Somebody Help Me
| "Somebody Help Me" | ||||
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| Single by the Spencer Davis Group | ||||
| from the album Autumn '66 | ||||
| B-side | "Stevie's Blues" | |||
| Released | 18 March 1966 | |||
| Genre | British R&B, blue-eyed soul | |||
| Label | ||||
| Songwriter | Jackie Edwards | |||
| Producer | Chris Blackwell | |||
| The Spencer Davis Group singles chronology | ||||
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"Somebody Help Me" is a single by the Spencer Davis Group, which was released in 1966. As with "Keep on Running", it was composed by Jackie Edwards.[1]
Chart performance
[edit]"Somebody Help Me" became the band's second consecutive and last number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart,[1] staying at the summit for two weeks in April 1966.[2] In the US, the song peaked at number 47 in July 1967.[3] On the New Zealand listener chart it peaked at 20.[4]
Cover versions
[edit]- The Everly Brothers also released a version on their album Two Yanks in England, released in mid 1966.[5]
Song in popular culture
[edit]- It was used as the theme tune to the 1960s-era hospital-based ITV drama series The Royal, which ran from 2003 to 2011, and its short-lived spin-off The Royal Today, which first aired in 2008.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 190. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 221.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210209205026/http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=NZ%20listener%20charts&qyear=1966&qmonth=Jun&qweek=03-Jun-1966
- ↑ Richie Unterberger. "Two Yanks in England - The Everly Brothers". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
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