Gimme All Your Lovin'

This article is about the ZZ Top song. For the song by Madonna, see Give Me All Your Luvin'. For the Whitesnake single, see Give Me All Your Love. For other similarly named topics, see Give Me All Your Love (disambiguation).

"Gimme All Your Lovin'"
Single by ZZ Top
from the album Eliminator
Released	1983
Format	7"
Recorded	1982
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:59
Label	Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill Frank Beard
Producer(s)	Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Tube Snake Boogie" (1981) "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (1983) "Got Me Under Pressure" (1983)

"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a song by ZZ Top 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 UK Singles Chart. It ties with the band's 1992 cover of Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" as their highest-charting single in the UK. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. Tramm returned in their later music video for "Sharp Dressed Man".

Music video

The video features ZZ Top playing at a gas station, along with actor/model Peter Tramm playing a young gas station mechanic, and introduces classic ZZ elements such as the red "ZZ Eliminator Car," the "ZZ Keychain" and the "Three ZZ Girls" as heroines. It is the first of a ZZ Top music video series. It was directed by Tim Newman.

Album appearances

In addition to Eliminator, "Gimme All Your Lovin'" appears on the following compilations:

• Rancho Texicano
• Chrome, Smoke & BBQ
• Greatest Hits

In other media

This song appeared in The Santa Clause in the montage scene where Santa/Scott Calvin, his son Charlie, and all the elves prepare themselves for Christmas Eve. This song also appears in Beverly Hills Ninja. It is also featured in the second season of Bones, episode 21, which guest-stars Billy Gibbons as himself.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1983–85)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)	82
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)	11
Canada (CHUM)	19
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	39
France (IFOP)	19
Ireland (IRMA)	9
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)	3
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)	10
US Billboard Hot 100	37
US Billboard Top Tracks	2
US Cash Box	43

Chart (1999)1	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)	6
Germany (Official German Charts)	39
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)	33

¹Gimme All Your Lovin' 2000

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)	Rank
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)	76
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	56
Netherlands (Single Top 100)	52

Other versions

• Kym Mazelle and Jocelyn Brown's 1994 rendition, which utilized a sample from C+C Music Factory's "Deeper Love", reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart.
• In 1993 a Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys recorded on the Helsinki Senate Square a live cover version of this song featuring Red Army Choir, with a bit of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union making its way into the arrangement, along with choruses of "Halleluiah" as well.
• Lonestar released a version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top.
• "Gimme All Your Lovin'" was featured in the animated film Happy Feet (2006).
• A cover version of the song appears as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour, and can be downloaded for all subsequent games (except for Smash Hits).
• A cover version was done on by musician John Roderick and released as part of the Sweetheart 2010 on Itunes.
• In 2011, American band Filter covered the song for the tribute album ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends.

Personnel

• Billy Gibbons – guitar, lead vocals
• Dusty Hill – bass, backing vocals
• Frank Beard – drums