When Clapton first saw Winwood around this time he said he was blown away by this "spotty-faced kid who sounded like Ray Charles". Incredible talent then and now.
I heard that story from an interview with Peter Townshend, who apparently was with EC. I think he said "we drove out to the country and there was this spotty-faced English schoolboy singing just like Ready Charles." Great story. Thanks for reminding me!
Winwood was 19. Does that blow your mind? This is one of the most awesome performances EVER. Thank you to all those responsible for preserving it and sharing it.
Man, what a seriously “groovin” song! Can’t help yourself, you just got to move... He is truly one of the greatest of all time... and still going strong!!!
Yes! "Stevie" is how he was first known back in the days when this came out, along with "Gimme Some Lovin". Very few artists used the Hammond B3 back then. A truly unique sound.
Prodigy would be the more accurate word. Uniquely-voiced, multi-instrumental, and recognized for his talent by the venerable Spencer-Davis Group at the ripe old age of 14. I'd say that more than qualifies.
102.3 out of Wynn Arkansas just played this & I was like damn, that's quite a bit better than I realized. Gimme some loving as many times as I've heard still perks me up.
i heard this on an amazon tv ad i think 4years ago, loved it ever since, may have been john lewis, either way its an awesome song and this is best version iv found.
This song was good enough for the Chicago Transit Authority to cover in their first album. I saw them open with this song in 1969 which I already loved from three years prior by the Spencer Davis Group. Back then, Winwood was known as "Stevie" Winwood. Great days and great music!!!!!
@@poppyorsini9175Yes he was Little Stevie Winwood to me all those years ago. I remember dancing in front of them right up close at Dreamland, Margate August 1965. Fantastic. Saw them loads in those days. So many groups doing the rounds locally. Entrance fee about five bob everywhere. Loved the 60s.
What is he 17 18 yrs old here? Are you f$cling kidding me? Btw he plays like 5 instruments!! An absolute giant of music!!! He is on the mount Rushmore of rock music!!!
Laawddd. There is so much soul in his voice. You can really feel the powerful essence of this song through the instruments and the people too. All the musicians within this video are so talented 🔥 I can’t help but bust into a groovy mood when I hear this tune. 🕺
LOVE THIS STUDIO VERSION OF THIS SONG. MAN, YOU CAN'T GET NO BETTER THAN THIS BABY!! THIS JAM WAS ALSO REDONE BY ANOTHER ARTIST IN THE DISCO DAYS, WHICH I MIGHT ADD COMPLIMENTED IT. BUT THIS ORIGINAL VERSION FROM STEVE WINWOOD KICKS YOU KNOW WHAT....
The syncopation makes it. Stevie Winwood has created a finer body of music than anyone of his era, with the possible exceptions of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
WLS Chicago, Ron Riley played the best music back in the late 60’s. Could only pick it up at night. Great variety of music on AM radio. Listened in W. Kentucky as a teen. We had the best music and hottest cars on the road at time. Great time to be alive as a teen.
I was born in 1953. When this song came out, I was 13. The top pop AM radio station in El Paso, Texas was KELP. They played this song frequently. I really dug it.
I feel like this would be a perfect song for a movie scene where someone overstepped their boundaries and abused a woman. The guy that's in love with that woman is now coming to teach them a lesson and this opening scene is showing that he is getting ready to do just that. That beating is coming... and this is the theme song to it.
great voice and song all at the age 19! amazing. classic song, same riff as coming home baby Quincy Jones. superb guitar player as well, saw him trade licks with Clapton, ridiculous talent..
Sweet! thank you! I love youtube. So much great music, so little time! I mean when I have choices like lesbian zombie killers or the endless stream of memories and fun. I have to flip a coin.
This is one of the first albums I ever bought, and I bought it just for this song. He had one of the most soulful voices I had ever heard at that time. Someone in a previous post mentioned his voice was similar to that of Ray Charles. How true. His voice blew me away. With out having seen him I envisioned him as a black vocalist of advanced age with a seasoned voice. How wrong that was!
I had enlister in the Navy in 1965, we had been deployed over seas when this song, I'm a Man came out. We would listen to it as well as, Gimme Some Lovin over BBC London at the time. Just can't believe all those years have come and gone. When we came home to the States at Norfolk Va. We seen the battle ship, New Jersey getting ready to leave for Vietnam. What an awesome sight it was to see, there was nothing like it.
When Clapton first saw Winwood around this time he said he was blown away by this "spotty-faced kid who sounded like Ray Charles". Incredible talent then and now.
I saw Winwood live 11 years ago, and he still very much had the chops - voice and playing. Huge huge talent
I heard that story from an interview with Peter Townshend, who apparently was with EC. I think he said "we drove out to the country and there was this spotty-faced English schoolboy singing just like Ready Charles." Great story. Thanks for reminding me!
You are so right. At that age, Steve Winwood was a genius or is
Wow.....dude is goooood
At that age, he's a pure genius.
Steve Winwood's voice is something else. He was just a youngster from Birmingham but had the maturity of a seasoned blues singer. The brilliant SDG.
A lot of great vocalist from that area including 1 of my favs, John Ozzy Osbourne !
@@Bobo-jv4xk Then, by all rights, at home should call him, "Jozzy"...
Winwood was 19. Does that blow your mind? This is one of the most awesome performances EVER. Thank you to all those responsible for preserving it and sharing it.
16 when I FIRST. heard Winwood. 71 now still simply awesome
Winwood was 14 when the Spencer Davis Group was formed! That blows my mind.!
@@bmunzz
Exactly! Ding-ding-ding... the winner! 14 y.o when he started out. Truly Amazing. 😎
wOW, 19 YEARS OLD. DAMN THAT BOY HAD SOME SERIOUS SOUL IN HIM BACK IN THE DAY. THE BACK UP BAND WERE NO SLOUCHES EITHER.
@@tonystewart4113
He was 15 years old when he played this...
(maybe not this particular video)
Look up his history, you may be surprised. 🎶👍
Look at his age, then listen to his voice. He sings like a seasoned veteran. Awesome dynamic, tone, clean/dirty vocals. Badassery.
For sure… You said it best and couldn’t agree with you more!✌🏼
all that practice
in past lives
Like Eric Burdon.
He does, it's my 1st time watching his video.i didn't know he was so young.such talent
Man, what a seriously “groovin” song! Can’t help yourself, you just got to move... He is truly one of the greatest of all time... and still going strong!!!
That was a jam. The energy!
STEVIE WINWOOD IS A GENIUS,we've had a few like him and they were young,genius comes out at any age,what a song
@Pablo Lopez lol there's one opinion
Yes! "Stevie" is how he was first known back in the days when this came out, along with "Gimme Some Lovin". Very few artists used the Hammond B3 back then. A truly unique sound.
@@boomerguy9935 wenn jemand eine markante Stimme hat, ist er noch lange kein Genie...
Prodigy would be the more accurate word. Uniquely-voiced, multi-instrumental, and recognized for his talent by the venerable Spencer-Davis Group at the ripe old age of 14. I'd say that more than qualifies.
@@Gmmaika there are many genius talents have come along in the last 50 years,esp in music
June 2022 and I still can't help but dance to the genius of Steve Winwood. ♥
We "ROLL WITH IT BABY"!🎶🤌🎶🥰
102.3 out of Wynn Arkansas just played this & I was like damn, that's quite a bit better than I realized. Gimme some loving as many times as I've heard still perks me up.
Nice to see/hear a live version.
i heard this on an amazon tv ad i think 4years ago, loved it ever since, may have been john lewis, either way its an awesome song and this is best version iv found.
This song was good enough for the Chicago Transit Authority to cover in their first album. I saw them open with this song in 1969 which I already loved from three years prior by the Spencer Davis Group. Back then, Winwood was known as "Stevie" Winwood. Great days and great music!!!!!
"Little Stevie Winwood"
@@poppyorsini9175Yes he was Little Stevie Winwood to me all those years ago. I remember dancing in front of them right up close at Dreamland, Margate August 1965. Fantastic. Saw them loads in those days. So many groups doing the rounds locally. Entrance fee about five bob everywhere. Loved the 60s.
Eric Clapton called him " Little Steveie Winwood 😊
@@poppyorsini9175Yesssss.. that's what Eric Clapton called Steve
He was born a music legend. Prodigy and epic from the beginning.
Thumbs up👍if you're watching this video in 2022. Why cant they make music like this anymore?
U might as well 4get about that...
First shock was Bobby Caldwell, now this 😮😊 Rock on lads.
One bunch of particularly cool cats, these guys.
One of the most amazing songs at the time of its release !
RIP Spencer Davis
he lives on in me
Oh yeah the great steve winwood has a whole lot of soul in his epic voice thanks for the top upload ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
Pure gold
That bassline is totally, utterly sick! Are you crazy?! Great job of Steve's brother Mervyn!
Stevie Winwood = one of the best male rock n.soul singers of the 1960's.
I met this beautiful song because of the Minious's movie
One of the best bands of the time Winwood is legend
Haven't heard this in a looooong time
What is he 17 18 yrs old here? Are you f$cling kidding me? Btw he plays like 5 instruments!! An absolute giant of music!!! He is on the mount Rushmore of rock music!!!
......heard this song in my Uber to work this morning...havent heard it in years....has been stuck in my head for almost 12hrs.....yes. Thank you!🤗💜
This was in Finland i think cause of the subtitles
0:57 best part
Lord, that pasty-faced white boy has SOUL! 😲
The band is RAW!
The song, the era… ICONIC
Jaw dropping!
Young Steve bringing it big time in an awesome song.
Holy crap! This is raw talent, my goodness just listen to this!
Sounds incredible, like the funkiest jam session ever!
Laawddd. There is so much soul in his voice. You can really feel the powerful essence of this song through the instruments and the people too. All the musicians within this video are so talented 🔥 I can’t help but bust into a groovy mood when I hear this tune. 🕺
funny youd say that, I technically heard this song first sampled in an Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul remix, uses part of the music throughout
I had one of those Harmony basses for my first bass!
Stevie be killin’ on them vocals!!!
Way better than Chicago I always like the original better than Chicago
One of the best bass lines in rock
Yeah..I've played drums for 45 years and still prey for a Bass line as fat as this..
Que banda tan fantástica.
I can’t believe my parents actually named me after this band
This guy has soul blues chops when he rolled out of the crib.
Excellent
Almost every man can relate to this song. I’m 65 and I still listen to this recording and get inspiration from it.
Master of White Soul
Soul is colorless….
LOVE THIS STUDIO VERSION OF THIS SONG. MAN, YOU CAN'T GET NO BETTER THAN THIS BABY!! THIS JAM WAS ALSO REDONE BY ANOTHER ARTIST IN THE DISCO DAYS, WHICH I MIGHT ADD COMPLIMENTED IT. BUT THIS ORIGINAL VERSION FROM STEVE WINWOOD KICKS YOU KNOW WHAT....
There are three other versions but I never ever knew that Stevie Winwood was the original singer to this jam.
I remember the disco version 😊
massively a head of its time
The syncopation makes it. Stevie Winwood has created a finer body of music than anyone of his era, with the possible exceptions of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
And Bee Gees
Before Chicago was Spencer Davis Group, with Steve Winwood
I remember first hearing this and thinking it was a black group. nope it's a white group fronted by a teenager with a ton of soul
WLS Chicago, Ron Riley played the best music back in the late 60’s. Could only pick it up at night. Great variety of music on AM radio. Listened in W. Kentucky as a teen. We had the best music and hottest cars on the road at time. Great time to be alive as a teen.
Listened to WLS in the 60’s up here in Wisconsin. Clear channel AM radio was great back then.
I was born in 1953.
When this song came out, I was 13.
The top pop AM radio station in El Paso, Texas was KELP.
They played this song frequently. I really dug it.
I was 14 and I can't help but busting out in a boogaloo in a soul circle !!
How can this video have so few views and comments? SMH
Truly sad .
Not enough tattoos?
Steve was 14 or 15 when he started playing with Spencer Davis Group. #Truth
He co wrote this at 17//..
Jesus, he was 16 or 17 years old. Talk about old before his time
Not old. Just tremendously creative and gifted.
This is like the greatest f'n thing ever...
When people knew what they were
Yes, please
Steve Winwood is f*cking awesome
Oh ya tell it like it is peter is 80s flashback rocker
That chord progression in the chorus is wonderful, no wonder The Prodigy sampled it in Breathe
I'm 63 yrs old and I adore this man
Me too ☺️💖
This song gets to me every time.
72 here, and movin' right alomg with ya 😎
@@mvaught8003 “Give Me Some Lovin’” is another great one with Spencer Davis. How the hell did we get so old?! ;-)
Great sing to dance to.
Sounds like a black man singing but no! So talented 😮
Muito bom.
Spencer Davis é Rock
He was 19. Wow
He cowrote the song at 17
I love this song 🥰
What an amazing tune. Terry Kath then proceeded to take this thing to a whooooole new level.
Dude an Absolutely crushes it!
The true sound of the 60's
Los 60 la revolución hippie surgió partir de 1966 asta 1976 mientras que en México 🇲🇽 llegó asta 1968
Diggin in that groove like not many could.
Open with a hollow body bass thumb pick..like my Ibanez..👍
I just found the 7” Vinyl single for $4 today, then checked video on RUclips, I’d forgotten how great the original is over other versions
Steve Winwood IS the MoST Underestimated Musician of All Time.
I feel like this would be a perfect song for a movie scene where someone overstepped their boundaries and abused a woman. The guy that's in love with that woman is now coming to teach them a lesson and this opening scene is showing that he is getting ready to do just that. That beating is coming... and this is the theme song to it.
great voice and song all at the age 19! amazing. classic song, same riff as coming home baby Quincy Jones. superb guitar player as well, saw him trade licks with Clapton, ridiculous talent..
Rock it and beyond says peter g5nationtonation
What's so sad today you don't get to listen to this and that their God they missed it
I turn this song up really loud
RIP Spencer Davis
Well I never knew ..he sang gimme some lovin..I knew of higher love knew the name but didn't know he sang that song or this one or keep on running ..
BRUMBEAT, the best UK musical movement , do your homework....
So good
Love this song and this group.
what a voice
Groove,Harmonies and that voice...the world is a better place each time I listen to SDG
Sweet! thank you! I love youtube. So much great music, so little time! I mean when I have choices like lesbian zombie killers or the endless stream of memories and fun. I have to flip a coin.
Amazing, Winwood was just a kid !
He was eighteen. I suppose
This is one of the first albums I ever bought, and I bought it just for this song. He had one of the most soulful voices I had ever heard at that time. Someone in a previous post mentioned his voice was similar to that of Ray Charles. How true. His voice blew me away. With out having seen him I envisioned him as a black vocalist of advanced age with a seasoned voice. How wrong that was!
I had enlister in the Navy in 1965, we had been deployed over seas when this song, I'm a Man came out. We would listen to it as well as, Gimme Some Lovin over BBC London at the time. Just can't believe all those years have come and gone. When we came home to the States at Norfolk Va. We seen the battle ship, New Jersey getting ready to leave for Vietnam. What an awesome sight it was to see, there was nothing like it.
He is touring the United States right now
I got the pleasure to go see him and he was phenomenal!! He is touring with the Doobies. Go see it if you haven’t seen the show worth every dime.
The bass at the start sounds like James Jamerson from What’s Going On.
Peter is a man peter is 80s flashback says peter g5nationtonation good song
A White Ray Charles....... Why did Chicago do this same song ???
Some years later the answer from Finland ruclips.net/video/euZMfY-q4O4/видео.html
Winwood voice deference
impresionante!!!
I heard this on EastEnders today and I don't even watch EastEnders. Good groove 🕺🏾
slay