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Monday 7 August 2023

Franky & The Spindles [2023] - Crazy About Your Love [Numero Group #4546]


Numero Group continue to dig deep and digitally reissue lesser know or hard to find music. This one from Franky & The Spindles isn't particularly difficult to find nor expensive.  It was released on New York label Strawberry in 1977 and consists of vocal and instrumental sides of "Crazy About Your Love". A superb 70s smooth soul song.

They released around nine singles between 1968-77 and there is a good compilation of their complete singles "Count To Ten (The Complete Singles Collection 1968-1977)" by Select-O-Hits which, strangely, seems to have been only released in Poland (on vinyl and CD) and has been blocked for sale on Discogs, so presumably is a bootleg?

The group played in and around Baltimore and was formed by the merger of two groups Frankie and the Spinners and Little Ray and the Playboys. When their first record on Baltimore's Roc-Ker label (owned by writer/producer George Kerr and DJ Freddie Robinson)  was released in 1968 they had changed their name to Frankie & The Spinners to avoid conflict with Motown's The Spinners.

The group included two sets of brothers Franky Kennedy (lead), Robert Kennedy, Joseph Shields, Raymond Shields and Charles Graves and may have originated from Nutley, N.J.

NOTE: The group used the name Frankie, as well as Franky, & The Spindles and, whilst the label states Franky, many sites have it listed as Frankie just in case you search for it and can't find it.

Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.

Details
Rating: 8.5
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: 70s Soul
Format: Single
Media: Digital
Label: Numero Group
Cat No: NNUM4546
Date: 28/07/2023
Key/BPM: 10B/84
Price: £1.79
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1 comment:

USMAN47 said...

Good soul band. Too bad no LP was released!!! Another compilation "Hits Anthology: Count To Ten" was released in 2018 on Essential Media Group but is actually less complete than the one presented here.

Yves