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Spencer Davis Group | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Special Products
• ASIN: B00000DGL7
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,161 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gimme Some Lovin'

2. Somebody Help Me

3. Keep on Running

4. Searchin'

5. I'm a Man [Stereo Debut]

6. I Can't Stand It

7. Back Into My Life Again

8. Time Seller

9. Every Little Bit Hurts

10. When I Come Home

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic sixties R+B, October 17, 2003

By 

Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

The Spencer Davis Group were one of several excellent British R+B bands of the sixties. Best remembered in Britain for Keep on running (one of the best songs of the sixties, regardless of genre), by the time they started to make an impression in America, they were on the verge of losing their key man, Steve Winwood.

They actually had three #1 records in Britain (Keep on running, Somebody help me and Gimmie some lovin') and several other big hits, including Strong love (not included here), Every little bit hurts (a cover of the Brenda Holloway song) and I'm a man (also a hit in America). A remixed version of Gimmie some lovin' was a hit in America.

In 1967, Steve Winwood quit to form a new band, Traffic. The other band members struggled on for a while, but those recordings are not included here (and are not as good).

This is a nice introduction to the Spencer Davis Group. If you enjoy it a lot, there is a double CD, 8 gigs a week, which contains all the music they recorded while Steve Winwood was a member of the group.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD, March 6, 2004

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Sunislow - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Great music for a ridiculously low price. The sound quality is excellent,
the song selection is just right and I like the retro cover designs. Now
the bad news: They could've printed some photos inside the fold-out
insert instead leaving it white, but the biggest mistake they made was
that they listed only TEN (10) songs on the back-cover, instead of the
FIFTEEN (15) that the CD actually contains.The 10 song they listed
on the back is not even in the correct selection-order, but random. The
correct songlist is (it only appears printed on the disc itself):
1.Gimme Some Lovin' (in the best known "lush" US mix), 2. Searchin',
3.Keep on Running, 4.I can't Stand It, 5.Strong Love, 6. Every Little Bit Hurts,
7.I'm a Man, 8.Back Into My Life Again, 9.Trampoline,10.Somebody Help Me,
11.When I come Home, 12.Stevie's Blues, 13.This Hammer (The Hammer Song),
14.Waltz for Lumumba, 15.Goodbye Stevie.
Unfortunately its rather misleading for the folks at the CD-store, seeing
only 10 songs (through the cellophane wrapper) listed on the back sleeve.
Amazon listed only 10 songs (see above) as well, probably because of
this...

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Most Underrated British Band, July 22, 2002

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Steven R. Seim "Steve Seim" (Beaver Dam, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

The Spencer Davis Group may be the most underrated group in the British Invasion. The band had a tight, swinging sound, a nice balance between guitars and keyboards, and a tasty selection of musical influences - not to mention rock's greatest white-soul singer (Stevie Winwood). Their albums featured some of the best British blues and R&B, along with pop-rock to rival what the Beatles were doing at the same time (this was pre-"Sgt. Pepper," after all). Perhaps one day the SDG will finally get their due.