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"Gimme Some Lovin '" is a song first recorded by the Spencer Davis Group. Released as a single in 1966, it reached the Top 10 of the record charts in several countries. Later, Rolling Stone included the song on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs.
"Gimme Some Lovin'" was written by Davis and the Winwood brothers, while "I'm a Man" was written by Steve Winwood and the group's producer Jimmy Miller. [10] The tracks proved to be their breakthrough in the US, where they were now signed to United Artists Records , both going Top 10 there.
In the USA, however, it was a solid success, hitting number 26 in the charts and yielding the single "Gimme Some Lovin' (live)", which reached number 68 in the Billboard Hot 100. [3] Although regarded as a Traffic album, it was originally released without the name "Traffic" anywhere on it; credited instead to the seven individual musicians.
The Spencer Davis Group's first three studio albums weren't released in the US and Canada. Instead, the first two albums released there were Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man in 1967, both of which compiled tracks from the three studio albums.
Winwood co-wrote the band's breakthrough hits in America, "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man", both of which went Top 10 in the US and UK in late 1966 and early 1967. [16] [17] [18] Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967.
In 1985, the remaining three members released two further singles, "Girls Night Out" and "Gimme Some Lovin'", neither of which charted. [1] Lacey, Lindsey and Ros performed as the backing singers for the Bruce Foxton Band in 1985.
The song "Gimme Some Lovin'" is credited to Terry Reid, but the version in the movie is actually from The Spencer Davis Group. "Gimme Some Lovin'" also featured on Reid's 1991 solo album, The Driver, along with an alternate version of "The Last Note of Freedom" with different lyrics, titled "The Driver (Part 2)".
Their recording of "Gimme Some Lovin'" in 1966 was their biggest hit, and charted in Boston, Baltimore and other r&b citadels. This was a song written primarily by Steve Winwood . Phillips got a copy of Winwood's demonstration copy and actually released the song in the US (by about a month) before Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group recorded it ...