The Spencer Davis Group

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The Spencer Davis Group
The Spencer Davis Group, Neckarsulm 2006, from left: Eddie Hardin, Spencer Davis, Steff Porzel, Colin Hodgkinson, Miller Anderson
The Spencer Davis Group, Neckarsulm 2006, from left: Eddie Hardin, Spencer Davis, Steff Porzel, Colin Hodgkinson, Miller Anderson
General information
origin Birmingham , England , UK
Genre (s) Rock , rhythm and blues , pop , beat
founding 1963
Website www.spencer-davis-group.com
Founding members
Spencer Davis
Steve Winwood 1963-1967
Muff Winwood
Pete York

The Spencer Davis Group is a British rock band, and was founded in 1963 in Birmingham ( England ) from Spencer Davis ( guitar and vocals ), Steve Winwood ( organ , piano and vocals), Muff Winwood ( bass ) and Pete York ( drums founded). The band had their first appearances in the Golden Eagle Pub, later they appeared regularly in the Marquee Club in London .

history

Spencer Davis Group (Amsterdam, 1966)

The group's first single was a cover version of John Lee Hooker's Dimples . Their second single, I Can't Stand It , originally from The Soul Sisters , already made it into the charts. The first big hit was Keep on Running , as well as number one in the UK as well as Somebody Help Me after that . Other hits followed with When I Come Home , Gimme Some Loving and I'm a Man . In 1965 and 1966 three successful albums were released . A significant hallmark of the band was Steve Winwood's throaty soul voice, trained on Ray Charles , which gave the group's songs their specific note. This manifests itself in the cover version of the Ray Charles classic Georgia on My Mind . In early 1967 the single Det war was released in Schöneberg on the Fontana label in Germany .

Steve Winwood left the band in 1967 and founded his own group Traffic in order to better realize his musical ideas and solo leadership claims. After the departure of their front man, the success decreased noticeably. After various line-up changes, the band broke up. There was a brief reunion in 1973, but without Spencer Davis and Steve Winwood.

A few years ago the Spencer Davis Group was on tour regularly with the following line-up: Spencer Davis (guitar and vocals), Eddie Hardin (keyboards and vocals), Colin Hodgkinson (bass and vocals), Miller Anderson (guitar and vocals) and Steff Porzel ( Drums).

The group currently exists in two line-ups, SDG USA and SDG Europe, of which Spencer Davis is the only joint member.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK US US
1966 Their First LP - - UK6 (9 weeks)
UK 		-
The Second Album - - UK3 (18 weeks)
UK 		-
Autumn '66 DE35 (2 months)
DE 		- UK4 (20 weeks)
UK 		-
1967 Gimme some lovin ' - - - US54 (25 weeks)
US

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1968: Here We Go 'round the Mulberry Bush (soundtrack to the film ... under Holderbusch , with Traffic and Andy Ellison)
  • 1968: With Their New Face On
  • 1969: Heavies
  • 1973: Gluggo
  • 1974: Living in a Back Street
  • 1986: Vibrate
  • 1995: Catch You on the Rebop - Live in Europe 73
  • 1998: Keep On Keeping On
  • 2000: Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues - Vol.1: Sessions 1965–1968
  • 2000: Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues - Vol.2: Shows 1965–1968
  • 2001: Funky
  • 2002: Live in Manchester 2002
  • 2007: Official Bootleg & Unplugged (CD + DVD)
  • 2013: Keep On Running, the Collection

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK US US
1966 Beat with Soul DE10 (5 months)
DE 		- - -
1968 Spencer Davis' Greatest Hits - - - US195 (3 weeks)
US

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More compilations

  • 1967: Dimples
  • 1967: The Best of Stevie Winwood with the Spencer David Group (feat. Stevie Winwood )
  • 1967: The Spencer Davis Group Special
  • 1971: Gimme Some Lovin '
  • 1973: Somebody Help Me - Spencer Davis Group featuring Steve Winwood
  • 1975: The Very Best of the Spencer Davis Group
  • 1977: The Story of Pop
  • 1983: Best of the Spencer Davis Group
  • 1987: The Best of the Spencer Davis Group
  • 1991: Keep On Running
  • 1993: The Spencer Davis Group "Gold"
  • 1994: Taking Out Time 1967-1969
  • 1996: Eight Gigs a Week - The Steve Winwood Years
  • 1999: Classic
  • 1999: Mulberry Bush
  • 1999: The Spencer Davis Group
  • 1999: With Their New Face On - The Masters
  • 2001: Live Anthology 1965–1968
  • 2004: 40th Anniversary: ​​Keep on Running
  • 2005: Keep On Running (2 CDs)
  • 2006: Old Friends, Familiar Faces and New Acquaintances
  • 2006: Studio & Stage: Essential Recordings
  • 2007: The Complete Hit Collection

EPs

  • 1964: Every Little Bit Hurts
  • 1965: Sittin 'and Thinkin'
  • 1965: Keep On Running
  • 1966: Det was in Schöneberg
  • 1966: Sittin 'and Thinkin' / Jump Back / When I Come Home / Trampoline
  • 1966: Somebody Help Me / Stevie's Blues / This Hammer / Watch Your Step
  • 1966: Keep On Running!
  • 1966: Corre, corre (Keep On Running)
  • 1966: When I Come Home
  • 1966: Somebody Help Me
  • 1966: Sittin 'and Thinkin'
  • 1967: I'm a Man
  • 1967: Georgia on My Mind / I'm a Man / I Can't Get Enough of It
  • 1967: Gimme Some Loving
  • 1976: Keep On Running / I'm a Man / Gimme Some Lovin '/ When I Come Home
  • 1976: Somebody Help Me
  • 1978: Spencer Davis Group

Singles

year title
 Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / monthly data
(Year, title, , Placements, weeks / months, awards, comments) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK US US
1964 I Can't Stand It
Their First LP 		- - UK47 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
1965 Every Little Bit Hurts
Their First LP 		- - UK41 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
Strong Love
The Second Album 		- - UK44 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
Keep On Running
The Second Album 		DE8 (2½ months)
DE 		- UK1 (14 weeks)
UK 		US76 (4 weeks)
US
1966 Somebody Help Me
Autumn '66 		DE3 (3½ months)
DE 		- UK1 (10 weeks)
UK 		US47 (7 weeks)
US
When I Come Home
Autumn '66 		DE20 (1½ months)
DE 		- UK12 (9 weeks)
UK 		-
Gimme Some Loving
Gimme Some Lovin ' 		DE12 (3 months)
DE 		AT4 (1 month)
AT 		UK2 (12 weeks)
UK 		US7 (13 weeks)
US
1967 I'm a Man
I'm a Man 		DE17 (2 months)
DE 		- UK9 (9 weeks)
UK 		US10 (9 weeks)
US
Time Seller
With Their New Face On 		- - UK30 (5 weeks)
UK 		US100 (1 week)
US
1968 Mr. Second Class
With Their New Face On 		DE33 (1 month)
DE 		- UK35 (4 weeks)
UK 		-

More singles

  • 1964: Dimples
  • 1965: You Put the Hurt on Me
  • 1966: Georgia on My Mind
  • 1966: This Hammer
  • 1968: Looking Back
  • 1968: Short Change
  • 1968: After Tea
  • 1968: (Aquarius) The Aquarius
  • 1973: Living in a Back Street
  • 1973: Don't You Let It Bring You Down
  • 1973: Catch You on the Rebop
  • 1973: Mr. Operator
  • 1974: Another Day

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A musicological analysis of the Spencer Davis Group's recording can be found in: Ansgar Jerrentrup: Development of Rock Music from Beginnings to Beat . Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 1981 (Cologne contributions to music research, vol. 113), also Diss. Phil. University of Cologne 1980, p. 206 f .; Score transcription of the recording pp. 260–262.
  2. ↑ http://spencer-davis-group.com/the-band/
  3. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums Billboard 200
  4. ↑ a b The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

Web links

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