The Spinners - Ghetto Child

[@m1dxv00]

Those were beautiful times back then. Much better then they are in today's troubled world now. The music then had meaning, along with beautiful memories you can relate too in your past. Today, the world is gray, not rosey like it use to be in so many ways. Going back in time, with the beautiful songs left in our hearts and minds, will never cease with me.

[@DennisAllums]

Their best song ever and no one ever sees it.

[@thejazzman210]

Born and raised in Chicago's housing projects in the 70's, I can relate on every level of this song. As hard as those times were, somehow I still miss them. Must've been the music.

[@BeeFlannel]

“I was just a boy punished for a crime that was not mine …”. I could listen to Philippe sing that line all day long, his face reflecting the pain & lack of understanding from the world around him. It’s such a beautiful song that I listen to almost every day.

[@1980Triumph]

Yes Sir!!!!

[@shirls4]

this is what you call music!!

[@VILJL]

The ultra smooth baritone Henry Fambrough - the last living member of classic 70s lineup of The Spinners --has retired from active performing. Just a few weeks shy of his 85th birthday, Fambrough has stepped aside from active performing, and is taking a well-deserved rest after decades of constant touring. The Spinners, lead singers Philippe Wynne (who replaced G.C. Cameron who was still with a solo contract with Motown) and Bobby Smith garnered the most attention. But the handlebar moustached Henry Fambrough seemed to always be the one called up to deliver the smoothest of the soul ballads that the group released, including such fan favorites as “I Don’t Want To Lose You” (his personal favorite), “Just As Long As We Have Love,” and “Ghetto Child.” Wynne left for an unsuccessful solo career (before sadly dying in 1984), and the group had a second run of fame with dance producer Michael Zager and lead singer John Edwards, landing in the top 10 with covers of “Working My Way Back To You” and “Cupid.”

[@1Danguard]

YOU KNOW SOMETHING AND I'LL BE FLAT OUT HONEST !! I DIDN'T PICK UP ON THE LYRICS UNTIL I STARTED HAVING FLASHBACKS OF MY CHILDHOOD AND MY TEENS AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. EVERY BIT OF THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF MYSELF GROWING UP. I CAN RELATE BIG TIME !!

[@sandramorris420]

R.I.P Henry Fambrough, the last Original Member of The Spinners

[@darnellwebb7609]

Giving honor to Philippe Wynne Bobby Smith Henry fambrough pervis Jackson Billy Henderson The spinners what more can I say

[@trezlorenz]

So many of us can relate to this song!

[@snoops71]

This is one of my favorite songs by The Spinners.

[@RapIsDeadly]

Man, I loved the Spinners. I've got this CD playing in my car right now.

[@yvonnedumetz6017]

Loving this song at this moment

[@clivehardwick6756]

great song by a great group from the 70s

[@hollidayevery]

One of my favorite Spinners cuts too...and Henry Fambrough should be called the 3rd lead singer. He is fantastic on this song and "I Don't Want to Lose You" among others...So touching and poignant!!

[@DaveWollenberg]

Hit #4 soul, #29 pop. RIP, Phillipe and Pervis. God bless!

[@darnellwebb7609]

Great song tag team Henry fambrough started off then he passes to the late great Philippe Wynne and then the tenor Bobby Smith finishes it off great lyrics great song

[@richardjackson9767]

No.Henry passed to Bobby hands it off to Phillipe.He finished it off.He finished off most of the songs especially when he sang lead.

[@clsumjr]

One an amazing group I love all their music and their music had some much meaning to it

[@SleepyBrownEyes1]

Classic Spinners...RIP Philippe, Billy, and Pervis.

[@funkmex]

how can anyone dislike this song?

[@steveperrydaman]

my opinion best song by them it was hard 4 me 2 choose since they got so many great songs

[@stuartperry8141]

Did not understand the lyrics in the seventies in Brooklyn so I put my own lyrics to the music. I wonder how many other songs that I put my own words to during that time.

[@TonyMayAVFC]

I remember this song being on the juke box at the Palace Hotel, Buxton in the 1990's

[@steveperrydaman]

I may be 16 but I know music and this is it

[@TheValcie]

I can relate to this song, when I run away from home at 17.......

[@kannon29]

them n tom bell was like a marriage made in heaven

[@jrynds]

another thom bell and linda creed masterpiece

[@richardjackson9767]

No.Bruce Hawes and to other guys wrote this 90% of their songs .It was Hawes,Simmons and another guy.If you start read more comments you'd know. Bruce post comments on alot of songs here Thom Bell & Linda Creed wrote mostly for the Stylistics .Watch unsung the Spinners.He told Hawes,Simmons and I believe the other was Jefferson .Thom Bell told them to think Spinners.Don't worry about the Stylistics.Think Spinners and they did.They were Hawes,Simmons &Jefferson. And they did.

[@ayame316]

Why no one here in June 2020!

[@beviesbox]

It’s now 2-13-2023, & I’m more in love with this joint than ever!

[@james7167]

aaahhh the days bless

[@bankspbs9]

excellent!

[@luvvaj]

Beautiful music by some beautiful human beings... Did y'all catch their 'UNSUNG' special on TV One? God Bless The Spinners!!! Magnificent.

[@ladycat629]

Awesome Group

[@DaveWollenberg]

@nevv Cheerio, nevv, great to hear from you. God bless!

[@nevv]

@DaveWollenberg Yes, but we in the UK have more taste !! Number 7 October 1973 in the Uk charts

[@DaveWollenberg]

@namvet12 I know, right? Should've gone higher pop than that. God bless!

[@timdavis2404]

If a person who can make any useful of his brain ,would take this song deeper than just being sung on stage or studio would relate this to an experience that people have personally been thru ,but people are so narrow minded ,that they don't relate the fact that music back then was a part of truthful experience,were as music today is sung from what they are inmagining as well lying about something they would like to be or just straight out ignorance,

[@foreigncarsrule]

I love the song it is very good but, poverty is colorless and so is the ghetto and although this was very long ago it is all too modern of a theme that black people are used as the mascots for the ghetto it is absolutely sickening.

[@craigwilliams8871]

foreigncarsrule 100 percent agreed! Whenever the media depicts the impoverished they always go to black neighborhoods

[@craigwilliams8871]

foreigncarsrule 100 percent agreed! Whenever the media depicts the impoverished they always go to black neighborhoods

[@craigwilliams8871]

foreigncarsrule 100 percent agreed! Whenever the media depicts the impoverished they always go to black neighborhoods

[@craigwilliams8871]

foreigncarsrule 100 percent agreed! Whenever the media depicts the impoverished they always go to black neighborhoods