Have Love, Will Travel

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"Have Love, Will Travel" is a 1959 song written and recorded by Richard Berry, in a somewhat similar vein to his earlier and eventually famous "Louie Louie". In its most known instantiation, it became a Pacific Northwest hit for garage rock-protopunkers The Sonics in 1965 and appeared on their album Here Are The Sonics of that year. Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big drum sound, screaming vocals and a dirty saxophone break, it epitomized that sound at that time.

The song has then and subsequently been rendered by Paul Revere and the Raiders in a 1964 B-side, by Stiv Bators as a 1986 B-side, by Crazyhead in a 1989 EP, by indie blues rockers The Black Keys on their 2003 album Thickfreakness, and by Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts in 2005 (who named an outgoing with Dan Aykroyd the Have Love Will Travel Revue), among others. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed it at times on their anti-heroic 1988 Tunnel of Love Express.

Since 2007 a recording of the song has been used by LV=, the UK financial services group, in its television advertising for car insurance.

The title is a supposed spin of the name of a popular Television/Radio western serial called Have Gun, Will Travel