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"That's What Girls Are Made For" is the debuting single for the American R&B/Soul vocal group The Spinners, released on Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi Records label in 1961.

The single featured most of the original members of the group including original lead singer Bobby Smith and featured a very young Marvin Gaye playing drums. Harvey Fuqua and his then-girlfriend Gwen Gordy made the song simply for them to record.

Released nationally on Tri-Phi, the song reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 5 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, starting a long successful run for the group, who later found success with neighboring Detroit label Motown Records in the mid-1960s and Philadelphia soul-based records with Atlantic Records in the 1970s.

Credits

• Lead vocals by Bobby Smith
• Background vocals by Bobby Smith, George Dixon, Pervis Jackson, Henry Fambrough and Billy Henderson
• Drums by Marvin Gaye
• Other Instrumentation by Various session artists (including possibly The Funk Brothers)

Chart history

References

1. Carolina Beach Music
2. "US Charts > The Spinners". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2010). Hot R&B Songs 1942-2010: 6th Edition. Record Research.
4. "Bobby Smith, lead singer of The Spinners, dies". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-06-09.

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