Gimme some Lovin ' - wikipedia Gimme some Lovin ' `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' Netherlands single picture sleeve Single by The Spencer Davis Group B - side `` Blues in F '' Released October 1966 ( 1966 - 10 ) Format 7 - inch single Genre Blue - eyed soul R&B Length 2 : 58 Label Fontana Songwriter ( s ) Steve Winwood Spencer Davis Muff Winwood Producer ( s ) Chris Blackwell Jimmy Miller The Spencer Davis Group singles chronology `` When I Come Home '' ( 1966 ) `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' ( 1966 ) `` I 'm a Man '' ( 1967 ) `` When I Come Home '' ( 1966 ) `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' ( 1966 ) `` I 'm a Man '' ( 1967 ) Audio sample file help `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' is a song written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood, although solely credited to Winwood on the UK single label, and performed by the Spencer Davis Group. The basic riff of the song was borrowed from the Homer Banks song `` ( Ai n't That ) A Lot of Love '', written by Banks and Willie Dean `` Deanie '' Parker. As recalled by bassist Muff Winwood, the song was conceived, arranged, and rehearsed in just half an hour. At the time, the group were 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 had n'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, gim me 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. Do n'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 could n'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. '' In 1966, `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' reached number two in the UK and number seven in the US. The song is ranked number 247 on the Rolling Stone magazine 's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The original UK version, which is the ' master ' take of the song, differs in several respects from the version subsequently released in the US on the United Artists label, being slower, lacking the ' response ' backing vocals in the chorus, some percussion, and the `` live - sounding '' ambience of the US single. These additional overdubs ( which were performed by some of the future members of Traffic ), and the ' tweaking ' of the recording 's speed to create a brighter sound, were the work of producer Jimmy Miller, who remixed the song for its US release. ( The US version has more often been used on reissue CDs, even those coming from Europe. ) The single features the sound of the Hammond B - 3 organ. References Jump up ^ Michael Uslan ; Dick Clark ; Bruce Solomon ( 1981 ). Dick Clark 's the First 25 Years of Rock & Roll. Dell Publishing Company. p. 203. ISBN 978 - 0 - 440 - 51763 - 4. Retrieved 17 October 2015. Jump up ^ Marvin E. Paymer ( July 1993 ). Facts behind the songs : a handbook of American popular music from the nineties to the ' 90s. Garland Pub. p. 247. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8240 - 5240 - 9. Retrieved 17 October 2015. Jump up ^ `` Respect 2003 Page ''. www.soulwalking.co.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2017. Jump up ^ Muff Winwood, quoted by John Bell, liner notes to Eight Gigs A Week : The Spencer David Group - The Steve Winwood Years ( Island Records, 1996 ) Jump up ^ Roberts, David ( 2006 ). British Hit Singles & Albums ( 19th ed. ). London : Guinness World Records Limited. p. 143. ISBN 1 - 904994 - 10 - 5. The Spencer Davis Group Spencer Davis Steve Winwood Muff Winwood Pete York Eddie Hardin Ray Fenwick Phil Sawyer Colin Hodgkinson Miller Anderson Nigel Olsson Dee Murray Steff Porzel Dave Hynes Charlie McCracken Ed Tree Taras Prodaniuk Jim Blazer Tom Fillman Studio albums ( UK ) Their First LP The Second Album Autumn ' 66 With Their New Face On Funky Gluggo Living in a Back Street Singles ( UK ) `` Dimples '' `` I Ca n't Stand It '' `` Every Little Bit Hurts '' `` Strong Love '' `` Keep on Running '' `` Somebody Help Me '' `` When I Come Home '' `` Gimme Some Lovin ' '' `` I 'm a Man '' `` Time Seller '' `` Mr Second Class '' `` After Tea '' `` Short Change '' Related Discography Albums Songs Book : The Spencer Davis Group Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gimme_Some_Lovin%27&oldid=805613992 '' Categories : 1966 songs 1966 singles The Spencer Davis Group songs The Blues Brothers songs Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Songs written by Steve Winwood Song recordings produced by Jimmy Miller Fontana Records singles United Artists Records singles Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from January 2015 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk About Wikipedia Français Italiano 日本 語 Norsk Svenska Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 16 October 2017, at 14 : 51. 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Question: who sang the song give me some lovin
Answer: the Spencer Davis Group