Henry Fambrough, the Last Original Spinners Member, Dies at Age 85

American Songwriter ^ | 2/9 | MATT FRIEDLANDER

[dfwgator]

You ever seen Stevie playing drums? This blew me away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzAvgWZeoNE

[Fledermaus]

Wow

One talented man

[drwoof]

A wonderful part of the AM radio soundtrack of my youth. Station was KFRC out of San Francisco, its signal reaching our rural Northern California town in diminished, but sufficient, strength. San Francisco at the time was simply referred to as “The City”, and it was an exotic, fascinating place to visit.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Dr. Don.

[Fledermaus]

I found one on American Bandstand. Could have been that one.

But my aged memory thinks it was in front of the drapes on Tonight Show. But the outfits looked right.

Didn’t seem as cool as I remember.

[MikelTackNailer]

Thanks for posting this. We're at the point of having a legion of truly great musicians leaving (preceding) us and it's apparent those that the music industry has pushed on the youth have little to no talent with a few exceptions that sneaked by them.

Had I not been working in a factory where people are allowed to play their favorite audio (I can't say 'music') I wouldn't have learned that a form of rap has actually ditched the musical element entirely in favor of a low bass, drum and rhythm guitar as an afterthought for some profane, inane and self-worshiping excuse for poetry that doesn't even rhymes in a monotonous spoken word manner (covering for the fact they can't sing) obviously designed to lull listeners into a none-thinking state while absorbing hypnotic suggestions ("Stay on the plantation. Massa's not kicking you out for the Replacements. Continue to pay no attention to how we've lied to you all this time.")

Sadly the fans of this garbage think they're edgy and rebellious because of the profanity and overuse of the dual-standard 'bad' word "nigger'. After citing a list of white people achievements English comedian Ricky Gervaise pointed out "Hey; we (whites) invented that word, too!" I got sick of hearing it played so much from idiots who were wrongly told they were talented.

My awesome high school English teacher said there's too many better words for description than cursing. "Profanity is a crutch for the intellectually lazy and an insult to those who tried to bring them up better".

I'm offended that Martin Luther King's truly noble vision of a society where we're all judged by our qualities over our appearance has been reversed in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - the latest push for replacing Merit and Constitution with Socialism and the inevitable Tyranny (and mass murders) that always follows.

It's obvious the evil party is in total panic over their inevitable being dragged out into the light of justice and talk openly of assassinating our guy. I ask "What do we do about that?" should they pull it off.

[drwoof]

Yep! Dr. Don Rose emceed a dance my Senior Class sponsored at the fairgrounds in our town. Cost us (the class) a ton of money to get him up there, but we made a huge profit. I remember meeting him back then. Life was quite a bit different in those days...

[AppyPappy]

I was surprised to find that one of the Four Tops was not African-American. Bangladesh

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Back in the late 1960's My older sister and I listened to Kener 13 and CKLW AM radio from Detroit and Windsor, all kinds of Motown and the Spinners were part of that. Some years later I remember the neighbor cheerleader girls dancing to Tears of a Clown in their bikinis, man were they hot!

Like everyone of like mind, I've had a blessed life! RIP Henry Fambrough.

[AppyPappy]

Kinda odd that Stevie is not blind now

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks for the great music, Henry; RIP.

[Alas Babylon!]

One of my favorite all time bands.

Soul Train would come on after Saturday morning cartoons and I would always watch it.

God, I’m getting old!

[nickcarraway]

On 99.7?

[drwoof]

610 KFRC, AM, out of San Francisco