mama Can't Buy You Love." They were going to do an entire record, but apparently there was a falling out and they only made enough finished material for an EP. Then Bell re-teamed briefly again with the Stylistics in 1981. In June 2006, Bell was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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