SOMEONE TO LOVE
Created on 22/12/2003Latest update on 14/10/2022
Artist: Great Society
Author: Darby Slick
Label: North Beach
Year: 1965
The Great Society was couple Grace & Jeff Slick's first band. Darby was his brother and guitarist of the band. Later she (and her brother-in-law's song) switched over to The Jefferson Airplane where she replaced a highly pregnant Signe Anderson (see also: White Rabbit). North Beach was a sublabel of Autumn. Someone To Love was also the title of the reissue cd, subtitled The Birth Of The San Francisco Sound in the series Nuggets From The Golden State, along with the original of Let's Get Together (see there).
Covers:
- 1967:
Jefferson Airplane [as Somebody To Love top 5 US, top 3 NL]
- 1967:
Herbert Léonard [as Pour un peu d'amour]
- 1971:
Barbara & Ernie [orchestra conducted by Deodato]
- 1983:
Waysted [idem, with Pete Way; ex UFO]
- 1991:
Radios [in film Boys]
- 1993:
Ramones [vocal: porn star Traci Lords]
- 2004:
- 2008:
Young@Heart Chorus [all as Somebody To Love]
