For Your Love (album)

For Your Love is the second album released by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, and the first released in the USA.^[1] Released in June 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 had left the band four months earlier, is not pictured on the album cover nor mentioned in the liner notes.

Reception

The album, which was released as the Yardbirds were preparing for their first American tour, reached number 96 in Billboard's Top LPs chart.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

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	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"	Naomi Neville a.k.a. 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)	Elmore James	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 a.k.a. Allen Toussaint	2:21
7.	"Got to Hurry" (take 4)	Oscar Rasputin a.k.a. Giorgio Gomelsky (group composition)	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)	Gian Piero Reverberi, Sergio Bardotti, Paul Samwell-Smith	2:27
12.	"Questa Volta"	Roberto "Bobby Solo" Satti, Gianni "Dinamo" Marchetti, Mogol	2:33
13.	"Paff Bum" (Italian issue)	Gian Piero Reverberi, Sergio Bardotti, Paul Samwell-Smith	2:36

Note: Liner notes for Repertoire release actually attribute "Baby, What's Wrong" to Sonny Boy Williamson credited as "Rice Miller Williamson". However, most sources credit this song to Jimmy Reed.

Personnel

Keith Relf – lead vocals, harmonica
Eric Clapton – lead guitar on all tracks except as indicated below
Jeff Beck – lead guitar on "I'm Not Talking", "I Ain't Done Wrong", and "My Girl Sloopy"
Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
Paul Samwell-Smith – bass, vocals
Jim McCarty – drums, vocals
Giorgio Gomelsky – backing vocal on "A Certain Girl"
Brian Auger – harpsichord on "For Your Love"
Denny Pierce – bongos on "For Your Love"
Ron Prentice – bowed bass on "For Your Love"
Manfred Mann – keyboard and backing vocals on "Sweet Music"
Paul Jones – backing Vocals on "Sweet Music"
Mike Hugg – vibes on "Sweet Music"
Tom McGuinness – guitar on "Sweet Music"
Mike Vickers – guitar on "Sweet Music"

Notes

↑ Five Live Yardbirds, the Yardbirds' first UK album, was not released in the US.
↑ Eder, Bruce. "For Your Love – album review". allmusic. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
↑ 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.
↑ "For Your Love – overview". allmusic. Retrieved 27 April 2010.

References

Russo, Greg (1998). Yardbirds: The Ultimate Rave-Up. Crossfire Publications. ISBN 0-9648157-3-7.
Clayson, Alan (2002). The Yardbirds. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-724-2.
Gomelsky, Giorgio; Cohen, Brian (2002). The Yardbirds Story (liner notes). Charly Records. SNAD 905 CD.

The Yardbirds

Original members (1963–68) Keith Relf Jim McCarty Chris Dreja Paul Samwell-Smith Top Topham Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Jimmy Page Later members (since 1992) John Idan Gypie Mayo Alan Glen Jerry Donahue Ben King

Albums	For Your Love Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down/Roger the Engineer Little Games Birdland

Live albums	Five Live Yardbirds Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds Live Yardbirds! Featuring Jimmy Page BBC Sessions Live! Blueswailing July '64 Live at B.B. King Blues Club

Compilations	The Yardbirds Greatest Hits Cumular Limit Ultimate!

Bootlegs	Golden Eggs More Golden Eggs

Singles	"I Wish You Would" "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" "For Your Love" "Heart Full of Soul" "Evil Hearted You" "I'm a Man" "Shapes of Things" "Boom Boom" "Over Under Sideways Down" "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" "Ten Little Indians"

Other songs	"Let It Rock" "Who Do You Love" "Talkin' 'Bout You" "You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover" "Too Much Monkey Business" "Smokestack Lightning" "Five Long Years" "The Sky Is Crying" "My Girl Sloopy" "Train Kept A-Rollin'" "Spoonful" "The Stumble" "Dust My Blues" "White Summer" "Stealing Stealing" "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" "Dazed and Confused" "Knowing That I'm Losing You" "I'm Waiting for the Man"

Related articles	Discography Members Giorgio Gomelsky Simon Napier-Bell Mickie Most Peter Grant Cream The Jeff Beck Group Led Zeppelin Renaissance Box of Frogs ARMS Charity Concert Immediate All-Stars

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