| The Best of the Spinners | |
| Type: | greatest hits |
| Artist: | The Spinners |
| Cover: | The Spinners - The Best of the Spinners (1978).jpg |
| Alt: | A painting of a hand putting a needle on a golden LP |
| Recorded: | Various sessions from 1970 to 1977 |
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| Genre: | Soul |
| Language: | English |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Prev Title: | 8 |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | From Here to Eternally |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
The Best of the Spinners is a 1978 greatest hits album from Philly soul vocal group The Spinners, released on Atlantic Records.
This is the second domestic Spinners compilation (after a 1977 British compilation, Smash Hits) and includes recordings from a series of successful albums produced by Thom Bell for Atlantic Records in the 1970s. A previous compilation by the same name from 1973 collects the group's first singles and tracks from their two Motown albums. By 1977, vocalist Philippé Wynne left the group for a solo career and to work in the music business, leading to a commercial decline for the group and a pair of less successful albums in 1977. This compilation came at the end of their collaboration with Bell: they would record the 1979 release From Here to Eternally with him, as well as a few tracks for his film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, but the group enlisted a different producer for their disco release Dancin' and Lovin' later that year.
The editors of AllMusic Guide scored this compilation 4.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Ron Wynn calling this "a definitive work" until Atlantic released a two-disc set in the compact disc era.
The Best of the Spinners reached 56 on the R&B chart and peaked at 115 on the Billboard 200.