Love-Itis is a song written by Harvey Scales and Albert Vance (with Rudy Jacobs also initially acknowledged as a co-writer), originally recorded by Harvey Scales and The Seven Sounds.
The song was later recorded and popularized by The Sonics, Mandala and the J. Geils Band, among others.
The song was originally released in 1967 by Harvey Scales and The Seven Sounds, on Magic Touch Records, owned by Lenny LaCour.
[3] The version was included in a Jerden Records 1996 compilation of Sonics material, Fire and Ice II: The 'Lost' Tapes[4] In 1968, the song was popularized by Mandala, as a single release from the band's only album, Soul Crusade,[5] in an arrangement similar to that of The Sonics.
[7] Record World called this performance "a contagious disease like the boogie woogie flu, but it's a bug you won't mind having.