The Spinners
July 11, 1981 early show (1981-07-11)
The Old Waldorf
San Francisco, CA, USA

Audience cassette master - very good to excellent sound quality - check the samples to judge for yourself.

01 [3:46] announcer > instrumental introduction
02 [2:31] announcer > Fascinating Rhythm
03 [4:32] Working My Way Back To You
04 [4:39] Labor of Love
05 [4:22] Mighty Love
06 [0:21] talk
07 [1:35] Then Came You >
08 [0:57] I'll Be Around >
09 [1:00] One of A Kind >
10 [1:53] They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play) >
11 [2:52] The Rubberband Man
12 [3:53] Could It Be I'm Falling In Love?
13 [5:59] talk
14 [9:11] Yesterday Once More - Nothing Remains The Same
15 [9:08] talk with band intros
16 [4:33] Lady
17 [5:49] [cuts in near beginning] Cupid - I've Loved You For A Long Time >
18 [2:23] announcer & instrumental finale
19 [2:27] [cuts in a bit] encore reprise >
20 [0:30] announcer & instrumental outro
total - 72:21

Henry Fambrough - baritone singer & one of the lead singers
Billy Henderson - tenor singer
Bobby Smith - tenor singer & one of the lead singers
Pervis Jackson - bass singer
John Edwards - primary lead singer [multi-octave range]
plus The Spinners Orchestra under the direction of Maurice King

Lineage: ElectroVoice RE10 microphones > Dolby B encoded Maxell UDXL-II C60 cassettes > Sony TCD5M.
Transfer: Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip & tuck" edits, normalization & tracking - no equalization or DNR) > AIFF > xACT (FLAC level 8 files, tagged with sector boundaries verified).

Notes: My girl friend at the time asked me to take her to this after I had already purchased tickets to another show later that night - The Flamin' Groovies at The Off Broadway. The Off Broadway was within 10 blocks of the Old Waldorf so I recorded the early show of The Spinners and then dragged my female friend to the other club and captured the Groovies set (to be shared separately). My friend would've preferred that I had stayed and recorded the Spinners late set too, but that unfortunately did not happen.

Spinners biography: www.soultracks.com/spinners.htm
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