{"id":1271,"date":"2014-07-18T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2014-07-18T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:29:24","slug":"music-friday-soul-train-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-soul-train-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Soul Train Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-soul-train-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Soul Train Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Well, not 100% Soul Train, but close. \u00a0I saw<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Spinners_(American_R%26B_group)\" target=\"_blank\"> The Spinners<\/a> perform last night, and it was an excellent show I must say. \u00a0Let me back up a little &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Spinners_(American_R%26B_group)\" target=\"_blank\">The Spinners<\/a> were an R&amp;B group that started in the 1950&#8217;s, but had their greatest sucess in the 70&#8217;s. \u00a0To be honest, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinnersmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> group I saw last night<\/a> was more of a clone, since there is only one surviving member of the original group. \u00a0However, they performed all the group&#8217;s hit songs faithfully, and they are all excellent showmen in their own right. \u00a0I will try to post some video later if I can figure out how to do it, meanwhile you&#8217;ll have to be content with these YouTube videos of the original group. \u00a0Most of these are from the 1970s TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soul_Train\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Soul Train<\/em><\/a>, hence the title of this post. \u00a0The Soul Train performances were really just lip synching, but I imagine a live performance over the TV using 1970s technology would sound terrible, so at least the songs sound OK. \u00a0The show we saw last night was performed 100% LIVE, no lip synching, and it was terriffic. \u00a0OK, on to the music.<\/p>\n<p>The Spinners had little success in the 1960s, though they did have steady work under MoTown management. \u00a0This song was written for them by Stevie Wonder, charted at #14 that year and got the ball rolling for them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zji7bN5zHc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The group switched record labels in 1972 and released the next song on Atlantic Records and it was their first top 10 single. \u00a0Ironically, it was a &#8220;B&#8221; side:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NfG47NsWVYA\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next song was the folow up single in 1973 and cemented the band&#8217;s reputation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIAcSfOa5Y4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song charted for the group in 1980:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YSbGXNXfVg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to say that the 1970s were definitely the best of times for The Spinners. \u00a0But the music lives on, and is being performed faithfully by a new generation, a well deserved legacy for five guys from Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Well, not 100% Soul Train, but close. \u00a0I saw The Spinners perform last night, and it was an excellent show I must say. \u00a0Let me back up a little &#8211; The Spinners were an R&amp;B group that started in the 1950&#8217;s, but had their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}