"Autumn '66 Autumn' 66 is the third studio album by the British rock group The Spencer Davis Group released in 1966. Although the album was not released in the US, the single ""Somebody Help Me"" was on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven weeks and peaked at number 47 in July, 1967. The Allmusic retrospective review by Richie Unterberger commented that ""At the peak of their popularity, the Spencer Davis Group's albums were considerably less impressive than their hits"", and criticized the album for relying too heavily on covers. However, they named the original songs ""Somebody Help Me,"""
"late 1964 and early 1965 they broke through with their late 1965 single ""Keep on Running"", which knocked The Beatles off the number 1 position in the UK in January 1966. Two more UK hit singles followed during 1966 alongside two highly successful albums, before the November 1966 release of their own composition ""Gimme Some Loving"" – the group's masterpiece and one of the great recordings of the 1960s. This and its 1967 Winwood-written follow up ""I'm a Man"" were top 10 hits on both sides of the Atlantic selling over a million copies and adding a huge fanbase in"
"""High Time Baby,"" ""On the Green Light,"" and ""When I Come Home"" as highlights. Autumn '66 Autumn' 66 is the third studio album by the British rock group The Spencer Davis Group released in 1966. Although the album was not released in the US, the single ""Somebody Help Me"" was on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven weeks and peaked at number 47 in July, 1967. The Allmusic retrospective review by Richie Unterberger commented that ""At the peak of their popularity, the Spencer Davis Group's albums were considerably less impressive than their hits"", and criticized the album for"
"On Running"". In 1966, they followed this with ""Somebody Help Me"" and ""When I Come Home"". They had one single issued in the US on Fontana, as well as ""Keep On Running"" and ""Somebody Help Me"" on Atco, but due to lack of promotion, none of these singles got airplay or charted. For the German market the group released a medley of ""Det war in Schöneberg, im Monat Mai"" and ""Mädel ruck ruck ruck an meine grüne Seite"" (the first is from a 1913 Berlin operetta, the second is a Swabian traditional) as a tribute single for that audience, Davis"
"The Second Album (The Spencer Davis Group album) The Second Album is the second album by the British band the Spencer Davis Group, released in 1966. Many of the songs were a slightly experimental blend of beat, folk, jazz and blues, but included Jackie Edwards' ""Keep on Running"", which gave the group their first U.K. number 1 single, and the R&B standard ""Georgia on My Mind"". The album spent eighteen weeks on the U.K. album chart, peaking at number 3. While the album was not released in the US, the single ""Keep on Running"" was released in February, 1966, and"
"spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart peaking at number 74 on March 12. The Second Album (The Spencer Davis Group album) The Second Album is the second album by the British band the Spencer Davis Group, released in 1966. Many of the songs were a slightly experimental blend of beat, folk, jazz and blues, but included Jackie Edwards' ""Keep on Running"", which gave the group their first U.K. number 1 single, and the R&B standard ""Georgia on My Mind"". The album spent eighteen weeks on the U.K. album chart, peaking at number 3. While the album was"
"The Gentrys The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for their 1965 hit ""Keep on Dancing"". A cover by the Bay City Rollers charted No. 9 in the UK in 1971. Follow-up singles charted outside of the Top 40: ""Every Day I Have to Cry"" (1966), ""Spread It On Thick"" (1966), ""Cinnamon Girl"" (1970), ""Why Should I Cry"" (1970), ""Wild World"" (1971), and a 'Bubbling Under' ""Billboard"" chart entry, ""Brown Paper Sack"" (#101, 1966). The seven-member group of Treadwell High School (Memphis, Tennessee), alumni included Bruce Bowles (vocals), Bobby Fisher (saxophone, keyboards), Jimmy"
"standard. The Spencer Davis Group had their first UK number one with the Jackie Edwards penned ""Keep on Running"" (1965), but became largely a vehicle for the young keyboard player and vocalist Steve Winwood, who at only 18 co-wrote ""Gimme Some Lovin'"" (1967) and ""I'm a Man"" (1967), both of which reached the ""Billboard"" 100 top 10 and became R&B standards. The Moody Blues had only one major R&B hit with a cover of ""Go Now"" (1964), which reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US. Subsequent singles failed to penetrate the top 20 and hardly"
"under the Gentrys name is a gospel family quartet of no relation to the original band. The Gentrys The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for their 1965 hit ""Keep on Dancing"". A cover by the Bay City Rollers charted No. 9 in the UK in 1971. Follow-up singles charted outside of the Top 40: ""Every Day I Have to Cry"" (1966), ""Spread It On Thick"" (1966), ""Cinnamon Girl"" (1970), ""Why Should I Cry"" (1970), ""Wild World"" (1971), and a 'Bubbling Under' ""Billboard"" chart entry, ""Brown Paper Sack"" (#101, 1966). The seven-member group"
"Hold On, I'm Comin' <nowiki>Hold On, I'm Comin'</nowiki> is the 1966 debut album by Atlantic Records soul duo Sam & Dave, issued on the Atlantic-distributed Stax label in 1966. The album reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Black Albums chart and number 45 on the ""Billboard"" 200, launching two charting singles. The title track peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot Black Singles chart, and at number 21 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, while ""You Don't Know Like I Know"" peaked at number seven and number 90. An ""Allmusic"" review refers to ""<nowiki>Hold On, I'm Comin'</nowiki>"" as epitomizing ""Memphis"
"distributed it on a national scale, and promoted the band by booking television appearances on ""American Bandstand"" and ""Where the Action Is"". On October 29, 1966, after a steady climb up the charts, the single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week before being overtaken by The Monkees' ""Last Train to Clarksville"". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. The next two singles for ""Question Mark and the Mysterians"", ""I Need Somebody"" and ""Can't Get Enough of You Baby"", also charted, but were nowhere near as successful"
"chart, but the duo's November 1965 single, ""You Don't Know Like I Know,"" started a series of ten straight top twenty ""Billboard"" R&B hits, including ""Hold On, I'm Comin'"" (1966), ""You Got Me Hummin'"" (1966), ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"" (1967), ""Soul Man"" (1967), and ""I Thank You"" (1968). Starting with ""Hold On, I'm Comin'"", Moore was typically given the lead vocal (first verse and lead voice in chorus) on most of their recordings. Prater sang the tenor lead first verse on their only ballad to become a hit single, ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"", demonstrating"
"The song's ""B"" side, ""Save Me"" was covered in a 1966 ska version as ""Rude Boy Prayer"" by a group consisting of Alton Ellis, Zoot Sims, Bob Marley and an unknown female vocalist. Despite being highly regarded, this version remains officially unavailable outside its original blank labelled 7"" vinyl release. The Undertones also covered the song. Come 'Round Here (I'm The One You Need) ""By The Miracles- (1966) "" (Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need ""(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need"" is a 1966 hit single by Motown group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla"
"charted on the ""Billboard Hot"" 100: ""Help Me, Rhonda"" had reached number one on 29 May 1965, ""California Girls"" had peaked at number three on 28 August 1965, ""The Little Girl I Once Knew"" peaked at number twenty on 1 January 1966, and ""Barbara Ann"" peaked at number two on 29 January 1966. Three of the singles had also been previously released in the UK, with ""Help Me, Rhonda"" and ""California Girls"" making the top thirty of the ""Record Retailer"" chart and ""Barbara Ann"" peaking at number three in March 1966. Beginning in 1960s, in addition to publishing a long"
"who took over as lead in 1960. Stubbs also recorded a solo single for the Lu Pine label entitled ""Keep On Loving Me"", released in 1964. He joined Motown R&B group The Contours in the mid-1960s. Several original members had left in 1964, along with lead singer Billy Gordon, who had departed the following year. A renewed version of the group, with Joe Stubbs as lead singer, began recording. He provided lead vocals on their hit ""Just A Little Misunderstanding"", which was co-written by Stevie Wonder. The song was a Top 20 R&B Hit in 1966, peaking at #18, and"
"Fa il Beatnik"" (1966) – an Italian cover of Jackie Edwards' and Spencer Davis Group's 1965 UK number one hit, ""Keep on Running"" – and they started playing live in most of night clubs, both in Italy and in France as well as in North Africa, especially at the 'Titan Club' in Rome and at 'Bus Palladium' in Paris. As The Lemons, furthermore, Evy's backing group featuring Albert backed Chuck Berry in his French concerts and got credits on Evy's third Italian single ""Domani il Mondo Sarà nelle Nostre Mani"". In that period Verrecchia also toured with Raffaella Carrà. Later,"
"Keep On Pushing (song) ""Keep On Pushing"" is a 1964 single by The Impressions. The single became the group's sixth Top 40 single, and a Top 10 Pop smash, peaking at number ten. It went to number one for two weeks on the ""Cash Box"" R&B chart. It was one of the songs sung in the Civil Rights Movement in America during the turbulent 1960s and was the title song of The Impressions' Top 10 hit album, ""Keep On Pushing"". The title was mentioned in-between the lyrics, by Curtis Mayfield in the Impressions rendition of the Negro Spiritual ""Amen"". (1964)."
"record with 1965's ""Keep on Dancing"". Before becoming The Gentrys, they were known as just ""The Gents."" Their production manager told them that if they did not change their name, then they would not succeed in the music industry. Later, after the leader of the group Larry Raspberry left, Hart took over and they had a few minor hits, most notably ""Why Should I Cry"" and a cover of Neil Young's ""Cinnamon Girl"", but were never able to match the success of ""Keep on Dancing."" Hart and the band were successful in the Memphis area nightclub circuit. The group was"
"number one single at the end of 1965, with ""Keep On Running""; the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ. Winwood would go on to co-write and record the chart-topping hits ""Gimme Some Lovin'"" and ""I'm a Man"" before leaving The Spencer Davis Group in 1967. During this time Winwood joined forces with guitarist Eric Clapton as part of the one-off group Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse. Songs were recorded for the Elektra label, but only three tracks made the 1966 compilation album, ""What's Shakin'"". Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and"
"the US charts. This modest success was followed by the US/Canada #1 single ""Good Lovin'"" (1966, originally recorded by Lemme B. Good & The Olympics in 1965 with different lyrics). The band's songwriting team of Eddie Brigati and Cavaliere then began providing most of their songs, and the hits kept coming for two years. Their immediate follow-ups to ""Good Lovin'"", including ""You Better Run"" (1966; covered in 1980 by Pat Benatar) and ""Come On Up"" were only modest hits. ""(I've Been) Lonely Too Long"" (1967) did better, and ""Groovin'"" (#1 US/Canada, 1967) returned them to the top of the charts."
"single, an R&B version of ""Keep on Running"", previously a hit for The Spencer Davis Group, at Toronto music mogul Art Snider’s Sound Canada studios in Don Mills, Ontario. Backed with ""Her Own Life"", an original composition by Grant Smith and organist Val Stevens, ""Keep on Running"" was released in January, 1968, on early indie label Boo! Records. Within weeks, the band had recorded a second single, ""Thinkin' About You"" b/w ""You Got What I Want"", both penned by Toronto songwriter Al Rain. Both singles were recorded with guest sax player and ""de facto"" musical director Steve Kennedy, who in"
"1965 single, ""You Don't Know Like I Know"", started a series of ten straight top twenty ""Billboard"" R&B hits that included ""Hold On! I'm Comin'"" (1966), ""You Got Me Hummin' (1966), ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"" (1967), ""Soul Man"" (1967), and ""I Thank You"" (1968). Most of their hits were penned by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. In most recordings, they were also backed by Hayes on piano with Booker T and the MGs and The Memphis Horns. The ending of their association with the Stax record label and their frequently volatile relationship contributed to their first break-up"
"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. 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,"
"hits, they recorded songs for motion picture soundtracks, appeared in the 1965 film ""Beach Ball"", and endorsed dozens of products, at one point having their own brand of bread. By the end of 1966, their number-one hits included ""I Hear a Symphony"", ""You Can't Hurry Love"" and ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"". That year the group also released ""The Supremes A' Go-Go"", which on October 22 became the first album by an all-female group to reach number one on the US ""Billboard"" 200, knocking the Beatles' ""Revolver"" out of the top spot. Because the Supremes were popular with white audiences"
"but some radio stations objected to its ""suggestive nature"", and labels on most copies of the single gave the title as ""Hold On! I'm A Comin. Released as Stax 189 in the spring of 1966, the single peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot R&B singles chart and at number 21 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the United States. Following the instrumental introduction, Sam sings the first verse and is joined by Dave for the chorus. Dave sings the second verse and is joined by Sam for the chorus. In the bridge section, Dave sings the first part"
"one #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit with ""Strangers in the Night"" in 1966. Frankie Valli (who was portrayed in the play Jersey Boys) had 7 #1 Hot 100 hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including ""December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"". Kool & the Gang had a #1 Hot 100 hit with ""Celebration"" in 1981. Bon Jovi had 4 #1 Hot 100 hits, including ""Living on a Prayer"" in 1987. Whitney Houston (d. 2012) had 11 #1 Hot 100 hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including ""I Will Always Love You"" in 1992. P.M. Dawn had one #1 hit with"
"followed by many other hits, such as ""(I'm A) Road Runner"", ""Shake and Fingerpop"" and remakes of two Motown songs ""Come See About Me"" and ""How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"", that had previously been hits for the Supremes and Marvin Gaye respectively. In 1966, Graves left and was replaced by old cohort Billy ""Stix"" Nicks, and Walker's hits continued apace with tunes such as ""I'm a Road Runner"" and ""Pucker Up Buttercup"". In 1969, the group had another hit enter the top 5, ""What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)"". A Motown quality control meeting"
"first No. 1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965, with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album ""Carnegie Hall Concert"" was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. They achieved crossover success on to the pop charts. During that year, R&B singer Ray Charles released cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits: ""Crying Time"" and ""Together Again"". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured"
"Me Why"" with 12 string guitar hook & harmonies, and an instrumental, ""Take A Trip,"" under the pseudonym band name as The Gift of Love. However they only succeeded chart-wise with an excellent version of Screaming Jay Hawkins ""I Put A Spell On You"", which reached No. 29 on the Sydney charts in 1966. In 1967 they put out the song that is now widely regarded as a classic punk/garage track, Peter Hood's ""Come On"". During this time Johnny Rebb continued to release a number of singles under his own name with The Atlantics backing him. They also provided backing"
"of his strongest from the mid-'60s."" The Race Is On (album) The Race Is On is an album by George Jones, released on United Artists in 1965. The title track had been recorded in June 1963 but was not released until September 1964 on the album ""I Get Lonely in a Hurry"" and the single galloped to number 3 on the ""Billboard"" country chart. It also climbed to number 96 on the pop charts, a rarity for a Jones single, and United Artists capitalized on its success by making it the title of this 1965 release. Jones almost always played"
"You Keep Me Hangin' On ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" is a 1966 song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It first became a popular ""Billboard"" Hot 100 number one hit for the American Motown group the Supremes in late 1966. The rock band Vanilla Fudge covered the song a year later and had a top ten hit with their version. British pop singer Kim Wilde covered ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" in 1986, bumping it back to number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in June 1987. The single reached number one by two different musical acts in America. In"
"became their best-selling album in the US. In February 1966, Steel left and was replaced by Barry Jenkins. A leftover rendition of Goffin–King's ""Don't Bring Me Down"" was the last hit as the Animals. For the single ""See See Rider"" the band changed its name to Eric Burdon & the Animals. By September 1966, this lineup of the group had dissipated. Burdon began work on a solo album, called ""Eric Is Here"", which also featured Burdon's UK number 14 solo hit single, ""Help Me, Girl"", which he heavily promoted on TV shows such as ""Ready Steady Go!"" and ""Top of"
"Know"" hit #7 R&B in 1966. This was the first of 10 consecutive Top Twenty R&B chart hits over three years, and 14 R&B chart appearances during their career. ""Hold On, I'm Comin' (R&B#1/Pop#21), released in March 1966, was an enormous R&B hit for Sam & Dave, and also their first single to break into the Top 40 Pop charts. The song was named the #1 song of the year for 1966 by the ""Billboard"" R&B charts, and spent 20 weeks on the R&B charts in 1966, peaking at #1 in June. In 1988, ""Rolling Stone"" named it one of"