"Gimme Some Loving" is a song

Song

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 written by Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

, Spencer Davis

Spencer Davis

Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...

 and Muff Winwood

Muff Winwood

Mervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...

, and originally performed by The Spencer Davis Group. The basic riff

RIFF

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 of the song was borrowed from the Homer Banks

Homer Banks

Homer Banks was an African-American songwriter, singer and record producer, best known for his songs for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s...

 song "(Ain't That) A Lot of Love", written by Banks and Willie Dean "Deanie" Parker. The song ("Gimme Some Loving") was a UK #2 in the Autumn of 1966 and a US #7. The song is ranked #244 on the Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The version issued in the UK (and probably most of Europe) is different from that issued in the US on the United Artists

United Artists

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 label, being slower, clearer and without the "live sounding" performance antics featured on the US single. (The US version has more often been used on reissue CDs, even those coming from Europe.) The single features the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ

Hammond organ

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.

Cover versions

The song has been covered

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 by many other artists

Musician

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, including Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

 and John Belushi

John Belushi

John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...

 in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers

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. Just before that, Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John

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 recorded it for her 1978 album Totally Hot

Totally Hot

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with members of Toto

Toto (band)

Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...

. In 1982-83 Chicago

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 included it as an encore in their live set with Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera

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 taking the lead vocal. Queen

Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

 also often played it during their 1986 Magic Tour.

Other groups who have covered the song include:

• In 1971 The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
   and The Four Tops recorded a version that remained unreleased until 2009.
• Also in 1971 Traffic
  Traffic (band)
  Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...
  
  , with Winwood as lead singer, performed it on their live album Welcome to the Canteen
  Welcome to the Canteen
  Welcome to the Canteen is the fifth album by English rock band Traffic. It was recorded live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon and the Oz Benefit Concert, London, July 1971 and released in September of that year...
  
  .
• French
  French people
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   disco
  Disco
  Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
  
   group Kongas on their 1977 album Africanism, along with the songs, "Africanism" and "Dr. Doo-Dah", Kongas' cover reached number three on the disco chart.
• The Dutch
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   band "Janse Bagge Bend" covered the song in a Dutch dialect in 1983, naming it "Sollicitere" , meaning "Applying" (for employment), and featuring it on their album "Flazjelettentaere".
• Raven
  Raven (band)
  Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock".-Formation:...
  
   covered the song on their 1986 album The Pack Is Back
  The Pack Is Back
  The Pack Is Back is the fifth full-length album by the English heavy metal band Raven, released in 1986 . It was recorded in the USA with renowned producer Eddie Kramer and features a sound more FM-friendly and commercial than any other Raven album...
  
  .
• Thunder
  Thunder (band)
  Thunder were an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group, namely Thunder...
  
   on their 1990 album, Backstreet Symphony.
• Hanson
  Hanson (band)
  Hanson are an American pop rock band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by brothers Isaac , Taylor , and Zac Hanson . They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations...
  
   opened shows with it on their 1998 Albertane Tour
  Albertane Tour
  The Albertane Tour was the American teenage pop rock band Hanson's first major concert tour. Albertane took off in 1998 after Hanson's album, Middle of Nowhere, became a huge hit the previous year...
  
   (captured on their subsequent Live from Albertane
  Live from Albertane
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  album).
• Spanish
  Spanish people
  The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....
  
   group Mägo de Oz
  Mägo de Oz
  Mägo de Oz is a Spanish folk/heavy metal band from Begoña, Madrid formed in mid-1988 by drummer Txus di Fellatio. In 1992, the band were finalists in the Villa de Madrid contest. Then, they went onto achieve great success in Spain, and in 1995, were declared Revolution Rock Band...
  
   covered it on their 1994 album, Mägo de Oz
  Mägo de Oz (album)
  Mägo de Oz was Mägo de Oz's debut album, released in 1994. It was edited and re-released in 1999.-Track listing:#"T'esnucaré Contra'l Bidé" - 3:51#"El Lago" - 4:29#"Rock Kaki Rock" - 3:14#"Gerdundula" cover of Status Quo] - 1:51...
  
  .
• Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
   also covered it in concert from November, 1984 with the lead vocals shared alternately by Phil Lesh
  Phil Lesh
  Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
  
   and Brent Mydland
  Brent Mydland
  Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...
  
  .
• Spencer Davis
  Spencer Davis
  Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
  
   on September 22, 1988 at the Spectrum
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   in Philadelphia, PA, resplendent with white guitar
  Guitar
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  , appeared with Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
   and helped open the band's second set of the concert with this song. It was the only time Spencer Davis appeared with Grateful Dead.
• Furthur
  Furthur
  Further was a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 for $1,500 from Andre Hobson in Atherton, California. The bus was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic excursion across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board...
  
   covers this song in concert with Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
   handling the lead vocals.
• Serbia
  Serbia
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
  
  n hard rock
  Hard rock
  Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
  
   band Cactus Jack
  Cactus Jack (band)
  -Band history:The band, originally named Caramba, was formed at the end of 1998 by Stevan Birak , Miodrag Krudulj , Vladimir Jezdimirović and Dušan Gnjidić ....
  
   recorded a version on their live cover album, DisCover
  DisCover (album)
  Discover, written as DisCover on the cover, is the first album by Serbian hard rock band Cactus Jack.The album features nineteen cover songs and was recorded on Cactus Jack concert in Coupe club in Pančevo...
  
  in 2002.
• It was also covered by rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
   group Great White
  Great White
  Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"...
  
   on their 1986 album, Shot in the Dark
  Shot in the Dark (Great White album)
  Shot in the Dark is the second studio album by the American hard rock band Great White, released in 1986. It was originally released by Greenworld Entertainment and subsequently picked up and re-issued by Capitol Records. The original issue featured a different intro to "She Shakes Me" , as well as...
  
  .
• New York City
  New York City
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   third-wave ska
  Ska
  Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
  
   band The Toasters
  The Toasters
  The Toasters was one of the first American bands in the third wave of ska, and is one of the longest active third wave ska bands.They have released nine studio albums, most of them on Moon Ska Records. The Toasters experienced a small degree of commercial success in the late 1990s due to the...
  
   covered it on their album Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
  Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
  - Personnel :*Dave Barry – keyboards*George Evageliou – engineer*Rick Faulkner – trombone*Rob "Bucket" Hingley – guitar, vocals*Jafo – design, illustrations*Joe Johnson – assistant engineer*Matt Malles – bass*MC Schneeberger – producer, mixing...
  
  and have also played it live.
• Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
  Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
  Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge is an American musical group, best known for their million selling rendition of Jimmy Webb's "The Worst That Could Happen" .-History:...
  
   covered it on their 2008 CD "Greatest Hits Live".
• One More Girl
  One More Girl
  One More Girl is a Canadian country music duo composed of actor-singers Carly McKillip and Britt McKillip, who are sisters. The duo signed to EMI Canada in 2008 and released their debut album, Big Sky, in 2009. In 2010, they won the Rising Star award at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards...
  
   covered it in their shows in 2010.
• Yo La Tengo
  Yo La Tengo
  Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...
  
   covered the song in reference to a Blues Brothers question asked by an audience member at The Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, CA on 2/24/2011.
• The Jordan Brothers, from Frackville, PA, recorded the song on Phillips. It proved to be their biggest hit, especially in Boston and Baltimore.

Uses in film and television

"Gimme Some Lovin'" has been used frequently in television

Television

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 and movies

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, including the films:

• Hamburger Hill
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• The Boat That Rocked
  The Boat That Rocked
  The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh...
  
  
• Iron Eagle
  Iron Eagle
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• Sleepers
  Sleepers (film)
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• Operation Dumbo Drop
  Operation Dumbo Drop
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• EdTV
  EdTV
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• Wild Hogs
  Wild Hogs
  Wild Hogs is a 2007 comedy film directed by Walt Becker and starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy. It was released nationwide in the United States and Canada on March 2, 2007, though preview film screenings were held in select areas on February 24, 2007.-Plot:Doug...
  
  
• Flight of the Phoenix
  Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)
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• Striptease
  Striptease (film)
  -Release:Striptease was distributed by Sony and was finally released in the United States on June 28, 1996, after a June 23 premiere in New York City. It opened in Australia, France and Germany in August, and Argentina, Italy, Bolivia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Japan in...
  
  
• Notting Hill
  Notting Hill (film)
  Notting Hill is a 1999 British romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London, released on 21 May 1999. The screenplay was by Richard Curtis, who had written Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was produced by Duncan Kenworthy and directed by Roger Michell...
  
  
• The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers (film)
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• Mr. Destiny
  Mr. Destiny
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• Kopps
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• Sweatin' To The Oldies 3
• The Big Chill
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• Good Morning, Vietnam
  Good Morning, Vietnam
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• Brian's Song
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  (the 2001 remake)
• Days of Thunder
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• Soul Surfer
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In television, the song has appeared in commercials for:

• Molson's
• Ameriprise Financial
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• Gatorade
  Gatorade
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• Miller Lite
  Miller Lite
  Miller Lite is a 4.2% abv pale lager brand sold by MillerCoors of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Sibling beers include Miller Genuine Draft and Miller High Life.-History:...
  
  
• Activia
  Activia
  Activia is a brand of probiotic dairy products owned by Danone . Activia is marketed as a beneficial health product, with a focus on improved digestion for both men and women...
  
  
• Lindex
  Lindex
  Lindex is a Swedish fashion chain, known for its fast fashion clothing offerings for women, teenagers and children. Lindex has around 400 stores in Scandinavia including Iceland, the Baltic States, Russia, central Europe, the Middle East as of November 2011...
  
  

In addition to commercials, the song has been used in television shows

Television program

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, including:

• "The Brothel Wars", an episode of Crime Story
  Crime Story (TV series)
  Crime Story is an NBC TV drama created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and direct the film Manhunter. The show premiered with a two hour pilot — a movie which had been exhibited theatrically —...
  
  
• An episode of Heartbeat
• An episode of Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld
  Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld
  Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld was a BBC television series about the car and motoring cultures of various countries. The show was presented by Jeremy Clarkson and consisted of two series of six episodes each plus a special focusing on the UK...