- Writers: Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard
- Producer: Bill Ham
- Recorded: 1982 and 1983 in Memphis, Tennessee
- Released: Spring 1983
- Players:
Billy Gibbons — guitar, vocals
Dusty Hill — bass, vocals
Frank Beard — drums - Album: Eliminator (Warner Bros., 1983)
- Also On:
ZZ Top’s Greatest Hits (Warner Bros., 1992)
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box (Rhino, 2003)
Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top (Rhino, 2004) - “Gimme All Your Lovin”‘ was the first track recorded for the ZZ Top‘s Eliminator album, the first single released from the album, and their first video.
- The car featured in the video for “Gimme All Your Lovin'” — and several subsequent videos, including “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” — is a modified 1933 Ford three-window coupe. It has been dubbed The Eliminator, and is a genuine race-ready hot rod.
- “Gimme All Your Lovin'” only spent three weeks in the Top 40, peaking at Number 37. However, it’s become a fan favorite, and the video made guitarist Billy Gibbons, singer-bassist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard MTV stars. The stylish clip showed the band as magical arbiters of cool who offer the keys to the car (and to scoring with a trio of hot babes) to a handsome young man.
- Eliminator peaked at Number Nine on the Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for more than three-and-a-half years. It’s sold well over 10 million copies.
FAST FORWARD:
- ZZ Top are one of the longest-running rock acts to still have their original lineup intact.
- In 1986, the Texas House Of Representatives honored ZZ Top with the title “Official Texas Heroes,” placing the group alongside Davy Crockett and the “Father Of Texas,” Stephen F. Austin.
- In 1991, then-Texas Governor Ann Richards declared May 4th as the annual “ZZ Top Day” in Texas.
- The group has also been named Texas Ambassadors Of Goodwill and Admirals Of The Texas Navy, and the members have been deputized in their home county of Harris — as well as in Dallas, Bell, and Ector counties.
- ZZ Top once announced that, through their friends at NASA, they had been booked as the first lounge band to play on the space shuttle. It hasn’t happened yet.
- ZZ Top has continued in its devotion to the blues, donating a stylized “Muddywood” guitar made from a beam in Muddy Waters‘s childhood home to the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The group has also raised money to fund a new building for the museum.
- ZZ Top was forced to cancel the European leg of their XXX world tour in 1999 after Hill was diagnosed with hepatitis C and was forced off the road. His doctors have since given him a clean bill of health.
- Gibbons is now an ordained minister.
- ZZ Top was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.