The Spinners: Ain't No Price On Happiness - The Thom Bell Studio Recordings, 7CD Box set

• Definitive 7CD box set including all of 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Spinners’ original Atlantic studio albums produced by the legendary Thom Bell.

• 92 tracks (including 25 bonus tracks consisting of single edits, non-LP sides, and The Spinners’ very first Atlantic Records session) on these expanded editions of ‘SPINNERS’ (1973), ‘MIGHTY LOVE’ (1974), ‘NEW AND IMPROVED’ (1974), ‘PICK OF THE LITTER’ (1975), ‘HAPPINESS IS BEING WITH THE SPINNERS’ (1976), ‘YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW’ (1977), ‘SPINNERS 8’ (1977), and ‘FROM HERE TO ETERNALLY’ (1979).

• Key tracks include the Grammy-nominated chart-toppers ‘I’ll Be Around’, ‘Could It Be I’m Falling in Love’, ‘Then Came You’ with Dionne Warwick, ‘Mighty Love’, and ‘The Rubberband Man’, as well as hits such as ‘They Just Can’t Stop It (The Games People Play)’, ‘One of a Kind (Love Affair)’, ‘Sadie’, and ‘Are You Ready for Love’.

On this ultimate celebration of the Philadelphia soul greats, every album is produced by Thom Bell, and many tracks feature the original MFSB including Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, The Trammps’ Earl Young, Bobby Eli, and The Sweethearts of Sigma!

Deluxe booklet includes a comprehensive essay by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese drawing on new and previously unpublished quotes from The Spinners’ Henry Fambrough, The Spinners’ road manager Steve Allen, Atlantic Records Artist Relations Director Barbara J. Harris, and the late, great Thom Bell.

The 7CD luxurious collection contains expanded editions of every one of The Spinners’ studio albums produced by Thom Bell, newly remastered with stellar work by Nick Robbins and featuring bonus single versions, the non-LP side ‘Once in a Life Proposal’, the 12-inch mix of ‘If You Wanna Do a Dance’, and the full, four-song session helmed by Jimmy Roach which paved the way for the group to work with Thom Bell.

Produced by David Nathan of SoulMusic Records and Joe Marchese of re-issue site The Second Disc, and annotated by Marchese this is the ultimate box set tribute to the extraordinary – and extraordinarily soulful – group known the world over as The Spinners.