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Have Love Will Travel

"Have Love, Will Travel"
Richard Berry Flip 349 Label Scan.jpg
Single by Richard Berry
B-side "No Room"
Released November 1959
Format Vinyl single
Length 2:35
Label Flip 349
Writer(s) Richard Berry
Richard Berry singles chronology
"Besame Mucho" "Have Love, Will Travel" "I'll Never Ever Love Again"

"Have Love, Will Travel" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. Berry also wrote and originally performed the classic hit "Louie Louie". The title is a based on a popular television/radio western serial Have Gun, Will Travel.

In its best known incarnation, garage rock-protopunkers The Sonics covered the song on their 1965 album Here Are The Sonics. Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big driving drum sound, screaming vocals and a dirty saxophone break, it epitomized their sound at that time. The Sonics changed the chord progression from the original G-Am-Bb-Am, a 1-2m-m3-2m progression, to a basic 1-4-5-4 progression, which in G would be simply G-C-D-C. This is the version that virtually all other artists copied.


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