High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Spinners are a soul music vocal group, active under that name since 1961, and most popular with a long run of pop and R&B hits during the 1970s. The group, originating from Detroit, still tours regularly as of 2009.The band is also listed occasionally as The Motown Spinners, or (after they left the Motown label) as The Detroit Spinners. These were used in the UK to avoid confusion with a British group also called The Spinners.In 1954 a group of friends who grew up together in Royal Oak Township, Michigan, just outside Detroit, came together to make music. For a time, several of the band members resided in Detroit's Herman Gardens public housing projects. Billy Henderson, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson, C. P. Spencer, and James Edwards called themselves The Domingoes.