thanks so much, Jamel. not only are you a music lover, you're a Music Teacher, man. thanks so much for introducing me to so many cool tunes i haven't heard before. have a great weekend, man. peace.
Because I love her music, as much as my dad did. He and I would sit there,...and watch this concert and the other Tina concerts we had on DVD...over and over and over again. It was one of the few things in his later years as he slipped into alzheimers, dementia and the accompanying rages, that we DIDN'T fight about. coming up on the 2yr anniversary of his death. this was always a favorite of mine. And since we're talking concerts these are all concert clips. th-cam.com/video/-Y3Rhho6c3E/w-d-xo.html. And this was one of dad's th-cam.com/video/HUApHigFfSc/w-d-xo.html Although this was probably is all time favorite th-cam.com/video/5QHVwUAe9lY/w-d-xo.html LOL and being me..I had crushes on and was seriously vibin on the back up dancers :) It occurs to me I haven't watched ANY of the concerts we used to bond over, since he died. maybe I'll do some this weekend
On the other reaction you asked about Steve's family. Steve was born in Handsworth Birmingham - his dad was a foundryman and semi-professional musician. Steve was performing in the pubs and clubs with his dad and older brother Muff when he was 8 years old. He has had some classical training on the piano but didnt graduate. When filming back then, people in the audience had to sit still in case there had to be another take and it was easier to edit if people are sitting still - different today though. Great reaction Jamel.
Jamel_AKA_Jamal, Yet another band Steve Winwood was in is 'Traffic' . His vocals on Dear Mr Fantasy are on par with 'Can't Find My Way Home' th-cam.com/video/dyMiUmrouZU/w-d-xo.html and another Traffic song he does most excellent is "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys" th-cam.com/video/vDGorIWYz-A/w-d-xo.html
Spencer Davis: "Any of you guys know a decent keyboard player that can sing?" Muff Winwood (bass player for the band) "My brother Stevie's pretty good" Sprencer: "Bring him around, we'll let him try out" Enter: Steve Winwood.
LOL! He was actually a sensation as an organ player. Hardly anyone in the UK could play a Hammond at the time, so when the biggest names in American blues came to tour the UK, they hired Stevie at AGE TWELVE.
@@loosilu Thanks Lucy, I've read some interviews with him about the band would sometimes having to pick up Steve from school because he was to young to drive. I just created a make believe scenario that every band that's looking for an addition would dream of.
The studio version is fun because it sounds like a raucous jam session that someone just happened to turn on the mic for. This version actually sounds more like a studio version than the studio version does. Studio version is faster, more raw, more energetic, and less precise. Either way, great song by an exceptional artist.
Absolutely correct in every way there. It's so ironic - don't you think? - that this live version is relatively controlled and stale compared to the raucous studio version which indeed sounds like someone just happened to turn the mic on during a jam session. 👍🏻
There are different variants of the studio version, the one you're describing sounds like the US version, the UK version is more minimal but faster than this performance. th-cam.com/video/TCe7EK8_fyo/w-d-xo.html - UK version th-cam.com/video/DQdFStANuJ8/w-d-xo.html - USA version
This version is a bit slower than the version everyone knows. In my lifetime, I have been blessed enough to see Steve Winwood in concert three times and Traffic in concert once. I have been a fan of Steve Winwood for decades. Infinite respect and admiration for that seriously talented man.
Jamel: 1. Welcome to the "I Love Stevie Winwood" Club -- a club that once you join, you're a member for life. 2. As far as the crowd not reacting, remember that this is a foreign language to them -- this is a television program from Finland. The applause at the end says, "We don't know what you said, but we are very glad that you are blessed with soul."
You asked for it, so.... "Winwood was born on 12 May 1948[7] in Handsworth, Birmingham.[8] His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy, began playing piano when aged four, and also soon started playing drums and guitar. Winwood was a choirboy at St John's Church of England, Perry Barr. While he was still young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Great Barr at the northern edge of Birmingham.[9] Winwood attended the Great Barr School which was one of the first comprehensive schools, where a teacher recalled him being a conscientious and able student who displayed ability in mathematics. He also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course. He first performed with his father and his elder brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight.[11] Muff later recalled that when Steve began playing regularly with his father and brother in licensed pubs and clubs, the piano had to be turned with its back to the audience to try and hide him, because he was so obviously underage.[12] Career Early years Winwood on organ with Spencer Davis Group (Amsterdam, 1966) While still a pupil at Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham rhythm and blues scene, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Eddie Boyd, Otis Spann, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours, the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played. Winwood modeled his singing after Ray Charles.[9] The Spencer Davis Group Winwood (still known as "Stevie" Winwood then) joined The Spencer Davis Group at the age of 14,[13] along with his elder brother Muff, who later had success as a record producer, after Davis saw them at a Birmingham pub called the Golden Eagle, performing as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band.[14] The Group made their debut at the Eagle and subsequently had a Monday-night residency there.[15] Winwood's distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles.[16] In 1964, they signed their first recording contract with Island Records. Chris Blackwell later said of Winwood "He was really the cornerstone of Island Records. He's a musical genius and because he was with Island all the other talent really wanted to be with Island."[17] The group's first record, a single, was released ten days after Winwood's 16th birthday.[18] The group had their first number one single at the end of 1965, with "Keep on Running";[19] the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ.[9] Winwood co-wrote and recorded the chart-topping hits "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man" before leaving The Spencer Davis Group in 1967.[20]
That's an 18 year old Stevie Winwood singing. He could sound like Ray Charles by the age of 14. And played a mean Hammond too. Some people just got like that.
Low Spark is awesome. Also Freedom Rider, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, Dream Gerrard and so many more!! Traffic is great because it puts that awesome voice in the context of a more progressive band that can really stretch out.
This song and "I'm A Man" were part of the British Invasion started by The Beatles and Rolling Stones. I was 15 years old at the time and every day I would hear something on the radio that I had never heard before. New sounds, new concepts, new fashions. It was an exciting time to be young. We thought that things were going to get better and better. We were going to change the world, and in some superficial ways I guess we did, but, if you had told me that 53 years later we would still be dealing with racism, sexism, war, poverty, homelessness, and dictators, I would have said "NO WAY"!
We did change the world, we were systems busters, paradigm breakers and we baby boomers were all feelin our oats and being creative and that changed the way things were. Experimenters, extremists fiddling with the new technologies. Electric guitars were only a decade or so old. Moog syntesisers were developing.The English loved Black Blues and reformed it in England and shipped it over in the British invasion that occurred in 1964 with the Beatles and The Stones and the Kinks and Cream and all the rest. Nothings bin the same ever since.
Yeah, you definitely changed things. Music changed in a big way in the mid 60s. Almost everything before that seemed pretty boring to me. All the things you mentioned in your last sentence may still exist, but not nearly to the degree they did before, and the major reforms really kicked off in the last half of the 60s.
We progressed in the Sixties, stalled-out in the Seventies, and then began regressing in the Eighties and we've continued to keep regressing ever since then. FACT.
Always grateful that the US sent us blues and rock and roll, we had a little play and sent it back with love. Times are a little grim but we’ve been here before and if we did it all once in the sixties, we have to trust that the coming generations can do it again. That being said (as Jamel would say) musically, we’re going to be a hard act to follow and we should all be proud of that. Keep the faith!🇬🇧🇺🇸🥂
At that time he was one of the best in the UK. He was hired to back up ALL of the biggest names in American R&B when they toured the UK. When Jimi Hendrix needed an organ player for Voodoo Chile, he sent a couple of guys to drag Winwood out of a pub to put down the organ track.
His voice was cracking in this version.. assuming they were touring and his vocals strained. Good version but there are a few epic versions of this live. Seriously check out “Had to cry today” by Blind Faith. His vocals are on another level and he was only about 19
Wow, yeah, his voice is really croaking here. I've never heard that roughness ever before. Winwood has one of those voices I try to sing along with in the car when I'm alone. But no way I can hit all the range he has dang it.
He said he was still in the period of trying to sing like Ray Charles. He realized quickly it was unnatural to him and that he was going to ruin his vocal chords. He then worked out his own signature voice. I am grateful!!
Stevie winwood was highly sought after by virtually every British band during the British invasion they all wanted him to sing in their band that's how highly respected he was and it still is!
I saw these guys at the Fillmore west in 1969. I noticed then what I see here again, teenage Stevie is so much better than the rest of the band. Hell, he WAS the band
“You better take it easy ‘cause the place is ON FIRE!” This sound hits deep. And we can ignore the inadequacies of this early, bad recording because it transcends the limited recording equipment. Grabbing an extinguisher 🧯’cause the place is on fire 🔥- what a soulful burn. A baptism of water with The Talking Heads “Take me to the River,” and now the spiritual burn of Stevie Winwood’s “Gimme Some Lovin’.” I’m toast. Thank you, Jamel. You are taking us to church today, Brother!!
You have to envy Jamal. We all had to wait for these songs to come on the radio. Those were great days, with new groups and sounds coming week after week, year after year for a couple of great decades, and Jamal gets to hear it all at once, or as fast as he can make video reactions. Keep up the great exploration, I love going back and listening again.
Jamel, I know why you enjoy these live versions, but you are really missing out on something, sometimes. For instance, the studio version of this song had some INCREDIBLE back ground vocals. A voice like this really deserves to be showcased in the best possible way. Even if you don't put it up for us to see, you really owe it to yourself to go check these songs out in their best versions.
Jamal has said before in video reviews that with most of these songs he doesn't know which version to view if we don't tell him specifically with a "link." The good thing is this allows him to eventually see more content giving him versions to draw comparison from. But kudos to the support he gets along with all of the information that he is able to pick up by you and others. I personally enjoy watching and listening to at least one live version (or more depending on the performers as band members change and/or mature) and the studio to compare as well as appreciate all that goes into the making of this great music.
Right on I was just thinking how Great Britain England over there has sure produced some very very impressive musicians and vocalist like Paul Rogers Robert Plant Steve Merriot and Steve Winwood and we can not leave out of course John and Paul our cousins can rock no doubt about it.
Absolutely the best by Stevie Winwood...and only 16 years old. He continued with great success. Two of my favorite solos by Winwood were "Valerie" and "Talking Back to the Night" off the Arc of a Diver album
@@actorJSB My bad. Thanks for the correction. "If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right." - Steve Winwood
I grew up on Winwood. Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and solo work. Its always a warm comforting feeling to hear Stevie's Hammond B-3 organ.
I’m 70 years old now and this is my favorite song from my favorite vocalist all time till the day I die. He was 16 years old when he performed with the Spencer Davis group but my favorite version of this song is at Woodstock 94 and he did it with traffic.
While Winwood was still a schoolboy in England, “he was...playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Eddie Boyd, Otis Spann, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours, the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands.” (Wikipedia)
Made my day ! Sounds from MY times ! You got a great ear my man ! It’s always a pleasure appreciating you appreciating the grooves and great talents. Your positive vibe, a good example for all to go by ! I do agree on Little Stevie ! A true natural phenomena for sure !! Thanks
Great performance - back in those days very often on a live recording for TV, the audience were told not to react until the song was over, in case it spoilt the sound.
Studio version is really cool too. A lot more finished. But I kinda really like this raw version. So glad you got to Stevie Winwood ,and Spencer Davis Group too!
I took my dad to Steve Winwood live a few years back for his birthday. Great live show! Excellent musicians that were all playing real music. No crazy light shows (which can be great, of course), no wild theatrics.. just awesome music.
Sure but this was live television in the 60's---very few broadcast technicians had any clue how to properly capture the real sound of the band. Even the recorded studio version wasn't caught on tape that well. Still the energy of this song and its players can't be hidden by poor microphone placement and inadequate equipment.
My wife and I used to dance in our living room to songs I had on my playlist. Before this one ( I don't know the version ) I told her to get ready for something special. I said this a 17 year old white boy singing this and it will blow your mind. When it began she started to dance and then Winwood sarted singing and her jaw dropped open. Fantastic I said. She replied it's amazing! Winwood is totally underated as a singer and compsoser.
Despite being born in 1965 making the late 70s and 80s my era in music I was actually bought up on my parents music including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent (my late father's favourite) The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the animals and of course the Spencer Davis Group. In fact my father even work as a bouncer in a concert hall in the 60's where we lived called the Granada Walthamstow which was in London. Which of course meant that mum (who is now 83) got to see see all the great 60s groups and singers perform live. So I really have my parents to thank for my love of music which ranges from anything from the 40s right up to today.
Jamel aka Jamal's group now feels like a great party where everyone brings amazing music and shares it with everyone!!! How about a giant Zoom party with everyone grooving and reacting along with Jamel aka Jamal????
1969 we used this song to learn to double time at basic training. It’s still stuck in my head. Love Spencer Davis Group. B-3 whoowie Blues brothers did a nice cover of this .
And you haven't even gotten to the Traffic era. Check out his classic "Dear Mr. Fantasy." Then check out the Grateful Dead's cover of it. I saw Traffic when they reunited in the '90s. I went to the show thinking I knew a few of their songs. I knew them all. It was a night of "Oh, they did this one too..." That reminds me, check out "Medicated Goo." too.
Pretty early keyboard work. Looks like a Hammond L-102, with the two offset 44-key manuals (B-3 has two 61-key manuals in parallel, not offset). Stevie is using vibrato and chorus, because he's not using a Leslie here. It's fun to see these early sessions, since we know how well he grew into his craft. Bravo!
Could I recommend Louis Prima... anything you feel like listening. He was king Louie in jungle book. Love him and there is literally one reaction to him on TH-cam. You are the best and I would love if you could spread his work and to see your reaction.
I’m 70 years old now. From the first time I heard this song as a teenager it became and still,is my favorite all time song. I believe Steve Winwood was 16 at the time. Best version though was at Woodstock 92 with Traffic
I saw them at the Marquee Club in Soho in '68. I was drinking with my back against the base of the stage. They put out great music, singles on the radio and albums. This song rocked everyone.
I saw them perform this live in what was probably 1965 at the Marquee club, London. I was accompanied by my future wife. We've been married now for 53 years and playing it now brings back many happy memories. Stevie Winwood was great then and still is.
Crowds back then were different. They weren't there to be seen, take over, selfies, etc.. They were there to respect, watch & be amazed at the musicianship of the artists. It was about them. NOT about you. If you were dancing in front of my view & enjoyment, I'd be annoyed at you!
The Beatles stopped touring because no one could hear the music over the crowd. Your "In MY day..." story omits people climbing onto stage, throwing panties at musicians... some stupid with a flaregun burned down a Frank Zappa concert FFS. "Kids these days..." congrats, you've become your parents, only without the Nazi-killing resume.
One of the worst versions of this song but still epic. And that's his older brother, Muff Winwood, playing bass guitar. For his later career, I think Roll With It is his best song.
I remember that, as a teenager in the 60s, Steve Winwood’s voice really HIT you. Whether a full blast as on this or with extreme sensitivity which really touched you.
and when you think this band was formed in 1963..(I was TEN my love, and I'm almost 68 now LOL) and from there he went on to MORE and MORE and he was a TEENAGER!! ROFLMAO Bless you young man BLESS YOU!
I agree, I don’t know how the crowd can sit still when music like this is playing, especially live music. Hell, when this come on when I’m driving, I can’t help but to butt dance (move from the waist up) and play the steering wheel drums. The music just moves you!
Winwood burst into prominence in 1963 at the age of 15 with the Spencer Davis Group. The band enjoyed a string of chart-topping hits by way of such enduring classics as “Gimme Some Lovin'”, “I'm A Man”, and “Keep On Running”.
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thanks so much, Jamel. not only are you a music lover, you're a Music Teacher, man. thanks so much for introducing me to so many cool tunes i haven't heard before. have a great weekend, man. peace.
Because I love her music, as much as my dad did. He and I would sit there,...and watch this concert and the other Tina concerts we had on DVD...over and over and over again. It was one of the few things in his later years as he slipped into alzheimers, dementia and the accompanying rages, that we DIDN'T fight about. coming up on the 2yr anniversary of his death. this was always a favorite of mine. And since we're talking concerts these are all concert clips.
th-cam.com/video/-Y3Rhho6c3E/w-d-xo.html.
And this was one of dad's
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Although this was probably is all time favorite
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LOL and being me..I had crushes on and was seriously vibin on the back up dancers :)
It occurs to me I haven't watched ANY of the concerts we used to bond over, since he died. maybe I'll do some this weekend
On the other reaction you asked about Steve's family. Steve was born in Handsworth Birmingham - his dad was a foundryman and semi-professional musician. Steve was performing in the pubs and clubs with his dad and older brother Muff when he was 8 years old. He has had some classical training on the piano but didnt graduate.
When filming back then, people in the audience had to sit still in case there had to be another take and it was easier to edit if people are sitting still - different today though.
Great reaction Jamel.
Jamel_AKA_Jamal, Yet another band Steve Winwood was in is 'Traffic' . His vocals on Dear Mr Fantasy are on par with 'Can't Find My Way Home' th-cam.com/video/dyMiUmrouZU/w-d-xo.html and another Traffic song he does most excellent is "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys" th-cam.com/video/vDGorIWYz-A/w-d-xo.html
Jamal - Steve Winwood - Gimme Some Lovin -2020 - Quarantine version - th-cam.com/video/rpkqTLR3OD8/w-d-xo.html
I always think of the Blues Brothers when I hear this one. “What kind of music do you usually have here?” “We got both kinds. Country AND Western.”
“Rawhide!”...
Sorry we couldn't remember _The Wreck of the Old '97_ . . .
That ain't no Hank Williams song! What the hell are those damn freak peckerheads playin?
We’re on a mission from God.......cracks me up every time.
Oh yea. I love that movie the music so fun
Spencer Davis: "Any of you guys know a decent keyboard player that can sing?"
Muff Winwood (bass player for the band) "My brother Stevie's pretty good"
Sprencer: "Bring him around, we'll let him try out"
Enter: Steve Winwood.
LOL! He was actually a sensation as an organ player. Hardly anyone in the UK could play a Hammond at the time, so when the biggest names in American blues came to tour the UK, they hired Stevie at AGE TWELVE.
Way cool story!
Definitely a child prodigy
@@loosilu Thanks Lucy, I've read some interviews with him about the band would sometimes having to pick up Steve from school because he was to young to drive. I just created a make believe scenario that every band that's looking for an addition would dream of.
@@RayTones The only trouble is, he's better than everyone else!
The studio version is fun because it sounds like a raucous jam session that someone just happened to turn on the mic for. This version actually sounds more like a studio version than the studio version does. Studio version is faster, more raw, more energetic, and less precise. Either way, great song by an exceptional artist.
Absolutely correct in every way there. It's so ironic - don't you think? - that this live version is relatively controlled and stale compared to the raucous studio version which indeed sounds like someone just happened to turn the mic on during a jam session. 👍🏻
Listen to this one th-cam.com/video/BuQ3PaFyb9A/w-d-xo.html
The studio version is a PARTY.
It is my all-time favourite pure Rock n Roll song. Second place goes to The Beatles version of "Twist and Shout".
There are different variants of the studio version, the one you're describing sounds like the US version, the UK version is more minimal but faster than this performance.
th-cam.com/video/TCe7EK8_fyo/w-d-xo.html - UK version
th-cam.com/video/DQdFStANuJ8/w-d-xo.html - USA version
OH YEAH!!! Now THAT’S the song I remember!!
The “brother on the bass” really is his older brother, Muff Winwood
This live version really misses the backing vocals. They take this song up several notches.
totally agree - kept waiting for them to kick in - this version is really lacking without them
@@MyargonautsJason Yep, need to listen to the studio album version for the best effect.
That was the first thing I thought of when I started listening. Although I thoroughly enjoyed this version.
This is anemic compared to the original studio. Jamel you owe it to yourself to check the original out. It’s a forever playlist classic.
I'd be happy to watch Both versions. Thx Jamel
This version is a bit slower than the version everyone knows.
In my lifetime, I have been blessed enough to see Steve Winwood in concert three times and Traffic in concert once. I have been a fan of Steve Winwood for decades. Infinite respect and admiration for that seriously talented man.
Oh lucky you to see Stevie live. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🎹
Blessed indeed!
Wow... I hope to see him some day... I keep my fingers crossed
This was such a fun performance.
Little Stevie Winwood was going HAM on that organ man!
Oh ma god!
Ham on the Hammond!
Another Spencer Davis/Steve Winwood song "I'm a man". This one lasts nearly 3 MINUTES!
"A one-celled Hammond organism..." (with thanks to Frank Zappa)
Jamel: 1. Welcome to the "I Love Stevie Winwood" Club -- a club that once you join, you're a member for life. 2. As far as the crowd not reacting, remember that this is a foreign language to them -- this is a television program from Finland. The applause at the end says, "We don't know what you said, but we are very glad that you are blessed with soul."
You asked for it, so.... "Winwood was born on 12 May 1948[7] in Handsworth, Birmingham.[8] His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy, began playing piano when aged four, and also soon started playing drums and guitar. Winwood was a choirboy at St John's Church of England, Perry Barr. While he was still young the family moved from Handsworth to the semi-rural suburb of Great Barr at the northern edge of Birmingham.[9] Winwood attended the Great Barr School which was one of the first comprehensive schools, where a teacher recalled him being a conscientious and able student who displayed ability in mathematics. He also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course.
He first performed with his father and his elder brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight.[11] Muff later recalled that when Steve began playing regularly with his father and brother in licensed pubs and clubs, the piano had to be turned with its back to the audience to try and hide him, because he was so obviously underage.[12]
Career
Early years
Winwood on organ with Spencer Davis Group (Amsterdam, 1966)
While still a pupil at Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham rhythm and blues scene, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Eddie Boyd, Otis Spann, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours, the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands. At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played. Winwood modeled his singing after Ray Charles.[9]
The Spencer Davis Group
Winwood (still known as "Stevie" Winwood then) joined The Spencer Davis Group at the age of 14,[13] along with his elder brother Muff, who later had success as a record producer, after Davis saw them at a Birmingham pub called the Golden Eagle, performing as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band.[14] The Group made their debut at the Eagle and subsequently had a Monday-night residency there.[15] Winwood's distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles.[16]
In 1964, they signed their first recording contract with Island Records. Chris Blackwell later said of Winwood "He was really the cornerstone of Island Records. He's a musical genius and because he was with Island all the other talent really wanted to be with Island."[17] The group's first record, a single, was released ten days after Winwood's 16th birthday.[18] The group had their first number one single at the end of 1965, with "Keep on Running";[19] the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ.[9] Winwood co-wrote and recorded the chart-topping hits "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man" before leaving The Spencer Davis Group in 1967.[20]
That's an 18 year old Stevie Winwood singing. He could sound like Ray Charles by the age of 14. And played a mean Hammond too. Some people just got like that.
Traffic. Low spark of high heeled boys. Steve winwood killing it.
Low Spark is awesome. Also Freedom Rider, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, Dream Gerrard and so many more!! Traffic is great because it puts that awesome voice in the context of a more progressive band that can really stretch out.
Great recommendations! I would add dear mr fantasy, John barleycorn, 40000 headmen too
Awesome Song!
@@beavis9601 Yes to ALL of those!
The live version from "On The Road" for sure!!
This song and "I'm A Man" were part of the British Invasion started by The Beatles and Rolling Stones. I was 15 years old at the time and every day I would hear something on the radio that I had never heard before. New sounds, new concepts, new fashions. It was an exciting time to be young. We thought that things were going to get better and better. We were going to change the world, and in some superficial ways I guess we did, but, if you had told me that 53 years later we would still be dealing with racism, sexism, war, poverty, homelessness, and dictators, I would have said "NO WAY"!
We did change the world, we were systems busters, paradigm breakers and we baby boomers were all feelin our oats and being creative and that changed the way things were. Experimenters, extremists fiddling with the new technologies. Electric guitars were only a decade or so old. Moog syntesisers were developing.The English loved Black Blues and reformed it in England and shipped it over in the British invasion that occurred in 1964 with the Beatles and The Stones and the Kinks and Cream and all the rest. Nothings bin the same ever since.
@@aaronstandingbear Thumbs up!
Yeah, you definitely changed things. Music changed in a big way in the mid 60s. Almost everything before that seemed pretty boring to me. All the things you mentioned in your last sentence may still exist, but not nearly to the degree they did before, and the major reforms really kicked off in the last half of the 60s.
We progressed in the Sixties, stalled-out in the Seventies, and then began regressing in the Eighties and we've continued to keep regressing ever since then. FACT.
Always grateful that the US sent us blues and rock and roll, we had a little play and sent it back with love.
Times are a little grim but we’ve been here before and if we did it all once in the sixties, we have to trust that the coming generations can do it again. That being said (as Jamel would say) musically, we’re going to be a hard act to follow and we should all be proud of that.
Keep the faith!🇬🇧🇺🇸🥂
RIP Spencer Davis - 17 July 1939 - 19 October 2020.
RIP thanks for the bad news
With that incredible voice it’s easy to forget just how good Stevie was on the Hammond as well. Incredible talent at such a young age.
At that time he was one of the best in the UK. He was hired to back up ALL of the biggest names in American R&B when they toured the UK. When Jimi Hendrix needed an organ player for Voodoo Chile, he sent a couple of guys to drag Winwood out of a pub to put down the organ track.
Guitar too
Love him so so talented ❤
His voice was cracking in this version.. assuming they were touring and his vocals strained. Good version but there are a few epic versions of this live. Seriously check out “Had to cry today” by Blind Faith. His vocals are on another level and he was only about 19
Wow, yeah, his voice is really croaking here. I've never heard that roughness ever before. Winwood has one of those voices I try to sing along with in the car when I'm alone. But no way I can hit all the range he has dang it.
Straining on the other video as well, but you could tell he was giving all he had. Much respect!
He said he was still in the period of trying to sing like Ray Charles. He realized quickly it was unnatural to him and that he was going to ruin his vocal chords. He then worked out his own signature voice. I am grateful!!
@@squidly12009 Yes, he was giving his all! Voice strained but feeling all there.
Wow man he can sing
Stevie winwood was highly sought after by virtually every British band during the British invasion they all wanted him to sing in their band that's how highly respected he was and it still is!
He was Jimmy Page's first choice for Led Zep.
Jimi Hendrix tried so hard too to get him in
@@abrarahmed1888 true.. Hendrix had immerse respect for him. In many biographies.
@@loosilu Jimmy Page really wanted Steve Marriott for Zeppelin too.
I CANNOT SIT STILL WHENEVER I HEAR THIS SONG!!!! It MOOOOOOVES me. And Stevie was soooo young. Just amazing. KEEP GREAT MUSIC ALIVE! yessir!
He does GEORGA just like Ray Charles ,Goosebumps!
I saw these guys at the Fillmore west in 1969. I noticed then what I see here again, teenage Stevie is so much better than the rest of the band. Hell, he WAS the band
fidge54 sorry fidge but Stevie left Spencer Davis in 67 and formed Traffic and then Blind Faith in 69 so it must have been one of them.
“You better take it easy ‘cause the place is ON FIRE!” This sound hits deep. And we can ignore the inadequacies of this early, bad recording because it transcends the limited recording equipment.
Grabbing an extinguisher 🧯’cause the place is on fire 🔥- what a soulful burn.
A baptism of water with The Talking Heads “Take me to the River,” and now the spiritual burn of Stevie Winwood’s “Gimme Some Lovin’.” I’m toast. Thank you, Jamel. You are taking us to church today, Brother!!
You have to envy Jamal. We all had to wait for these songs to come on the radio. Those were great days, with new groups and sounds coming week after week, year after year for a couple of great decades, and Jamal gets to hear it all at once, or as fast as he can make video reactions. Keep up the great exploration, I love going back and listening again.
You have GOT to listen to him singing Low Spark of HIgh Heel Boys when he was in Traffic. It's a must.
The bass player is Steve Winwood’s older brother.
Jamel, I know why you enjoy these live versions, but you are really missing out on something, sometimes. For instance, the studio version of this song had some INCREDIBLE back ground vocals. A voice like this really deserves to be showcased in the best possible way. Even if you don't put it up for us to see, you really owe it to yourself to go check these songs out in their best versions.
Jamal has said before in video reviews that with most of these songs he doesn't know which version to view if we don't tell him specifically with a "link." The good thing is this allows him to eventually see more content giving him versions to draw comparison from. But kudos to the support he gets along with all of the information that he is able to pick up by you and others. I personally enjoy watching and listening to at least one live version (or more depending on the performers as band members change and/or mature) and the studio to compare as well as appreciate all that goes into the making of this great music.
The studio version released in the UK did not have the additional backing vocals or cowbells. Phil Spector added them for the US release.
I knew you'd love this, Jamel, that soulful voice and church organ was just the one-two punch needed to hit all your feels ✌🏼
stevie winwood and robert plant: both of them began their singing careers at an early age -- winwood at 14, plant at 16. amazing, the two of them.
Right on I was just thinking how Great Britain England over there has sure produced some very very impressive musicians and vocalist like Paul Rogers Robert Plant Steve Merriot and Steve Winwood and we can not leave out of course John and Paul our cousins can rock no doubt about it.
Plant was trying to imitate Steve Marriott. Check Steve out. Small Faces then Humble Pie.
Absolutely the best by Stevie Winwood...and only 16 years old. He continued with great success. Two of my favorite solos by Winwood were "Valerie" and "Talking Back to the Night" off the Arc of a Diver album
Great songs, but actually from the Talking Back to the Night album (the follow-up to 'Arc').
@@actorJSB My bad. Thanks for the correction.
"If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right."
- Steve Winwood
Winwood's "Back In The High Life" album is a must listen masterpiece, from beginning to end. His talent and sound are unmistakable.
“I don’t know who she is he’s asking but I know for damn sure he got it” lmaoooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@@jetobey5656 Creepy gross dude
@@debbielockhart7762 She reached out to me first. We have shared friendly emails.
You need to hear the radio single. The organ screams, and the background singers add so much energy to the song.
I grew up on Winwood. Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and solo work. Its always a warm comforting feeling to hear Stevie's Hammond B-3 organ.
I’m 70 years old now and this is my favorite song from my favorite vocalist all time till the day I die. He was 16 years old when he performed with the Spencer Davis group but my favorite version of this song is at Woodstock 94 and he did it with traffic.
While Winwood was still a schoolboy in England, “he was...playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Eddie Boyd, Otis Spann, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours, the custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands.” (Wikipedia)
Not necessarily you could leave school at 15 sometimes 14 in the 60s
Made my day ! Sounds from MY times ! You got a great ear my man ! It’s always a pleasure appreciating you appreciating the grooves and great talents. Your positive vibe, a good example for all to go by !
I do agree on Little Stevie ! A true natural phenomena for sure !! Thanks
Great performance - back in those days very often on a live recording for TV, the audience were told not to react until the song was over, in case it spoilt the sound.
Let's all be thankful somebody had the brains to film these 💎 gems!
He is awesome my favorite song is while you see a chance. Thank you for what you do.
Studio version is really cool too. A lot more finished. But I kinda really like this raw version. So glad you got to Stevie Winwood ,and Spencer Davis Group too!
Spencer lived up the road from me, unfortunately died last week very sad. Seemed a very nice guy
not the best version of this song, but still. I remember this song from many movies, but especially Iron Eagle.....great 80s camp.
Haha yes Iron Eagle... that's funny to me
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I remember this song from "The Big Chill"!
Steve's been one of my favorite vocalist since I was a kid in the 70's.
Roll With It, written by Holland Dozier Holland who wrote all those terrific Supremes' hits in the 60's. Great stuff!!
His recent live acoustic of Can't Find My Way Home is awesome. And it looks like inside his house.
Yep, it's his home studio in an ancient cottage.
YES this.(There's a recent video of Steve sitting on his farm with an acoustic guitar singing 'John Barleycorn Must Die' and it's impressive too).
I took my dad to Steve Winwood live a few years back for his birthday. Great live show! Excellent musicians that were all playing real music. No crazy light shows (which can be great, of course), no wild theatrics.. just awesome music.
I'm so used to the album version that this performance sounds slow and kind of thin.
yeah this is one of the few times I gotta say, the album version is superior. High energy is an understatement.
Sure but this was live television in the 60's---very few broadcast technicians had any clue how to properly capture the real sound of the band. Even the recorded studio version wasn't caught on tape that well. Still the energy of this song and its players can't be hidden by poor microphone placement and inadequate equipment.
My wife and I used to dance in our living room to songs I had on my playlist. Before this one ( I don't know the version ) I told her to get ready for something special. I said this a 17 year old white boy singing this and it will blow your mind.
When it began she started to dance and then Winwood sarted singing and her jaw dropped open. Fantastic I said. She replied it's amazing!
Winwood is totally underated as a singer and compsoser.
Jamal, you need to check out Brother Steve with Valerie and Roll With It. His solo 80's albums are awesome.
My wife would agree ! That's the stuff she got me listening to.
Yes!!
We used to play this as one of our "get this party started" songs. It never failed!
Never heard this version. His voice is tired here- he is human after all!
Despite being born in 1965 making the late 70s and 80s my era in music I was actually bought up on my parents music including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent (my late father's favourite) The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the animals and of course the Spencer Davis Group. In fact my father even work as a bouncer in a concert hall in the 60's where we lived called the Granada Walthamstow which was in London. Which of course meant that mum (who is now 83) got to see see all the great 60s groups and singers perform live. So I really have my parents to thank for my love of music which ranges from anything from the 40s right up to today.
Jamel aka Jamal's group now feels like a great party where everyone brings amazing music and shares it with everyone!!! How about a giant Zoom party with everyone grooving and reacting along with Jamel aka Jamal????
67 years old and it seems like just yesterday I was hearing this for the first time , we had the glue back then !
You can see why we called it the British Invasion.
The influence of black American music is constant through that song like Thunder and lightning, you can't miss it.
That is a really sedate version of this song. The album version is much more up tempo and is a true banger. Need to check that one out.
1969 we used this song to learn to double time at basic training. It’s still stuck in my head. Love Spencer Davis Group. B-3 whoowie
Blues brothers did a nice cover of this .
And you haven't even gotten to the Traffic era. Check out his classic "Dear Mr. Fantasy." Then check out the Grateful Dead's cover of it. I saw Traffic when they reunited in the '90s. I went to the show thinking I knew a few of their songs. I knew them all. It was a night of "Oh, they did this one too..." That reminds me, check out "Medicated Goo." too.
Paper Sun is another brilliant track
Empty Pages is good too
Crosby, Stills and Nash cover of Dear Mr Fantasy is primo
Killer bass line.....and Ray Charles must have been thinking 'Who's this upstart white kid on the keys and vocals?!'
Nobody had to tell us to sit down. We had good manners in those days.
Pretty early keyboard work. Looks like a Hammond L-102, with the two offset 44-key manuals (B-3 has two 61-key manuals in parallel, not offset). Stevie is using vibrato and chorus, because he's not using a Leslie here. It's fun to see these early sessions, since we know how well he grew into his craft. Bravo!
So good to see this live version . Loved it.
Raise your hand if you'd like to see Jamel react to The Blues Brothers movie.🙋🏻♂️
I love how you LUV the music I do and you get it. Make me enjoy it even more.
Could I recommend Louis Prima... anything you feel like listening. He was king Louie in jungle book. Love him and there is literally one reaction to him on TH-cam. You are the best and I would love if you could spread his work and to see your reaction.
Especially Just A Gigolo!
Amen to both of those. Must do a live clip.
Banana split for my baby live? 😂
@@jenova625 that’s a great vid. My uncle played trumpet behind him at the Sahara Hotel in the 60’s.
@@BRLaue your uncle was a lucky and I'm sure a very talented man obviously!
I’m 70 years old now. From the first time I heard this song as a teenager it became and still,is my favorite all time song. I believe Steve Winwood was 16 at the time. Best version though was at Woodstock 92 with Traffic
Stevie co-wrote this in 66 when he was 18.
R.I.P. Spencer
You are the Man!
You gave us so much love 💘
Check out some of his more recent solo acoustic performances ... He's still soulful and magical as ever! 😷👍
I've never seen this video. Fascinating to see how young he was. One of the best rock songs of all time.
They actually did Georgia on my mind
I saw them at the Marquee Club in Soho in '68. I was drinking with my back against the base of the stage. They put out great music, singles on the radio and albums. This song rocked everyone.
You gotta hear “arc of a diver “ it’s excellent !!!
I remember buying that on a 45 when I was a young teen
Awesome this was done on my 70th birthday. I couldn't count how many times we danced to this in high school and beyond. Thank you.
Jamel I think it's time for a little "Feelin' Alright"
YAASSSSSSSS!!!
YES!
"I don't know who he's asking, but he definitely got some lovin!"🤣😂🤣
check out Traffic: Low Spark of high heeled boys
My brother had that album in his record collection
I saw them perform this live in what was probably 1965 at the Marquee club, London. I was accompanied by my future wife. We've been married now for 53 years and playing it now brings back many happy memories. Stevie Winwood was great then and still is.
To listen to Steve Winwood and not include "Arc Of A Diver" or "Vacant Chair" would be a travesty imo.
peace and love - out
This was a big hit on the Northern Soul scene in the UK. Brings back such happy memories of my all nighter days.
This live version isn’t nearly as good as the studio version.
Sound of my childhood and he is still going! Talent beyond comprehension!
Crowds back then were different. They weren't there to be seen, take over, selfies, etc.. They were there to respect, watch & be amazed at the musicianship of the artists. It was about them. NOT about you. If you were dancing in front of my view & enjoyment, I'd be annoyed at you!
They were also British. Very stoic and stiff upper lip, you know.
The Beatles stopped touring because no one could hear the music over the crowd. Your "In MY day..." story omits people climbing onto stage, throwing panties at musicians... some stupid with a flaregun burned down a Frank Zappa concert FFS.
"Kids these days..." congrats, you've become your parents, only without the Nazi-killing resume.
You got me on a Spencer Davis kick a few days back, loved all these songs back then. And now today...RIP Spencer Davis.
One of the worst versions of this song but still epic. And that's his older brother, Muff Winwood, playing bass guitar. For his later career, I think Roll With It is his best song.
To know that he was 16 when he sang this you just say WOW incredible
Not the best version of this song. Find one w/better backup vocals.
Ive been a Stevie fan since 71..but I loved watching you as much as Stevie. Im now a Jamel_AKA _Jamel fan. Thanks for doing what you do! S.A.N.G!
I love this song, but this was a TERRIBLE rendition of it. This is one of those cases where the studio version really is better than the live.
Now you got it, the best decade ever! Band formed in Birmingham, England in 1963.
Awesome. To the record version with the backing vocals...so great to jump around and dance to!
I remember that, as a teenager in the 60s, Steve Winwood’s voice really HIT you. Whether a full blast as on this or with extreme sensitivity which really touched you.
and when you think this band was formed in 1963..(I was TEN my love, and I'm almost 68 now LOL) and from there he went on to MORE and MORE and he was a TEENAGER!! ROFLMAO Bless you young man BLESS YOU!
Great to see the band actually performing the song live. This is the original UK version. Thanks Jamel, you are a blessing.
Amazing vocals. Props ... a rare treat to see this vintage stuff.
"Valerie" is a MUST!!! The remixed version is even greater!
It your lucky enough your born with this god given talent ,He has it and no’s how to perform it to the highest level.
I agree, I don’t know how the crowd can sit still when music like this is playing, especially live music. Hell, when this come on when I’m driving, I can’t help but to butt dance (move from the waist up) and play the steering wheel drums. The music just moves you!
Winwood burst into prominence in 1963 at the age of 15 with the Spencer Davis Group. The band enjoyed a string of chart-topping hits by way of such enduring classics as “Gimme Some Lovin'”, “I'm A Man”, and “Keep On Running”.
probably the Swedes ... when the Beatles played in Stockholm, the audience pretty much sat on their hands and smiled... a sign of great enthusiasm