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The Spencer Davis Group discography
Studio albums8
EPs5
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums5
Compilation albums27
Singles30
Video albums4

This article is the discography of British band The Spencer Davis Group.

Albums

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The Spencer Davis Group's first three studio albums weren't released in the US and Canada. Instead, the first two albums released there were Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man in 1967, both of which compiled tracks from the three studio albums.

Studio albums

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Year Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
GER
[2]
1965 Their First LP 6
1966 The Second Album
  • Released: 7 January 1966
  • Label: Fontana
3
Autumn '66
  • Released: 26 August 1966
  • Label: Fontana
4 35
1968 With Their New Face On
  • Released: April 1968
  • Label: United Artists
1970 Funky
  • Released: 1970
  • Label: Date
  • Originally planned for release in 1969 in the UK as Letters From Edith but withdrawn. Then was released in the US by Date in 1970 as Funky but quickly withdrawn due to the dissolution of the label.
1973 Gluggo
1974 Living in a Back Street
  • Released: February 1974
  • Label: Vertigo
1986 Vibrate
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Victoria
  • Only released in Spain
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

Live albums

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Year Title Details
1995 Catch You on the Rebop: Live in Europe 73
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: RPM
1997 Payin' Them Blues Dues: The Spencer Davis Group...Alive in '97
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Südpol
  • Only released in Germany
2004 Live in Manchester 2002
  • Released: 13 September 2004
  • Label: Angel Air
2006 Live at Blues Garage 2006
2019 Live in Finland '67
  • Released: January 2019
  • Label: London Calling
  • Limited unofficial release

Soundtrack albums

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Year Title Details
1968 Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: United Artists
  • Majority of tracks are by the Spencer Davis Group. Traffic perform three songs and another is by Andy Ellison

Compilation albums

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Year Title Details Peak chart positions
CAN
[3]
GER
[4]
US
[5]
1966 Beat with Soul
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Fontana
  • Only released in Germany
10
1967 Gimme Some Lovin'
  • Released: February 1967
  • Label: United Artists
  • Only released in the US and Canada
  • Compilation of the band's first three studio albums
2 54
I'm a Man
  • Released: June 1967
  • Label: United Artists
  • Only released in the US and Canada
  • Compilation of the band's first three studio albums plus the eponymous "I'm a Man" and its B-side
4 83
1968 The Best of the Spencer Davis Group Featuring Stevie Winwood
  • Released: March 1968
  • Label: Island
Spencer Davis' Greatest Hits
  • Released: March 1968
  • Label: United Artists
  • Only released in the US
195
1969 Heavies
  • Released: April 1969
  • Label: United Artists
  • Only released in the US
1972 Somebody Help Me
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Island
  • Only released in Germany
1974 Gimme Some Lovin'
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Island
  • Only released in Germany and the Netherlands
1975 The Very Best of the Spencer Davis Group
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: United Artists
  • Only released in the US
1984 Best of the Spencer Davis Group
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Rhino
  • Only released in the US
1986 Greatest & Latest
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: PAR
  • Compilation of re-recorded tracks in 1986
  • Only released in the US
1987 The Best of the Spencer Davis Group
1991 Keep On Running
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Object Enterprises
  • Has been re-released under various labels as I'm a Man and Give Me Some Lovin'
1994 Taking Out Time 1967–1969
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: RPM
1996 Eight Gigs a Week: The Steve Winwood Years
  • Released: March 1996
  • Label: Island
1998 The Best of Spencer Davis Group
1999 The Spencer Davis Group
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Polydor/Island
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2000 Mulberry Bush
  • Released: January 2000
  • Label: RPM
Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues, Vol.1: Sessions 1965–1968
  • Released: August 2000
  • Label: RPM
Mojo Rhythms & Midnight Blues, Vol.2: Shows 1965–1968
  • Released: November 2000
  • Label: RPM
2001 Live Anthology 1965–1968
2004 40th Anniversary: Keep on Running
2006 Studio & Stage: Essential Recordings
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Metro
2007 The Complete Hit Collection
  • Released: 8 February 2007
  • Label: Weton-Wesgram
2011 Somebody Help Me: The Best of 1964–1968
  • Released: 27 September 2011
  • Label: Raven
  • Only released in Australia
2013 Keep On Running: The Collection
  • Released: 5 June 2013
  • Label: Cherry Red
2016 Taking Out Time: Complete Recordings 1967–1969
  • Released: 19 August 2016
  • Label: RPM
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

EPs

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Year Title[A] Details Peak chart
positions
UK
[6]
1965 You Put the Hurt on Me
  • Released: August 1965
  • Label: Fontana
4
Every Little Bit Hurts
  • Released: October 1965
  • Label: Fontana
1966 Sittin' and Thinkin'
  • Released: May 1966
  • Label: Fontana
3
1978 Spencer Davis Group
  • Released: May 1978
  • Label: Island
  • Compilation EP
2017 Rambling Rose
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

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Year Single Peak chart positions Album
UK
[1]
AUS
[7]
BE (WA)
[8]
CAN
[9]
GER
[10]
IRE
[11]
NL
[12]
NZ
[13]
SWE
[14]
US
[15][16]
1964 "Dimples" Their First LP
"I Can't Stand It" 47
1965 "Every Little Bit Hurts" 41 9
"Strong Love" 44 The Second Album
"Keep On Running" 1 21
[B]
33 22 8 3 7 4 18 76
1966 "Somebody Help Me" 1 48 37 3 5 20 47 Autumn '66
"This Hammer" (Norway and Sweden-only release) The Second Album
"Sittin' and Thinkin'" (Netherlands-only release) Their First LP
"When I Come Home" 12 49 20 Autumn '66
"Together 'Til the End of Time" (Norway-only release)
"Take This Hurt Off Me" (Norway-only release)
"Georgia on My Mind" (Netherlands-only release) The Second Album
"Gimme Some Lovin'" 2 6 10 1 12 7 3 5 11 7 Non-album singles[C]
"Det war in Schöneberg" (Germany-only release)
"High Time Baby" (Norway-only release) Autumn '66
1967 "I'm a Man" 9 9 22 1 17 7 4 10 Non-album single[D]
"Time Seller" 30 39 2 100 With Their New Face On
"It's Gonna Work Out Fine" (New Zealand-only release) Their First LP
"When a Man Loves a Woman" (Italy-only release) Autumn '66
"Mr. Second Class" 35 33 With Their New Face On
1968 "After Tea" 56[E] Non-album single
"Looking Back" (US, Canada and Germany-only release) 113 Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
"(Aquarius) Der Wassermann" (Germany and Netherlands-only release) Non-album singles
"Short Change"
1971 "Magpie" (as 'The Murgatroyd Band')
1973 "Don't You Let It Bring You Down" (US and Canada-only release) Gluggo
"Catch You on the Rebop"
"Mr. Operator"
"Livin' in a Back Street" Living in the Back Street
1974 "Another Day" (Spain-only release)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released

Videos

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Video albums

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Year Title Details
2004 Live in Manchester
2005 Gimme Some Lovin': Live 1966
  • Released: 8 March 2005
  • Label: Cherry Red/Music Video Distributors
  • Medium: DVD
2008 Live
  • Released: November 2008
  • Label: Delta Music & Entertainment
  • Medium: DVD
  • Only released in Germany
  • Live footage from the Astor Theatre in Deal, Kent in 2006
2010 Beat Beat Beat
  • Released: 14 July 2008
  • Label: ABC Entertainment
  • Medium: DVD
  • Footage from the German TV programme Beat Beat Beat in 1966

Notes

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  1. ^ This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various other EPs were released elsewhere
  2. ^ The Go-Set chart did not exist until October 1966, so chart position is taken from David Kent's retrospective charts.
  3. ^ "Gimme Some Lovin'" was included on the US/Canada album Gimme Some Lovin'.
  4. ^ "I'm a Man" was included on the US/Canada album I'm a Man.
  5. ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

References

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  1. ^ a b "SPENCER DAVIS GROUP | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  3. ^ Peak positions for the Spencer Davis Group's albums in Canada:
  4. ^ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 204. ISBN 0898201179.
  6. ^ Peak positions for the Spencer Davis Group's EPs on the UK EP Chart:
  7. ^ Peak positions for the Spencer Davis Group's singles in Australia:
  8. ^ "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". ultratop.be. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  9. ^ Peak positions for the Spencer Davis Group's singles in Canada:
  10. ^ "Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  11. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  13. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  14. ^ "SPENCER DAVIS GROUP". NostalgiListan (in Swedish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  15. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1994). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1993. Record Research. p. 153. ISBN 9780898201048.
  16. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. p. 46. ISBN 9780898200478.