The Spectrums cut this one excellent single. “I’ll Never Fear” is a beautiful, soulful original song, written by Douglas Stewart. The flip is a good cover of “Wine, Wine, Wine”.
Douglas Stewart registered copyright for “I’ll Never Fear” in May, 1966. The band recorded at Ken-Del Studios in Wilmington, which is still in existence. The Spectrums released the single on Knight 4969. Knight was a label from Wilmington, Delaware, not the Knights Records label from Texas that I’ve featured before.
This is a group I’d like to know more about.
There is another 45 by a group called the Spectrums on Mercury 72438 – ‘Our Meeting Place / When I Think Of You’. Not sure if this is the same group, but the Mercury 45 is a Soul outing.
If these guys are related to any other similarly named combo, I’d say it might be a great one called The Spectrum V (or Spectrum IV?) who have a 45 on Montgomery. Mike Kuzmin told me that there was a good chance that band was from the DelMarVa area like several other Montgomery bands, and some bands on Montgomery also had stuff on Ken-Del, KD, etc.
The Spectrums were from Wilmington, Delaware; the Spectrum Five (Montgomery label group) were from Newark, Delaware.
Both bands were called the Spectrums when they started, but the North Wilmington Spectrums claimed the name first and when they both started recording the Newark band changed its name to the Spectrum Five.
^ Thanks Mr. Markesich, always wondered where exactly Spectrum Five had a come from