Within the week your new album comes out, it’s no dangerous factor if the lead unmarried from it’s in competition for the No.1 spot. That’s why January 20, 1966 used to be an excellent date for the Spencer Davis Group. On the United Kingdom charts for that week, “Keep On Running” become Britain’s favorite unmarried, serving to The Second Album, because it used to be referred to as, to debut at No.14. To make issues even sweeter, in addition they climbed into the Most sensible 10 with its predecessor, the similarly imaginatively titled Their First LP, which had made a belated chart debut two weeks previous, due to the gang’s new-found reputation.
The SDG had had 3 chart singles in 1965 and 1966, however now not one in all them had made the Most sensible 40. “Keep On Running,” written through Jamaican artist Jackie Edwards, modified all that, and hit No.1 part a century in the past precisely, right through a four-week run within the Most sensible 2. With that observe on it, The Second Album offered regularly and, within the remaining chart of February, as The Beatles’ Revolver did combat for the highest spot with the soundtrack of The Sound Of Song, Spencer and co peaked at No.3.
The album used to be a mix of originals and R&B/blues covers. Steve Winwood contributed “Stevie’s Blues” in addition to a co-write with Davis, “Hello Darling,” and “This Hammer,” which credited the entire team, additionally together with Muff Winwood and Pete York. The remakes integrated Don Covay’s “Please Do One thing,” Ivory Joe Hunter’s “Since I Met You Child,” Curtis Mayfield’s “You Will have to Imagine Me,” Bobby Parker’s “Watch Your Step” and Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell’s endlessly-covered “Georgia On My Thoughts.”
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Spencer, Steve, Muff and Pete had a lot to thank Jackie Edwards for. After “Keep On Running,” they launched a 2nd duvet of one in all his songs, this time “Someone Lend a hand Me,” which wasn’t on The Second Album. The outcome used to be the similar, giving the gang their 2nd UK No.1 in not up to 3 months.
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