For Your Love (album)

For Your Love
Studio album by The Yardbirds
Released June 13, 1965 (1965-06-13)
Recorded London
March 1964 – April 1965
Genre Rock, blues rock
Length 31:04
Label Epic (Cat. no.LN 24167/BN 26167)
Producer Giorgio Gomelsky
Manfred Mann: "Sweet Music"
The Yardbirds chronology
Five Live Yardbirds
(1964)		 For Your Love
(1965)		 Having a Rave Up
(1965)
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For Your Love is the first American album by English rock band The Yardbirds.[2] Released in 1965, the album is a mix of US-only tracks and previously released singles compiled by Yardbirds' producer, Giorgio Gomelsky. The album, which was released as the Yardbirds were preparing for their first American tour, reached number 96 in Billboard's Top LPs chart.

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" (these songs were later released in the UK on the Five Yardbirds EP). Eric Clapton provided the guitar for the remainder of the tracks, which included 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). Clapton, who left the band four months earlier in March 1965, is not pictured on the album cover nor mentioned in the liner notes.

Contents

Track listing

Original album

Side 1
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "For Your Love"   Graham Gouldman 2:31
2. "I'm Not Talking"   Mose Allison 2:33
3. "Putty in Your Hands"   John Patton, Kay Rogers 2:18
4. "I Ain't Got You"   Calvin Carter 2:00
5. "Got to Hurry"   Oscar Rasputin a.k.a. Giorgio Gomelsky (The Yardbirds, group composition) 2:33
6. "I Ain't Done Wrong"   Keith Relf 3:39
Side 2
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "I Wish You Would"   Billy Boy Arnold 2:19
2. "A Certain Girl"   Allen Toussaint 2:18
3. "Sweet Music (stereo)"   Walter Bowie, Otis Leavill Cobb, Major Lance 2:30
4. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"   H.G. Demarais[3] 2:46
5. "My Girl Sloopy"   Wes Farrell, Bert Russell 5:38

Album reissues

The Yardbirds' 2001 compilation album Ultimate! contains eight of the eleven tracks from the original album. For Your Love has been reissued by several record labels, including JVC, Castle, and Repertoire.[4] In addition to the eleven tracks from the original album, the Repertoire reissue includes Yardbirds' demos recorded with Eric Clapton December 1963 – November 1964 (Tracks 1–8), a demo with Indian musicians (9), a single B-side with Jeff Beck (10), and an Italian single with Beck (11 & 13) and with Chris Dreja (12).

Repertoire reissue additional material
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Baby, What's Wrong" (demo) Jimmy Reed 2:38
2. "Boom, Boom" (demo) John Lee Hooker 2:25
3. "Honey In Your Hips" (demo) Keith Relf 2:19
4. "Talkin' 'Bout You" (demo) Chuck Berry 1:56
5. "I Wish You Would" (demo) Billy Boy Arnold 4:17
6. "A Certain Girl" (demo) Naomi Neville 2:21
7. "Got to Hurry" (take 4) Oscar Rasputin a.k.a. Giorgio Gomelsky 2:35
8. "Sweet Music" (take 4) Walter Bowie, Otis Leavill Cobb, Major Lance 2:28
9. "Heart Full Of Soul" (demo, sitar version) Graham Gouldman 1:54
10. "Steeled Blues"   Jeff Beck 2:38
11. "Paff Bumm" (German issue) Reverbel, Bardotti, Paul Samwell-Smith 2:27
12. "Questa Volta"   Satti, Dimano, Mago 2:33
13. "Paff Bum" (Italian issue) Reverbel, Bardotti, Paul Samwell-Smith 2:36

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "For Your Love – album review". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r399534. Retrieved April 27, 2010. 
  2. ^ Five Live Yardbirds, the Yardbirds' first UK album, was not released in the US.
  3. ^ H.G. Demarais a.k.a. Dee Marais, a Shreveport, LA record label owner/distributor, was originally credited on the LP; see "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" article.
  4. ^ "For Your Love – overview". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r422678. Retrieved April 27, 2010. 

References

The Yardbirds
Original members (1963-68): Keith Relf · Chris Dreja · Paul Samwell-Smith · Top Topham · Jim McCarty · Eric Clapton · Jeff Beck · Jimmy Page
Rod Demick · Laurie Garman · Alan Glen · John Idan · Ben King · Billy Boy Miskimmin · Ray Majors · Gypie Mayo
Albums
For Your Love (1965) · Having a Rave Up (1965) · Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down aka Roger the Engineer (1966) · Little Games (1967) · Birdland (2003)
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Other songs
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