"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a song by

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from their 1983 album '' Eliminator''. It was released as the album's first single in 1983. Initially unsuccessful in the UK upon its August 1983 release, in the wake of the band's American success (the single reached No. 37 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart), it was promptly re-released, and reached No. 10 on the

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. It ties with the band's 1992 cover of

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" as their highest-charting single in the UK. The song was produced by band manager

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, and recorded and mixed by

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Music video

The "Gimme All Your Lovin music video follows a young male gas station attendant who is taken for a ride by a trio of women driving the vintage Eliminator car. The band appears and disappears, and they throw the attendant the keys to the car. The three main actresses were

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from

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, Danièle Arnaud from

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, and a third model who dropped out of contact and was not paid. Tomasino had posed for ''

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'' in 1980. Record executive

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saw how

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was reshaping popular music throughout 1982. After he joined

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in early 1983, he convinced them to pay for the first ZZ Top music video, for "Gimme All Your Lovin. Warner hired filmmaker Tim Newman to direct it. Newman's siblings

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and

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scored orchestral music, and his cousin was songwriter

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. Tim Newman met with Ham and the band to discuss ideas for the video. He returned to direct the videos for "

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" and "

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Gimme All Your Lovin' 2000

A cover by Martay featuring ZZ Top, called "Gimme All Your Lovin' 2000", charted in Top 40 in several European countries in 1999 including number 28 in the UK.

Other versions

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and Jocelyn Brown's 1994 rendition, which utilized a sample from

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's "Deeper Love", reached number 22 in the

. *In 1993 a Finnish band

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recorded on the

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a live cover version of this song featuring Red Army Choir, with a bit of the

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making its way into the arrangement, along with choruses of

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as well. *

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released a version of the song in 2002 for the album '' Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top''. *In 2011, American band

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covered the song for the tribute album '' ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends''.

Charts

Weekly charts

ZZ Top

Martay feat. ZZ Top

Year-end charts

References

1983 singles 1983 songs Lonestar songs Songs written by Billy Gibbons Songs written by Dusty Hill Songs written by Frank Beard (musician) Warner Records singles ZZ Top songs {{1980s-rock-song-stub