What ever happened to the Spinners ?

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Scrump
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:50 AM

I think Tony Davis started out as a jazz musician before getting involved with folk, via skiffle (like a lot of people in the 1950s).

The group was only called the Liverpool Spinners in the US to distinguish them from the soul group The Spinners (who were called the Detroit Spinners in the UK to distinguish them from the folk group).

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:30 AM

Tony was at the recent Stan Hugill centenary celebrations in Liverpool - although he was in a wheelchair (the hips are gone). I think he's more involved in playing and singing jazz these days.

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: GUEST,Sailorboy
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 03:40 AM

Mick Groves is alive and kicking and lives down here near Exeter. He is sighted regularly at local folk clubs and village halls and made a CD of Ewan Mcoll songs a while back. Cliff now lives in Australia but was over for a visit recently.
More at
www.mickgroves.com

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 10:15 PM

I well remember that 'Give Blood' informertial that the Spinners did. In it the 3 white members jokily expressed amazement on discovery that the back guy in the band had red blood ! Oh how we laughed ? The new Lenny Bruce's !!!

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 07:41 PM

Hughie Jones (the bby faced one with the fringe) still performs regularly and has had brought out several cds - see The Chaney Cabin

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 06:47 PM

These will give you clue as to where some of the Spinners have gone;Everyman Folk Club:, Everyman Theatre Bistro, Hope St. Liverpool. 8.30 (01517 093336). www.tonystradtime.co.uk

sal

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 06:38 PM

Same for me, in a way. I had a teacher of English (in Germany) who liked teaching us songs occasionally. Having a crush on him, I found his singing acutely embarrassing. On my first stay in Britain I came across a Spinners album with one of those songs on it. I managed to talk the owner into selling it to me and still have it, the first of a collection of 12 Spinners albums and about 200 LPs, 200 CDs and 70 tapes all together. I still like listening to the boys, and the Bleacher Lass is one of my favourites. Does anyone know what Tony is doing?

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 06:21 PM

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

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 05:49 PM

I'm with Jacqui -- the music of these guys started me really listening to folk music......I can't thank them enough......

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:36 PM

Just found one site.

The Spinners

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:33 PM

Yeh, you can say say what you want about them, but you don't get the Bleacher Lass of Kelvinhaugh on Pebble Mill at One nowadays. If you got it anywhere it would be some arsehole on Jools Holland at midnight trying to prove he was as street cred as Take That.

Well you don't get Pebble Mill at One - as Paul Downes wittily put it - Breakfast television for musicians.

Those days is gone.

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: JohnB
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:29 PM

A Spinners concert was the first date I had with my wife, it was April 26th (I think but don't let her know I only think) 1967 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. We however are still together ;)
JohnB

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:19 PM

I believe that Mick moved to the West Country and is still performing locally. They were the group that really got me interested in folk music.

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:57 PM

Oops - wrong Spinners I suspect. That was the Detroit Spinners, Peace. I think our guest may have been referring to the British 4 piece from Liverpool Hughie Jones, Cliff Hall, Mick Groves, Tony Davis. Hughie is still doing club gigs, Cliff, I believe took to market gardening but has been very ill. Take a look on Wikepedia or Google.
KYBTTS

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:56 PM

You mean this kind?

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: guitar
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:55 PM

there's the detriot spinners from America and the spinners from Liverpool, yet when they went to America they called themselves the Liverpool Spinners.

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: guitar
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:52 PM

http://uk.geocities.com/davenhel_uk/spinners.html

this is the spinners from liverpool website.

Subject: RE: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:49 PM

The Spinners

Subject: Origins: What ever happened to the Spinners ?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 03:42 PM

I just read the thread about the Settlers, who were fantastic I agree, loved Follyfoot, just bought the series on ebay.
What ever happened to the Spinners ?Remember their ad on tv for the blood transfusion service (Hi Auntie)