The Spinners (Detroit Spinners) : Spinners

THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE

A TINY SPARK WILL REMAIN

YEAH,

AND SPARKS TURN INTO FLAMES
AND LOVE CAN BURN ONCE AGAIN

Spinners 

is the third 

studio album

recorded by 

American 

R&B group

 The Spinners 

produced by

 Thom Bell

 and released in

 March 1973

 on the 

Atlantic label. 

The album was

 the group's 

first for Atlantic 

after

 leaving Motown.

History

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.

Reception

BBC Radio's 

Trevor Nelson 

said producer

 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

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