Richard Berry - Have Love Will Travel download song

Musically and vocally this could hardly be topped, so the only thing bands could do was make a raw, trashy version of it, to make it their own.

This is pretty derpy, still great covers though.

Sonics didn't got anything WRONG, they made intentionally own version of the classic song and made it garage. It's pretty badass cover anyway, this is different. Its really good tho but pretty obvious doo woop-ish tune

this is the best version in my opinion :>)

Why is the video on a loop? Kind of annoying.

It’s pretty wild to listen to this, then the Sonics version, then the Black Keys one .

As a professional musician of 45 years whose 1st single when I was 16 was a garage band version of Louie Louie (how many of those were there!!!) then later heard the original and realised how mine was a travesty compared to the original, Richard Berry became my R&B touchstone and inspiration and still is. He's the greatest. For proof check out 'Brown Eyes' and so many more...I rest my case

Thank You for the history on these two songs, Louie Louie was played a lot in the dances that were held during the 1960s in my area.

I’ve only heard the black keys do this!

What all the other acts who cover this song don't understand is that the Richard Berry version is so much better sonically because the chord pattern is way different & better than the others.  The Sonics covered it in 1965 & got the chords way way wrong, and unfortunately, that's the version everybody remembers & copies.  Berry's version is G-Am-Bb-Am, whereas all of the other versions out there are G-C-D-C, which is just a basic 1-4-5-4 progression & very similar to Louie Louie, though the latter uses an minor 5 instead of a major 5, which is what makes Louie Louie unique. The use of a minor 2 & minor 3 makes it sound more jazzier/cooler in my opinion.

Dedicated to my BIG SISTERS R.I.P.

The sonics version is way better with more bite to it. It just holds up more than this version

best at 1.25 speed