| "Have Love, Will Travel" | ||||
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| Single by Richard Berry | ||||
| B-side | "No Room" | |||
| Released | November 1959 | |||
| Format | Vinyl single | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | Flip 349 | |||
| Writer(s) | Richard Berry | |||
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"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.