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Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 16-12-2013
#310 - Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday - 1967
running recap for me - 3's=109, 2's=69, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the albums: Between The Buttons, Flowers
Written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham
Chart action: #1 US, #3 UK
the players:
Mick Jagger â lead and backing vocal, tambourine
Keith Richards â guitar, backing vocal
Brian Jones â recorder, piano, backing vocal
Bill Wyman â bass
Charlie Watts - drums
![[Image: MI0003277352.jpg?partner=allrovi.com]](http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/277/MI0003277352.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
Remember it being by favorite Stones tune ever when it came out. I have since regressed. Written about a Richards groupie who became his
girlfriend. In his bio, Keith claims the said girl had left him for Jimi Hendrix, and he was trying to win her back. Jagger claims no credit in
the writing. Brian Jones came up with the melody, but by then any Stones tunes were credited to Jagger/Richards. Didn't know this was released
on 2 different studio albums in the US, Flowers and Between The Buttons. Any releases for the Beatles/Stones era back then were so strange with
the track listing differences between here and there.
[video=youtube;wUIh5zhe-Fo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUIh5zhe-Fo[/video]
Lyrics
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter when it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you smile with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you...
Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost
At such a cost
There's no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams
And you will lose your mind.
Ain't life unkind?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you smile with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you...
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 17-12-2013
^ Classic Stones! ..love it!!!! love Charlie's wicked drum roll in the middle before the chorus!!!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 04-01-2014
#309 - Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - 1975
running recap for me - 3's=110, 2's=69, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the albums: Red Headed Stranger
Written by Fred Rose
Produced by Willie Nelson
Chart action: #21 US, #40 Australia, #57 Canada
the players:
Wille Nelson â guitar, vocal
![[Image: 250px-Willie_Nelson_Promotional_Photo_-_cropped.jpg]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Willie_Nelson_Promotional_Photo_-_cropped.jpg/250px-Willie_Nelson_Promotional_Photo_-_cropped.jpg)
From his only great album for me. Written in 1945 and first recorded by Roy Acuff. Guessing it is Willies best selling single he ever recorded.
Most of his success prior to this was as a songwriter. Other greats that recorded this prior to Willie were Hank Williams, Ferlin Husky, Conway
Twitty, Bill Anderson, and lest we forget Slim Whitman, but it was Willie that made it known. Although it only made it to #21 on the overall
chart, it was Willies first #1 country single as an artist and pushed the album there also.
[video=youtube;JA644rSZX1A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA644rSZX1A[/video]
Lyrics
In the twilight glow I see them
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain
When we kissed goodbye and parted
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dyin' ember
Only memories remain
Through the ages I'll remember
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain
Some day when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again
In a land that knows no partin'
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain
Now my hair has turned to silver
All my life I've loved in vain
I can see her star in heaven
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 05-01-2014
Ruby Tuesday ***
willie nelson(as you'd expcet from me) gets *** also, as probably half his material prior to 1980 would get!
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 05-01-2014
Blue Eyes Cryin by Willie ....classic song from a classic album!!!!!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 06-01-2014
#308 - Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - 1978
running recap for me - 3's=110, 2's=70, 1's=10
this one - **
from the albums: Blondes Have More Fun
Written by Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice
Produced by Tom Dowd
Chart action: #1 US, #1 UK, #1 Australia, #1 Canada
the players:
Rod Stewart â vocal
Carmine Appice - drums
Philip Chen - bass
Jim Cregan - guitar
Gary Grainger - guitar
Billy Peek - guitar
At least it's grown to a like over the years. Probably hated it when it came out, and it would have been the disco beat. I hated anything disco
back then. Still one of my least favorite Stewart singles. And what's up with that spelling? Always thought it was Do Ya, now I see it's Da Ya.
Didn't know a lawsuit came out of this. Filed by Jorge Ben, a Brazilian artist with a song called Taj Mahl in 1976 where the hook melody in the
chorus was lifted from he said. He won, but no worries, the royalties were given to UNICEF anyway. Live and learn. I included a link to that
track after the Stewart insert.
[video=youtube;Hphwfq1wLJs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs[/video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0_rQhtKGPA
Lyrics
Sugar, sugar
She sits alone waiting for suggestions
He's so nervous avoiding all the questions
His lips are dry, her heart is gently pounding
Don't you just know exactly what they're thinking
If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
come on sugar let me know.
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
come on honey tell me so
Tell me so baby
He's acting shy looking for an answer
Come on honey let's spend the night together
Now hold on a minute before we go much further
Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
They catch a cab to his high rise apartment
At last he can tell her exactly what his heart meant
If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
come on honey tell me so
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
come on sugar let me know
His heart's beating like a drum
'cos at last he's got this girl home
Relax baby now we are alone
They wake at dawn 'cos all the birds are singing
Two total strangers but that ain't what they're thinking
Outside it's cold, misty and it's raining
They got each other neither one's complaining
He say's I sorry but I'm out of milk and coffee
Never mind sugar we can watch the early movie
If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
come on sugar let me know
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
come on honey tell me so
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
come on sugar let me know
If you really, really, really, really need me
just let me know
Just reach out and touch me
If you really want me
just reach out and touch me
come on sugar let me know
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
come on sugar let me know
If you, if you, if you really need me
just come on and tell me so
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 06-01-2014
i clicked on the link...heard the blatant plagaristic bits, and at least you could hear them, not like some other famous ones!
** for me also, but i love the "blondes have more fun" album as a whole, "aint love a bitch" is the best thing on that album
Looking Back At Some Classics - PennyLane - 07-01-2014
Eh. I would rank "Ruby Tuesday" higher than "Da Ya Think.." Actually, I wouldn't put the Stewart track on the list at all. I never found the draw. Rather kitschy and droll.
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 07-01-2014
^ The Rod track was a huge hit!!!! I did not buy it!
Looking Back At Some Classics - PennyLane - 08-01-2014
SteveO Wrote:^ The Rod track was a huge hit!!!! I did not buy it!
I like Rod Stweart, at time, but that track never did anything for me. I think "Maggie May" is a much better track.