Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

That baseline is from Doug Wimbush of Living Color,

and don't forget the u as they spelled it UK style... Living Colour, and this coming from a Yank. ;-)

he was a session musician at Sugar Hill at the time. His mix of funk and rock was one of the things that made Living Color pretty interesting. Doesn't get mentioned anywhere near as much as he should when talking bassists.

He was one of four on my shortlist to narrow down to my last two picks but now he's featured it'll make it 2 from 3.

Same here, excellent first album, still have the Vivid CD. "Glamour Boys" was mine.

 

[threespires]

and don't forget the u as they spelled it UK style... Living Colour, and this coming from a Yank. ;-)

Same here, excellent first album, still have the Vivid CD. "Glamour Boys" was mine.

I hadn't decided whether to go for one of funkier or more rock based tracks, given everything going on in your homeland Cult of Personality would have been highly appropriate!

 

[mancity111]

Sad news was reported in the US last night that the last surviving original member of The Spinners, vocalist Henry Fambrough, had just passed on Wednesday.

The Spinners' Henry Fambrough, who helped take Detroit group to musical heights, dies at 85

Henry Fambrough, who co-founded the Spinners in Ferndale and was the group's last surviving original, died Wednesday of natural causes.

www.freep.com

The group is also listed as the Detroit Spinners and the Motown Spinners, due to their 1960s recordings with the Motown label. These other names were used in the UK to avoid confusion with a British folk group also called the Spinners.

On June 30, 1976, they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Spinners were inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.

In honor of this Detroit band and a childhood favorite of mine with their philly soul sound that hit it big in the 70's, today's selection is:

"The Rubberband Man" - The Spinners

Thanks to bassist Ronnie Baker on this track, who also was a member of The Trammps from Philly, another favorite.

This song was included in the Detroit Free Press's "Detroit's 100 Greatest Songs" list, ranking 70th. It spent three weeks at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (blocked from the top spot by Rod Stewart's hit single "Tonight's the Night") and topped the U.S. R&B chart at the end of 1976. It was also a top-20 hit in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 16 in October 1976.

This is but one of the great memorable sounds and tunes to groove to from my childhood years from the Spinners. "[They]'ll Be Around".

Love the Spinners and love this selection , it is still on my play list.

Was a huge hit here in oz and we used to play it cassette during school classes to upset our teacher and it turned out he was a fan himself.

Sad day for music that all the original members have handed down their walking cane.

 

[Out on blue 6]

Japan - Quiet Life

 

[threespires]

Love the Spinners and love this selection , it is still on my play list.

Was a huge hit here in oz and we used to play it cassette during school classes to upset our teacher and it turned out he was a fan himself.

Sad day for music that all the original members have handed down their walking cane.

I don't think it was as big a hit in the UK as Working my way back to you , and Could it be I'm falling in love: but it's a better song than both of those.

This pick has got me thinking that somewhere along the way we've gone very wrong with male vocal groups in modern times. We started off with The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Stylistics and The Detroit Spinners but we ended up with the likes of N'Sync, Back Street Boys, Blue and JLS. That's not a great trajectory is it!

 

[GornikDaze]

Faith No More - Kindergarten

 

[threespires]

Japan - Quiet Life

Really distinctive fretless sound and he found time to play all the woodwind on their stuff too. Neither Karns nor Jansen (Steve) get the credit they deserve as a rhythm section.

 

[threespires]

Still less than a year since Andy Rourke passed so would be remiss to not include his finest hour:

The Smiths - Barbarianism Begins at Home

(At the start of this playlist I thought about nominating a Freebass track on a 'three for the price of one' basis but nothing they did comes close to the stuff they did in their individual groups).

 

[Coatigan]

Deftones - My own summer

Another where the bass is Not in the foreground, but props the other big riffs and gives it the 'cooking base' that can go unappreciated but is somewhat vital.

 

[mancity111]

I don't think it was as big a hit in the UK as Working my way back to you , and Could it be I'm falling in love: but it's a better song than both of those.

This pick has got me thinking that somewhere along the way we've gone very wrong with male vocal groups in modern times. We started off with The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Stylistics and The Detroit Spinners but we ended up with the likes of N'Sync, Back Street Boys, Blue and JLS. That's not a great trajectory is it!

Its horses for courses threespires , I tend to to delve into music these days that isn't played much on radio or shown on our screens if at all and that which you see on music channels these days basically geared for the 8 year old to eighteen year old ( I am sorry in not pity for those whose children are into " music " these days ).Yes I totally agree its enough to make you more than wince and say where it did all go wrong and what they missed in their youth. While the show is always a necessary evil in some cases to keep the music alive when you break it down it is often the case that video killed the radio star.

The Spinners along with others you mention had to make good music in order to survive notwithstanding most of us would have enjoyed seeing them live for the music alone , these days well............

Agreed with you no doubt this of the Spinners hits is their best and an original unlike WMWBTY.

While she obviously has vocal talent I wonder if seeing Pink live for example is little more than an alternative to the circus of old times.