J Geils Band – Looking For A Love

Peter Wolf was doing his thing in this song. Wolf is the complete package as a lead singer. He can give you a great voice to drive the songs and move around the stage like he is on fire. I would put him up as one of the best in rock. In the era of Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, and Mick Jagger. Peter Wolf could keep up with the best…and still can.

The song Looking for a Love was originally recorded by The Valentinos, a soul group featuring Bobby Womack, in 1962. It became an R&B hit (#8) at the time and was written by J. W. Alexander and Zelda Samuels. The J Geils Band took the song and lit it up with energy. It’s some fantastic fun R&B that the band covered great. That was their strong suit…infectious driving live band who had soul and some funk to boot.

The J. Geils version peaked at #25 in Canada and #39 on the Billboard 100 in 1971. It was on the band’s second album called The Morning After. It peaked at #63 on the Billboard Album Charts and #73 in Canada.

Bobby Womack re-recorded it in 1974 and had a massive hit with it that peaked at #1 on the R&B Charts and #10 on the Billboard 100.

The J. Geils Band was formed in 1967 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The band came out of the Boston club scene in the late sixties. I always thought they should have been bigger than they were in the 1970s. They didn’t hit their commercial peak until the early 80s with Love Stinks, Come Back, and then the hugely popular Freeze-Frame album in 1983 but their 70s output gets lost at times and that is a big shame.

J Geils Full House

Also, there are a couple of you who recommended their live album Full House…that would be CB and John Holton…I appreciate it because it’s one of the best live albums I’ve heard.

Looking For a Love

Somebody help meSomebody help me nowSomebody help me now

Somebody help meFind my babySomebody help meFind my baby right now

I`m looking for a loveI`m looking for a loveI`m looking here and thereI`m searching everywhereI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Gonna get up in the morningAnd rub my headI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Fix my breakfastAnd bring it to my bedI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Do my loveDo it all the timeI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

With lots of love and kissesBut people until thenI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

I`m looking for a loveI`m looking for a loveI`m looking here and thereI`m searching everywhereI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Stay in my cornerAll the way, yeahI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Stick by me, babyNo matter what they sayI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

I`ll give my loveTo her all the timeI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Loving, kissingPeople on the wayI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

I`m looking for a loveI`m looking for a loveI`m looking here and thereI`m searching everywhereI`m looking for a loveTo call my own

Somebody help meTo find my babyI said I`ve got to findMy baby right now

I`m looking in the morningI`m looking at nightGot to find my babyBut she`s nowhere in sight

Somebody help meTo find my babyI said I`ve got to findMy baby right now

I`m looking in the morningI`m looking at nightGot to find my babyShe`s nowhere in sight

I`m looking, I`m lookingI`m looking, I`m looking……

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

20 thoughts on “J Geils Band – Looking For A Love”

  1. While I do recall the song I don’t remember either version very well. Thanks for bringing it back on my radar. I like what I hear from J. Geils but never got into them for some reason.

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  2. Must be because I’m old, but I think of J. Geils as an early 70s band with “First I Look at the Purse” (also a cover – written by Smokey Robinson) as the big hit, with “Lookin’ for a Love” as the followup – though looking now I see “Purse” never charted as a single and the album peaked at #195. Got a lot of airplay around here for a song that was never a hit. I thought of “Freeze-Frame” as a comeback, not the peak. I guess I was out of touch.

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    1. I remembered songs like Must of Got Lost and Give It To Me…btw I almost posted First I Look At the Purse…so that will be in the future. I love the R&B feel of that one.

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  4. The first I ever heard of them was the ‘Love Stinks’ album in ’80 so it surprises me this did as well as it did in Canada. They did have a great reputation as a fun, high-energy live act & their live album after ‘Freeze Frame’ which had a number of their older tracks, was one of only a few live records I listened to frequently.

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    1. The first big hit of theirs I remember was Must Have Got Lost….they would even play it a lot in the 80s….it was from the mid seventies…later on “Come Back” was another one I remember well. All of those were my Vega songs lol.

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    1. Yea for a long time yes…the first song I remember as a kid by them was Must Of Got Lost…and then Come Back…of course the Love Stinks album hit pretty big in 1980.

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    1. Cool man….that song is like putting a comfortable shirt on…just a very cool laid back song and very likable…his voice is perfect for it.

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      1. I think I told you about that Covay tribute before. I’m sure if you spin it you will get lots of music you’ll dig. One of those various artists things that works 100%. Wolf’s take is so good. I knew nd worked with guys like Covay, Bobby “Blue” Bland. They were his heros.

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      2. Allman got me on Bobby Blue Bland and yea…just a great voice. I will take a listen to it CB this weekend. So much good music to discover.

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  9. You’ve described his voice and his style well. Watching the live video is watching a time capsule of those times with fashion. That one guy’s afro is off the hook. I like everything I’ve heard by The J. Geils Band.

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