It's a track that should be added as a bonus to their greatest hits package(s) as it shows another side of the tune that started it all for this important group. John, Jonathan Edwards, The Allman Brothers and others, must've been invigorating for this ensemble and the extended manic performance has a raspy Peter Wolf as frantic as the band, all in hyperdrive. Intro Now come on Somebody help me Somebody help me now Oh, somebody help me now Oh, somebody help me find my baby Somebody help me find my baby right now Chorus I'm looking for a love I'm. Opening an album with their current hit, an album which featured B.B.King at the peak of his commercial success along with Dr. The live cut is even more driving and faster on this obscure Woodstock-type collection of musical acts from the period. A five minute and sixteen second version opens up the double discMar Y Sol album, a Puerto Rico music festival from early April 1972. The song zips by feeling a lot shorter than it is, a quick blast of energetic rock & roll which should've been a much bigger hit. The backing vocals chant "I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking" while Peter Wolf wails with the best of the blues masters going pop, frantic screams of desperation following promises the singer is making to the cosmos, what he would do if all his romantic hopes and dreams came true. Geils plays guitar for a few seconds followed by Dick's harp to Seth's keys back to the harp back to the keys, back to the intro. The interlude was the best advertisement in the world for the group - J. I too smother him in love and appreciation with my rendition of the soulful song The River of Dreams. A simple and driving drum beat opens this, Janis Joplin's "Move Over" intro from the Pearl album in triple time, giving Peter Wolf a superb introduction to radio listeners, his plea to the world for someone, anyone, to "help me find my baby." Who can't relate to the simplicity of the request, "I'm looking for a love to call my own?" Wolf argues his case with one line, the band responds with the title of the song, back and forth they go under B.B.King producer Bill Szymczyk's guiding hand. Initially "Looking For A Love" was their signature tune though they escaped the "one hit wonder" category within a year and a half, their three Atlantic singles in the early '70's giving them some breathing room on the live concert circuit before they came back with seven more.
Atlantic single #2844 came at the end of 1971/ beginning of 1972 barely cracking the Top 40, but was an indication of things to come as the group would dominate the charts for a time a decade later. Geils Band's second album, The Morning After. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Alexander / Zelda Samuels tune is three minutes and forty-five seconds starting off side two of The J. Geils Band Looking for a Love (Looking for a Love, Looking for a Love).
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