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Gimme Some Lovin'

Original -The Spencer Davis Group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxA3atHD2QM

Cover - The Blues Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX5zaS0vgJ8

The Blues Brothers.

Spencer Davis for me.

Very good choice of song, Gargantua!

I much prefer the Original -The Spencer Davis Group.

Thanks drfate. It is hard to go too far wrong with this song. As for me, I give a slight edge to the Blues Brothers, but I'll listen to either version happily.

Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis) for the HUGE win for me.

Original -The Spencer Davis Group

my vote=SPENCER D GROUP no contest,nuff said!

Voting for the Blues Brothers here would be like voting for the Monkees over the Rolling Stones. One of them is actually a real band.

Spencer Davis Group.

Donald "Duck" Dunn formerly with Booker T and the MGs
Steve Cropper formerly with Booker T and the MGs
Willie Hall formerly with the Bar-Kays and Isaac Hayes
Matt "Guitar" Murphy formerly with Howlin' Wolf


I'm struggling to see the Monkees analogy.

I did vote Spenser Davis Group though.

Before Dunn and Cropper were the MGs, they were the Stax house band, and Cropper cowrote most of Otis Redding's biggest hits, as well as Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour." They might have had comic actors on the lead vocal mics, but the Blues Brothers band had some darned serious players. That said, I have to go with Spencer Davis. The vocals are what really separate these two tracks, and, in spite of this week's avatar, I have to concede that Belushi and Ackroyd can't compete with Steve Winwood in his prime.

...back when he was -- what, 18? -- known as "Little Stevie Winwood."

Holy Crow....with all due respect, I am baffled, wondering how anyone could vote for Belushi-Ackroyd here.

EDIT: (Edited for unintentional snarkiness) But that's what makes these matches interesting!

That said...

The Original -- The Spencer Davis Group, please!

Blues Brothers