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.
| 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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2 comments:
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
Joe Shields and Raymond Shields are the uncles to my late husband Antonio shields I loved hearing them sing over at Franklin Square where they would do a show every summer. The whole family is musically talented from soul to gospel.
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