"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, the garage rock-protopunkers The Sonics covered the song in 1965 and appeared on their album Here Are The Sonics of that year. Driven by haphazardly recorded fuzz guitar, a big driving 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. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the Last DJ.
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 Basics from Melbourne, Australia covered the song on their 2007 album Stand Out/Fit In and it was used in an episode of the David Duchovny series Californication.
The title is a supposed spin of the name of a popular Television/Radio western serial called Have Gun, Will Travel
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