The Simple Image - Spinning, Spinning, Spinning (1968)

The Ballroom - Spinning, Spinning, Spinning (1967)

(Curt Boettcher - Ruthann Friedman)
 USA
Original version

Single on Warner Bros May 1967 by The Ballroom: Curt Boettcher, Michele O’Malley, Jim Bell and Graham “Sandy” Salisbury, produced and co-written by Boettcher.

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The writers
Both writers were associated with hits by The Association.

Curt Boettcher (1944-1987) produced their first hit Along Comes Mary (1966, #7 USA) and was influential in developing it for recording although he was not credited as a writer. He also produced their second hit Cherish (1966, #1) and their debut album.

Folk singer and songwriter Ruthann Friedman (b. 1944) wrote Windy (1967, #1) The Association’s first hit on Warner Bros.

In later years, aficionados of Sunshine Pop (or Soft Pop) came to admire Curt Boettcher for his work on Gary Usher’s studio project Sagittarius and with his own Millennium. As Spectropop’s review has it, the Sagittarius album Present Tense chronicles the epitome of California sunshine rock and the Summer Of Love – it’s the sound of the Mamas and Papas, the Beach Boys and Claude Debussy having an Easter egg hunt on Phil Spector’s lawn.

Essential reading: Spectropop’s Curt Boettcher Page