"Somebody Help Me"
Single byThe Spencer Davis Group
B-side	"Stevie's Blues"
Released	18 March 1966
Genre	British R&B,blue-eyed soul
Label	Fontana TF679 (UK)[1] Atco 45-6416 (US - first issue) United Artists UA50162 (US - second issue, 1967, b/w "On the Green Light")
Songwriter(s)	Jackie Edwards[1]
Producer(s)	Chris Blackwell[1] (Island Record Production)
The Spencer Davis Group singles chronology
"Keep on Running" (1965) "Somebody Help Me" (1966) "When I Come Home" (1966)

"Somebody Help Me" is asingle byThe Spencer Davis Group, which was released in 1966. As with "Keep on Running", it was composed byJackie Edwards.^[1]

"Somebody Help Me" became the band's second consecutive and last number-one hit in theUK 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]

• The Everly Brothers also released a version on their albumTwo Yanks in England, released in mid 1966.^[4]

• It was used as the theme tune to the 1960s-era hospital-basedITV drama seriesThe Royal, which ran from 2003 to 2011, and its short-lived spin-offThe Royal Today, which first aired in 2008.

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