@@doc_adams8506 I was struggling trying to remember the name of the other group. I'm dealing with fibro fog right now, but I knew somebody get it for me! ☺️
before Spencer Davis Group there was John Mahall and the Blues Breakers with a long list of greats back in their teens - Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor
Stevie Winwood was a teenager when he had that gravelly voice. This song is almost 55 years old and never ages! His organ playing never changes. He is 🔥🔥🔥
One thing you have to remember is that when this song was Recorded and released in the 60's they were made for " Radio" and the Play time usually went no more than 3 Minutes so writing a song back then that you wanted yo hit the charts meant you had to compress the song into that 3 minute time frame . Steve Winwood has been a Major Force in the progression of Rock Music all his Life and one of the most talented performers ever .
And that three-minute mark fit the 45 records! Anything longer, and it couldn't fit! I still have most of my 45's from back in the day. Albums at 33 1/3....long gone sadly.
@@daveowens9849 Um. Hey Jude was on a 45 and it was 5+ minutes. It was really the radio stations that didn't want to play such long songs, they were sure nobody would listen to something so long.
Amber, I am genuinely impressed that you were able to Rattle off all of those groups that Steve Winwood has been in off the top of your head. It never ceases to amaze me how much should a two of you have grown on your musical journey in Just 2 years. Good job!😊
@@rrandall361 well of course, Amber pays much closer attention, particularly to lyrics. How many times have we seen her immediately get a nuanced interpretation of what a song is about, While Brother Jay is just lost in the music and totally misses it?🤣 Sorry Jay but Amber is the reason your channeled took off and we all know that you know that!😉
You just can't touch the energy of this version. This song and Deep Purples "Hush" are songs from a similar era where "Groovy" was The Thing:). I was just a child then but I've loved these song all my life. It never gets old . Pure Energy!
The funny thing about this song is that these guys (Steve, his brother Muff and Spencer Davis) wrote this song basically over lunch, making the head of A & R at the record label furious, thinking they were goofing off, but instead handed him a hit song. By the way, that's Muff Winwood on bass in this song, and he had to sneak teenage Steve into bars to play gigs. It never ceases to amaze me that a teenager had a voice like that and that he has aged like fine wine.
Ah, the memories. School gym, dance party, girls on one side, boys on other both scared to go ask the other to dance. I walked over to a boy and took his hand and said dance with me. We went into the center and danced to this. Nice memory
Every time I hear this song, I remember it being featured prominently in an 80's movie called "Iron Eagle." It went perfectly in the scene it was in. Great movie 😃🦅
This tune is a masterpiece. It’s featured in the move The Big Chill which is one I highly recommend you guys check out. Stellar cast and amazing music!
I have been to several Steve Winwood concerts and this song gets everyone dancing. He is great in concert. He plays songs throughout his career; including Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. Steve is one of my top 3 favorite artist.
Two more must listen to hits from the Spencer Davis group in this mid-sixties period are "Keep on Runnin", and "Somebody Help Me". Both great and with a 17 year old Steve Winwood tearing up the vocals.
You think of him as a vocalist first. We think of Steve as a musician first. He is a keyboard man first but he can really play many instruments. You'll like Freedom Rider, Empty Pages, Many A Mile To Freedom & Rainmaker by Traffic
With Shane Macgowan passing away today, my having seen a number of requests for it already, and you presumably starting to address Christmas songs as soon as tomorrow, I believe you will fall in love with his band The Pogues' (with Kirsty MacColl contributing vocals) extraordinarily gorgeous and extremely evocative Fairytale of New York.
Great choice and reaction. And you owe it to yourselves to react to Chicago’s cover of “I’m a Man”, which I heard first, and was partly how I fell in love with them (back when they were still the Chicago Transit Authority (or CTA). And keep in mind, he was still a teenager when he wrote, sang and played the organ on this song! And that’s his brother Muff on bass.
The great Steve Winwood! He was just a teen doing this. You really should do Traffic doing Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. It's long lasting, more of a good thing and is great in every way. Great piano and vocals by Steve, great sax, great drums, just all around great.
I'm 74 and I remember I had certain moves on the dance floor with this song. First time hearing it again and I got up and went for those moves 😂 Can't go wrong with the Spencer Davis Group or Steve Winwood.
As recalled by bassist Muff Winwood, the song was conceived, arranged, and rehearsed in just half an hour. 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.”
IMO, one of the best voices in rock n roll history! A multitalented musician who has had a very successful career! He was a musical prodigy in his teens! The first time I heard him back in the 60s, I thought he was black 🤣. Please check out Empty Pages, it’s soulful and jazzy! Thank you for reacting to his music! ✌️
Steve's older brother Muff Winwood also was in the Spencer Davis group , he played the bass. He later became a record producer and A&R man at CBS records. As a record producer he produced the first Dire Straits album, in his A&R work he signed Sade and Terence trent D'arby
A quick suggestion: 'Thousands Are Sailing' by The Pogues, in honor of the death of lead singer Shane MacGowan. Wonderful song about Irish immigrants that will make you cry!
I was in high school 1966-70. We had dances almost every Friday or Saturday night and had some great music to dance to. We didn't worry about the lyrics too much, but it had to have a good beat. Gimme Some Lovin' had about the best beat. Interesting side note - our dances were almost always live bands. Where I live, we didn't get big name bands, but there were a lot of good bands that worked a circuit around here. We only danced to records at a party in somebody's back yard or with friends at their house. One time a bunch of us met on some ranch land and put our cars in a circle so all our lights were pointing inward, tuned all our radios to the same station and had an impromptu dance.
If you are up for more Steve Winwood plus a little Clapton, check out the band Blind Faith. The song is ‘had to cry today’. Amazing vocals & blistering guitar work. Studio version.
That's Steve on the Hammond C-3 organ, too. He was also a prodigy on guitar. Check out Traffic's THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS, MEDICATED GOO, and GLAD.
When Steve Winwood went solo after Derek And The Dominoes went there separate ways, he put out a solo album called Arc Of A Diver. The title track is a really good track, but the hit song was While You See A Chance. It's a great 80s track of Steve's. Lots of synth and his unique vocals up front.
Totally agree, I like the raw sound this has. The Blues Brothers is really good but if I'm going to listen to this song it Spencer Davis everytime. You should check out Steve Winwoods Arc Of A Diver.
I am so glad you guys get just what a fantastic song this is 😊 I have been a DJ for a few more decades than I would care to admit, and this song has never been out my record/CD bag in all those years 🖤 Steve Windwood has been played in my house since I was a kid so life without Steve Windwood would just be unbearable. Like life without Jimi Hendrix or Otis Redding…I mean Jeez, how awful would that be? 🤯🫣😣 Have you listened to The Small Faces? I think you’d love Steve Marriot’s voice. They were the same vintage and pioneers of their own sound too. Check out “What You Gonna Do About It?” and maybe give their first album a go. 60s music of the highest quality! 🤩 Actually check out their version of Sha-La-La-La-Li (can’t remember who did the original 😂) Cheers guys, love your reviews and love the diversity of your tastes. Truly inspiring 😎🍀💚👍🍻
For 1966, their sound was absolutely revolutionary. This may have been remastered but there is an original video out there that carried a ton of high quality instrument playing.
This song makes me think of "The Big Chill"(1983). One of the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. If you were around in 83 you more then likely had this soundtrack.
You owe it to yourself to react to more Traffic ("Empty Pages") and Blind Faith ("Well Alright" & "Sea of Joy"). One other Traffic song worth mentioning is "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" which features Jim Capaldi on lead vocal.
At last! This was the performance that put Winwood on the map. Besides Steve's scorching vocal, shout out to Muff Winwood, Steve's brother who played bass. He came up with that pile-driving bass riff that propels the song. So much more Winwood to discover: With Blind Faith: "Sea Of Joy." With Traffic: "40,000 Headmen" "Freedom Rider" "Empty Pages" "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys." solo career: "While You See A Chance" "Spanish Dancer" "Night Train" (all on his Arc Of A Diver LP).
Hmm, speaking of Steve Winwood, check out the Rock Hall of Fame performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Steve Winwood on the organ, and Tom Petty and Jeff Lynn on vocals and guitar, and Prince on guitar. It's epic. And right here on TH-cam.
There was a flood of raw hot rock bands back in the 60's -- Jeff Beck Group, Bob Seger, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Hendrix (obviously), Deep Purple - who'd I forget? Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Janice Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Steppenwolf, Spirit, etc
This is from 1967 when there was no real sound equipment or recording equipment like there is today. This was an amazing song in the day. You gotta realize the Beatles had only been around for 3 years and we were heading into another phase of Rock
Steve Winwood was 14 started with the Spencer Davis group proceeded on to traffic and then as a solo artist. What a wonderful voice! ❤
Don't forget Blind Faith with Eric Clapton.
@@doc_adams8506 I was struggling trying to remember the name of the other group. I'm dealing with fibro fog right now, but I knew somebody get it for me! ☺️
before Spencer Davis Group there was John Mahall and the Blues Breakers with a long list of greats back in their teens - Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor
Don't forget BLIND FAITH
AMBER watch "15 year old Steve Winwood-no one know when you're down and out" it will blow your mind
Stevie Winwood was a teenager when he had that gravelly voice. This song is almost 55 years old and never ages! His organ playing never changes. He is 🔥🔥🔥
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!! I was like 10 when it came out ~ I'm 67 and it still makes me want to dance!
I was only 2! Loved this song since I first got into 60's music when I was about 13
For me, ‘Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’ is Steve Winwood’s masterpiece (with Traffic) Also has some of the bluesiest sax you could ever ask for
I was thinking that song is what they should listen to next.
Can't Find My Way Back Home (with Blind Faith) is none too shabby although they have already reacted to it.
Definitely check out Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic featuring the one and only Stevie Winwood!
Love this song 🎵 ❤
totally agree, I think Winwood is a major talent
One thing you have to remember is that when this song was Recorded and released in the 60's they were made for " Radio" and the Play time usually went no more than 3 Minutes so writing a song back then that you wanted yo hit the charts meant you had to compress the song into that 3 minute time frame . Steve Winwood has been a Major Force in the progression of Rock Music all his Life and one of the most talented performers ever .
And that three-minute mark fit the 45 records! Anything longer, and it couldn't fit! I still have most of my 45's from back in the day. Albums at 33 1/3....long gone sadly.
@@daveowens9849 Um. Hey Jude was on a 45 and it was 5+ minutes. It was really the radio stations that didn't want to play such long songs, they were sure nobody would listen to something so long.
Steve Winwood was lead vocalist and played the organ, piano, percussion on this track. He was way ahead of his time musically in the mid-60s!
and he was only a teenager.
@@samphillips2360Yep, I believe he was 18 when he recorded this song. I'm pretty sure he had a part in writing it, too.
Amber, I am genuinely impressed that you were able to Rattle off all of those groups that Steve Winwood has been in off the top of your head. It never ceases to amaze me how much should a two of you have grown on your musical journey in Just 2 years. Good job!😊
Amber, yes, but Jay seems clueless sometimes - didn't seem to remember Winwood as part of Traffic until Amber mentioned it.
She does her homework. It’s a lucrative gig.
@@rrandall361 well of course, Amber pays much closer attention, particularly to lyrics. How many times have we seen her immediately get a nuanced interpretation of what a song is about, While Brother Jay is just lost in the music and totally misses it?🤣 Sorry Jay but Amber is the reason your channeled took off and we all know that you know that!😉
Totally agree with you, thanks!@@mdanam
Teenaged Steve Winwood channeling Ray Charles is just insanity! What a voice....
You just can't touch the energy of this version. This song and Deep Purples "Hush" are songs from a similar era where "Groovy" was The Thing:). I was just a child then but I've loved these song all my life. It never gets old . Pure Energy!
There best track for me is - KEEP ON RUNNIN’.
Stevie Windwood was 15/16 when these songs were hits in the 60’s
Keep on running is one of the greatest songs of all time. Deffo in my top 20.
The funny thing about this song is that these guys (Steve, his brother Muff and Spencer Davis) wrote this song basically over lunch, making the head of A & R at the record label furious, thinking they were goofing off, but instead handed him a hit song. By the way, that's Muff Winwood on bass in this song, and he had to sneak teenage Steve into bars to play gigs. It never ceases to amaze me that a teenager had a voice like that and that he has aged like fine wine.
Blows me away that Steve Winwood was only 18/19 when he sang on this classic
He was barely 18. Birthday May 12 1948, this was recorded early June 1966.
Ah, the memories. School gym, dance party, girls on one side, boys on other both scared to go ask the other to dance. I walked over to a boy and took his hand and said dance with me. We went into the center and danced to this. Nice memory
Yes! Great memories.
Use to be a time I could dance all the way thru "In-a-gadda-da-vida" Oh well. Long past the time I had that kind of energy.
What a GREAT pick. The organ lick that Stevie Winwood invented for this is among the greatest organ licks EVER.
Every time I hear this song, I remember it being featured prominently in an 80's movie called "Iron Eagle." It went perfectly in the scene it was in. Great movie
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Blues Brothers sang this as well! 👍🏻
It was also in The Big Chill along with lots of other great music. Another movie for Jay and Amber to review. 😃
Iron eagle ,awesome movie amber and Jay need to watch !
I think of The Big Chill every time I hear this masterpiece. Love it!!
This tune is a masterpiece. It’s featured in the move The Big Chill which is one I highly recommend you guys check out. Stellar cast and amazing music!
Great song. We all liked it back in the day
We still do.
Steve Winwood's voice is what rock n roll is about. The guy has been killin it since he was what 15,
One of the greatest party tunes ever written.
EVER.
This song freakin rocks !!! 😎
Such a great! Blues Brothers did this song proud with their remake, but I just love Steve Winwood's gritty voice. I love both versions ❤
That ain't no Hank Williams song! Give me "Rawhide" in A.
Major memory trigger. This was playing constantly in '66 and '67. Some of the best blue eyed soul of the 60s IMO. ♥
Child prodigy.Been rocking the blues and delivering blue eyed soul before he was even in his teens!
I have been to several Steve Winwood concerts and this song gets everyone dancing. He is great in concert. He plays songs throughout his career; including Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. Steve is one of my top 3 favorite artist.
I’ve seen him many times too. What’s impressive is his voice hasn’t really changed that much for an old head. His voice isn’t shot.
That organ alone makes this the best version, everything else is pure icing. Steve Winwiod is a genius.
Steve is not only a great singer but a killer organ player and songwriter. Thats him all over that Hammond!
Two more must listen to hits from the Spencer Davis group in this mid-sixties period are "Keep on Runnin", and "Somebody Help Me". Both great and with a 17 year old Steve Winwood tearing up the vocals.
The song that launched Steve Winwood. Check out "Georgia On My Mind" by Spencer Davis Group.
That is Ray winwood , Steve's older brother on the bass with those opening notes. Steve is on the keyboard and lead vocals.
Muff Winwood, not Ray.
Steve Winwood what a talent, he had that voice when he was 16, and that Hammond is fantastic, Steve is a master of that organ.
You think of him as a vocalist first. We think of Steve as a musician first. He is a keyboard man first but he can really play many instruments. You'll like Freedom Rider, Empty Pages, Many A Mile To Freedom & Rainmaker by Traffic
One of my all time faves.
With Shane Macgowan passing away today, my having seen a number of requests for it already, and you presumably starting to address Christmas songs as soon as tomorrow, I believe you will fall in love with his band The Pogues' (with Kirsty MacColl contributing vocals) extraordinarily gorgeous and extremely evocative Fairytale of New York.
I'll second that!
Genius song
Yes, yes yes and yes!
Give Haumted a listen Shane and Sinead O'connor are awesome.
Yep, I suggested Haunted a few weeks ago.
In the 80's when I was in college, THIS SONG, by the Spencer David Group, was STILL rocking parties!!! Timeless classic!!!
Great choice and reaction. And you owe it to yourselves to react to Chicago’s cover of “I’m a Man”, which I heard first, and was partly how I fell in love with them (back when they were still the Chicago Transit Authority (or CTA).
And keep in mind, he was still a teenager when he wrote, sang and played the organ on this song! And that’s his brother Muff on bass.
The Spencer Davis Group "Every Little Bit Hurts"..TRUST ME!! ❤
Next from Spencer David Group do “Keep On Running”
The dancing anthem of millions of teenagers in the 60s in every dance hall, everywhere. Love you, Stevie.
The originals are almost always the best!
Steve Winwood was only 18 when he wrote and recorded this. With THAT voice!!
This song is such a classic! I love Steve Winwood's voice...it's so recognizable and mesmerizing! 💖💖
I'm moving around my kitchen and singing to this one. It's another I play at work. Love the cowbell in this.
You've got me groovin. Cheers, Paul.👍📀🎶❤️
Does it need more cowbell? 😅😅😅
Like what's been said. ‘Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’ is a must listen.
Steve Winwood also played keyboards on a few tracks of the epic “Electric Ladyland” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
I seen Steve win wood live he is awesome! He played all his hits. And he talked to the crowd. I love show his human said! ( awesome)
An absolute classic, thanks for the reaction!
Classic track from a brilliant band,Steve Winwood what a voice.
The great Steve Winwood! He was just a teen doing this. You really should do Traffic doing Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. It's long lasting, more of a good thing and is great in every way. Great piano and vocals by Steve, great sax, great drums, just all around great.
Winwood was so young here. Amazing!
It's 106 miles to Chicago, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. (Fill in the blanks)
Hit it!
Steve Winwood is a musical genius. He was doing this stuff when he was 16!
I'm 74 and I remember I had certain moves on the dance floor with this song. First time hearing it again and I got up and went for those moves 😂 Can't go wrong with the Spencer Davis Group or Steve Winwood.
As recalled by bassist Muff Winwood, the song was conceived, arranged, and rehearsed in just half an hour. 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.”
I've had a cold all week but this song puts me in a good mood. Thx!!!!
IMO, one of the best voices in rock n roll history! A multitalented musician who has had a very successful career! He was a musical prodigy in his teens! The first time I heard him back in the 60s, I thought he was black 🤣. Please check out Empty Pages, it’s soulful and jazzy! Thank you for reacting to his music! ✌️
I remember High School Dances in Late 60's rocking to this song ! I was there because I'm OLD now but I STILL REMEMBER !!! :-)
Steve's older brother Muff Winwood also was in the Spencer Davis group , he played the bass. He later became a record producer and A&R man at CBS records. As a record producer he produced the first Dire Straits album, in his A&R work he signed Sade and Terence trent D'arby
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys should be next ,also Can't Find My Way Home.
A quick suggestion: 'Thousands Are Sailing' by The Pogues, in honor of the death of lead singer Shane MacGowan. Wonderful song about Irish immigrants that will make you cry!
Absolutely wonderful song with incredible lyrics!
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
That too! 👍@@TahoeNevada
A Parting glass 🥃😢💚🤍🧡
I was in high school 1966-70. We had dances almost every Friday or Saturday night and had some great music to dance to. We didn't worry about the lyrics too much, but it had to have a good beat. Gimme Some Lovin' had about the best beat. Interesting side note - our dances were almost always live bands. Where I live, we didn't get big name bands, but there were a lot of good bands that worked a circuit around here. We only danced to records at a party in somebody's back yard or with friends at their house. One time a bunch of us met on some ranch land and put our cars in a circle so all our lights were pointing inward, tuned all our radios to the same station and had an impromptu dance.
That Hammond B3 organ is iconic!
If you are up for more Steve Winwood plus a little Clapton, check out the band Blind Faith. The song is ‘had to cry today’. Amazing vocals & blistering guitar work. Studio version.
One of the GREAT songs. Spent many a "teen town" dancing to this.
Winwood is a legend , was successful with every group he was involved with. A great singer & great instrumentalist.
Loved this song on DAYS OF THUNDER ! ❤
A very young Steve Windwood. His voice kicks ass.
I had no idea Stevie Winwood sang this this song! Such a great song!
Sang it and wrote it.
@@richdiddens4059 Really?! At 23 I wasn’t keeping up with the artists as much as just consuming the music. It was a wonderful era!
Spotify just told me this song was in my top five played songs in 2023. Great timing!
A brilliant guy..........Blind Faith..,...........freebie in Hyde Park, London ,.................magic!
Damn I love the sound of a Hammond organ.
Another hit they had was “ Keep On Runnin’”
Yes, yes, and yes! Multi-instrumentalist. Renowned vocalist. Child prodigy. Never lost his cool.
Great reaction, thank you!
That's Steve on the Hammond C-3 organ, too. He was also a prodigy on guitar. Check out Traffic's THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS, MEDICATED GOO, and GLAD.
When Steve Winwood went solo after Derek And The Dominoes went there separate ways, he put out a solo album called Arc Of A Diver. The title track is a really good track, but the hit song was While You See A Chance. It's a great 80s track of Steve's. Lots of synth and his unique vocals up front.
Love both of those and the track Spanish Dancer.
Steve Winwood was never in Derek And The Dominoes.
I forgot While You See A Chance, great song
Stevie Winwood was not in Derek and the Domino’s. Arc of the diver was recorded in 1982 or 83. It’s a great record..
While You See a Chance is one of my favorite songs.
1960's great British band yet again
A genuine Legend...,.......a child when this was done..........do, Keep on Running.......brilliant!
Oh man….this was the BEST driving music when it came out!!! Crank it up LOUD! And turn up the bass! ✌️😁
Wow! Shocked you hadn’t done this one before. Can’t wait to watch!
I agree.Steve Winwood is so good.ill have to check out more of his work
We used to say " put this on , then you got a PARTY. OLDIES are GOLD. TY.
That's the voice of child. The wonderful Stevie
Totally agree, I like the raw sound this has. The Blues Brothers is really good but if I'm going to listen to this song it Spencer Davis everytime.
You should check out Steve Winwoods Arc Of A Diver.
I am so glad you guys get just what a fantastic song this is 😊 I have been a DJ for a few more decades than I would care to admit, and this song has never been out my record/CD bag in all those years 🖤 Steve Windwood has been played in my house since I was a kid so life without Steve Windwood would just be unbearable. Like life without Jimi Hendrix or Otis Redding…I mean Jeez, how awful would that be? 🤯🫣😣
Have you listened to The Small Faces? I think you’d love Steve Marriot’s voice. They were the same vintage and pioneers of their own sound too. Check out “What You Gonna Do About It?” and maybe give their first album a go. 60s music of the highest quality! 🤩 Actually check out their version of Sha-La-La-La-Li (can’t remember who did the original 😂)
Cheers guys, love your reviews and love the diversity of your tastes. Truly inspiring 😎🍀💚👍🍻
For 1966, their sound was absolutely revolutionary. This may have been remastered but there is an original video out there that carried a ton of high quality instrument playing.
This song makes me think of "The Big Chill"(1983). One of the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. If you were around in 83 you more then likely had this soundtrack.
Amber’s chair dancing gets better and better!
You owe it to yourself to react to more Traffic ("Empty Pages") and Blind Faith ("Well Alright" & "Sea of Joy"). One other Traffic song worth mentioning is "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" which features Jim Capaldi on lead vocal.
At last! This was the performance that put Winwood on the map.
Besides Steve's scorching vocal, shout out to Muff Winwood, Steve's brother who played bass. He came up with that pile-driving bass riff that propels the song.
So much more Winwood to discover:
With Blind Faith: "Sea Of Joy."
With Traffic: "40,000 Headmen" "Freedom Rider" "Empty Pages" "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys."
solo career: "While You See A Chance" "Spanish Dancer" "Night Train" (all on his Arc Of A Diver LP).
I’ll post it again…The 1967 Spencer Davis cover of, “Georgia on my Mind”. Winwoods voice on that track just melts right in with the lyrics.
Please Check out The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York ( Shane MacGowan died Thursday morning surrounded by his family)
Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the Dancefloor
Jay & Amber, you'll love Steve Winwood’s “While You See A Chance!!!
The memory is clear of huddling under the covers with my transistor radio listening to the 9-Midnight show on WLS in Chicago waiting to hear this song
Stevie was 16 when they recorded this...best known for his hammond organ and piano but literally one of the best lead guitarist on the planet !!
Steve Winwood is in a class all his own. One of my favorite artists.
I'm 77 and always loving the 60s
Hmm, speaking of Steve Winwood, check out the Rock Hall of Fame performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Steve Winwood on the organ, and Tom Petty and Jeff Lynn on vocals and guitar, and Prince on guitar. It's epic. And right here on TH-cam.
There was a flood of raw hot rock bands back in the 60's -- Jeff Beck Group, Bob Seger, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Hendrix (obviously), Deep Purple - who'd I forget? Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Janice Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Steppenwolf, Spirit, etc
This is from 1967 when there was no real sound equipment or recording equipment like there is today. This was an amazing song in the day. You gotta realize the Beatles had only been around for 3 years and we were heading into another phase of Rock
Great song.
Fantastic song by an influential group!