I had a minor madeleine moment last night, when I noticed while waiting for a friend at a bank that ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ ‘ by the Spencer Davis Group was being piped into the room. This set off a paroxysm of nostalgia for Steve Winwood’s early music, even though I must have heard Gimme Some Lovin covered by countless groups and in how many movies and commercials over the years. I like Winwood’s early solo albums, especially ‘Arc of a Diver,‘ but it’s a constant amazement to me that he was only 15 when he joined the Spencer Davis Group and was writing and singing like a seasoned pro by the time he left the group at the age of 19.
In the past, I would have had to run out to a CD or record store to satisfy a passing moment of nostalgia for this or that item of popular culture: but now there’s iTunes and especially YouTube, which is for me fast becoming – as it is for many, I suspect, looking at some of the comments of the clips attached below – the Wikipedia of one’s bygone tastes and memories.
Gimme Some Lovin’ by the Spencer Davis Group:
There are a number of clips, dubbed in Finnish, of a televised SDG performance. Here’s a cover of ‘Georgia on My Mind’:
And the incredible ‘Till the End of Time’ and ‘I’m a Man’:
‘While You See a Chance,’ from ‘Arc of a Diver’: Great song, but perhaps the weirdest video I’ve ever watched.
Nice to see this. Try Steves new stuff. About Time 2003 and Nine Lives released April 08.
“While you see a chance” is one of my most favoritest songs ever. But I have no idea how to interpret the symbolism of the vid. As far as I can tell, these are two ninja Masons killing ants on the lens of the camera, inbetween stints itching their bellys on the serrated mini-pyramid?
@Barry: Thanks for the recommendation!
#JLena: Belly-scratching ninjas, I like that. Seriously, it’s a bit of a ttrip, no?