Pw Oldham Engineer: Bill Farley Released: May 1964 Original label: London Records (Polygram)
Side 1
"Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 2:20
"I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 2:17
"-st I Do" (Jimmy Reed) – 2:09
"I Need You Baby (Mona)" (Ellas McDaniel) – 3:33
Left off of the US edition of the album, England's Newest Hitmakers, in favour of "Not Fade Away"
"Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:29
"Uncle Phil" and "Uncle Gene" refer to Phil Spector and Gene Pitney, both of whom contributed to the sessions; "Nanker Phelge" was a pseudonym for group-written compositions by The Rolling Stones, used from 1963 to 1965
"Little by Little" (Nanker Phelge, Phil Spector) – 2:39
Side 2
"I'm a King Bee" (James Moore) – 2:35
"Carol" (Chuck Berry) – 2:33
"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 4:05
The first released Rolling Stones song by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the US edition of the album has an abbreviated version of "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)", although the CD re-issue now contains the longer UK version.
"Can I Get a Witness" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 2:55
"You Can Make It if You Try" (Ted Jarrett) – 2:01
"Walking the Dog" (Rufus Thomas) – 3:10
Our first album reflected what we used to play at the Crawdaddy - a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, with some Slim Harpo. The album was basically the cream of the set! We cut the album in a room full of egg boxes, using a two-track Grundig. The only concession to professionalism was that the tape recorder was hanging on the wall instead of sitting on a tabletop... We would sit around in playback and go, Sounds good or Stop it, let's do it again and then Yeah, that's it. It was either a or a no. We were using two-track or four-track machine and there's not a lot you can do with that. To overdub you had to do what they call ping-ponging between the tracks, which was not a great thing because you actually lost generations of sound quality. - Keith Richards, 2003
ENGLAD’S NEWEST HIT MAKERS (US RELEASED )Side 1
"Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 1:48
Replaces "I Need You Baby (Mona)" from the UK edition
"Route 66" – 2:20
"I Just Want to Make Love to You" – 2:17
"Honest I Do" – 2:09
"Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" – 2:29
"Little by Little" – 2:39Side 2
1. "I'm a King Bee" – 2:35
2. "Carol" – 2:33
3. "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" – 4:05
4. "Can I Get a Witness" – 2:55
5. "You Can Make It if You Try" – 2:01
6. "Walking the Dog" – 3:10
1964 UK TOP 20 ALBUM 1- 1965 UK 20 TOP ALBUM 3
1964 BILLBOARD POP ALBUM 11 – 1965 BILLBOARD POP ALBUM 87
12 x 5 ( US released )
Recorded & mixed: February 24-25 and May 12, 1964: Regent Sound Studios, London, England June 10-11, 1964: Chess Studios, Chicago, USA August 31-September 4, 1964: Regent Sound Studios, London, England
Producer: Andrew Oldham Engineers: Bill Farley, Ron Malo Released: October 1964 Original label: London Records (Polygram)
Track listing
"Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 3:03
"Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann/Walter Brown) – 2:47
"Empty Heart" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:37
"Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:53
This is the "organ" version of this song, as opposed to the version with the guitar intro
"Good Times, Bad Times" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:30
"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack) – 3:26
"2120 South Michigan Avenue" (Nanker Phelge) – 3:38
This is the full length version, previously only heard on bootleg
"Under the Boardwalk" (Arthur Resnick/Kenny Young) – 2:46
"Congratulations" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:29
"Grown Up Wrong" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:05
"If You Need Me" (Robert Bateman/Wilson Pickett) – 2:04
"Susie Q" (Eleanor Broadwater/Stan Lewis/Dale Hawkins) – 1:50
MusiciansBrian Jones - Guitars, harmonica, vocals, percussionMick Jagger - Lead vocals, harmonica, percussionKeith Richards - Guitars, vocalsCharlie Watts - Drums, percussionBill Wyman - Bass guitar, vocals
On the first album, we cut everything in mono. The band had to record more or less live in the studio so what was on our record was more or less our act, what we played on the ballroom and club circuits. It was really just the show you did onstage recorded in one take - as it SHOULD be. Bill Wyman, 1982
On the first album, we cut everything in mono. The band had to record more or less live in the studio so what was on our record was more or less our act, what we played on the ballroom and club circuits. It was really just the show you did onstage recorded in one take - as it SHOULD be. Bill Wyman, 1982
1964 BILLBOARD POP 1965 3 BILLBOARD POP ALBUM 3