The Second Album is an album by the British band The Spencer Davis Group, released in 1965. Many of the songs were a slightly experimental blend of beat, folk, jazz and blues, but included Jackie Edwards' "Keep on Running", which gave the group their first U.K. number 1 single, and the R&B standard "Georgia on My Mind

Georgia on My Mind

"Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia. Gorrell wrote the lyrics for Hoagy's sister, Georgia Carmichael. However, the lyrics of the song are ambiguous enough to refer either to the state or...

". The album spent eighteen weeks on the U.K. album chart, peaking at number 3.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Look Away" (Norman Meade, Bert Russell)
2. "Keep on Running" (Jackie Edwards)
3. "This Hammer" (Muff Winwood
   Muff Winwood
   Mervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...
   
   , Steve Winwood
   Steve Winwood
   Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
   
   , Pete York
   Pete York
   Pete York is a rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.-Early life:...
   
   , Spencer Davis
   Spencer Davis
   Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
   
   )
4. "Georgia On My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael
   Hoagy Carmichael
   Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...
   
   , Stuart Gorrell
   Stuart Gorrell
   Stuart Graham Steven Gorrell is best known for writing the lyrics for the song Georgia on My Mind.Gorrell attended Indiana University; there he became friends with fellow student Hoagy Carmichael...
   
   )
5. "Please do Something" (Don Covay
   Don Covay
   Don Covay is an American R&B/rock and roll/soul music singer and songwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s, who received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994...
   
   )
6. "Let Me Down Easy" (Uncredited)

Side 2

1. "Strong Love" (Deadric Malone, Edward Silvers, Mary M. Brown)
2. "I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water" (Joe Babcock)
3. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter
   Ivory Joe Hunter
   Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...
   
   )
4. "You Must Believe Me" (Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Mayfield
   Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
   
   )
5. "Hey Darling" (Davis, S. Winwood)
6. "Watch Your Step" (Bobby Parker)

Personnel

• Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
  
   - guitar, organ, vocals
• Muff Winwood
  Muff Winwood
  Mervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...
  
   - bass guitar
• Spencer Davis
  Spencer Davis
  Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
  
   - guitar
• Pete York
  Pete York
  Pete York is a rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.-Early life:...
  
  - percussion

External links

• http://www.allmusic.com/album/second-album-r34791