Have Love, Will Travel
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"Have Love, Will Travel" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry. In its most known instantiation, the garage rock-protopunkers The Sonics covered the song in 1965 and appeared on their album Here Are The Sonics of that year. Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big driving drum sound, screaming vocals and a dirty saxophone break, it epitomized that sound at that time.
The song has then and subsequently been rendered by Paul Revere and the Raiders in a 1964 B-side, by Stiv Bators as a 1986 B-side, by Crazyhead in a 1989 EP, by Thee Headcoatees on their album Have love will travel which was released in 1992, by The Brandos on their 1998 release "Nowhere Zone" (originally recorded for their ill-fated "Trial By Fire" album in 1989), by blues rockers The Black Keys on their 2003 album Thickfreakness, by Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts in 2005 (who named an outgoing with Dan Aykroyd the Have Love Will Travel Revue),by Japanese band The Portugal Japan in 2005, and by Lady Dottie and the Diamonds in 2008, among others. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed it at times on their anti-heroic 1988 Tunnel of Love Express.
Since 2006, the song (as performed by the Sonics) has been played occasionally by Minneapolis rockers The Hard Left, during their live shows.
Since 2007 a recording of the song has been used by LV=, the UK financial services group, in its television advertising for car insurance. The Basics from Melbourne, Australia covered the song on their 2007 album Stand Out/Fit In and it was used in an episode of the David Duchovny series Californication. The song was also used in the BBC series Three Men in More Than One Boat.
The title is a supposed spin of the name of a popular Television/Radio western serial called Have Gun, Will Travel
The version recorded by The Sonics features on the soundtrack to the 2008 film RocknRolla.
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