For Your Love (album)

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For Your Love
The Yardbirds - For Your Love.jpg
Studio album by
the Yardbirds
ReleasedJune 1965 (1965-06)
RecordedMarch 1964 – April 1965
Studio Olympic, IBC and Advision, London
Genre Blues rock
Length31:04
Label Epic
Producer Giorgio Gomelsky [lower-alpha 1]
The Yardbirds US album chronology
For Your Love
(1965)		 Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds
(1965)

For Your Love is the first American album by English rock band the Yardbirds. Released in July 1965, [lower-alpha 2] it contains new studio recordings along with previously released singles. [3] The album features some of the earliest recordings by guitarists Eric Clapton and his replacement Jeff Beck.

Contents

The Yardbirds' manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, who selected the songs, planned to capitalise on the group's hit "For Your Love". The album, released as the Yardbirds were preparing for their first American tour, reached number 96 in Billboard's Top LPs chart. It was unissued in the UK, although the songs with Beck were released in August 1965 on the Five Yardbirds EP.

Recording and composition

For Your Love features three songs from Jeff Beck's first recording sessions with the Yardbirds: "I'm Not Talking", "I Ain't Done Wrong", and "My Girl Sloopy". [4] Eric Clapton provided the guitar for the remainder of the tracks, that include the three Yardbirds singles (with B-sides) released up to that time and two demos which were not released in the UK until the 1980s (see discography for singles information). [5]

"I Ain't Done Wrong" was solely credited as a Keith Relf composition, as part of the group's desire to emulate the Beatles and other some other British groups that were doing their own songwriting. [6] In reality, though, "I Ain't Done Wrong" was largely a rewrite of Eddie Kirkland's "I Must Have Done Somebody Wrong", [7] by way of Elmore James' own rewrite, "Done Somebody Wrong". [6]

Clapton, who had left the band four months earlier, is not pictured on the album cover nor mentioned in the liner notes. [8] Group chronicler Gregg Russo notes, "The cover was somewhat of a joke, as Jeff Beck was humorously seated in front of a keyboard that he did not play on the album." [8]

Charts and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The album reached number 96 in Billboard 's Top LPs chart. [10] It was the Yardbirds' first charting album; their British debut, Five Live Yardbirds, did not reach the UK Albums Chart and was not issued in the US.

In a retrospective review, AllMusic writer Bruce Eder gave the album three out of five stars, who notes the inconsistency of the Gomelsky-selected material. [9] He describes the songs with Beck as "hard, loud, blazing showcases ... show[ing] where the band was really heading" and although the material with Clapton is "primitive" compared to his later efforts, it "was some of the best blues-based rock & roll of its era [1964]." [9]

Track listing

Original album

Songwriter credits are taken from the original Epic LP. [1] However, since the running times are not given, those from The Yardbirds Story (2002), produced by Gomelsky, are used instead. [11]

Side 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead guitar/
recording date(s)		Length
1."For Your Love" Graham Gouldman Eric Clapton, 1/2/652:28
2."I'm Not Talking" Mose Allison Jeff Beck, 13/4/652:31
3."Putty (In Your Hands)"Kay Rogers, John PattonClapton, 11/642:11
4."I Ain't Got You" Calvin Carter Clapton, 19/9/641:59
5."Got to Hurry" (take 3)Oscar Rasputin a.k.a. Giorgio Gomelsky [lower-alpha 3] Clapton, 6/8/642:34
6."I Ain't Done Wrong" Keith Relf Beck, 15/3/653:37
Side 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead guitar/
recording date(s)		Length
1."I Wish You Would" Billy Boy Arnold Clapton, 3/642:18
2."A Certain Girl"Naomi Neville a.k.a. Allen Toussaint Clapton, 3/642:16
3."Sweet Music" (stereo, take 3) Major Lance, Otis Leavill Cobb, Walter BowieUncertain, 11/642:29
4."Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"H.G. Demarais [lower-alpha 4] Clapton, 8–9/642:52
5."My Girl Sloopy" Bert Russell, Wes Farrell Beck, 13/4/655:36

Album reissues

The Yardbirds' 2001 compilation album Ultimate! contains eight of the eleven tracks from the original album. [17] For Your Love has been reissued by several record labels, including JVC, Castle, and Repertoire. [9] In addition to the eleven tracks from the original album, the Repertoire reissue includes 13 non-album single and demo tracks.

Repertoire reissue additional material [18]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Baby, What's Wrong" (demo) Sonny Boy Williamson II 2:38
13."Boom Boom" (A-side of German/Dutch "Honey in Your Hips") John Lee Hooker 2:25
14."Honey in Your Hips" (B-side of "Boom Boom")Relf2:19
15."Talkin' About You" (demo) Chuck Berry 1:56
16."I Wish You Would" (demo)Arnold4:17
17."A Certain Girl" (demo)Neville2:21
18."Got to Hurry" (demo, take 4)Gomelsky2:35
19."Sweet Music" (demo, take 4)Lance2:28
20."Heart Full of Soul" (demo, sitar version)Gouldman1:54
21."Steeled Blues" (B-side of "Heart Full of Soul") Jeff Beck 2:38
22."Paff...Bum" (shorter version, B-side of German "Shapes of Things")Sergio Bardotti, Gianfranco Reverberi, Paul Samwell-Smith 2:27
23."Questa Volta" (A-side of Italian "Paff...Bum") Mogol Audio 2, Johnny Dinamo, Roberto Satti2:33
24."Paff...Bum" (longer version, B-side of "Questa Volta")Bardotti, Reverberi, Samwell-Smith2:36

Personnel

The Yardbirds [19]

Additional musicians [19]

Notes

  1. ↑ Manfred Mann produced the "Sweet Music" track only. [1]
  2. ↑ Group chronicler Greg Russo also gives a secondary "street" release date of 5 July 1965. [2]
  3. ↑ In his 2007 autobiography, Eric Clapton writes "'Got to Hurry' which was based on a tune hummed by Giorgio [Gomelsky], who gave himself the writing credit under the pseudonym O. Rasputin." [12] Clapton biographer Marc Roberty calls it "the first song Clapton ever wrote, although credited to Gomelsky". [13] Cub Koda and Gregg Russo describe it as "cobbled together out of a group jam". [14]
  4. ↑ H.G. Demarais (or Dee Marais), a Shreveport, Louisiana record label owner/distributor, was credited on the original LP. Roberty lists the songwriters as Don Level and Bob Love, [15] who first recorded the song in 1961 as the R&B duo Don and Bob. Some reissues list Sonny Boy Williamson, who recorded a different "Good Morning, School Girl" in 1937. [16]
  5. ↑ On "Sweet Music", it is not clear if Clapton plays guitar.

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References

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  2. ↑ Russo 2016, p. 213
  3. ↑ Russo 2016, pp. 37, 40.
  4. ↑ Russo 2016, pp. 36–40.
  5. ↑ Russo 2016, pp. 37–40, 212.
  6. 1 2 McCarty, Jim; Thompson, Dave (2018). Nobody Told Me: My Life with the Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories. Self-published. pp. 112, 115. ISBN   978-0-244-96650-8.
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  8. 1 2 Russo 2016, p. 37.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Eder, Bruce. "The Yardbirds: For Your Love – Album Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Koda & Russo 2001, p. 50.
  11. ↑ Gomelsky & Cohen 2002, pp. 11, 21.
  12. ↑ Clapton 2007, p. 53.
  13. ↑ Roberty 1993, p. 18.
  14. ↑ Koda & Russo 2001, p. 27.
  15. ↑ Roberty 1993, p. 19.
  16. ↑ Koda & Russo 2001, p. 9.
  17. ↑ Koda & Russo 2001, pp. 44–45.
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  19. 1 2 Koda & Russo 2001, p. 48.

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