C&L's Late Nite Music Club with The Spinners; RIP Pervis Jackson
By Nicole Belle Thursday Aug 21, 2008 10:00pmA medley of Games People Play, Then Came You and Mighty Love from the television special, "Back to the 70s" with guest Taylor Dayne.
Pervis Jackson, 1938 - 2008. Rest In Peace
And because it's my favorite Spinners song of all time, Rubberband Man
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RIP, you deep voiced SOB.
I don't mean to sound morbid in this post, so take that into account. This gentleman was into his 70's. The era of the baby boom fade is here. We're going to a lot of talent from many arenas pass in the next few years.
That said, I enjoyed what the Spinners brought us. Surprised It's a Shame didn't make into the C&L vid pick. So, here you all go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7T1v3DxgKg
Excellent tunage grs
grs @ 2:
Everyone has their favorites. Rubberband Man is mine, but everyone is welcome to post videos on this thread.
'The Detroit Spinners' as they are known in Britain, had me wondering why a C&L diarist would be highlighting a sixties brit folk group ;)
I grew up listening to my parents folk music collection.
good stuff both groups.
"It's a Shame" is a great (Stevie Wonder penned) tune and performance, but I would have to say that "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" is their best, rivaled by "I'll Be Around." Great songs. RIP
Hand me down my walkin' cane. Hand me down my hat!
Rubberband man is a classic!
Nicole Belle @ 4:
Duly and respectfully noted.
Speaking of spinners did anyone catch the US gymnastics team last week!
OMG. Love Rubberband Man. Love.
The Spinners are a very overlooked group from the 1970's. Classic, classic. They will always be on my playlist. "Mighty Love" is one of the best songs recorded during the '70's.
"Once, there was a boy and girl,
the boy said, 'I love you, so'...
does it get much better or simpler than that?
muddy @ 7:
How can you not dance when you hear it? My kids know when this comes on my MP3 player because I'm always moving to it. ;P
My great addition to the Friday night mix has to be:
Sam Roberts - Detroit '67
Just a good bluesy rock song about the good days of the D. It's his latest and personally, it's great while driving. Or if from the D, great reminiscing.
I really respect the Spinners. I saw them on the Tonight Show and they performed "Games People Play" live; it was even better than the studio version.
grs@2
Give it a few more years, huh? Pervis was no Boomer. The Baby Boom started in '46., the year my mom was born. I'm a post-boomer, born in '65, the year that birth rates dropped below the pre-'46 level. And I love The Spinners.
I can't tell you how often I'm singing a song at work and ask myself who that was. Delfonics? The O'Jays? Nope, The Spinners. I can't believe that these guys weren't known by their individual names the same way that rock bands werein the '70's. they made and sold a whole lotta hit records!
The Spinners
I'll Be Around
The Spinning Wheel - Sonny
"Fabulous Video from Spinning Wheel's Jubilee Concert in 2005 "
the only video from this vintage group on Youtube !
nice blog. its good to hear about that.
I grew up adoring The Midnight Special. I was in 1st grade when David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull managed this one, and somehow it worked for me.
I Got You Babe
Kate Bush - Rubberband Girl
my fav pinup from back then in my teen years :)
she also was the best technical female singer around.
I remember growing up on the Spinners but it seems the Four Tops were more popular though I like them about the same.
The Spinners - one of a kind love affair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKpyBt6iz7w
I give up. The "link" button hates me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcLMSEMR_1E
Andy K Jong Il @ 15:
Andy K Jong Il @ 15:
Not trying to abrasive Andy. Just noting the cusp of things to come. The music world is in for a shock in the next decade. Well, as well as the rest of industry world.
Dionne Warwick & The Spinners
Then Came You
And thanks for linking to the Freep, Nicole. It's been Michigan's liberal voice for many decades.
slightly off topic but from the UK Guardian's music blog.
Fifty years ago, people wanted peace and a saner future. H bombs concentrate the mind wonderfully.
Also there were various nuclear accidents in the 50s involving lost bombs off aircraft, this influenced the formation of CND.
anniversary march pic and article 'from Aldermaston to London'
Mojopo @ 21:
paste or type some text that is the visible item on C&L
then copy the URL (link from browser address bar or right clicked from whatever)
then highlight the C&L text on your entry, then paste the clipboard into the popup box.
voila working link on C&L
Didn't think you abrasive there, grs! We're k3wl!
The Spinners
One Of A Kind Love Affair
forgot to say when the C&L text is highlighted, click the blue link box above the text entry space.
then paste into the popup box, http:\ should be there automatically highlighted, paste over.
Also Firefox or a good modern tabbed browser is your friend, Internet Explorer is POS, even their latest attempt.
The Spinners
It's A Shame
ferrofluid @ 25:
Thank you much for the advice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9eH0nmy0og&feature=rec-fresh
Dionne Warwick & Spinners Then Came You 1974 #1 Hit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjRYlZvOlQ
Message From A Black Man (Barack, I'm Still Waiting)
The Spinners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqOGhcetMYo
Jesus, tonight I'm seriously flashing back to my days as an unofficial ward of the Grand Rapids Parks Department!
Do kids even hng out at the park anymore? Do they all sing while they're playing two-square and Home Run Derby?
Rhetorical questions, of course...
The O'Jays
Back Stabbers
Sadie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_nKAZSVeUw
Andy, they do NOT hang out in the park anymore. Especially late at night. Officer Friendly might taser them. As a person who grew up next to a state park on Lake Ontario, I can tell you it is a crying shame what has been done to moonlight dancing.
Barack, call me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqY8GSZP_tg
David Bowie
Golden Years
Mojopopo, we used to get up in the morning and go to the park. there was some supervision that organized sports, arts & crafts...we'd go home for lunch, back to the park by 1pm, leave at 4pm, back by 6pm for Capture The Flag. There was a core of about 25-35 kids there, and another 50 or so who'd show up from time to time. I still see a lot of them around, and we always talk about the other people we'd know...It was a community building thing, if ever there was one.
These days no one wants to pay for it. But, in the end, we'll all pay for it, imo.
Elton John & Kiki Dee
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
The Bee Gees
Jive Talkin'
Andy - we had the same program in the summertime! Make popsicle stick houses, run around the tracks and then the do-gooder hippy chicks would give us golden stars and drive away in their Chevy van. Golden years indeed. Social programs work!
This is a song about my hometown, on the real. The band used to live in a hotel at the end of my street, in Niagara County. I think of this well. All of us - ALL - came out to dance on the beach at night.
King Harvest - Dancing In The Moonlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to finish my French toast and get outside in the summertime. I was putting on my shoes while I was wiping maple syrup off of my face, ready to play in the park until my mother screamed me home for lunch. God forbid she had to call me twice! No matter where I was, I heard her voice and ran my little girl butt home. I don't think kids do that anymore.
After lunch, back to the park until dinnertime.
Steely Dan - My Old School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj9Rs56u8YY
My favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ivz2RUdXY&feature=related
"could it be I'm falling in love?" always got the radio turned up in my house.
Rubberband Man is one of my favorite songs ever!
It so reminds me of 1976. Winning a couple blue ribbons at the Bicentennial Kid Olympics at Riverside Park in Findlay, traveling to Toledo's Franklin Park Mall and getting a GI Joe Colorforms set and having a meal at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour on my birthday, and Rubberband Man was on the radio tuned to CKLW 800 AM out of Windsor, Ont.
Rickin, that's perfect. RIP, Pervis - thank you sir.
Mojopopo@40-
No hippie chicks at ours. They were cool and all, but...I was there for ten years (aged 5-14) and there was one lady, Jane, there all the time, and there was always one guy there every summer with her.
Ran into Jane years later- turns out she was an elementary school teacher all along, and the guys were always students who were education majors. It was nothing like school, though.
BTW, loved your last two links- that's my favorite SD song!
America
Ventura Highway
"Ventura Highway" is probably one of the best songs in the history of ever. I have no idea how to compete. All I can offer in exchange is...
The Who - Magic Bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK8xoOLCBR4
Andy, I must confess - I had a crush on Poppy. She taught me how to make macaroni art at the park, and she was the one driving the van. Your teacher sounds dreamy, too, and I mean that well.
Chevy Van
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnhBzoUZCUU
I've got some Who that I'm going to post tomorrow night. For now let's try this:
The Kinks
This Time Tomorrow
I'm out. GNA!
The Spinners made me think of spinning wheels, which brought me to..
Blood Sweat and Tears - And When I Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjMB0JotHM
R.E.M. - Try Not to Breathe
perfect song for the ending of Blade Runner.
I always wonder if they did a different mix, the voices wailing at 2:20 then the guitar sliding at 2:38 sounds 10 times better.
Most of The Spinners hits were sung by Philippe Wynne, save the incredible "It's A Shame".
Philippe died on stage in 1984.
Gene Chandler:
Nothing Can Stop Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSOsNDpKlE
Rainbow '65 (Star Time at the Regal!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpAa2k1Wnw
"Makes a lame man walk, makes a blind man talk about seein' again."
The Spinners (Phillpe, Pervis, and all the rest) will always hold a major place in my heart. If any the survivors are reading this. Thank you and bless you.
Dang Nicole.
I haven't thought about that song in forever.
Thank you so much.
My children really enjoyed watching their father getting funky.
Take away Nixon and the Vietnam war and the 1970s was the greatest thing to ever happen to America.
Nice clips... thanks... Taylor Dayne is a VERY underrated singer.... great stuff...
"One Of A Kind (Love Affair)" ringtone
(Jefferson)
One of a kind love affair is
The kind of love that you read about in a fairy tale
Like the sun that shines on a rainy day
It's a cloud of love
One of a kind love affair is
When your down is up, when your up is down
But love stays around,
And when you know you're right
But you got to make a little sacrifice
You make it for love
Who-oh-oh-oh, yeah
I never thought about today would come
When she would leave without good-bye, yes, sir
She wrote a line or two upon the wall
Said, I'm leaving you, know I love you too
I can't stay with you
And this very day
I could never say a discouraging word
‘Cause I love you
Who-oh-oh-oh, yes, siree, now
(One of a kind) love affair is
When you hate to say girl I told you so
But you gotta go
There won't be a fight
‘Cause your love is right
But you're leaving wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
(One of a kind) Ooh (love affair is) ooh yeah
When you treat her nice
But you finally have to pay the price
And though you know you're right
But you got to make a little sacrifice
You make it for love
You make it for love
Yeah-heh-heh-heh
[Instrumental Interlude]
One of a kind love affair is
Makes you want to love her
You just have to hurt her, yeah
One of a kind, one of a kind, love affair is
Makes a lame man walk
Makes a blind man talk about seein' again
(One of a kind)
Ooh-oh (love affair is) My-hy
It makes you me want to be around ya
Ah, girl, I'm glad I found you
(One of a kind) Wooh-ee, baby
(Love affair is) I wanna tell you now
Every day is sunshine, girl, you're on my mind
One of a kind, one of a kind love affair is
Makes me want to, want to be with you
Has to be one of the best songs ever written about loves lost, and traveling down memory lane to remember.
Levi Stubbs as the voice of Audrey II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc
Love "Rubberband Man"!! Thanks!!
My vote is for "Could it be I'm Falling in Love"
That's a good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbcOUEgHso
RIP
Hey, I guess I'm a little late (had to go out last night), and the music club is empty now, but I just wanted you to know that I enjoyed the tunes. I always love to hear the Spinners, Steely Dan and Blood Sweat & Tears songs.
Thanks, guys!
grs @ 2:
You took the words right out of my mouth. Sometimes life is impossibly sad. In some strange way, I measure my own mortality against those of my musical heros. Each time one passes, I'm reminded of how precious and few our days are.
I feel pretty iggerent here, but until going through YouTube clips, I never realized just how many hits those guys racked up.
I can hear the Outside Lands concert in full fury happening, a couple blocks from my house. I wonder whether they'll do anything as a tribute to Pervis?
Liked the 70's stuff but the sweet soul sound of the Motown years were the best. "I'll Always Love You", "Sweet Thing", "Truly Yours", and "It's A Shame" are classics even though the company didn't adequately promote the group. I saw them live several times opening for Smokey and the Miracles and at the Fox Theater in Detroit at the Motown Reveue Concerts.
I first heard 'Rubberband Man', when I was a kid, in the mud-wrestling scene in "Stripes." Have loved it ever since. It pops up on my iPod frequently, and my daughter loves it.
It seemed oh-so-fitting that one of the songs to serve as a backdrop for Michelle Obama's DNC speech about Barack was "Mighty Love"......
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