THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP Released Their Big Hit ‘GIMME SOME LOVIN’ Today 60 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
27 October 2026
Today, 60 years ago, on 27 October 1966, British beat band THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP,
named after its Welsh founder and guitarist Spencer Davis (1939-2020), released one of their big hits with GIMME SOME LOVIN’.
Vocalist/keyboardist Steve Winwood, who joined the band at the age of 16 and who
had a successful solo career later on, lifted this firecracker to impressive heights with
his room-filling soul voice.
It went to #2 in the UK, #7 in the US and #1 in Canada.
Spencer Davis: “Once in the studio 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.”
