Robert "Bobby" Smith (sometimes spelt "Bobbie") was born on April 10th 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and was the principal, or lead, singer of the soul vocal group, 'The Spinners', also known as the 'Detroit Spinners' or the 'Motown Spinners', throughout its history. The group was formed circa 1960 at Ferndale High School in Ferndale, Michigan, just north of the Detroit border.
Smith had sung lead vocals on 'The Spinners' very first hit record in 1961, "That's What Girls Are Made For", though this has been wrongly credited to the late Harvey Fuqua. Smith also sang lead on most of their Motown material during the 1960s, such as the charting singles "Truly Yours" (1966) and "I'll Always Love You" (1965).
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Robert "Bobby" Smith (sometimes spelt "Bobbie") was born on April 10th 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and was the principal, or lead, singer of the soul vocal group, 'The Spinners', also known as the 'Detroit Spinners' or the 'Motown Spinners', throughout its history. The group was formed circa 1960 at Ferndale High School in Ferndale, Michigan, just north of the Detroit border.
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Smith had sung lead vocals on 'The Spinners' very first hit record in 1961, "That's What Girls Are Made For", though this has been wrongly credited to the late Harvey Fuqua. Smith also sang lead on most of their Motown material during the 1960s, such as the charting singles "Truly Yours" (1966) and "I'll Always Love You" (1965).
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Many have unfairly credited much of the group's success to its other lead singer, Philippé Wynne, when Smith actually sang lead on muchof their work, such as on their "Anthology" double album collection (an error corrected in the group's later triple CD set, "The Chrome Collection"). Throughout a succession of lead singers (Wynne, Jonathan Edwards, G C Cameron etc.), Smith's lead voice had always been the group's mainstay. Bobby Smith passed away in Detroit on March 16th 2013.
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