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Spinners (Musical group : U.S.)

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Corporate name headingSpinners (Musical group : U.S.)
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Variant(s)Detroit Spinners (Musical group)
Motown Spinners (Musical group)
Beginning date1954
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedDetroit (Mich.)
Field of activityRhythm and blues music
Found inIts Cross fire [SR] p1984: label (Spinners)
Rock on, 1975 (The Spinners, originated in Detroit; Robert Smith, George W. Dixon, Billy Henderson, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson)
Guinness enc. of popular mus., 3rd ed. (Detroit Spinners; the prefix "Detroit" or "Motown" was added in the UK to avoid confusion with the Spinners folk group)
New York times, Aug. 22, 2008 (Pervis Jackson, 70, bass voice of the Spinners; d. Aug. 18, 2008, Detroit; native of the New Orleans area; Jackson was one of the original five members of the Spinners; started in the late 1950s singing doo-wop in Detroit)
Wikipedia, viewed on July 7, 2016 (The Spinners (American R&B group); an American rhythm and blues vocal group that formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1954; recorded for the Tri-Phil, Motown, Atlantic and Tamla labels)
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