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  • Give A Little Bit
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  • CD single
  • Gramophone record
  • Music download
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  • eng
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  • 1977 singles
  • 1977 songs
  • A&M Records singles
  • Billboard Adult Top 40 number-one singles
  • 2004 singles
  • Warner Bros. Records singles
  • Song recordings produced by Rob Cavallo
  • Goo Goo Dolls songs
  • Songs written by Rick Davies
  • Songs written by Roger Hodgson
  • Supertramp songs
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  • %22Give a Little Bit%22 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 %22Roger 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.%22A short snippet of the song is played in the film %22Superman%22 shortly before Lois Lane's %22death%22 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 film %22The Invention of Lying%22.The song was used in 2014 for Stouffer's, Coca Cola´s Share Happiness commercials and for Target Australia's Christmas commercials in 2014.
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  • Rick Davies
  • Roger Hodgson
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