The Spinners – Happiness Is Being With the Spinners (1976/2013) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Spinners – Happiness Is Being With the Spinners (1976/2013) 
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:14 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Disco
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records
Recorded: Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kaye-Smith Studios, Seattle, Washington

Happiness Is Being with the Spinners is the seventh studio album recorded by American R&B group The Spinners, released in July 1976 on the Atlantic label. It was produced by Thom Bell and recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia and Kaye-Smith Studios in Seattle.

As 1975’s classic Pick of the Litter seemed to garner its strength from melancholy and faultless arrangements, this 1976 studio follow-up often wallows in style over substance and platitudes. The pretty but vacuous “Now That We’re Together” is all over the road and has inane lyrics like, “You’re such a great crowd/Why don’t you sing loud.” Other tracks “You’re All I Need in Life” and “If You Can’t Be in Love” all put into practice arrangements and themes that were better executed on New and Improved. Although things get a little mushy here, producer Thom Bell and the Spinners do have their moments here. The highly danceable and infectious “Rubberband Man” breaks out of this effort’s stodgy surroundings and gave lead singer Philippe Wynne plenty of room for his skilled scatting and effortless riffing. The best non-hit on this effort is “Toni My Love.” The song is jazzy rumination on a mature relationship and it’s the only track that’s skilled enough to stand tall on Pick of the Litter. Despite the few high points, Happiness Is Being with the Spinners winds down before any of its predecessors did. The best of the last tracks, “The Clown” is a little overwrought and Philippe Wynne sounds like his hands are tied. Happiness Is Being with the Spinners is one of the first Bell efforts to be partially recorded at Kaye Smith Studios in Seattle, WA, and was mastered at A&M Studios rather than Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound. That fact arguably changed the winning formula and for the most part this falls short of the work that came before it. -AllMusic Review by Jason Elias

Tracklist:
1 Now That We’re Together 3:35
2 You’re All I Need in Life 4:28
3 If You Can’t Be in Love 3:31
4 The Rubberband Man 7:24
5 Toni My Love 3:41
6 Four Hands in the Fire 4:03
7 The Clown 5:05
8 Wake Up Susan 3:27

Personnel:
Henry Fambrough, Billy Henderson, Pervis Jackson, Bobby Smith, Philippé Soul Wynne – vocals
Carla Benson, Evette Benton, Barbara Ingram – backing vocals
Tony Bell, Sr., Bobby Eli – guitars
Thom Bell – keyboards
Bob Babbitt – bass guitar
Andrew Smith – drums
Larry Washington – percussion
MFSB – orchestra

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