"Give Me Some Emotion" is a song written and originally recorded by

Webster Lewis Webster Samuel Lewis (September 1, 1943 – November 20, 2002) was an American jazz and disco composer, arranger and keyboardist. Career Lewis was born in 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland. At a young age, his family encouraged him to take up music. L ...

in 1979. It is a track from his ''Eight for the Eighties'' LP, and was released as a single in early 1980. His version reached #107 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' pop chartJoel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004 and #41 on the U.S. R&B chart. The song was covered that same year by

Merry Clayton Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s, most notably in her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Sh ...

with the shortened title, "Emotion." It is the title track of her fourth LP. Her rendition peaked at #53 on the U.S. R&B chart.

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Lyrics of this song
* (Webster Lewis) * (Merry Clayton) 1980 singles 1979 songs {{1980s-single-stub