Spencer Davis, whose band was a hitmaker in the '60s, dies at 81
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Spencer Davis, whose band was a hitmaker in the '60s, dies at 81
Spencer Davis played rhythm guitar in the band and occasionally sang lead vocals, lending his baritone voice mostly to blues-oriented material and never to the band’s hit singles.

by Jim Farber



NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Spencer Davis, the leader of a rock group that had some of the most propulsive and enduring hits of the 1960s, including “Gimme Some Lovin’,” “I’m a Man” and “Keep On Running” — all sung not by him but by a teenage Steve Winwood — died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 81.

The cause was pneumonia, Bob Birk, his booking agent and friend, said, adding that Davis had been hospitalized for the last week.

Davis co-wrote “Gimme Some Lovin’,” his group’s biggest hit. He played rhythm guitar in the band and occasionally sang lead vocals, lending his baritone voice mostly to blues-oriented material and never to the band’s hit singles.

It was Winwood, who was only 15 when Davis discovered him, who emerged as the group’s star, and he went to become an essential figure in British rock through his work with the bands Traffic and Blind Faith and in a long solo career.

After Winwood abruptly left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form Traffic, Davis kept the band going through multiple incarnations. In 1968, a new iteration of the Spencer Davis Group enjoyed two Top 40 hits in Britain, “Time Seller” and “Mr. Second Class.”

The band did not have similar success in the United States, but a song co-written by Davis and recorded by the band that year, “Don’t Want You No More,” became significant in 1969 when the Allman Brothers recorded a cover version as the opening track on their debut album.

Davis later had a fruitful career as an artists and repertoire executive at Island Records, signing hit punk-pop group Eddie and the Hot Rods and respected reggae band Third World.

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