If you wanted to increase your group"s repertoire, in the heady days of the 60s Folk Revival,there wasn"t that much that you could do .You could,of course, buy a new-fangled cassette -recorder & take it to the local club,if there was one.You could write to people you knew of ,or had heard,& ask them for lyrics,etc. ( I wrote, from carrier HMS EAGLE , to Tony Rose AND Rosemary Tawney--who both obliged ! )Somebody probably had a scratched & warped Clancy Brothers (no pun intended) record, BUT ---!! Salvation & instant gratification was always at hand in the form of    THE SPINNERS !! They were good ! They were reliable ! Their material wasn"t too demanding ! You could uderstand all the words ,especially if your folk-group included a Scally( We had TWO !! ) Thus it was that the music of The Spinners came to be heard in Singapore,in Hong-Kong, and in the far-off Antipodes .The resulting Fame and Notoriety of The Spinners means that, wherever folk are gathered together in the world,and one has a mouth-organ,Dirty Old Town will ensue, until the end of time !! Whatever Happened to The Spinners ?? Why,somewhere in the World,at this very moment,they"re Happening NOW !!!   Signor Tottoff