Spin Doctors is an American alternative rock band formed in New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, Two Princes and Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,which peaked the Billboard Hot 100 charts at #7 & #17 respectively. […]
The Spin Doctors’ debut studio album, Pocket Full of Kryptonite was released in August, 1991. The band continued to play extensive live shows, gaining grassroots fans, as the album was mostly ignored commercially. In the summer of 1992, the band toured with the first ever line-up of the H.O.R.D.E. festival, sharing the stage with fellow jam bands like Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler and Phish.
That summer, commercial popularity heated up, as radio and MTV began playing “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” and “Two Princes” directed by filmmaker Rich Murray (who directed many of the bands videos). The album went Gold in September, 1992, and then received another boost in sales after the band’s appearance on Saturday Night Live in October, 1992. Additional videos and singles followed for “What Time Is It” “How Could You Want Him” and “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues.” By June, 1993, the album went Triple Platinum. Ultimately it sold over five million copies in the U.S. and another five million overseas, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart […]
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