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LIFE COULD BE A DREAM [spotify] - 2h

"do you ever long for true love from me?"

"98.6" - keith // "do you wanna dance" - the mamas & the papas // "everything that touches you" - the association // "good morning starshine" - oliver // "up-up and away" - the 5th dimension // "walking in the rain" - the ronettes // "the rain, the park and the other things" - the cowsills // "a girl like you" - the young rascals // "when you walk into the room" - jackie deshannon // "stand by me" - the walker brothers // "i hear a symphony" - the supremes // "i've got my mind set on you" - james ray // "stay awhile" - dusty springfield // "baby now that i've found you" - the foundations // "turn on your love light" - bobby "blue" bland // "the way you the things you do" - the temptations // "this magic moment" - marvin gaye // "my love" - petula clark // "123" - len barry // "bend me, shape me" - the american breed // "gimme some lovin'" - the spencer davis group // "i'm gonna make you mine" - lou christie // "the young ones" - cliff richard & the shadows // "he's so fine" - jody miller // "friday on my mind" - the easybeats // "do you believe in magic?" - the lovin' spoonful // "itchycoo park" - the small faces // "i'm alive" - the hollies // "she's got everything" - the kinks // "never my love" - astrud gilberto // "crimson & clover" - tommy james & the shondells // "funnel of love" - wanda jackson // "fever" - the mccoys // "lady bird" - nancy sinatra and lee hazlewood // "the letter" - the arbors // "the more i see you" - chris montez // "count me in" - gary lewis & the playboys // "there's a kind of hush" - herman's hermits // "give him a great big kiss" - the shangri-las // "a groovy kind of love" - wayne fontana & the mindbenders // "everlasting love" - robert knight // "having a party" - sam cooke // "baby i need your loving" - the four tops // "hot fun in the summertime" - sly & the family stone

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[frozen-heart]

Let's talk about Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, bc I have no one to talk to about my thoughts.

Pastor Malachai

My first thought was literally that this dude looks like Clanton. He's probably related to him and now is continuing, in a way, in his footsteps. Bloody Rose and Clanton/Archie both have a theme of killing sinners/punishing the guilty, with slight variations of going about it. Just look at the resemblance:

Mrs Beasley looks just as guilty tbh. And this:

"It's safe to say that I believe you children are the future. Of our church, of this town and of the kingdom. '...' There's an activity we used to spearhead in years past. A celebration, and a purging that will help us expiate our town's sins. Shall I tell you all about the glories of Redemption House?"

Just sounds sus. I also don't think we ever saw other adult members of this church, besides the Pastor and Mrs Beasley, which I find really weird. I can imagine that someone connected to the church could be connected or be Bloody Rose, if it isn't Mrs Beasley or the Pastor. Could be an adult we haven't seen yet or one of the teenagers. Or both honestly.

Also, maybe there were similar killings years before the liars, which relate to what Malachai said about the activity they did years ago. Maybe the whole town was in on it.

"Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart." I'm sure that wasn't just about Angela Waters.

Completely different thought, but maybe the church knows about Bloody Rose and that she's out to kill sinners, which is why they want to get as many followers as possible and purge the town of their sins, to save people from getting kiled off.

Principal Smithy

He's not my primary suspect, but I fear he or someone with power in the school might be involved as well, because of the whole summer school thing.

Dr Sullivan and Rose Waters

I feel like Dr Sullivan looks a bit similar to Rose Waters, but I don't think they'll end up being related. I feel like it would be out of character for Dr Sullivan to turn into Bloody Rose and kill teenagers. I could image there being some minor involvement, like in the original PLL when she dissappeared.

But I do think there is a possibility she knows Rose Waters, because we know she stayed in Radley until it closed. In season 3 when Spencer went to Radley Dr Sullivan worked there. Maybe Rose Waters was one of her patients.

Maybe it's also a possibility that they'll parallel the original PLL and Bloody Rose could end up being one of Dr Sullivan's patients, which she'll figured out later on as the show progresses. I also wonder what her flashback will add to the story.

Davie

I know she's dead, but I think she'll have something to do with this. When Imogen saw the shadow in her room and thought it was her mother and then Bloody Rose.. I don't know it gave me a weird feeling. Also, this teaser poster with the drawing of an angel being unraveled, leads me to believe that Imogen might uncover some more horrible truths about her mother. And now that she mentioned in her dream in ep 3, that she saw Bloody Rose AND her mother.. Seems suspicious

Some more thoughts about Bloody Rose

I could imagine Bloody Rose being a character we don't know yet, like with Archie. We didn't know Angela had a brother until the reveal lol.

I could imagine more people being involved, like a group of people coming together. Maybe even a scenario where different people pretend to be Bloody Rose and don't know each other's identities, but each have their reasons to mess with the liars or do so for fun.

We also know a teenager has to be involved, because Mouse's grandmother said one of her friends came to her. And we know someone who said she was friends with one of the liars before: Jennifer. Tbh I don't think she's Bloody Rose, but that just came to my mind, how she basically used Noah to get a job. I wouldn't exactly call them friends tbh.

Some unrelated extra

What the fuck happened here in Angela's room? Why is there a rope? I was re-watching and found this really weird and disturbing. The day Angela died it wasn't there.

[mywifeleftme]

73: Bobby Fuller // Best of the Bobby Fuller Four

Best of the Bobby Fuller Four Bobby Fuller 1981, Rhino

Bobby Fuller’s story has been told many, many times, but I don’t mind telling it again because Bobby Fuller was one of the greatest almosts in rock history. At the time of his, ehh uhh, suspicious death in 1966 at the age of 23, he might’ve been the most vital artist in traditional rock and roll. Fuller picked up the torch from its dead (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochrane) or washed up (nearly everyone else) heroes and, in the prime of the Beach Boys, Byrds, and (gestures broadly) British Invasion, cut roughly 25 tracks that proved there was still real magic remaining in the Cadillac Chuck Berry built.

Fuller was both an ingenious studio rat and a rock true believer—accounts describe innovative home recording set-ups, even as he refused to use any studio overdubs his band could not reproduce live. He thought it crucial that the Bobby Fuller Four concert experience match record listeners’ expectations, a conviction reinforced by the fervor their performances built among fans in his home city of El Paso. Rock and roll’s “big beat” was what initially drove teens crazy, and on Fuller rockers the drums are at least as loud as the guitars—listen to the rawhide anthem “Never to Be Forgotten” in stereo and notice how the drums basically get an entire channel to themselves while the rest of the instruments clowncar into the other. With Bobby’s almost mariachi-like guitar attack leading the way, the Four were as galvanizing a rhythm combo as the mid-‘60s had to offer.

“Let Her Dance,” Fuller’s first regional success, is the purest hit of rock feelgood I know. It is two-and-a-half-minutes of climax, thanks to a relentlessly circular riff that seems to gather force by recycling energy back into itself—as if a Shepard tone were catchy. There’s a description of Heaven in the last of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books as “further up and further in,” a joyful running you can do forever without tiring. That’s what this song is, and I can never listen to it just once, or even twice.

Equally essential is “I Fought the Law,” the song for which Fuller will forever be remembered. “I Fought the Law” began life as a number by the first post-Buddy iteration of the Crickets, penned by Holly’s replacement Sonny Curtis. The rhythm perfectly evokes telephone poles and cactuses whipping by the passenger window of a muscle car roaring through the desert, adorable harmonies not quite obscuring the fact that the chain-ganged narrator doesn’t regret breaking the law—just getting caught.

By the time “I Fought the Law” had caught on as a national hit (eventually peaking at #9 on the Hot 100), the Bobby Fuller Four had assembled an array of bangers, from quavering Holly-esque kiss-off “Only When I Dream” to acoustic jamboree “Saturday Night” (which I’m convinced Paul Simon bit for “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard!”). The two LPs released during Fuller’s short lifetime, 1965’s oddball radio station cash-in KRLA King of the Wheels and 1966’s I Fought the Law, are mostly hodgepodged from these contemporaneous singles and have a bunch of overlap, which means there isn’t a ton of difference between them and later compilations like this 1981 entry from Rhino Records (Finally, you’re thinking).

Best of the Bobby Fuller Four is practically a reissue of I Fought the Law, with “Julie,” “A New Shade of Blue,” “You Kiss Me,” “Little Annie Lou,” and “Take My Word” swapped out for the dopey title track from King of the Wheels and later recordings “Love’s Made a Fool of You” (passable retread of “I Fought the Law”), “The Magic Touch” (pretty good stab at Motown/Spencer Davis Group), “It’s Love, Come What May” (a mid-tempo gem composed by Bobby’s brother Randy), “Don’t Ever Let Me Know” (a wistful Everlys-style number), “My True Love” (a hint psychedelia might’ve looked alright on Bobby), and “I’m a Lucky Guy” (an alright R&B tune by some hired gun songwriters one senses Fuller had his arm twisted into recording). That’s a fairly even trade, save for the omission of “A New Shade of Blue,” Fuller’s greatest ballad and a song that should by all rights have become a standard.

As is usually the case with vinyl compilations, Best of the Bobby Fuller Four has been supplanted by more comprehensive CD-era treatments, of which the three-disc Never to Be Forgotten: The Mustang Years (1997) remains definitive. With that said, Best of shows the typical care Rhino put into their reissues, including a hidden track: a commercial for LA’s KHJ radio station that swaps the words to “I Fought the Law” out for an ad read about their summer Big Kahuna ad campaign. It’s a nice nod to some of the boneheaded schemes Fuller’s producer Bob Keane of Del-Fi Records came up with to help break his young star:

“Keane came up with a succession of dumb marketing ideas for the group: a single released as the Shindigs to secure a slot on the music TV show Shindig!; a drag racing-themed debut long-player, branded with the name of the Los Angeles radio station KRLA; a cameo in The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini—a goofy beach party movie starring Boris Karloff – lip-synching to songs behind Nancy Sinatra.” — Chris Campion in The Guardian

Ultimately, Fuller would be found dead in his mother’s Oldsmobile, allegedly at his own hand. The Guardian story I linked to above offers a good synopsis of the reasons for doubt, laying out a plausible hypothesis that he might’ve been done in following a business disagreement with the notoriously mobbed up Morris Levy of Roulette Records, who had just signed a distribution agreement with Keane’s label. At 23, Fuller was already long in the tooth compared to his idols Holly, Valens, and Cochrane at the time of their own deaths; but by any other yardstick, he was a painfully young man of remarkable drive and ability, who stood as good a chance as anyone at presenting an American answer to Britain’s mid-‘60s dominance over white R&B.

73/365

[therecordchanger62279]

THE TOP 100 DEFINITIVE ROCK RECORDS

Below is a list of the 100 records I believe define the spirit and the essence of Rock Music. They are, I believe, the answer to the question, "What is Rock?" They embody the qualities that make the music what it is. Attitude, arrogance, energy, spirit, sex, and rebellion are all part of it. But because Rock was originally often made by, and, certainly, for teenagers, there is also clumsiness, amateurism, uncertainty, and an eagerness to please. Oh, and one more thing - you should be able to dance to it.

This is a list of records - not songs. The performance counts. So does the production, and the arrangement. These songs, in hands other than the ones chosen here, might not make the list at all. And not every record on the list has every quality listed above. (Ever try dancing to Siberian Khatru by Yes?) But, I believe each fits in its own way. In no particular order then, here are my choices:

Sweet Jane - Lou Reed

Long Live Rock - The Who

That's Entertainment - The Jam

Who'll Stop The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Child In Time - Deep Purple

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones

Help - The Beatles

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Roll Me Away - Bob Seger

Marquee Moon – Television

White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

Kick Out The Jams - MC5

I'm Waiting For The Man - Velvet Underground

Heroes - David Bowie

Street Life - Roxy Music

All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin

Siberian Khatru – Yes

Rosalita - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Layla - Derek & the Dominoes

Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band

Supernaut - Black Sabbath

The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown) - Fleetwood Mac

Trouble Every Day - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

Wishing Well - Free

30 Days In The Hole - Humble Pie

Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane

Spanish Moon - Little Feat

All The Way From Memphis - Mott The Hoople

The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals

You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators

Psychotic Reaction - Count Five

Don't Look Back - The Remains

99th Floor - Moving Sidewalks

Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

Jeremy - Pearl Jam

Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black) - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith

Shot In The Dark - Ozzy Osbourne

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

Twist & Shout - The Beatles

Light My Fire - The Doors

American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith

School's Out - Alice Cooper

(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

You Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest

Train Kept A-Rollin' - The Yardbirds

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

Baba O'Riley - The Who

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Play It All Night Long - Warren Zevon

Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground

Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells

One World – Utopia

Desire - U2

Wild Thing - The Troggs

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy

Rumble - Link Wray

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

Search & Destroy - Iggy & The Stooges

I'm A Man - Spencer Davis Group

Gloria - Shadows of Knight

Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry

I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four

Instant Karma - John Lennon

Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio - The Ramones

Middle of the Road – Pretenders

L.A. Explosion - The Last

What I Like About You - The Romantics

Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd

American Music - Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson

A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls

The Kids Are Alright - The Who

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Rolling Stones

My Generation – The Who

Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin

You Really Got Me – The Kinks

I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran

We’re An American Band – Grand Funk Railroad

So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star – The Byrds

I Can Only Give You Everything - Them

Mystery Train – The Band

We Gotta Get Out of This Place – The Animals

Crossroads – Cream

Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley

Baby, Don’t Do It – The Band

Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen

The Stroll – The Diamonds

Revolution – The Beatles

Walk On The Wild Side – Lou Reed

Heard It On The X – ZZ Top

Journey To The Center of the Mind – The Amboy Dukes

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Friday, May 10, 2024: 1pm ET: Feature Artist: Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group) Part 1

The Spencer Davis Group were a British blues and R&B influenced rock band formed in Birmingham in 1963 by Spencer Davis (guitar), brothers Steve Winwood (vocals, keyboards, guitar) and Muff Winwood (bass guitar), and Pete York (drums). Their best known songs include the UK No. 1 hits “Keep on Running” and “Somebody Help Me” and the UK and US Top 10 hits “Gimme Some Lovin'” and “I’m a Man”.Steve…

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Some British rock groups of the 1960s-such as the Spencer Davis Group, the Animals, the Rolling Stones (" My Girl"), and the Who (" Heat Wave") -covered Motown and rhythm and blues tracks. In 1969, Kiki Dee became the first British artist to sign and record with Motown. Blonde, blue-eyed soul singer Chris Clark became the first white singer to have an R&B hit with "Love's Gone Bad" with Motown Records in 1966.

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Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included The Spencer Davis Group (featuring Steve Winwood), Van Morrison, and archetypal mod band The Small Faces, whose sound was heavily influenced by the Stax label's house band Booker T. By the mid-1960s, British singers Dusty Springfield, Eric Burdon, and Tom Jones had become leading vocal stars of the emerging style. Groups such as The Rascals had soul-tinged pop songs, but it was the soulful vocals of Felix Cavaliere that gave them the blue-eyed soul sound. Lonnie Mack's 1963 gospel-infused vocals earned him widespread critical acclaim as a blue-eyed soul singer. Steve Winwood performing with Traffic, 1969 For instance, in the early 1960s, one of the rare female blue-eyed soul singers was Timi Yuro, whose vocal delivery and repertoire were influenced by African American singers such as Dinah Washington. White musicians playing R&B music, however, began before the term blue-eyed soul was coined. The term blue-eyed soul was then applied to such artists as Sonny & Cher, Tom Jones, Barry McGuire, and Roy Head. The popularity of The Righteous Brothers who had a hit with " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" is thought to have started the trend of R&B radio stations to play songs by white artists in the mid-1960s, a more integrative approach that was then popular with their audience.

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According to Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers, R&B radio stations who played their songs were surprised to find them to be white when they turned up for interviews, and one DJ in Philadelphia (unnamed by Medley but probably Georgie Woods) started saying "Here's my blue-eyed soul brothers", and it became a code to signal to the audience that they were white singers. The Righteous Brothers in turn named their 1964 LP Some Blue-Eyed Soul. Georgie Woods, a Philadelphia radio DJ, is thought to have coined the term "blue-eyed soul" in 1964, initially to describe The Righteous Brothers, then white artists in general who received airplay on rhythm and blues radio stations. The Righteous Brothers, one of the early artists most closely associated with blue-eyed soul

[greensparty]

RIP Spencer Davis and Tony Lewis

Not 1 but 2 rockers passed away yesterday. Here is my combined remembrance:

Spencer Davis 1939-2020

Multi-instrumentalist Spencer Davis has died at 81. He was the leader of British invasion band The Spencer Davis Group.

I never got heavy into them, but how could you not love their biggest hit “Gimme Some Lovin’”? It was covered by The Blues Brothers and featured in numerous film soundtracks too.

The link above is the obit from Spin.

Tony Lewis 1957-2020

The Outfield’s singer/bassist Tony Lewis has died at 62. The British power pop band was especially noteworthy in the 1980s. 

I first became aware of The Outfield when their music videos began appearing on MTV and V66. When I was making my documentary on V66, I came upon an archival clip of The Outfield when they stopped by V66 in 1986. Their first hit “Say it isn’t so” was good, but it was the follow up “Your Love” that became a huge hit! The band’s next few music videos, including “All the Love in the World” were actually directed by a young David Fincher too. Year later at a library sale I bought a stack of records for a few dollars, one of which was The Outfield’s 1985 album Play Deep. A highly underrated 80s pop album! Wish I still had that album.

1985′s Play Deep

I also remember the band’s 1989 hit “Voices of Babylon”. The video was directed by Alex Proyas, years before he did The Crow. The group’s guitarist John Spinks died in 2014. Total bummer that singer Lewis is gone too now.

The link above is the obit from Spin.

[julio-viernes]

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“The Natch´l Blues”, segundo LP de estudio de Taj Mahal, podría considerarse uno de los puntos de partida del proyecto musical-cinematográfico The Blues Brothers. No sólo es que aquí viene el original de “She Caught the Katy and Left me a Mule to Ride” que los BB versionaron, sino también ese final soul-blues de “A Lot Of Love”, derivado de “Gimme Some Lovin´” de Spencer Davis Group. Creo que poco después Taj fue a  Barcelona y tocó con Toti Soler (por entonces en OM) y estuvieron a punto de formar un grupo.

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RIP Spencer Davis (1939-2020)

The Song of the Day is:

The Spencer Davis Group – “Gimme Some Lovin’” From the album Gimme Some Lovin’(1966)

Well, my temperature is rising, got my feet on the floor Crazy people rocking ’cause they want to some more Let me in baby, I don’t know what you got But you better take it easy ’cause this place is hot

And I’m so glad you made it, so glad you made it You…

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Play ▶ 60's Beat/Mod/R&B/Rock/Blues/Soul/Psych MPEG-4 Audio

Tracks 01 - Can't Lose My Head - Chris Blackwell 02 - Whiplash - Leon & The Burners 03 - Liar Liar  - Los Iberos 04 - Catch A Failing Star - Françiose Hardy 05 - The Naked Camera - Herbie Hancock 06 - Comin' On Strong - Tony Richie 07 - Don't Lie To Me - The Quiet Five 08 - Dirty Robber - The Wailers 09 - You Can Make It - Richard & The Young Lions 10 - Os Monstros - The Blackstones 11 - I'll Find Out - The Masonics 12 - Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd 13 - Light Bulb Blues - The Shadows Of Night 14 - Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers 15 - She's So Fine - The Easybeats 16 - When I'm Gone - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 17 - Nobody To Love - 13th Floor Elevators 18 - Up-Hard - Willie Mitchell 19 - The Work Song - Tommy Hunt 20 - Trampoline - The Spencer Davies Group 21 - Honey What's Wrong - The Rolling Stones 22 - Trouble - The Music Machine 23 - I'm Shakin' - Little Willie John 24 - I Need You - The Kinks 25 - Tainted Love - Gloria Jones 26 - Stroll On - The Yardbirds 27 - Little Girl - Them 28 - Medication - The Standells 29 - Hold On - Sharon Tandy 30 - Spoonful - Q'65 31 - 7 And 7 Is - Love 32 - l'Amore De Giovani - Los Brincos 33 - On Nous Cache Tout, On Nous Dit Rien - Jacques Dutronc

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Cover versions

Fifteen cover versions of famous songs.

El Amor Eres Tu - Maggie Carlés Y Luis Nodal Y Los Magnéticos (Maggie Carlés Y Luis Nodal Y Los Magnéticos, 1976). Cover of Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel, the 1976 discosong by Tavares

At Last - Jimmy Bee (Funky Way / At Last, 1971). This song was written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade (1941). Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded the tune several times, with a 1942 version reaching number 2 on the US Billboard pop music chart. In 1960, rhythm and blues singer Etta James recorded the track.

Draw Your Breaks - Herbie Mann ‎(Surprises, 1976) Cover of the 1965 ska song Stop That Train by The Spanishtonians. The Jamaican reggae duo Clint Eastwood & General Saint also recorded a cover version of Stop That Train in 1983.

Get Ready - King Curtis (Get Ready, 1970) Instrumental cover version of the 1966 hitsong by The Temptations.

Hold On, I'm Coming (Hold On God's Coming) - Mildred Clark and The Melody-Aires (God's Got Everything You Need, 1979) Cover of 1966 single by soul duo Sam & Dave

I Feel The Earth Move - Ruth Brown (The Real Ruth Brown, 1972) Classic by Carole King.

I Feel Good (Something About King Jesus) - The Williams Brothers (First Class Gospel, 1979) original by Al Green

Ode To Billy Joe - Part I & II - Leon Haywood ‎(It's Got To Be Mellow, 1967). Cover of Bobbie Gentry's debut single.

Put A Little Love In Your Heart - The Voices Of Heaven Choir (Love, 1972) Cover by the hitsong written by Jackie de Shannon.

Rhythm Talk - Jocko (Rhythm Talk / Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (Instrumental) 1979) rap cover of McFadden & Whitehead's Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now from 1978.

Sono Un Uomo (I'm A Man) - Patrick Samson Set ‎(Io E Il Tempo / Sono Un Uomo (I'm A Man), 1967). Made famous by The Spencer Davis Group in 1967.

Think - Harold Johnson Sextet (Think / Sorry 'Bout That, 1968) Cover of Aretha Franklins hitsong.

Up Above My Head - The Rance Allen Group (The Rance Allen Group, 1971). Cover of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's classic.

You Can't Always Get What You Want - Invaders (There's A Light There's A Way, 1971) Cover of The Rolling Stones classic.

You've Got A Friend - Michael Jackson (Got To Be There, 1972). Cover of Carole King's hitsong.

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Today we remember the passing of Peter Green who Died: July 25, 2020 in Canvey Island, Essex, England

Peter Allen Greenbaum (29 October 1946 – 25 July 2020), known professionally as Peter Green, was an English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. As the founder of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Green's songs, such as "Albatross", "Black Magic Woman", "Oh Well", "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" and "Man of the World", appeared on singles charts, and several have been adapted by a variety of musicians.

Green was a major figure in the "second great epoch" of the British blues movement. Eric Clapton praised his guitar playing, and B.B. King commented, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Green was interested in expressing emotion in his songs, rather than showing off how fast he could play. His trademark sound included string bending, vibrato, and economy of style.

In June 1996, Green was voted the third-best guitarist of all time in Mojo magazine. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him at number 58 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Green's tone on the instrumental "The Super-Natural" was rated as one of the 50 greatest of all time by Guitar Player in 2004.

Peter Allen Greenbaum was born in Bethnal Green, London, on 29 October 1946, into a Jewish family, the youngest of Joe and Ann Greenbaum's four children. His brother, Michael, taught him his first guitar chords and by the age of 11 Green was teaching himself. He began playing professionally by the age of 15, while working for a number of East London shipping companies. He first played bass guitar in a band called Bobby Dennis and the Dominoes, which performed pop chart covers and rock 'n' roll standards, including Shadows covers. He later stated that Hank Marvin was his guitar hero and he played the Shadows' song "Midnight" on the 1996 tribute album Twang. He went on to join a rhythm and blues outfit, the Muskrats, then a band called the Tridents in which he played bass. By Christmas 1965 Green was playing lead guitar in Peter Bardens' band "Peter B's Looners", where he met drummer Mick Fleetwood. It was with Peter B's Looners that he made his recording début with the single "If You Wanna Be Happy" with "Jodrell Blues" as a B-side. His recording of "If You Wanna Be Happy" was an instrumental cover of a song by Jimmy Soul. In 1966, Green and some other members of Peter B's Looners formed another act, Shotgun Express, a Motown-style soul band which also included Rod Stewart, but Green left the group after a few months.

In October 1965, before joining Bardens' group, Green had the opportunity to fill in for Eric Clapton in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers for four gigs. Soon afterwards, when Clapton left the Bluesbreakers, Green became a full-time member of Mayall's band from July 1966. Green made his recording debut with the Bluesbreakers in 1966 on the album A Hard Road (1967), which featured two of his own compositions, "The Same Way" and "The Supernatural". The latter was one of Green's first instrumentals, which would soon become a trademark. So proficient was he that his musician friends bestowed upon him the nickname "The Green God". In 1967, Green decided to form his own blues band and left the Bluesbreakers.

Green's new band, with former Bluesbreaker Mick Fleetwood on drums and Jeremy Spencer on guitar, was initially called "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer". Bob Brunning was temporarily employed on bass guitar (Green's first choice, Bluesbreakers' bassist John McVie, was not yet ready to join the band). Within a month they played at the Windsor National Jazz and Blues Festival in August 1967, and were quickly signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label. Their repertoire consisted mainly of blues covers and originals, mostly written by Green, but some were written by slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer. The band's first single, Spencer's "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" with Green's "Rambling Pony" as a B-side, did not chart but their eponymous debut album made a significant impression, remaining in the British charts for 37 weeks. By September 1967, John McVie had replaced Brunning.

Although classic blues covers and blues-styled originals remained prominent in the band's repertoire through this period, Green rapidly blossomed as a songwriter and contributed many successful original compositions from 1968 onwards. The songs chosen for single release showed Green's style gradually moving away from the group's blues roots into new musical territory. Their second studio album Mr. Wonderful was released in 1968 and continued the formula of the first album. In the same year they scored a hit with Green's "Black Magic Woman" (later covered by Santana), followed by the guitar instrumental "Albatross" (1969), which reached number one in the British singles charts. More hits written by Green followed, including "Oh Well", "Man of the World" (both 1969) and the ominous "The Green Manalishi" (1970). The double album Blues Jam in Chicago (1969) was recorded at the Chess Records Ter-Mar Studio in Chicago. There, under the joint supervision of Vernon and Marshall Chess, they recorded with some of their American blues heroes including Otis Spann, Big Walter Horton, Willie Dixon, J. T. Brown and Buddy Guy.

While touring Europe in late March 1970, Green took LSD at a party at a commune in Munich, an incident cited by Fleetwood Mac manager Clifford Davis as the crucial point in his mental decline. Communard Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Green in Munich, where they invited him to their Highfisch-Kommune. Fleetwood Mac roadie Dinky Dawson remembers that Green went to the party with another roadie, Dennis Keane, and that when Keane returned to the band's hotel to explain that Green would not leave the commune, Keane, Dawson and Mick Fleetwood travelled there to fetch him. By contrast, Green stated that he had fond memories of jamming at the commune when speaking in 2009: "I had a good play there, it was great, someone recorded it, they gave me a tape. There were people playing along, a few of us just fooling around and it was... yeah it was great." He told Jeremy Spencer at the time "That's the most spiritual music I've ever recorded in my life." After a final performance on 20 May 1970, Green left Fleetwood Mac.

Green was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent time in psychiatric hospitals undergoing electroconvulsive therapy during the mid-1970s. Many sources attest to his lethargic, trancelike state during this period. In 1977, Green was arrested for threatening his accountant David Simmons with a shotgun. The exact circumstances are the subject of much speculation, the most famous being that Green wanted Simmons to stop sending money to him. In the 2011 BBC documentary Peter Green: Man of the World, Green stated that at the time he had just returned from Canada needing money and that, during a telephone conversation with his accounts manager, he alluded to the fact that he had brought back a gun from his travels. His accounts manager promptly called the police, who surrounded Green's house.

In 1979, Green began to re-emerge professionally. With the help of his brother Michael, he was signed to Peter Vernon-Kell's PVK label, and produced a string of solo albums starting with 1979's In the Skies. He also made an uncredited appearance on Fleetwood Mac's double album Tusk, on the song "Brown Eyes", released the same year.

In 1981, Green contributed to "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Super Brains" on Mick Fleetwood's solo album The Visitor. He recorded various sessions with a number of other musicians notably the Katmandu album A Case for the Blues with Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry, Vincent Crane from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Len Surtees of The Nashville Teens. Despite attempts by Gibson Guitar Corporation to start talks about producing a "Peter Green signature Les Paul" guitar, Green's instrument of choice at this time was a Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion guitar. In 1986, Peter and his brother Micky contributed to the album A Touch of Sunburn by Lawrie 'The Raven' Gaines (under the group name 'The Enemy Within'). This album has been reissued many times under such titles as Post Modern Blues and Peter Green and Mick Green – Two Greens Make a Blues, often crediting Pirates guitarist Mick Green.

In 1988 Green was quoted as saying: "I'm at present recuperating from treatment for taking drugs. It was drugs that influenced me a lot. I took more than I intended to. I took LSD eight or nine times. The effect of that stuff lasts so long ... I wanted to give away all my money ... I went kind of holy – no, not holy, religious. I thought I could do it, I thought I was all right on drugs. My failing!"

Enduring periods of mental illness and destitution throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Green moved in with his older brother Len and Len's wife Gloria, and his mother in their house in Great Yarmouth, where a process of recovery began. He lived for a period on Canvey Island, Essex.

Green married Jane Samuels in January 1978; the couple divorced in 1979. They had a daughter, Rosebud(born 1978).

Green died on July 25, 2020 at the age of 73.

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Thirty-nine of the best songs, all chosen from Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Fingering, lyrics, and chord symbols are included in these easy piano arrangements by Dan Coates. Titles: Baby Love (The Supremes) * Beat It (Michael Jackson) * Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan) * The Boys of Summer (Don Henley) * Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) * Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers) * Dancing Queen (ABBA) * Everyday People (Sly and the Family Stone) * Gimme Some Lovin' (Spencer Davis Group) * Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) * (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson) * Hotel California (Eagles) * How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees) * I Believe I Can Fly (R. Kelly) * I Only Have Eyes for You (The Flamingos) * Iron Man (Black Sabbath) * Killing Me Softly with His Song (Roberta Flack) * La Bamba (Ritchie Valens) * Layla (Derek and the Dominos) * Like a Prayer (Madonna) * Lola (The Kinks) * Losing My Religion (R.E.M.) * Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin) * Moondance (Van Morrison) * Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds) * My Generation (The Who) * The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) * Ode to Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry) * Runaway (Del Shannon) * Running on Empty (Jackson Browne) * (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) * Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran) * Sunshine of Your Love (Cream) * Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses) * Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) * What'd I Say (Ray Charles) * When a Man Loves a Woman (Percy Sledge) * Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) * Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd).

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New British comedy TV series from 2020: BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Dave, Amazon, Netflix

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2020 in British TV comedy brought us Maisie Williams as a kickass survivalist in a pickle, and a new parenting comedy from the hugely talented Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison starring Martin Freeman.

To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson. 

Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.

Breeders

After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell (Veep, The Thick Of It) teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.

Bumps

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

A Comedy Playhouse commission for BBC One, Bumps comes from Psychobitches and Tracey Ullman’s Show writer-actor Lucy Montgomery (pictured) and The Life Of Rock With Brian Pern‘s Rhys Thomas. The half-hour pilot is a modern family comedy that centres on Amanda Redman’s character Anita, a divorcee in her sixties with two grown-up kids, who decides to have a third baby with the help of an egg and sperm donor. Playing Anita’s daughter Joanne is Lisa McGrillis (behind the brilliantly dim and tactless but very sweet Kelly on Mum), who discovers she’s pregnant at the same time as her mother.

Code 404

After 2019’s pilot, Sky ordered six episodes of this sci-fi comedy starring Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Vera Drake) and Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Virtues), written by Mongrels and Not Going Out’s Daniel Peak. It’s a buddy cop drama set in the near future, which sees crime-fighting duo DI John Major (Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Graham) first separated, then reunited thanks to the wonders of modern science. Series two is on its way.

Feel Good

Stand-up Mae Martin co-wrote her autobiographically inspired six-episode series with Joe Hampson, which formerly went by the working title Mae and George and is now called Feel Good. It aired on E4 in the UK and Netflix around the world, and follows Martin’s life as a comedian and recovering addict, and the complications of her new relationship with girlfriend George. Friends’ Lisa Kudrow guest stars. A second series is on the way.

Hitmen

Comedy double act Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins get in on the Killing Eve game as contract killers in this new Sky series. Unlike Villanelle though, these two are decidedly unsmooth operators. Their hits are, according to the press release, “inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics.” Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington co-stars, along with Francis Barber and Johnny Vegas. Series two is on the way.

In My Skin

Kayleigh Llewellyn’s autobiographically inspired 2018 pilot is now a four-part comedy series for the BBC. It’s the raw but ultimately uplifting story of teenager Bethan’s attempts to conceal from her schoolfriends a chaotic homelife with a mother sectioned in a mental health facility and a dad in the Hell’s Angels. Here’s a clip from the Comedy Slice to whet your appetite. 

Intelligence

Available to stream on Sky and NOW TV

Last year saw Rob Lowe in Lincolnshire, now prepare for David Schwimmer in Cheltenham. The Friends actor and director starring in a six-part Sky One comedy as a “maverick NSA agent” working in the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters. He’s joined by series writer Nick Mohammed, in the role of an inept computer analyst tasked with tackling cyber-crime. Series two is on the way.

Kate And Koji

Filmed in Herne Bay, Kent, this six-episode ITV comedy stars Brenda Blethyn as Kate, the owner of a seaside café who strikes up a friendship with asylum seeker Koji, played by Jimmy Akingbola. Those two are joined by The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison, playing Kate’s nephew, and Meera Syal as the local GP in a timely modern story with a heart.

King Gary

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

Murder In Successville and Action Team’s Tom Davis and James De Frond teamed up again to write and direct prime time BBC One sitcom King Gary, which debuted in 2020 and was swiftly recommissioned for a second series. You may have caught the pilot episode, which aired over Christmas 2018, introducing Davis’ character – London builder Gary King, a man-child who loves his family, his suburban community, and really loves a B.B.Q – his parents played by The Fast Show’s Simon Day and Doctor Who’s Camille Coduri, and his unforgettable wife Terri, played by the very funny Laura Checkley.

Meet The Richardsons

Airing on Dave and available to stream weekly on UK TV Play

Married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont starred as heightened versions of themselves in Meet The Richardsons for Dave, written by Beaumont and Car Share’s Tim Reid. Inspired by Beaumont’s appearances on Richardsons’ Ultimate Worrier series for Dave, the series comically documents the couple’s parenting and relationship woes.

Mister Winner

Following a successful Comedy Playhouse pilot, Spencer Jones (Upstart Crow) returned as the hapless Leslie Winner for a six-episode series on BBC One. Joining Jones will be Shaun Williamson and Lucy Pearman, in a loveable comedy about “an eternally optimistic klutz with his heart in the right place”. If you’ve yet to see Jones’ excellent BBC iPlayer short series The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk, get involved without delay.

My Left Nut

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

Coming to BBC Three is an autobiographically inspired three-part comedy-drama from Irish writers Michael Patrick and Oisin Kearney, adapted from their acclaimed stage play. Starring Sinead Keenan (Little Boy Blue, Being Human) with newcomer Nathan Quinn-O’Rawe, it’s the story of a Belfast teenager who discovers a lump on his testicle but finds himself unable to tell those around him. A relatable, entertaining teen comedy with an important healthcare message. 

Out of Her Mind

An established name on screen and the live circuit, comedian Sara Pascoe is the latest comic to write and star in her own sitcom (joining the ranks of Roisin Conaty, Aisling Bea, Josh Widdicombe and more). Her as-yet untitled series is being produced for BBC Two by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture. It’s about “family, relationships and biology,” according to the press release, and will combine eccentric characters with surreal interludes and factual segments. Read about the best Netflix stand-up specials here.

Sandylands

Following on from 2019’s Isle of Wight-set family comedy The Cockfields, Gold has commissioned a second three-part original sitcom. This one’s also set on the UK coast, and tells the story of a successful Londoner who returns to her home town and reconnects with old friends and old crushes when her local businessman father disappears at sea. Sanjeev Bhaskar, David Walliams, Sophie Thompson, Hugh Bonneville and Natalie Dew star.

Semi-Detached

The pilot episode for comedy Semi-Detached, about a hapless fortysomething aired in January 2019, followed by a full series. It was written by actors David Crow and Oliver Maltman and boasted a strong comedy cast including Lee Mack, Ellie White, Samantha Spiro, Clive Russell and Patrick Baladi. The twist with this one is that all the action unfurls in real time.

The Duchess

In addition to her Netflix stand-up specials, comedian Katherine Ryan made a six-part autobiographical comedy for the streaming service. Though a familiar face on screen, this marks the first scripted series Ryan has written and executive-produced. In it, she plays “a fashionable disruptive single mother living in London”, inspired by Ryan’s own experience raising her daughter in the capital after moving here from her native Canada.

The First Team

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, aka The Inbetweeners creators, have written a six-part half-hour sitcom for BBC Two. Formerly under the working title of Afternoons, it’s now called The First Team and details the off-pitch adventures of three Premier League footballers playing for a fictional side, “three young men who just happen to have a very stressful job in the public eye,” according to the writers. The cast includes Arrested Development‘s Will Arnett as the team’s eccentric American chairman, alongside Theo Barklam Biggs, Shaquille Ali-Yebuah, Jack McMullen, Jake Short and Chris Geere.

The Kemps: All True

Remember how much everybody loved that Bros doc? Well now BBC Four comedy is planning to capture that same lightning in a bottle with mockumentary The Kemps: All True, following the travails of another pair of pop star brothers in Spandau Ballet’s Gary and Martin Kemp. The one-off comedy from Brian Pern‘s Rhys Thomas will track the brothers as they record a new studio album. Read more about it here at the BBC.

The Trouble With Maggie Cole

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Commissioned in March 2019 by ITV under the working title Glass Houses is a six-part hour-long comedy series starring Dawn French, Mark Heap, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Vicki Pepperdine and more. It’s about the aftermath of a loose-lipped radio interview with French’s Maggie, the village gossip who spills her neighbours’ secrets on air. It comes written by Shameless and Benidorm’s Mark Brotherhood and aired on ITV1 in March.

Truth Seekers

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s latest collaboration is a comedy horror series for Amazon Prime Video. Filming began in September 2019 on Truth Seekers, which follows a group of paranormal investigator hobbyists who film their ghost sighting escapades for the online community, and stumble into some very strange business that could end life as we know it. There’s a great comedy cast including Pegg and Frost, including Susan Wokoma, Julian Barratt, Samson Kayo, Morgana Robinson, Kate Nash, Kevin Eldon and Malcolm McDowell.  

Two Weeks To Live

Written by Cheat’s Gaby Hull, this six-episode Sky comedy is the story of misfit Kim, a young girl raised to survive in the wilderness, who re-enters society on a secret mission to honour her dead father’s memory. Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams plays Kim, who becomes entangled in a prank-gone-wrong plot involving gangsters, a bag of cash and the police. With Kim’s survival skills, don’t expect her to come quietly…

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The Spencer Davis Group - “Gimme Some Lovin’” Dick Clark's All-Time Hits, Vol. 3 Song released in 1966. Compilation released in 1990. Blue-Eyed Soul / R&B / Garage Rock / Blues-Rock / Pop-Rock / Beat / Mod

From critic Bill Dahl:

His ferocious soul-drenched vocals belying his tender teenage years, Stevie Winwood powered the Spencer Davis Group's three biggest U.S. hits during their brief life span as one of the British Invasion's most convincing R&B-based combos.

Guitarist Davis formed the band with Winwood on organ, his brother Muff Winwood on bass, and drummer Peter York. Signing on with producer Chris Blackwell, the quartet got their first hit (the blistering "Keep on Running") from another of Blackwell's acts, West Indian performer Jackie Edwards. After topping the British charts in 1965, the song struggled on the lower reaches of the U.S. Hot 100.

The group's two hottest sellers were self-penned projects. "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man" were searing showcases for the adolescent Winwood's gritty vocals and blazing keyboards and the band's pounding rhythms. Although they burned up the charts even on the other side of the ocean in 1967, the quartet never capitalized on their fame with an American tour. At the height of their power, Winwood left to form Traffic, leaving Davis without his dynamic frontman. The bandleader focused on producing other acts, including a Canadian ensemble called the Downchild Blues Band during the early '80s.

Although they were called The Spencer Davis Group, their star was not Spencer Davis. It was undoubtedly Steve Winwood. They only called themselves The Spencer Davis Group because the other members didn’t want to do press junkets and interviews and it was assumed that the man whose name headlines the band would be the one to represent them. But Winwood, whose combined expertise as a vocalist, drummer, and pianist was about fifteen or sixteen years old with the release of SDG’s first single in 1964. Two years later, they released their most iconic single, “Gimme Some Lovin’,” which, ironically fared worse on the UK charts than some of their previous efforts. However, in retrospect, “Gimme Some Lovin’” is almost unanimously recognized as the band’s best single, and has been ranked #247 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

There’s also a pretty good story behind the song. Sometimes a perfect song might take months to flesh out, and other times, it might take half an hour. “Gimme Some Lovin’” falls in the latter category

From Wikipedia, followed by a quote from the liner notes of  Eight Gigs A Week: The Spencer Davis Group - The Steve Winwood Years:

At the time, the group was under pressure to come up with another hit, following the relatively poor showing of their previous single, "When I Come Home", written by Jamaican-born musician Jackie Edwards, who had also penned their earlier number one hits, "Keep On Running" and "Somebody Help Me". The band auditioned and rejected other songs Edwards offered them, and they let the matter slide until, with a recording session looming, manager Chris Blackwell took them to London, put them in a rehearsal room at the Marquee Club, and ordered them to come up with a new song.

"We started to mess about with riffs, and it must have been eleven o'clock in the morning. We hadn't been there half an hour, and this idea just came. We thought, bloody hell, this sounds really good. We fitted it all together and by about twelve o'clock, we had the whole song. Steve had been singing 'Gimme, gimme some loving' - you know, just yelling anything, so we decided to call it that. We worked out the middle eight and then went to a cafe that's still on the corner down the road. Blackwell came to see how we were going on, to find our equipment set up and us not there, and he storms into the cafe, absolutely screaming, 'How can you do this?' he screams. Don't worry, we said. We were all really confident. We took him back, and said, how's this for half an hour's work, and we knocked off 'Gimme Some Lovin' and he couldn't believe it. We cut it the following day and everything about it worked. That very night we played a North London club and tried it out on the public. It went down a storm. We knew we had another No. 1."

Steve Winwood was raised on a mix of American black music, from R&B, to blues, to early rock & roll. One of his first gigs was in a jazz group with his brother as the Muff-Woody Jazz Band, which actually led them one night to meet Spencer Davis. But no one left as much of an impression on young Winwood as Ray Charles. In fact, when producer Chris Blackwell first saw this teenager sing, he described him as “Ray Charles on helium,” which is a pretty apt description, given what he sounds like on “Gimme Some Lovin’.”

There’s in fact two different versions of “Gimme Some Lovin’.” First, there was the British one that peaked at #2 and then there was this, the American one that peaked at #7. This version is a bit faster, has a little more percussion (the cowbell clinks and tambourine!), and is overall livelier. There’s a nice addition of female backup singers on the chorus and the opening line in the second verse is different from that of the UK version. Some of the overdubs on this are actually provided by members of what would be Winwood’s next band, Traffic. And although this song is known and cherished for its mix of Winwood’s rollicking, freewheeling organ playing and his incredible, powerfully soulful voice (he was, like, 18 years old!), he provides the piano and lead guitar as well. Incredible stuff for someone so young with some fantastic production to boot.

Following “Gimme Some Lovin’,” it wouldn’t be long until Winwood felt he had outgrown his usefulness in Spencer Davis Group. He would then form the incredible band, Traffic, and later on Blind Faith with Eric Clapton. In the 80s, Winwood would contribute pop hits like “Higher Love” and “Roll With It,” and in the early 2000s, Eric Prydz would sample a line from his 1982 song, “Valerie,” to produce the global dance hit, “Call on Me.”

Steve Winwood’s adoration in the UK didn’t start with “Gimme Some Lovin’,” but it sure did in the US. An iconic, classic piece from the mid-60s that reflects a mix of a whole bunch of different genres and styles.

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SPENCER DAVIS (1939-Died October 19th 2020,at 81.Pneumonia).Welsh musician and bassist and founder of the British pop beat group The Spencer Davis Group,who had huge hits in 1965 and 1966,with the UK No.1 hits‘;Keep on Runnin’, and ‘Somebody Helpt Me’,and also the hugely popular ‘Gimme Some Lovin’,which reached No.2,and also No.7 in the US,whee the song was famously covered in 1980 by the Blues Brothers, actors John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd,used in their cult film of the same name.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Davis