The Spinners released “It’s a Shame” in 1970. The soul song, which was written by Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright, and Lee Garrett, rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the biggest hit for the band while they were at Motown Records.
The Spinners were originally called the Domingoes. The band formed when they were only teenagers in Detroit. They were attending high school together. They went on to become legends, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976.
Bobby Smith, one of the members of The Spinners, spoke about the song’s success with Gary James. “The Spinners for a long time didn’t have a hit record,” he explained. “We worked off our act. When The Beatles were really big, we came up with this idea to do a skit and call ourselves The Brown Beatles. We had guitars made out of wood and a drum set, and we would do the song ‘I Saw Her Standing There.’ We’d have on wigs and shake our heads and all that stuff. That act went over really big. Billy, the heavyset guy with us, was on drums. In Detroit, he was called the name Ringo Starr. The act was so great until we got the hit record ‘It’s A Shame.’”
He continued, “[Murry The K.] used to have these big shows at the Brooklyn Paramount. After we got the hit record ‘It’s A Shame,’ he had us on the show. So, at rehearsal, he wanted to know why we didn’t bring the Beatles props to do The Beatles. We figured, hey, we got a hit record now, we don’t need to do that. He said, ‘Well, wait a minute. That’s why I hired you, for the Beatles act.’ And after that, we went on to do imitations, a thing we called The Motown Revue, where we would imitate a lot of Motown acts like The Temptations, The Supremes, The Marvelettes, The Contours. And that went over really big.”
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The Spinners had several other hit songs, including “Then Came You,” “I’ll Be Around,” and “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love.” The band was inducted into both the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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