| Gotta Find Me a Lover (24 Hours a Day) | |
| Cover: | ErmaGFMAL.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Erma Franklin |
| B-Side: | Change My Thoughts From You |
| Released: | 1969 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Length: | 2:14 |
| Label: | Brunswick |
| Prev Title: | Right to Cry |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | Saving My Love |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
"Gotta Find Me a Lover (24 Hours a Day)" is a song released in August of 1969 that became a hit on Billboard's R&B chart, reaching #40, for Erma Franklin. It was written by Carl Davis and Eugene Record. The song was Franklin's last R&B hit. It was Brunswick # 55403.[1]
The first version of the song was released as an instrumental in June of 1969 by the soul and jazz ensemble Young-Holt Unlimited. Many years later, blues singer Angela Strehli covered the song on her 1993 album Blonde and Blue.[2]