You need coolin', baby, I'm not
foolin',
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin',
Way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love, X2
*Wanna Whole Lotta Love? X4
You've been learnin', baby, I bean learnin',
All them good times, baby, baby, I've been yearnin',
Way, way down inside honey, you need it,
I'm gonna give you my love X2
* Chorus
You've been coolin', baby, I've been
droolin',
All the good times I've been misusin',
Way, way down inside, I'm gonna give you my love,
I'm gonna give you every inch of my love,
Gonna give you my love.
Yeah! All right! Let's go!
* Chorus
Way down inside, woman, You need
love.
Shake for me, girl, I wanna be your backdoor man.
Hey, oh, hey, oh, Oh, oh, oh, Keep a-coolin', baby,
Keep a-coolin', baby.
| This was Led Zeppelin's first US single, and their only US Top-10 hit. Some of their most popular songs, like "Stairway To Heaven," were not released as singles. |
| Atlantic Records pressed copies of the single to release in England, but Peter Grant, their manager, wouldn't let them. He felt releasing singles in England would hurt album sales. In the US, it was acceptable because more people bought singles. |
| Blues great Willie Dixon sued the band, claiming they stole this from his song "You Need Love." The band reached an agreement with Dixon, who used the settlement money to set up a program providing instruments for schools. |
| The free-form section was the result of Page and engineer Eddie Kramer "twiddling every knob known to man." |
| This might be the first use of "backward echo." Page put the echo of Plant's lines before he says them, creating an interesting sound. |
| Robert Plant did the vocal in one take. |
| Led Zeppelin used this as the basis for a medley they performed in their later shows. They had lots of songs by then, so they used the medley to play snippets of their popular songs they did not want to play all the way through. |
| This was used as the theme song to the BBC's Top of the Pops. The band never appeared on the program because manager Peter Grant discouraged TV appearances. |
| Some parts of the song as well as some lyrics were borrowed form a song called "You Need Loving" by the Small Faces. The Small Faces was a '60 band that Zeppelin modeled themselves after. (thanks, Andrew J Antonczak - Cleveland, OH) |
| The remaining members of Led Zeppelin played this at their Live Aid reunion in 1985. Along with Tony Thompson, Phil Collins sat in on drums. Collins was the biggest presence at Live Aid. He played a set in London, flew to Philadelphia, played another set, then stayed on when Zeppelin took the stage. Jimmy Page was not happy - he thought Collins butchered this. |
| On some live versions, Jimmy Page played the Theremin, a bizarre electronic instrument he liked to experiment with. The Theremin was used by The Beach Boys on "Good Vibrations." |
| Page, Plant, and John Paul Jones played this at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in 1988 with Jason Bonham sitting in on drums for his late father. |
