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{{Short description|1965 song by the Yardbirds}}
{{About|the Yardbirds song|the Yardbirds album|For Your Love (album)|other uses|For Your Love (disambiguation)}}
{{About|the Yardbirds song|the Yardbirds album|For Your Love (album)|other uses|For Your Love (disambiguation)}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
{{Infobox song
| Name = For Your Love
| Cover = For Your Love.jpg
| name = For Your Love
| cover = For Your Love picture sleeve.jpg
| Cover size =
| caption = Italian picture sleeve
| Caption = Japanese single
| Artist = [[The Yardbirds]]
| alt =
| from Album =
| type = single
| A-side =
| artist = [[the Yardbirds]]
| B-side = "Got To Hurry"
| B-side = Got to Hurry
| Released = Feb 1965
| released =
*5 March 1965 (UK)
| Format = [[7" single]]
*{{Start date|1965|04|9|df=yes}} (US)
| Recorded =
| recorded = 1 February 1965<ref name="Ultimate"/><ref name="Clayson"/>
| Genre = [[Baroque pop]], [[Blues rock]]
| Length = 2:30
| studio = [[IBC Studios|IBC]], London
| genre =
| Label = Columbia DB 7499 (UK)<br>Epic 9790 (US)
* [[Pop music|Pop]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guesdon |first1=Jean-Michel |last2=Margotin |first2=Philippe |title=Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track |date=2018 |publisher=[[Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers]] |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-316-41803-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=95FKDwAAQBAJ |chapter=The Yardbirds: A Group with Three Guitar Heroes}}</ref>
| Writer = [[Graham Gouldman]]
* [[baroque pop]]<ref name= "Stanley 2013">{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= I Can't Sing, I Ain't Pretty and My Legs Are Thin: Hard Rock|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=261}}</ref>
| Producer = [[Giorgio Gomelsky]]
*[[Rock music|rock]]
| Certification =
| length = 2:38
| Last single = "[[Good Morning Little Schoolgirl]]" (1964)
| label =
| This single = "'''For Your Love'''"<br>(1965)
*[[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia]] (UK)
| Next single = "[[Heart Full of Soul]]"<br>(1965)
*[[Epic Records|Epic]] (US)
| Misc =
| writer = [[Graham Gouldman]]
| producer = [[Giorgio Gomelsky]]
| chronology = The Yardbirds UK
| prev_title = [[Good Morning Little Schoolgirl#Don and Bob/Yardbirds version|Good Morning Little Schoolgirl]]
| prev_year = 1964
| next_title = [[Heart Full of Soul]]
| next_year = 1965
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = The Yardbirds US
| type = single
| prev_title = [[I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)#The Yardbirds versions|I Wish You Would]]
| prev_year = 1964
| title = For Your Love
| year = 1965
| next_title = [[Heart Full of Soul]]
| next_year = 1965
}}
}}
}}


"'''For Your Love'''" is a [[Rock music|rock]] song written by [[Graham Gouldman]] and recorded by the English group [[the Yardbirds]]. Released in March 1965, it was their first top ten hit in both the UK and the US. The song was a departure from the group's [[blues]] roots in favour of a more commercial [[pop rock]] sound. Guitarist [[Eric Clapton]] disapproved of this change, and chose to leave the group shortly after the single was released.<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Hoffmann|title=Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAI3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258|date=23 May 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-86886-4|page=258}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: Folk, pop, mods, and rockers, 1960-1966|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CEKAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-32960-9|page=118}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Mike Clifford|author2=Pete Frame|title=The Harmony illustrated encyclopedia of rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLxZAAAAYAAJ|date=25 August 1992|publisher=Harmony Books|page=194|isbn=9780517590782}}</ref>
"'''For Your Love'''" is a 1965 single written by future [[10cc]] member [[Graham Gouldman]] and performed by the [[British Invasion]] band [[The Yardbirds]]. It peaked at number three on [[UK Singles Chart]] and became their highest charting single in the U.S., peaking at number six.


==Background==
The song was also recorded by [[Herman's Hermits]], [[Humble Pie]], [[The Greg Kihn Band]], [[Nils Lofgren]], [[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Chilly (band)|Chilly]] and [[Graham Gouldman]] himself.


Gouldman wrote the song at the age of 19 while working by day in a gentlemen's outfitters near [[Salford Docks]] and playing by night with the semi-professional Manchester band the Mockingbirds. He said: "I was sleeping most of the time because I'd been gigging with the Mockingbirds the night before, and then during the day when I'd got any spare time I'd write in the shop. I used to shut up the shop at lunch time and sit in the back writing."<ref name="Tremlett">{{cite book | author=George Tremlett | title=The 10cc Story | year= 1976 | id=ISBN 0-8600-7378-5 | publisher= Futura }}</ref>
Gouldman wrote the song at the age of 18 while working by day in a gentlemen's [[outfitter]]s near [[Salford Docks]] and playing by night with the semi-professional Manchester band the Mockingbirds.<ref name="Tremlett">{{cite book | author=George Tremlett | title=The 10cc Story | year= 1976 | isbn=0-86007-378-5 | publisher= Futura }}</ref> Gouldman cited [[the Beatles]] as his influence:
{{quote|We went down to [[Denmark Street]] and went round all the publishers trying to find a song&nbsp;... we didn't get any songs that we liked or we weren't given any songs period and the Beatles had started and I thought 'well, I’m gonna really have a crack at song-writing.' I had dabbled a bit, but they were really my inspiration and gave me and I think a lot of other people the courage to actually do it. We all wanted to be like the Beatles. I wrote two songs and the record company we were with turned down one of the songs. The song they turned down was 'For Your Love', which eventually found its way to the Yardbirds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/iwtsgg001.htm|title=Good evening and welcome to a very special I Write The Songs here on BBC Radio Wales with me, Alan Thompson|publisher=The10ccfanclub.com|access-date=15 January 2015}}</ref>}} The Yardbirds were performing on a Christmas show at the [[Hammersmith Odeon]] in London and song publisher Ronnie Beck played the song to their manager, [[Giorgio Gomelsky]], and the band.<ref name="Tremlett" />


==Recording==
Gouldman cited [[The Beatles]] as his influence by saying "We went down to [[Denmark Street]] and went round all the publishers trying to find a song . . . we didn’t get any songs that we liked or we weren’t given any songs period and the Beatles had started and I thought ‘well, I’m gonna really have a crack at song-writing.’ I had dabbled a bit, but they were really my inspiration and gave me and I think a lot of other people the courage to actually do it. We all wanted to be like the Beatles. I wrote two songs and the record company we were with turned down one of the songs. The song they turned down was 'For Your Love', which eventually found its way to the Yardbirds."<ref>[http://www.the10ccfanclub.com/htm/iwtsgg001.htm Graham Gouldman interviewed on "I Write the Songs", BBC Radio Wales, December 25, 2006]</ref>
The Yardbirds recorded "For Your Love" at the [[IBC Studios]] in London on 1 February 1965.<ref name="Ultimate">
{{cite AV media notes
| first1 = Cub
| last1 = Koda
| author-link1 = Cub Koda
| first2 = Gregg
| last2 = Russo
| title = [[Ultimate!]]
| others = The Yardbirds
| type = Boxed set booklet
| year = 2001
| location = Los Angeles
| publisher = [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino Records]]
| id = R2 79825
| OCLC = 781357622
| pages = 27, 30, 44
}}</ref><ref name="Clayson">
{{cite book
| last = Clayson
| first = Alan
| title = The Yardbirds
| location = San Francisco
| publisher = [[Backbeat Books]]
| year = 2002
| pages = 172, 196
| isbn = 0-87930-724-2
}}</ref> The majority of the song was recorded with singer [[Keith Relf]] and drummer [[Jim McCarty]] backed by session musician Ron Prentice on bowed bass, Denny Piercy on bongos, and [[Brian Auger]] on harpsichord.<ref name="Ultimate"/> Guitarists [[Eric Clapton]] and [[Chris Dreja]] perform only during the song's middle break section.<ref name="Ultimate"/> Bassist [[Paul Samwell-Smith]] assumed the production duties and is listed as musical director on the 45.<ref>Columbia DB 7499 record label</ref> At the conclusion of the session, Auger wondered, "Who, in their right mind, is going to buy a pop single with harpsichord on it?"<ref>
{{cite AV media
| people =
| date =
| title = 16 Brian Auger Talks About the Yardbirds' For Your Love-.mov
| medium = Interview video
| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPumX-aIzw
| access-date = 15 January 2015
| time =
| publisher =
| via = [[YouTube]]
}}</ref>


==Releases and charts==
Gouldman's manager, Harvey Lisberg, was so impressed by the song he told Gouldman they should offer it to the Beatles. "I said, 'I think they're doing alright in the songwriting department, actually'," Gouldman recalled.<ref>[http://www.kirstymaccoll.com/information/conn/g.htm Comment at Kirsty MacColl website]</ref> Undeterred, Lisberg gave a demo of the song to publisher Ronnie Beck of Feldman's, who took it to the [[Hammersmith Apollo|Hammersmith Odeon]], where the Beatles were performing. By coincidence the Yardbirds were also performing on a Christmas show at the venue and Beck played the song to their manager, [[Giorgio Gomelsky]], and the band.<ref name="Tremlett" />
Shortly after the single was released by [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia]] on 5 March 1965, it became a hit in the UK.<ref name="Ultimate"/> When it was released a month later by [[Epic Records]] in the US, it became the group's first charting single.<ref name="Ultimate"/> By then, Clapton had already left the group for various reasons, including their more commercial aspirations.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = https://www.allmusic.com/song/for-your-love-mt0002243711
| title = The Yardbirds: 'For Your Love' – Song Review
| last = Unterberger
| first = Richie
| author-link = Richie Unterberger
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| access-date = 25 October 2016
}}</ref>


{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
In 1965 The Mockingbirds began a regular warm-up spot for [[BBC Television|BBC TV]]’s ''[[Top of the Pops]]'', transmitted from Manchester.<ref>"Q Rock Stars Encyclopedia" by Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, Dorling Kindersley, 1999</ref>. Gouldman recalled: "There was one strange moment when The Yardbirds appeared on the show doing 'For Your Love'. Everyone clamoured around them &ndash; and there I was just part of an anonymous group. I felt strange that night, hearing them play my song."<ref name="Tremlett" />
! align="center"| Chart (1965)
! align="center"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope = "row" | Canada ([[RPM (magazine)|''RPM'']])<ref>{{Cite magazine| date=21 June 1965| title=R.P.M. Play Sheet| volume=3| issue=17| magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]| url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=10552&|via=[[Library and Archives Canada]]}}</ref>
| 1
|-
! scope = "row" | Ireland ([[Irish Singles Chart|IRMA]])<ref>{{cite web| url = http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement| title = Search by artist: 'Yardbirds'| website = [[Irish Recorded Music Association|Irishsharts.ie]]| access-date = 23 March 2021}}</ref>
| 10
|-
! scope="row"|Italy (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=[[Musica e dischi]]|language=it}} Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Yardbirds".</ref>
| 14
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden ([[Kvällstoppen]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hallberg|first=Eric|title=Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975|publisher=Drift Musik|year=1993|pages=243|isbn=9163021404|location=}}</ref>
|13
|-
!scope="row"|Sweden (''[[Tio i Topp]]'')<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hallberg |first1=Eric |title=Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74 |last2=Henningsson |first2=Ulf |publisher=Premium Publishing |year=1998 |isbn=919727125X |location= |pages=410}}</ref>
|5
|-
! scope = "row" | UK (''[[NME]]'')<ref>{{cite book|last3=Osborne|first3=Roger|first1=Dafydd|last1=Rees|first2=Barry|last2=Lazell|title=Forty Years of "NME" Charts|edition=2nd|year=1995|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Pan Macmillan]]|isbn=0-7522-0829-2|page=152}}</ref>
| 1
|-
! scope= "row" | UK (''[[Record Retailer]]'')<ref name = "Ultimate"/>
| 3
|-
! scope = "row" | US ([[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]])<ref name="Ultimate"/>
| 6
|-
! scope = "row" | US ([[Cashbox (magazine)|''Cashbox'' Top 100]])<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Cash Box Top 100|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1965/CB-1965-07-03.pdf|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]|issue=3 July 1965|pages=4}}</ref>
| 6
|-
! scope = "row" | US (''[[Record World]]'' 100 Top Pops)<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=100 Top Pops|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/60s/65/RW-1965-07-10.pdf|magazine=[[Record World]]|issue=10 July 1966|pages=4}}</ref>
| 4
|}


==Fleetwood Mac version==
Despite the success "For Your Love" gave The Yardbirds, it signaled the departure of guitarist [[Eric Clapton]], who played on the track with strong reluctance. Dismayed with the group's shift from R&B to pop, Clapton left the Yardbirds to join [[John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers]].
[[Fleetwood Mac]] issued "For Your Love" as a single in 1973. ''[[Cash Box]]'' called this version "a totally contemporary, yet still hard rocking treatment from this great British band of rockers" that maintains the essence of the original tune.<ref name=cb>{{cite news|title=CashBox Record Reviews|date=December 29, 1973|page=98|accessdate=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1973/Cash-Box-1973-12-29.pdf|newspaper=[[Cash Box]]}}</ref>

A recording by Peter Blakely featured in the film "[[The Crossing (1990 film)|The Crossing]]" (1990).

It was also covered by [[Fleetwood Mac]] in 1973, and by [[Ace Kefford|The Ace Kefford Stand]] in 1969.

The song was featured in the 1998 film ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'', and in the 2009 film [[The Boat That Rocked]].


==References==
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Latest revision as of 22:20, 16 November 2024

"For Your Love"
Italian picture sleeve
Single by the Yardbirds
B-side"Got to Hurry"
Released
  • 5 March 1965 (UK)
  • 9 April 1965 (1965-04-09) (US)
Recorded1 February 1965[1][2]
StudioIBC, London
Genre
Length2:38
Label
Songwriter(s)Graham Gouldman
Producer(s)Giorgio Gomelsky
The Yardbirds UK singles chronology
"Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
(1964)
"For Your Love"
(1965)
"Heart Full of Soul"
(1965)
The Yardbirds US singles chronology
"I Wish You Would"
(1964)
"For Your Love"
(1965)
"Heart Full of Soul"
(1965)

"For Your Love" is a rock song written by Graham Gouldman and recorded by the English group the Yardbirds. Released in March 1965, it was their first top ten hit in both the UK and the US. The song was a departure from the group's blues roots in favour of a more commercial pop rock sound. Guitarist Eric Clapton disapproved of this change, and chose to leave the group shortly after the single was released.[5][6][7]

Background

[edit]

Gouldman wrote the song at the age of 18 while working by day in a gentlemen's outfitters near Salford Docks and playing by night with the semi-professional Manchester band the Mockingbirds.[8] Gouldman cited the Beatles as his influence:

We went down to Denmark Street and went round all the publishers trying to find a song ... we didn't get any songs that we liked or we weren't given any songs period and the Beatles had started and I thought 'well, I’m gonna really have a crack at song-writing.' I had dabbled a bit, but they were really my inspiration and gave me and I think a lot of other people the courage to actually do it. We all wanted to be like the Beatles. I wrote two songs and the record company we were with turned down one of the songs. The song they turned down was 'For Your Love', which eventually found its way to the Yardbirds.[9]

The Yardbirds were performing on a Christmas show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and song publisher Ronnie Beck played the song to their manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, and the band.[8]

Recording

[edit]

The Yardbirds recorded "For Your Love" at the IBC Studios in London on 1 February 1965.[1][2] The majority of the song was recorded with singer Keith Relf and drummer Jim McCarty backed by session musician Ron Prentice on bowed bass, Denny Piercy on bongos, and Brian Auger on harpsichord.[1] Guitarists Eric Clapton and Chris Dreja perform only during the song's middle break section.[1] Bassist Paul Samwell-Smith assumed the production duties and is listed as musical director on the 45.[10] At the conclusion of the session, Auger wondered, "Who, in their right mind, is going to buy a pop single with harpsichord on it?"[11]

Releases and charts

[edit]

Shortly after the single was released by Columbia on 5 March 1965, it became a hit in the UK.[1] When it was released a month later by Epic Records in the US, it became the group's first charting single.[1] By then, Clapton had already left the group for various reasons, including their more commercial aspirations.[12]

Chart (1965) Peak
position
Canada (RPM)[13] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[14] 10
Italy (Musica e dischi)[15] 14
Sweden (Kvällstoppen)[16] 13
Sweden (Tio i Topp)[17] 5
UK (NME)[18] 1
UK (Record Retailer)[1] 3
US (Billboard Hot 100)[1] 6
US (Cashbox Top 100)[19] 6
US (Record World 100 Top Pops)[20] 4

Fleetwood Mac version

[edit]

Fleetwood Mac issued "For Your Love" as a single in 1973. Cash Box called this version "a totally contemporary, yet still hard rocking treatment from this great British band of rockers" that maintains the essence of the original tune.[21]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Koda, Cub; Russo, Gregg (2001). Ultimate! (Boxed set booklet). The Yardbirds. Los Angeles: Rhino Records. pp. 27, 30, 44. OCLC 781357622. R2 79825.
  2. ^ a b Clayson, Alan (2002). The Yardbirds. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. pp. 172, 196. ISBN 0-87930-724-2.
  3. ^ Guesdon, Jean-Michel; Margotin, Philippe (2018). "The Yardbirds: A Group with Three Guitar Heroes". Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. New York City: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 978-0-316-41803-4.
  4. ^ Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "I Can't Sing, I Ain't Pretty and My Legs Are Thin: Hard Rock". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
  5. ^ Frank Hoffmann (23 May 2016). Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-135-86886-4.
  6. ^ The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: Folk, pop, mods, and rockers, 1960-1966. Greenwood Press. 2006. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-313-32960-9.
  7. ^ Mike Clifford; Pete Frame (25 August 1992). The Harmony illustrated encyclopedia of rock. Harmony Books. p. 194. ISBN 9780517590782.
  8. ^ a b George Tremlett (1976). The 10cc Story. Futura. ISBN 0-86007-378-5.
  9. ^ "Good evening and welcome to a very special I Write The Songs here on BBC Radio Wales with me, Alan Thompson". The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  10. ^ Columbia DB 7499 record label
  11. ^ 16 Brian Auger Talks About the Yardbirds' For Your Love-.mov (Interview video). Retrieved 15 January 2015 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ Unterberger, Richie. "The Yardbirds: 'For Your Love' – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  13. ^ "R.P.M. Play Sheet". RPM. Vol. 3, no. 17. 21 June 1965 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  14. ^ "Search by artist: 'Yardbirds'". Irishsharts.ie. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  15. ^ "Classifiche". Musica e dischi (in Italian). Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Yardbirds".
  16. ^ Hallberg, Eric (1993). Eric Hallberg presenterar Kvällstoppen i P 3: Sveriges radios topplista över veckans 20 mest sålda skivor 10. 7. 1962 - 19. 8. 1975. Drift Musik. p. 243. ISBN 9163021404.
  17. ^ Hallberg, Eric; Henningsson, Ulf (1998). Eric Hallberg, Ulf Henningsson presenterar Tio i topp med de utslagna på försök: 1961 - 74. Premium Publishing. p. 410. ISBN 919727125X.
  18. ^ Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). Forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 152. ISBN 0-7522-0829-2.
  19. ^ "Cash Box Top 100" (PDF). Cashbox. No. 3 July 1965. p. 4.
  20. ^ "100 Top Pops" (PDF). Record World. No. 10 July 1966. p. 4.
  21. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 29 December 1973. p. 98. Retrieved 11 December 2021.