The Rolling Stones Full Album 1964

[Consuela Ellett]

TheRolling Stones is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released by Decca Records in the UK on 17 April 1964.[2] The American edition of the LP, with a slightly different track list, came out on London Records on 29 May 1964, subtitled England's Newest Hit Makers, which later became its official title.

Recorded at Regent Sound Studios in London over the course of five days in January and February 1964, The Rolling Stones was produced by then-managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton. The album was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, while the US version appeared on the London Records label.

First pressings of the album, with matrix numbers ending in 1A, 2A, 1B, and 2B, have a 2:52 version of "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)", which was pressed from the wrong master tape. Subsequent pressings include the 4:06 version. Early labels and covers also have misprints with the fourth track on side 1 listed as "Mona", which was later changed to "I Need You Baby", the subtitle of "Now I've Got a Witness" written "Like Uncle Gene and Uncle Phil", the word 'If' omitted from "You Can Make It If You Try", and 'Dozier' spelt 'Bozier'. "Route 66" is listed as "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" on some versions of the album, and some later versions of the album have "I Need You Baby" listed as "Mona (I Need You Baby)" and the subtitles of "Now I've Got a Witness" and "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" removed entirely.

The US version of the album, originally self-titled but later officially called England's Newest Hit Makers, was the band's debut US album and was released by London Records on 29 May 1964, a month and a half after the British version. The track "Not Fade Away" (the A-side of the band's third UK single) replaced "I Need You Baby",[5] and the titles of the tracks "Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" and "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" were shortened to "Now I've Got a Witness" and "Tell Me" on most versions of the American release. Upon its release, The Rolling Stones reached No. 11 in the US, going gold in the process. To date, this is the Rolling Stones' only American studio album that has failed to place in the top five on the Billboard album charts.[6] In August 2002, the album, by now officially called England's Newest Hit Makers, was reissued as a new remastered CD and SACD Digipak by ABKCO.[7]

On April 16th, 1964, The Rolling Stones released their eponymous debut album. As they looked to enter the race against The Beatles, they appeared on the record sleeve in mop-top hairstyles and smart suits as directed by Oldham. But what the group lacked on The Beatles was original material. The Rolling Stones consisted of 12 songs in total, and only three were original compositions by the band.

None of this eight-months-and-a-whole-lotta-fancy-studio-tricks stuff that came later in the decade. You set up your instruments, you made sure sound levels were okay for the sound guy and then you bashed out a couple of songs before you were even allowed to take a pee break.

The Rolling Stones recorded the dozen songs on their self-titled debut in just five days. Maybe not as impressive as the Beatles laying down the majority of their first LP in 13 hours, but still an admirable achievement.

Three months earlier, the group released its debut EP, and like the singles that preceded it and most of the album that followed, it was made up of other people's songs. Their very first single, released in June 1963, was a Chuck Berry cover, "Come On"; the four-song EP also included a Berry song, "Bye Bye Johnny." The album, too, included a Berry cover, "Carol."

But for the most part, they went a little deeper during the album's sessions (which was recorded during hectic single-day sessions in January and February). They opened with "Route 66," a big hit for the Nat King Cole Trio in 1946, and closed with Rufus Thomas' "Walking the Dog" (which Thomas took to the Top 10 the year before), but in between were soul and blues cuts that showed just how extensive the Stones' record collections were.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards received their first songwriting credit on "Tell Me," one of the album's highlights, along with "I Just Want to Make Love to You." Through it all, there's a ragged consistency that honors both their blues heroes and their own stage-trained toughness.

The Rolling Stones released "Not Fade Away" as a single in the U.K. in January and, as was custom there, it wasn't included on the album; "Mona" eventually made it on the U.S.-only release The Rolling Stones Now! in early 1965.

Over the next 15 months, the Stones would sharpen and stabilize their sound on singles and albums that would shape their path as one of rock's all-time greatest groups. It was a busy period, and the manic pace (recording, touring, recording, touring, over and over again) that preceded and followed their debut album was just the start.

By the end of the '60s, they were able to take more time on their records (once again, thanks to the Beatles). In April 1964, they were still a long way from that place, and still a few records away from their first classic. But with this album, the Rolling Stones were getting closer.

The world's premier rock and roll band, The Rolling Stones, has not only endured - its members have remained at the top of their game for more than half a century. One of the world's most successful touring acts year after year, they've capped off 2016 with the release of a new blues album, "Blue and Lonesome," their first studio album in 11 years.

Here, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones attend the North American debut of "Exhibitionism," an immersive display of memorabilia from the group's more than five decades of musicmaking, at Industria in Manhattan's West Village, November 15, 2016 in New York City.

The front cover of the Rolling Stones' eponymous debut album, released in April 1964. The album contained several covers (including Chuck Beery's "Carol," "You Can Make It If You Try," "I Need You Baby," "I Just Want to Make Love to You," and "Route 66"), and one new composition by Jagger and Richards: "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)." It was No. 1 in the U.K. for 12 weeks.

A screaming Rolling Stones fan is tackled as she races across the tarmac at Melbourne Airport towards the plane that brought the British singing group, Jan. 28, 1965. About 1,500 teenagers, 40 policemen and 25 security personnel were on hand for the rock group's arrival.

The Rolling Stones during their first performance on the European continent at Westfalenhalle in Westphalia City, Mnster, Germany on Sept. 11, 1965. Thousands of screaming fans attended the concert, the first in a five-day tour of West Germany.

Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, answers questions during a press conference at Granada Studios, London, July 31, 1967. Earlier in the day the Appeal Court had dismissed his appeal against conviction of illegally possessing drugs.

Mick Jagger sings at the Altamont Rock Festival at Livermore, Calif. on Saturday, December 6, 1969, while Hells Angels cross the stage during a melee to help fellow motorcyclists. The Rolling Stone hired the Hells Angels to police the concert for $500 worth of beer.

Lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Mick Taylor on stage at the Altamont Race Track in Livermore, Calif. - the infamous "Gimme Shelter" rock concert at which a fan was stabbed to death by a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club - on December 8, 1969.

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