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Give a Little Bit

"Give a Little Bit"
Supertramp Give a Little Bit single cover.jpg
Single by Supertramp
from the album Even in the Quietest Moments...
B-side "Downstream"
Released May 1977 (1977-05)
Format 7" vinyl
Genre Progressive rock, folk rock, pop rock
Length 4:08
Label A&M
Writer(s) Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Producer(s) Supertramp
Supertramp singles chronology
"Sister Moonshine"
(1976)
"Give a Little Bit"
(1977)
"Babaji"
(1977)
Even in the Quietest Moments track listing
  1. "Give a Little Bit"
  2. "Lover Boy"
  3. "Even in the Quietest Moments"
  4. "Downstream"
  5. "Babaji"
  6. "From Now On"
  7. "Fool's Overture"
"Give a Little Bit"
Give a Little GGD Single.jpg
Single by Goo Goo Dolls
from the album Let Love In and Live in Buffalo: July 4th 2004
B-side "Sympathy"
Released 5 October 2004
Format CD, Download
Genre Acoustic rock, alternative rock
Length 3:35
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Rick Davies/Roger Hodgson
Producer(s) Goo Goo Dolls and Rob Cavallo
Goo Goo Dolls singles chronology
"Sympathy"
(2002)
"Give a Little Bit"
(2004)
"Better Days"
(2005)

"Give a Little Bit" is the opening song on Supertramp's 1977 album Even in the Quietest Moments.... The song was released as a single that same year and became an international hit for the band, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. It was a chart hit in the band's native UK, reaching number 29 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was re-released in 1992 to raise funds for the ITV Telethon Charity event, but failed to chart.

Its writing credits are given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, although it is a Hodgson composition. Hodgson and Davies shared writing credits from 1974 until 1983, when Hodgson left Supertramp. The song is characterized by the ringing tones of 12-string acoustic guitars, which is joined by a Hohner Clavinet through a Leslie speaker in the bridge of the song.

Drummer Bob Siebenberg recounted that "Roger had been working at Malibu for quite a while on this tune. I'd hear the song in hotel rooms and places like that. He had the song on a little tape when I first joined the band so I was quite familiar with the tune. We tried out various drum things and it seemed right to ride it along on the snare drum... giving it something almost like a train beat. So it's all on the snare and bass drum, with no tom-tom fills or anything."

A short snippet of the song is played in the film Superman shortly before Lois Lane's death scene. The song, however, is not featured on the movie's soundtrack.

The song was used interwoven with the final scenes and part of the end credits for the Ricky Gervais 2009 film The Invention of Lying.


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