Consumer Guide Album

Spinners: Spinners Live! [Atlantic, 1975]
A renowned show group whose supersmooth producer inhibits improvisation would seem like a good bet for a live double. But this one opens with "Fascinating Rhythm" and includes impressions of the Supremes, Tom Jones, and Louis Armstrong. It divides the pre-climactic "Love Don't Love Nobody" between two sides and mixes the horns and strings so high you long for supersmoothing. And it doesn't let you see their feet during "Mighty Love." B-