Ruth Waters - Spinning Top (1979) (vinyl Lp) - €5,00

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Texas native Ruth “Silky” Waters is a vocalist who is easily versed in ballads, jazz, blues, gospel and R&B, and has performed with musical giants Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Texas-born Ruth Waters’ debut album from 1979 was produced by John ‘Monster’ Davis, responsible for arranging and/or producing so many disco records for the likes of Carol Douglas, Phyllis Hyman, Arthur Prysock, John Travolta and his brother Joey Travolta, Charo, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, and Silver Convention’s final album Love In A Sleeper which saw them shift their trademark Munich Disco sound to The Sound Of Philadelphia. 
From the same sessions came solo tracks for other of Michael Kunze’s productions with Renée Harris (I Count To Ten), Penny McLean (Backstreet Angel), and Rhonda Heath (Shot Down In Flames), and Kunze assured the rights for Ruth Waters’ album on his Karma-label where the album was released under the name Spinning Top, yielding a spring 1979-single in Never Gonna Be The Same, with Spinning Top following a few months later. 

The album was picked up by Casablanca Records’ sub-label Millennium for a June 1979-release but dropped the track “Love Me, Love Me, My Child”. “Never Gonna Be The Same” soared to No. 23 on Billboard’s Disco Charts before the disco era ended in America. 

Davis and Waters worked on a second album, Out In The Open, which came out on the Midsong label in October 1980, only to be criminally overlooked. 
Ruth Waters’ recording career was essentially over by then, but she is still active performing to this day. 
Interestingly, due to the Michael Kunze-connection, Penny McLean used to sing Never Gonna Be The Same to Waters’ backing track in her live set in 1979/80 and is included here, courtesy of Hans De Vries.

Side A

A1.  Never Gonna Be The Same - 7:13

A2.  Hopeless Situation - 6:38

A3.  Start A New Affair - 7:23

Side B

B1.  Spinning Top - 6:23

B2.  Love Me, Love My Child - 6:08

B3.  You Are My Life - 4:23

B4.  As We Fall In Love Again - 4:56

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Sigma Sound Studios
• Recorded At – Quad Recording Studios
• Mixed At – Sigma Sound Studios
• Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Recording Labs
• Manufactured By – RCA Records
• Distributed By – RCA Records
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Millennium Entertainment Corporation
• Copyright © – Millennium Entertainment Corporation

Credits

• Art Direction – Acy Lehman
• Backing Vocals – Billy Harner, Carolyn Mitchell, Ruth Waters, Vaneese Thomas-White
• Bass – Vince Fay
• Drums – Jimmy Young
• Engineer – Ken Present
• Guitar – Craig Snyder
• Keyboards – Barry Levitt, Cotton Kent
• Mastered By – Nim
• Percussion – Larry "B" Washington
• Photography By – Nick Sangiamo
• Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – John Davis 
• Strings, Horns – Don Renaldo And His Horns And Strings
• Synthesizer – Gerson Rosenbloom

Produced, arranged and conducted for KARMA Musikproduktion GmbH
Made in Holland

Notes

Release:  1979

Format:  Vinyl, LP

Genre:  Soul / Disco

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2325 208

Vinyl:  Goed

Cover:  Lichte Gebruikersspore

Prijs: €5,00