Download and Enjoy the Spencer Davis Group's Greatest Hits Rar: A Guide to Their Best Songs and Albums

Georgie Fame also worked with ska legend Prince Buster. The first Savoy Brown Blues Band line up featured a black singer and a black drummer, and in 1967 another mixed race group called the Foundations started having hits in the pop charts. There is no doubt a lot more. But these are some examples of the racial interaction that took place in music during that decade.

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John Peel was aware of the Spencer Davis Group during his time in the USA, where their singles "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm A Man" made the Top Ten charts. They were one of the most successful groups of the mid-1960s and were heavily featured in the British pop press. Some of their hits were also featured in Peel's KMEN British Pop Top Ten on KMEN radio in San Bernardino; ."Keep On Running" in January 1966, "Somebody Help Me" topping the chart for two weeks in April, "When I Come Home" spending seven weeks in the listings in September and October, and "Gimme Some Lovin'" ten weeks, from November 1966 until January 1967. In addition, an article on Spencer Davis and the group appeared in the Kmentertainer of December 23, 1966. It may well have been written by Peel, although the author is uncredited.