Love for Sale
Julian \"Cannonball\" Adderley Lyrics

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Love for sale
Appetizing young love for sale
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
Love that's only slightly soiled
Love for sale

Who will buy? Come on now
Who would like to sample my supply?

Who's prepared to pay the price?
For a trip to paradise?
Love for sale

Let the poets pipe off love
In their childish way
You know, I know every type of love
Better far than they

If you want the thrill of love
I've been through the mill of love
Old love, new love, every love but true love
Love for sale

Appetizing young, young love for sale
If you want to buy my wares
Follow me, climb the stairs
Love for sale

Love, love, love for sale
Love, love, love for sale

Love, love, love for sale
Love, love, love for sale

Overall Meaning

The song "Love for Sale" by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley is a classic jazz tune that deals with the idea of love being a commodity for sale, comparing it to other products we buy or sell. The lyrics of the song describe this love as "appetizing young love" that is still fresh and desirable, and despite the fact that it may be slightly soiled, it is still up for sale. The singer asks who will buy this love, and who is willing to pay the price for a trip to paradise.

The song then takes a critical turn as the singer compares the poets who write about love in a childish way to himself, claiming that he knows every type of love better than they do. He then goes on to describe his experience with love, saying that he has been through the mill of love, experiencing old love, new love, and every type of love except for true love. The repetition of "Love for sale" throughout the song drives home the idea that love is being commodified, sold off to the highest bidder without regard for its true value.

Line by Line Meaning

Love for sale
Love that can be bought and sold like any other commodity

Appetizing young love for sale
Young, attractive love that is available for purchase

Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
Love that is new and untainted

Love that's only slightly soiled
Love that has been used and experienced, but is still valuable

Who will buy? Come on now
Who is interested in buying love?

Who would like to sample my supply?
Who wants to try my offering of love?

Who's prepared to pay the price?
Who is willing to pay for the value of love?

For a trip to paradise?
For the experience of a perfect love?

Let the poets pipe off love In their childish way You know, I know every type of love Better far than they
Poets can write about love all they want, but I have experienced every type of love more intimately than they have

If you want the thrill of love I've been through the mill of love Old love, new love, every love but true love Love for sale
If you want to experience the excitement of love, I have been through the ups and downs of every type of love except for true love, which is also available for purchase

Appetizing young, young love for sale If you want to buy my wares Follow me, climb the stairs Love for sale
Young, fresh love is still available and if you're willing to buy, come with me to where it can be found

Love, love, love for sale Love, love, love for sale Love, love, love for sale Love, love, love for sale
Reinforcing that love is still available for those willing to pay

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: COLE PORTER

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02I Can't Get Started

03One For Daddy-O

04Alison's Uncle

05Dancing In The Dark

06Love For Sale

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

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Comments from YouTube:

Luxgoods

4y↑32

One of the greatest albums ever created...coming from a metalhead!

Silly Pickle

2y↑1

Same!!

Ad supermusone

For sure is amoung the top, along with Kind of Blue

R2 D2

35w↑1

Ce disque - il y a bien longtemps - m’a fait aimer le jazz.
Respect aux musiciens qui jouaient pour la musique par pour eux

Ray Carroll

14y↑34

Love for Sale is one my favorite compositions. It has an unusual form. Adderley blows through the changes as effortlessly as a knife slicing butter.

pretorious700

11y↑10

my favorite version of this song-Miles and Cannon just have so much feeling.

bill parsons

4y↑11

One of my favorite Cannonball lines: the bridge of his second chorus (4:25).

bob gould

2y↑2

It's nothing less than pure exuberance distiled into music!

Bueckert Speed and Chassisworks

really broke out the thesaurus for that one

Jasper Chance

4y↑11

Hank Jones was known as the Rolls Royce of Piano players, the introduction states it well.

aitech nasus

4y↑5

Love For Sale Is A Great Jazz By Cannonball Adderley. The Man Was A Musical Genius And Great Jazz Musician.

Eric Wright

9y↑4

I love time changes in this track....... Classic!

Michael Poulos

8y↑9

Definitely one of my all time favorite records! Desert island disc no second thoughts about it!

Ronaldo Chagas

8y↑1

CLÁSSICO.NOTA 10.

SAXY RIC

14y↑1

KILLIN' IT!!

Dan Celli

4y↑2

A CLASSIC VERSION + AUTUMN LEAVES All the others are close seconds in my opinion. The whole CD is 5 stars. I've had the LP for over 20 years.

Jeff Kirschenbaum

13y↑3

Listen to as many saxophonists as you can, regardless of which one they play. My listening list would include Cannonball, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, Phil Woods, Coltrane on soprano, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman. As a sax player, I also listen to vocalists and try to emulate their phrasing.

misake0612

14y↑17

Lucky to find this song....Ten years ago,someone gave me this aIbum,and I heard it just for once.Then my classmate borrowed the album out and never gave it back ... I can't even remember the album's name! Now I can buy it back again....thanks for your publicing^^

Stephen Hawthorne

12y↑1

This is music you relax to!

The90sGamingGuy

6y↑1

Great music on this album. Mobile Fidelity should re-issue the album on vinyl and SACD.

Sabrina Armani

11y

Awesome. ❤❤❤

Paul Angelini

11y↑1

To the aforementioned list I would add Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Zoot Sims, and Stanley Turrentine, as well as Joshua Redman, David Sanchez, Bob Berg (RIP) and of course Michael Brecker (RIP) for contemporary players.

Dan Celli

SO GOOD. NICE LITTLE ARRANGEMENT.

Pierre Maréchal

5y↑2

jazz is so elegant

Eric Ford

12y

For Tenor players, I like what everyone says, plus, Joshua Redmond, most of the tenor players on Mingus albums, ditto Carla Bley albums like Tropic Appetites, Music Mechanique, Social Studies. On The Best of Charlie Parker I really like Lucky Thompson's solo on A Night in Tunisia. James Carter is fantastic too. He plays a lot of different sizes, notably Bass Sax.

Lise Lotte

3y↑2

You are listening to a master at work.

Roberto Alaluf

9y↑4

Timeless

sclogse1

10y

Actually the ultimate version is an outtake of this that wound up on one the the double Miles albums that came out in the eighties...when they started going through the vaults for stuff. and that's the creme de la creme version....

Ed Boersema

'Nat and Cannonball Adderley played – Cannonball was a huge influence on Eric Dolphy' (Jimmie Maddin on the L.A. scene circa the '40s & '50s). Obviously.

Hermann Otto

11y

Recommend Tenor Sax: Joshua Redman is a very good type of feeling and thinking and creating Musician.Find also his intervew, very honest stuff. Benny Golson is excellent as a composer,too. Yusef Lateef is showing a lot of lower lip. Basically , dig in your heart,don't try to immitate,but get isnpired. some players are such finniky whirlwind show offs, scaring me,not enlighten me.

Judist King

5y↑1

Dam fine jazz!!

Mac

Is this the last time Davis was to really play 1. in a bop style and 2. as a sideman? (on studio recording)?

Jeffrey "Saxophone Tall" Newton

11y

Ornette Coleman is an alto saxophonist. I'd add Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Houston Person, Wardell Gray and Michael Brecker, to name a few....

MasterXelpud

14y

Well, rather than albums, mind if I recommend some artists? While saxman was correct in recommending Cannonball as an excellent saxophonist, he happens to play alto rather than tenor. That being said, I would look into: John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson for starters. Good luck with your sax playing! P.S. Sorry for the late response, I've not checked comments in a while

hardlogicjazz

9y↑4

how do you know it is a "mistake" and not his intention? Even though it might not be the actual perfected written melody, it doesn't bother me to listen to his take on it. His feel of time and vibe of the tune is spot on, and I would rather listen to that than a perfectly played melody. Actually the definition of perfect is: "in a manner or way that could not be better." I disagree.

6th Diminished Scale

5y↑1

Juan Rivas I know this is late but... I would argue that technical perfection leads to more freedom to explore and as you say transit emotions. Obscuring the melody or making a "mistake" isn't a lack of technical ability but rather a showcasing of what he can do with a simple basis (i.e. the form) and what kind of emotional quality he can pour into his art by abstracting or building upon simpler things.

Nathan Yang

does anyone know where i can find a transcription of the piano intro ?

Marco Pierri

11y

that's so much interesting, thank you

saxman8837

14y

If you want some sax your here listen to Cannonball!

Valery Kotelnikov

10y

Interestingly, there are two blunders, first - in the beginning, playing the theme, Davis makes mistake in bars 9-12 of the bridge and gets out of this very clumsy. Second, in 1st chorus Julian instead of bridge starts part A again (later corrected)

Peggy Salano

10y↑2

@valery you just need to listen and .....who are you? these men are amazing!!!!

Valery Kotelnikov

10y↑3

Peggy Salano
I AM listening. Yes they are but blunders are blunders.

Rico Jazz

10y↑3

Valery Kotelnikov Agreed! I love them. And they are humans like the rest of us.
Too much idolizing is not healthy, and also ignorant! :)

Valery Kotelnikov

10y

Flakey Foont
Miles usually used the first take and did not want to repeat the tune during recording sessions. ... One can hear more mistakes in his Prestige recordings ...

Devan Kortan

10y↑1

Valery Kotelnikov Glad you pointed that out! I'm never listening to these cats again!

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Kazumiki Uesaka

9y↑6

不滅の名盤

jojokimbo

14y

thank you for public this. .l bought a tenor sax recently.. could you recommend me any albums to listen where there is the sax? ty!!

RAMLIA1

11y

♥♥♥

Ryan Chatterjee

11y↑7

i know one of Cannonball Adderley's close relatives. she teaches music at my school.

Time

5y↑2

Wow youtube had a 10 minute video limit at one time??

Dee

Lol right

ahuramazda4

11y↑1

Louis Armstrong, Freddie Webster, Fats Navarro, Booker Little, Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Ray Copeland, Idrees Suleiman, Red Rodney, Woody Shaw, Jon Faddis, Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard, and Christian Scott, for starters.

jojokimbo

13y

@bertdockx ty sir!! I will try listening something them!

George Prosser

9y↑3

Cannonball - Love for sale .. hank Jones p., Miles t., Art Blakey Sam Jones... enjoy..

bertdockx

13y

@jojokimbo Also check out Warne Marsh, Paul Gonsalez and Lenny Popkin! And there's some great free jazz tenor players like Albert Ayler and Evan Parker. Many people hate their playing, but who knows, maybe you won't...

Lucas Lorenzi

never for sale///

Jerome Jacob

The must.

Austin Chien

13y↑2

0 People have bad taste in music. The way it should be.

Taylor Roberts

3:55

Pauli Blomstedt

4:28

archlordXd0

14y

@MasterXelpud Ornette is an alto free jazz player, I think you mean Coleman Hawkins lol

Grady C

2:14

jazzalex22

Family Guy brought me here

Colin Hart

Lmao what episode?

riesenmey michele

7y↑3

WHAAAAAAAA!

Munching Pancakes

0:35

Munching Pancakes

4y↑1

1:20

Dimitri Safronov

14y

@archlordXd0 ...or George Coleman.. who knows ))

Ako _

ANYONE HERE FROM BANGTAN BOMB

bertdockx

13y

@jojokimbo (i meant gonsalVez)

Syl D.

salut les amg