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Spinners - Working My Way Back To You (Forgive Me, Girl) [Original Video] (1979)
I vividly remember “It’s a Shame”. KFRC I do believed played it on a Monday morning after a 49ers loss. It seemed their kicker Bruce Gosley missed a 36 yard field goal, a chip shot, that would have won the game.
Maybe he was busy with his vice presidential campaign disaster.
All the originals grew up in the housing project Herman Gardens on Detroit’s west side but went to school in Ferndale and the singer Henry Fambrough said that in 1954 “it was a pretty good neighborhood, nobody getting killed by the gangs but you might get your butt beat up, though.”
Until they had enough hits, they worked at jobs such as “road managers, chauffeurs, chaperones, and salesclerks.”
The story today might have been: Born and brought up in the projects, they had no chance in racist white America but to live lives of career criminals.”
70’S
I thought the last founding member died last year. I remember posting about Rubberband Man then.