The Spinners are a Detroit, Michigan-based soul vocal group active since 1954 (see 1954 in music), and most popular during the 1970s. The group still tours as of 2006.

The Spinners are known in the United Kingdom as The Detroit Spinners or The Motown Spinners because a Liverpool-based folk band had taken the name "The Spinners" in Britain during the 1960s.

The Spinners were a 1960s folk group from Liverpool, United Kingdom. They were unrelated to the American band "The Spinners", who were known in the UK market as the "Detroit Spinners" or "Motown Spinners"

The British folk band The Spinners consisted of:

• Hughie Jones
• Cliff Hall
• Mick Groves
• Tony Davis

John McCormick was the group's bassist and musical director for the final seventeen years. Cliff Hall was born in Cuba, brought up in Jamaica and came to the UK to serve in the Royal Air Force. The group was unusual for its time in having a multiracial membership.

They produced over forty albums and made numerous concerts and TV appearances. They retired in 1989 after thirty years together, though some members still perform. They were immensely popular by reviving some of the greatest folk music and singing new songs in the same vein. Critics say that their style was musically simple, cosy and sentimental but this is what appealed to the fans.

One of their best known songs, particularly in their native Liverpool, was "In My Liverpool Home", written by Peter McGovern in 1962.

There have been at least two groups called The Spinners: a soul group and a 1960s folk group. 1. Arguably the greatest soul group of the early ’70s, creating a body of work that defined the lush, seductive sound of Philly soul. In the UK they were known as “The Detroit Spinners” to avoid confusion with. The band’s roots lay in Detroit, where they formed as a doo wop group during the late ’50s. Throughout the ’60s, the Spinners tried to land a hit by adapting to the shifting fashions