'I'm So Glad We Made It' Print

Well, my temperature is rising, and my feet love the floor Crazy people knocking 'cause they want sell more Let me in baby, I don't know what you got But you better take it easy, this place is hot And I'm so glad we made it, so glad we made it I want you to gimme some lovin', gimme some lovin' Gimme some lovin' everyday Well, my head's a-spinning and I'm floating to sound Too much is happening 'cause you're not around It's been a hard day and nothing went too good I'm gonna relax like everybody should And I'm so glad we made it, so glad we made it I want you to gimme some lovin', gimme some lovin' Gimme some lovin' everyday Well, I feel so good, everything is getting high You better take some time off 'cause the place is on fire Better stop baby, 'cause I have so much to do We made it baby, and it happened to you And I'm so glad we made it, so glad we made it You gotta gimme some lovin' everyday Gimme some lovin' every night Gimme some lovin' Gimme some lovin' (gimme some lovin' everyday, hey baby) Gimme some lovin' Gimme some lovin' everyday Gimme some lovin' (get your loving, baby) ‘Gimme Some Lovin’’ by The Spencer Davis Group Songwriters: Steve Winwood / Spencer Davis / Muff Winwood "Gimme Some Lovin'" is a song written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood,[citation needed] although solely credited to Steve Winwood on the UK single label, and performed by the Spencer Davis Group. 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." In 1966, "Gimme Some Lovin'" reached number two in the UK and number seven in the US. The song is ranked number 247 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The original UK version, which is the 'master' take of the song, differs in several respects from the version subsequently released in the US on the United Artists label. First, the UK version has a different lead vocal track that includes the following lyrics in the second verse: "My head's a-spinning And I'm floating to sound, Too much is happening 'cause you're not around" These lyrics do not appear on the US single. Also, the original UK recording is a touch slower, and lacks the 'response' backing vocals in the chorus, some percussion, and the "live-sounding" ambience of the US single. These additional overdubs (which were performed by some of the future members of Traffic), and the 'tweaking' of the recording's speed to create a brighter sound, were the work of producer Jimmy Miller, who remixed the song for its US release. (The US version has more often been used on reissue CDs, even those coming from Europe.) The single features the sound of the Hammond organ. Live recordings are included on the Traffic albums Welcome to the Canteen and The Last Great Traffic Jam. The Spencer Davis Group were a British rock band formed in Birmingham in 1963, by Spencer Davis (guitar), brothers Steve Winwood (keyboards, guitar) and Muff Winwood (bass guitar), and Pete York (drums). Their best known songs include the UK number ones "Somebody Help Me" and "Keep on Running" (both written by reggae musician Jackie Edwards), "I'm a Man" and "Gimme Some Lovin'", which reached #2 in the UK and #7 in the US. Steve Winwood left in 1967 to form Traffic. After releasing a few more singles, the band ceased to be active in 1969. Davis refounded the group on two more occasions, without the involvement of the Winwood brothers, first in 1973–1974 for two more albums, and again from 2006, since when they have primarily been a touring act. Davis died on 19 October 2020, effectively ending the band. Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboard player, Winwood also plays a wide variety of other instruments; on several of his solo albums he has played all instrumentation, including drums, mandolin, guitars, bass and saxophone. Winwood was a key member of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a successful solo career with hits including "While You See a Chance", "Valerie", "Back in the High Life Again" and two US Billboard Hot 100 number ones, "Higher Love" and "Roll with It" charting 20 years after the start of his recording career. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameas a member of Traffic in 2004. In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers". In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood No. 33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989. In 2011, he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection. Source: Wikipedia