Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1.3 )

 

• Canadian a cappella music group, Cadence also covered this song.
• In 1970 P.P. Arnold recorded a version produced by Barry Gibb; it remained unreleased for almost five decades until the long-delayed 2017 issuing of her album "The Turning Tide".
• Maynard Ferguson released a big-band arrangement by Adrian Drover on his 1972 album "M.F. Horn Two".
• The Milli Vanilli song "All or Nothing", released as a single in 1990, has a similar melody to "Spinning Wheel", and was later the subject of a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by David Clayton-Thomas.

  In popular culture

• An instrumental rendition of this song was used as a cue on the first Wheel of Fortune pilot titled Shopper's Bazaar.
• In Germany, a part of the song was used as opening tune for the political cabaret TV show "Neues aus der Anstalt", aired 2007-13.
• Towards the end of 2016, the original studio arrangement received extensive airplay on many San Francisco Bay Area radio stations. In December 2016 it was listed at #13 on radicalwave.com's list of the 'Top 50 Annoying Songs of the 20th Century'. It also earned inclusion in a similar list compiled by The Stranger magazine in Seattle, Washington.
• The song is performed by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingsley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ("Larry's Agent"), where he creates a more Latin sound to it, hoping to perform tap-dancing along with the song.
• "Spinning Wheel" appears in the films: Indian Summer, Where the Truth Lies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Elvis & Nixon.

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