I'M A MAN

Created on 02/02/2002
Latest update on 15/03/2024

Artist: Spencer Davis Group
Author: Steve Winwood/Jimmy Miller
Label: Island
Year: 1967

Organ riff inspired by the one in Comin' Home Baby (see there), the Mel Tormé cover version more precisely. Also, a second source might be Les Fleurs de Lys' So Come On ('66), co-written by (Phil?) Sawyer (future Spencer Davis Group member) and with Jimmy Page on guitar.

Covers:

1967:

Tony Mark & The Markmen [as S'il faut un homme]

1967:

Wynder K. Frog [instrumental; produced by co-author Jimmy Miller]

1969:

Chicago Transit Authority [in Herbie Mann's Comin' Home Baby way ('61 - Atlantic; see there)]

2008:

Lonely Boys

2018:

Ty Segall

Not to be confused with I'm A Man/Manish Boy (see there).

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