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"Have Love, Will Travel" | ||||
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Single by Richard Berry | ||||
B-side | "No Room" | |||
Released | January 1960 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Length | 2:35 | |||
Label | Flip 349 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Richard Berry | |||
Richard Berry singles chronology | ||||
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"Have Love, Will Travel" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. [1] While the song may have been recorded before the end of 1959, the correct release date appears to be January, 1960. [2] [3] The title is based on a popular television/radio western serial Have Gun, Will Travel.
In its best known incarnation, garage rock/ proto-punk band The Sonics included a "typically intense" [4] version of the song on their 1965 album, Here Are The Sonics. Driven by a riff doubled on guitar, sax and bass, a big driving drum sound, screaming vocals and a saxophone break, it epitomized their sound.[ citation needed] The Sonics changed the key from G to C, modified the riff (performing it instrumentally, rather than vocally), and (while they used the original chord progression, a basic 1-4-5-4 progression, G-C-D-C in G, or C-F-G-F in C), the modified riff emphasizes cross-relations of minor/major intervals against the keyboard. The guitar in the Sonics version does not use fuzz-tone, although it seems that some have mistaken the sax for a fuzz-tone guitar.[ citation needed] This is the version that virtually all other performers copied after the '60s.[ citation needed]
A different song by the same title, written by Lee Hazlewood, was released by The Sharps in 1958.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (January 2014) |
"Have Love, Will Travel" | ||||
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Single by Richard Berry | ||||
B-side | "No Room" | |||
Released | January 1960 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Length | 2:35 | |||
Label | Flip 349 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Richard Berry | |||
Richard Berry singles chronology | ||||
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"Have Love, Will Travel" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. [1] While the song may have been recorded before the end of 1959, the correct release date appears to be January, 1960. [2] [3] The title is based on a popular television/radio western serial Have Gun, Will Travel.
In its best known incarnation, garage rock/ proto-punk band The Sonics included a "typically intense" [4] version of the song on their 1965 album, Here Are The Sonics. Driven by a riff doubled on guitar, sax and bass, a big driving drum sound, screaming vocals and a saxophone break, it epitomized their sound.[ citation needed] The Sonics changed the key from G to C, modified the riff (performing it instrumentally, rather than vocally), and (while they used the original chord progression, a basic 1-4-5-4 progression, G-C-D-C in G, or C-F-G-F in C), the modified riff emphasizes cross-relations of minor/major intervals against the keyboard. The guitar in the Sonics version does not use fuzz-tone, although it seems that some have mistaken the sax for a fuzz-tone guitar.[ citation needed] This is the version that virtually all other performers copied after the '60s.[ citation needed]
A different song by the same title, written by Lee Hazlewood, was released by The Sharps in 1958.