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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.

Chart performance

"Somebody Help Me" became the band's second consecutive and last number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart, staying at the summit for two weeks in April 1966. In the US, the song peaked at number 47 in July 1967.

Cover versions

The Everly Brothers also released a version on their album Two Yanks in England, released in mid 1966.

Song in popular culture

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

^ 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.
Richie Unterberger. "Two Yanks in England - The Everly Brothers". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 April 2014.

v t e The Spencer Davis Group
Spencer Davis Steve Winwood Muff Winwood Pete York Eddie Hardin Ray Fenwick Phil Sawyer Colin Hodgkinson Miller Anderson Nigel Olsson Dee Murray
Studio albums (UK)	Their First LP The Second Album Autumn '66 With Their New Face On Funky Gluggo Living in a Back Street
Singles (UK)	"Dimples" "Keep On Running" "Somebody Help Me" "When I Come Home" "Gimme Some Lovin'" "I'm a Man"
Related	Discography

v t e The Everly Brothers
Don Everly Phil Everly
Studio albums	The Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us It's Everly Time A Date with the Everly Brothers Both Sides of an Evening Instant Party! Christmas with the Everly Brothers and the Boys Town Choir The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits Gone Gone Gone Rock'n Soul Beat & Soul In Our Image Two Yanks in England The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Sing Roots Stories We Could Tell Pass the Chicken & Listen EB 84 Born Yesterday Some Hearts
Live albums	The Everly Brothers Show
Compilations	The Everly Brothers' Best Greatest Hits Vol. III The New Album All They Had to Do Was Dream Heartaches and Harmonies Stories We Could Tell: The RCA Years Too Good to Be True Give Me a Future
Singles	"Bye Bye Love" "Wake Up Little Susie" "This Little Girl of Mine" "Should We Tell Him" "All I Have to Do Is Dream" "Claudette "Bird Dog" "Devoted to You" "Problems" "Take a Message to Mary" "Poor Jenny" "(Till) I Kissed You" "Let It Be Me" "Cathy's Clown" "When Will I Be Loved" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Like Strangers" "Be-Bop-a-Lula" "Lucille" "Walk Right Back" "Ebony Eyes" "Temptation" "Don't Blame Me"/"Muskrat" "Crying in the Rain" "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)"/"How Can I Meet Her?" "Don't Ask Me to Be Friends"/"No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile" "Love Her" "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby" "That'll Be the Day" "The Price of Love" "Love Is Strange" "It's All Over" "(You Got) The Power of Love" "Somebody Help Me" "Bowling Green" "Love of the Common People" "Carolina in My Mind" "Not Fade Away" "The Air That I Breathe" (Phil Everly solo) "Brother Jukebox" (Don Everly solo) "Dare to Dream Again" (Phil Everly solo) "On the Wings of a Nightingale" "Born Yesterday" "Don't Worry Baby" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen"
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