For Your Love
by The Yardbirds
- 94
- BPM
- D major
- Key
- 10B
- Camelot
- 35
- Danceability
- 23
- Acousticness
The Yardbirds were playing a Christmas show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London when the song publisher Ronnie Beck played "For Your Love" for their manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, and the band. Graham Gouldman had written it at 18, while working in a gentlemen's outfitters near Salford Docks and playing at night with the Manchester band the Mockingbirds. He had been inspired by the Beatles. His record company had turned the song down.
The Yardbirds recorded it at IBC Studios in London on February 1, 1965. Keith Relf sang and Jim McCarty played drums, with session musicians on bowed bass, bongos and harpsichord. Brian Auger, on harpsichord, wondered at the end of the session who in their right mind would buy a pop single with harpsichord on it. Eric Clapton and Chris Dreja played only during the middle break. Paul Samwell-Smith took over production and is listed as musical director on the 45.
Columbia released it on March 5, 1965, and it became a hit in the UK. A month later Epic put it out in the US, where it was the group's first charting single. It was their first top ten hit in the UK, Canada and the US. It marked a move away from their blues roots toward a commercial pop rock sound. Clapton left shortly after.
For Your Love runs at 94 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.55 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 638 ms. It is in D major, Camelot 10B, which shares its notes with B minor and mixes cleanly with G major and A major.
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