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Nancy Wilson covered the song in the Hawaii Five-O episode "Trouble in Mind," which originally aired September 23, 1970.Shirley Bassey included the song on her 1970 album Something.included the song on his 1970 album Something for Everyone Benny Goodman's instrumental version was released on a Reader's Digest album in 1973.Peggy Lee's 1969 single release climbed the Easy Listening chart, with a peak at #24, even before the BST version.Alan Rubin sat in on trumpet for Chuck Winfield, who wasn't able to attend the song's recording session. The eight-bar piano solo which precedes the trumpet solo on the album version is overlapped with guitar on the single version before the last verse. Most of this section and Lew Soloff's trumpet solo were edited out for the single version. According to producer James William Guercio this section was inserted at the last minute after the end of the master tape was recorded over accidentally by an engineer at the studio. The song ends with the 1815 Austrian tune " O Du Lieber Augustin" (" The More We Get Together" or " Did You Ever See a Lassie?") and drummer Bobby Colomby's comment: "That wasn't too good", followed by laughter from the rest of the group.
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The arranger for the song was the band's saxophonist, Fred Lipsius. "Spinning Wheel" was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 1970 ceremony, winning in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement. It was also a crossover hit, reaching #45 on the US R&B chart. In August of that year, the song topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart for two weeks. "Spinning Wheel" was kept out of the #1 position by both "The Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini and " In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. Released as a single in 1969, "Spinning Wheel" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July of that year, remaining in the runner-up position for three weeks. " Spinning Wheel" is a song from 1968 by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, written by Canadian lead vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and appearing on their eponymous album. Single by Blood, Sweat & Tears "Spinning Wheel"