Edit for headphones, March 2020. Source file is the song on the 1968 album "Last Time Around (1993 hdcd remaster atco cde 90393).
A very nice song from Buffalo Springfield's last album, released to fulfill contractual commitments.
(By the time the album was completed the group had functionally disbanded: nowhere do all members appear together on any track, and even the cover photo of the group is a montage.)

This great song was recorded February 5, 1968, Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, California. Lead vocals: Neil Young; bass: Gary Marker.

songs on the album:
1 - on the way home
2 - it's so hard to wait
3 - pretty girl why
4 - four days gone
5 - carefree country day
6 - special care
7 - the hour of not quite rain
8 - questions
9 - I am a child
10 - merry-go-round
11 - uno mundo
12 - kind woman

personnel on the album:
Richie Furay - guitar (1,2,3,8,10,11,12), vocals (1,2,3,5,10,12)
Dewey Martin - drums (1,2,3,9,11)
Jim Messina - bass, vocals (5,12)
Stephen Stills - guitar (1,2,3,4,6,8,10,11), piano (4,6,8), organ (6,8,11), bass (6), vibes (1), percussion (11), Handclaps (11), background vocals (1,5,10), vocals (3,4,6,8,11)
Neil Young - guitar (3,9,10), harmonica (9), piano (1), background vocals (1), vocals (9), appears in some capacity on (5)
Bruce Palmer - bass guitar (1,2,3,8,10,11), vocals (12)

with

Buddy Miles: drums (6)
Jimmy Karstein: drums (8,10)
Gary Marker: bass (9)
Jeremy Stuart: harpsichord, calliope, bells (10)
Rusty Young: pedal steel guitar (12)
Richard Davis: bass (12)
unidentified: horns (1), saxophone, clarinet (2), drums (4), bass, drums, harpsichord, orchestra (7), piano, drums (12)

I AM A CHILD
(Neil Young)

I am a child, I'll last a while
you can't conceive of the pleasure in my smile
you hold my hand, rough up my hair
it's lots of fun to have you there

God gave to you now, you give to me
I like to know what you learned
the sky is blue and so is the sea
what is the color when black is burned?
what is the color?

you are a man, you understand
you pick me up and you lay me down again
you make the rules you say what's fair
it's lots of fun to have you there

I gave to you now, you give to me
I'd like to know what you learned
the sky is blue and so is the sea
what is the color, when black is burned?
what is the color?

I am a child, I'll last a while
you can't conceive
of the pleasure in my smile
you hold my hand...

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Edit 2 for headphones, March 2023. "Lady Jane" is from the awesome album "Aftermath", the best Stones album ever, with Brian Jones at his musical peak.
Source file of the edit is the Japanese mini lp cd "Aftermath", UK version, catalog number uicy-93021.
Recorded March 6 - 9, 1966. Released on "Aftermath" in 1966.
Dulcimer: Brian Jones. Harpsichord: Jack Nitzsche. Acoustic guitars: Brian Jones & Keith Richards. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Bass: Bill Wyman. Charlie Watts: xylophone.

LADY JANE
(Jagger/Richards)

my sweet Lady Jane
when I see you again
your servant am I
and will humbly remain

just heed this plea my love
on bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane

my dear Lady Anne
I've done what I can
I must take my leave
for promised I am
this play is run my love
your time has come my love
I've pledged my troth to Lady Jane

oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
the sands have run out
for your lady and me

wedlock is nigh my love
her station's right my love
life is secure with Lady Jane

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Lucin wrote:

« Lady Jane » was penned by duo Mick Jagger and Keith Richards with arrangement by Brian Jones. The song was initially included on the album "Aftermath" which was released on 12 April 1966 in the UK and 20 June 1966 in the US. The song takes its source on a novel called "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by English writer David Herbert Lawrence. "Lady Jane" presents also the influences of author Geoffry Chaucer considered the father of English poetry particularly in the vocal delivery and diction of Mick Jagger. The vocal melody reveals by elsewhere a Renaissance style modal. He has an Elizabethan atmosphere in this cantilena with his lyrics and without any percussion on the studio version. The song is valorized by Brian Jones' instrumental incorporation of baroque rock, this multi-instrumentalist musician seeking to improve the musical textures of the Rolling Stones. The special feature of this composition is the use of a dulcimer by Brian Jones but equally the accompaniment on the harpsichord by Jack Nitzsche halfway through the melody. These ones play the instrument in a pure traditional style. Brian Jones is the secret enunciation here, bringing an exotic touch to "Lady Jane", he is the standard for the playfulness of everything that led to the radiant psychedelia of that era. The Rolling Stones went beyond their blues roots to become pop genius artisans who ran neck and neck with the Beatles. After the death of Brian Jones in 1969, the song was not performed in concert before 2012. This song is one of the most beautiful in sixties pop.

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Edit for headphones, June 2021. A song of the album "Buffalo Springfield Again" (Atco reissue 7567-90391-2). "Mr. Soul" was the b-side to "Bluebird" in 1967, a nr.38 chart hit in Canada, nr.58 in the USA.
Neil Young wrote the song after he fell due to an epileptic fit during a performance with Buffalo Springfield. He wrote it while he was staying at Los Angeles University Hospital. In the text he is critical of the star status of artists. For example, the mucus of fans, false emotions in the music industry and show business itself. The guitar run is in fact an inside-out adaptation of Satisfaction. Says Dutch Wikipedia on this song.

Neil said: "A lot of songs take a long time to write. Generally they take an hour and a half, two hours to write. But this one took only five minutes."

Neil Young: vocals & lead guitar. Backing vocals & rhythm guitar: Stephen Stills & Richie Furay.

MR. SOUL
(Neil Young)

oh, hello mister soul
I dropped by to pick up a reason
for the thought that I caught that my head
is the event of the season
why in crowds just a trace of my face
could seem so pleasin'
I'll cop out to the change
but a stranger is putting the tease on

I was down on a frown
when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan
who said I upset her
any girl in the world
could have easily known me better
she said, you're strange
but don't change, and I let her

in a while will the smile on my face
turn to plaster?
stick around while the clown who is sick
does the trick of disaster
for the race of my head and my face
is moving much faster

is it strange, I should change?
I don't know, why don't you ask her?
is it strange, I should change?
I don't know, why don't you ask her?
is it strange, I should change?
I don't know, why don't you ask her?
is it strange, I should change?
I don't know, why don't you ask her?
is it strange, I should change?
I don't know...

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Edit 1c for headphones, December 2012 (video improved). Wow, never knew there's so much noise in the official cd releases of this song. I removed the noise as much as possible (needed a trick of my own too). I also created some less channel separation. Enjoy.

Source of the edit is the US album "Flowers" (Japanese mini lp remastered 2006 uicy-93025).

Harpsichord and vibraphone (or marimba / xylophone / celeste / glockenspiel * ): Brian Jones. Accordion: Nick de Caro. ** Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Percussion: Charlie Watts. Vocasl: Mick Jagger.

* There's much discussion on which of these five instruments was used on the intro en further on in the song. I chose one of the the iorr.org forum members opinion:
It sounds like a vibraphone(or something similar) played higher up it's register with echo/reverb, hence the airy sound after the initial percussive strike to each note.

** It was the suggestion of Jack Nitzsche to engage Nick de Caro to play the accordion part. Nick was an established LA arranger for people like Sonny & Cher and many more.

BACK STREET GIRL
(Jagger/Richards)

I don't want you to be high
I don't want you to be down
don't want to tell you no lie
just want you to be around

please come right up to my ears
you will be able to hear what I say

don't want you out in my world
just you be my back street girl

please don't be part of my life
please keep yourself to yourself
please don't you bother my wife
that way you won't get no help

don't try to ride on my horse
you're rather common and coarse anyway

don't want you out in my world
just you be my back street girl

please don't you call me at home
please don't come knocking at night
please never ring on the phone
your manners are never quite right

please take the favors I grant
curtsy and look nonchalant, just for me

don't want you part of my world
just you be my back street girl

just you be my back street girl

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Edit for headphones, March 2023. Source of the edit is the song on the 1969 album "The Pious Bird Of Good Omen".

Peter Green - vocals, guitar
John McVie - bass
Mick Fleetwood - drums

RAMBLING PONY
(Peter Green)

oooh

I'm a rambling pony
roll from town to town

I'm a rambling pony
roll from town to town

I'm looking for a sweet woman
make my love come down

if she a married woman
she only nine years old

if she a married woman
yeah only nine years old

I got a woman I'm loving
keep me fishing all day long

and I'm leaving this morning
won't be back no more

and I'm leaving this morning
won't be back no more

there ain't a rider in the city
keep me inside the door

oooh

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Edit for headphones, March 2023. A song from the 2003 album "Birdland", the fifth studio album by English blues rock band the Yardbirds. Their first studio album in over 35 years, the only band members from the 1960s group who appear are drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja (former lead guitarist Jeff Beck has a cameo on "My Blind Life"). Newer members are lead singer and bassist John Idan, lead guitarist Gypie Mayo and harmonica player Alan Glen. Notable lead guitarists make cameos throughout the album, including Joe Satriani, Steve Vai (on this song), Slash and Brian May.

The album contains seven new originals (composed mostly by McCarty or Dreja), and eight remakes of classic songs from the 1960s. The song "An Original Man (A Song for Keith)" was dedicated to Keith Relf, original Yardbirds singer who died in 1976.

In 1966 the first release of the song charted #3 in the UK, #7 in Canada, #10 in the USA, #22 in Germany, #38 in Holland.

Personnel on the album:
The Yardbirds:
Chris Dreja – rhythm guitar
Alan Glen – harmonica, percussion
John Idan – bass guitar, lead vocals
Gypie Mayo – lead guitar
Jim McCarty – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians:
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – guitar on "The Nazz Are Blue"
Jeff Beck – guitar on "My Blind Life"
Steve Lukather – guitar on "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"
Brian May – guitar on "You're a Better Man Than I"
Joe Satriani – guitar on "Train Kept A-Rollin'"
Slash – guitar on "Over Under Sideways Down"
Steve Vai – guitar on "Shapes of Things"
Johnny Rzeznik – guitar & backing vocal on "For Your Love"
Martin Ditchum - additional percussion

THE SHAPES OF THINGS
(Jim McCarty/Keith Relf/Paul Samwell-Smith)

shapes of things before my eyes
just teach me to despise
will time make men more wise

here within my lonely frame
my eyes just heard my brain
but will it seem the same

come tomorrow will I be older
come tomorrow maybe a soldier
come tomorrow may I be bolder than today

now the trees are almost green
but will they still be seen
when time and tide have been

falling into your passing hands
please don't destroy these lands
don't make them desert sands

come tomorrow will I be older
come tomorrow maybe a soldier
come tomorrow may I be bolder than today

soon I hope that I will find
thoughts deep within my mind
that won't displace my kind

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Edit 4 (wide&true) for headphones. Dubbed video. Wide mono by me and true stereo orchestra by Eckhard. True stereo orchestra starts at 0:42 (middle and right) and on both channels stereo orchestra starts at 1:15. The Eckhard video with the DES true stereo orchestra is no longer on the channel of "monotostereoking", where I got it from.

The channel of monotostereoking is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Monotostereoking

Vocals: Mick Jagger. 12-string acoustic guitar: Keith Richards. Strings: Mike Leander orchestra.

Michael George Farr (30 June 1941 – 18 April 1996), known professionally as Mike Leander, was an English arranger, songwriter and record producer. He worked variously with David McWilliams ("Days of Pearly Spencer"), Gary Glitter, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Cocker, Billy Fury, Marc Bolan, Small Faces, Van Morrison, Alan Price, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Jimmy Page, Roy Orbison, Ben E. King, the Drifters, Gene Pitney and the Beatles. Leander also wrote the score for the films "Privilege" and "Run a Crooked Mile".

AS TEARS GO BY
(Jagger/Richards)

it is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
smiling faces I can see
but not for me
I sit and watch
as tears go by

my riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
all I hear is the sound
of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
as tears go by

it is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
doin' things I used to do
they think are new
I sit and watch
as tears go by

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Edit for headphones, March 2023. A song (bonus track) from the 1968 album "The Inner Mystique" (1994 Sundazed Music SC 6024)(with four bonus tracks).

The Chocolate Watchband was signed to Tower Records in 1966 and released their first single, "Sweet Young Thing", in 1967. Later in the year, the band released their debut album, "No Way Out". Though the album did not chart nationally, the band had a huge following in San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1968, their second album, "The Inner Mystique", was released and included the band's most popular song, a cover version of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else". By 1969, with Mark Loomis dropping out in the middle of the recording sessions, the band released a final album, "One Step Beyond", however it did not include David Aguilar on vocals and was not as highly regarded or indicative of their past work. The Chocolate Watchband officially broke up in 1970 with no intent of ever reuniting again.

After their dissolution in 1970, a revival of interest in psychedelic and garage rock in the late 1980s and 1990s brought the group to public attention, and their original vinyl releases became collectors' items, selling among private sellers for over USD$100. Rhino Records issued a best-of release of the band in 1983, while Sundazed and other labels re-issued the original albums on compact discs, including bonus tracks. After leaving the band, its members each embarked on other non-musical pursuits; Aguilar had worked as an astronomy professor after the band's dissolution.

Continued interest prompted the band to reunite in 1999, with Dave Aguilar, Tim Abbott (replacing Mark Loomis, who backed out of the reunion), Bill Flores, and Gary Andrijasevich; Michael Reese was added as guitarist in place of Sean Tolby. The group began to touring internationally in 2000, culminating in a show at New York's Cavestomp and a live album, At the Love-In Live! in 2001. They also issued a studio album,Get Away, in between the Cavestomp show and the live album. The group has since performed in Europe and the United States. In 2005, Melts in Your Brain... Not on Your Wrist, a two-CD compilation of the Chocolate Watchband's complete Tower and Uptown recordings, was released.

In June 2013, the Chocolate Watchband made it back to a recording studio in their hometown San Jose, to begin a new album. From 2015 to the present (2018), the band's lineup is Tim Abbott on lead guitar and vocals; Gary Andrijasevich on drums; David Aguilar on vocals, keyboards, and harmonica; Alec Palao on bass and backing vocals; and Derek See on guitar and vocals. The resulting album (This Is My Voice) was released in 2019 to critical acclaim; the lead off single 'Secret Rendezvous' was featured as 'Coolest Song In The World' on Little Steven's Underground Garage program in February 2019.

Edit for headphones. Some new editing tricks applied in this one.
From the Mono EP "Kwyet Kinks", september 17, 1965. UK only.
Sorry, no video, any idea's?
You'll have to watch these photo's, to ease the 'pain' they move quickly...

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Edit 2a for headphones. Lyrics were written by Brian Jones & Keith Richards, with the music written by Brian Jones, but he was never credited.

Youtuber "Fallen Angel" wrote:
Although they perpetrated many abuses against Brian Jones, the manner in which Jagger and Richards denied Jones a writing credit for 'Ruby Tuesday' stands as a glaring example of their rapacious thuggery. For the facts regarding the creation of 'Ruby Tuesday' are (a) that the song is based on a descant (a trebly melody) that Jones wrote and played to the band when they were in the studio, (b) that when Richards heard that melody, he co-wrote a piano accompaniment with Jones, and then added lyrics, (c) that the song was ultimately composed by Jones and Richards, with Jones having written better than 60% of the song, and (d) that, whereas Jagger receives a co-writing credit, he actually contributed absolutely nothing to the composition of the song. When the song was released it was obvious to anyone who heard it that, though Jagger sang the vocal line, the most prominent element was not his vocal, but rather the extraordinarily beautiful, wistful, slightly Elizabethan descant that Brian Jones wrote and performed on the recorder. It is also Jones who plays the piano that underlines the verses. Thus, upon its release, it was the infectious melody that Jones wrote and performed that sent 'Ruby Tuesday' to the top of charts around the world. However, in spite of the fact that it is patently obvious that Brain Jones had a huge hand in the composition of 'Ruby Tuesday,' the song's authorship, from the time of its original release in 1966 through the present day, has been credited to Jagger/Richards. Thus, it is clear that in maintaining the deception as to the song's true authorship, Jagger and Richards have not only denied Jones a rightful credit for co-writing 'Ruby Tuesday', but have also effectively prevented him (and subsequently his estate) from earning any royalties from the enormous sales that the song has generated. What could have prompted Jagger and Richards to deny Brian Jones the writing credit that he justly deserved for essentially writing 'Ruby Tuesday'?... Were they motivated by greed?... Did they deny Jones a writing credit in order to steal his money? YES and NO... As they had already attained considerable success and wealth, as songwriters before 'Ruby Tuesday' was written and released, it seems rather than monetary greed the motivation on the part of Jagger and Richards to deny Jones a writing credit for 'Ruby Tuesday' was most certainly born out of their greed for power and control over the Rolling Stones. Of course the TRUTH is that, whereas Jagger and Richards have appropriated both all of the credit and all of the royalties for the Rolling Stones catalogue of original songs, the simple fact is that Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and several other musicians (most prominently, Billy Preston) have all made significant contributions (albeit, un-credited) to the writing of some of the best known Rolling Stones songs. However, beyond their greed for power and control, the element that motivated Jagger and Richards in 1966 to deny Brain Jones a song writing credit for 'Ruby Tuesday is the same element that motivates them today: the unbridled hatred, spite and malice that they developed in the early days of the band towards Jones, simply because it was Jones (not Jagger or Richards) who invented both The Rolling Stones and the lifestyle for which they have been known, and widely celebrated, for well over fifty-years. Motivated by the hatred that they've held against Jones since the very early days of the band, Jagger and Richards have determined not only to deny Jones credit for his musical compositions, but, above all, to deny him any credit for being the creator, conceptualizer and originator of the Rolling Stones. To that end, when Brian was alive, they constantly bullied, humiliated, belittled and physically attacked Jones in order to demoralize him, and thus deter him from playing any role within the band that would further his enormous creative contribution to the artistic legacy of the Rolling Stones. He plunged into the deep depression which, along with other factors, ultimately led to his death.

Not an edit. The Dutch band "Mayfly" (the band started as "Guruperide", a name formed by the band members' initials) was founded in 1970 and disbanded in 1975. The band released one lp, "Mayfly" and six singles: Blue Sofa/Orphan Girl, Topless Bertha/Dawn Of An Old Man's Life, It's Illusive/Orphan Girl, Quite A Surprise/Signed By The Time, Skew Eyed Jimmy/Second Hand Dream, Johnny/From Now On.

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Edit 1b for headphones. A May 1972 UK no 16 hit, Germany too, no 25 in always-recognizing-a-great-song-Holland and 86 places lower, no 111 in USA... and that for THE space ship part of the world!
A song from the 1972 album "Everybody's In Show-Biz, Everybody's A Star" (2010 remastered + bonus tracks) Sanctuary Records UICY-20083. Edited for some more bass and some other ruudtes' extra's.

SUPERSONIC ROCKET SHIP
(Ray Davies)

let me take you on a little trip
my supersonic ship's at your disposal
if you feel so inclined, well alright

we're gonna travel faster than light
so do up your overcoat tight
and you'll go anywhere you want to decide, well alright

too many people side by side
got no place to hide

on my supersonic rocket ship
nobody has to be hip
nobody needs to be out of sight (oh out of sight, man)

nobody's gonna travel second class
there'll be equality
and no suppression of minorities

we'll take this planet, shake it round
and turn it upside down
my supersonic rocket ship

(orchestral winds WITHOUT sax "oh no" phones)

it ain't no magic, ain't no lie
you'll laugh so loud you'll cry
up and down, 'round and 'round
on my supersonic rocket ship

let me take you on a little trip
my supersonic ship's at your disposal
if you feel so inclined, well alright

nobody's gonna travel second class
there'll be equality
and no suppression of minorities, well alright
let me take you on a little trip

on my supersonic rocket ship
 

Edit 3 for headphones, November 2022, new ways of editing.
Recorded in April, 1969. Released on "Let It Bleed" on December 5, 1969.
Source file of the edit is the song on the 1969 album "Let It Bleed" (Japanese mini lp 2006 remaster uicy-93029).
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Vibraphone & bass: Bill Wyman. Guitars & backing vocals: Keith Richards. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Tambourine: Jimmy Miller.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote "Monkey Man" as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of his movie "Umano Non Umano!" (Human, Not Human!). Recorded in April 1969, the song's introduction features distinctive vibraphone, bass, guitar, and piano. Richards plays main riff and slide guitar solo. Alas, the slide guitar was not done by Brian Jones, he definitely would have done a much better job... Keith way of doing it is a sort of anti climax, sorry... The rest of the song is smashing dynamite... can't get enough of it....

The album charted:

1 - Holland
1 - UK
2 - Australia
2 - Norway
3 - Germany
3 - US
4 - Canada
5 - Sweden
12 - Finland
37 - Sweden
138 - France

So, if you're looking for a nice present for your friend & wonder how you can help Mick Jagger through the winter (or when you think he looks a bit pale around his nose): buy the album!

MONKEY MAN *
(Jagger/Richards)

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
all my friends are junkies
that's not really true

I'm a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer
what you do?

but I've been bit and I've been tossed around
by every she-rat in this town
have you, babe?

well, I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too

I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
but I pulled on through

yes, I'm a sack of broken eggs
I always have an unmade bed
don't you?

well, I hope we're not too messianic
or a trifle too satanic
we love to play the blues

well I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey
monkey woman too, babe!

I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy!
I'm a monkeyyy man! I'm a monkeyyy man!
I'm a monkey! I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy!
I'm a ma ma ma ma monkey!
a ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
arf!
I'ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
arf! monkey! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf!
arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf!
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
(and a lot of drool)

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* In the evening, in these times of high prizes for electricity - or, like Catweazle named it, "electrickery" - you may want to turn off all the lights in your room, play this video in full screen & enjoy the light show !
it is free !

Not an edit. The Dutch band "Mayfly" (the band started as "Guruperide", a name formed by the band members' initials) was founded in 1970 and disbanded in 1975. The band released one lp, "Mayfly" and six singles: Blue Sofa/Orphan Girl, Topless Bertha/Dawn Of An Old Man's Life, It's Illusive/Orphan Girl, Quite A Surprise/Signed By The Time, Skew Eyed Jimmy/Second Hand Dream, Johnny/From Now On.

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Edit 2 (instr. extra bass) for headphones. The official release was the first single of the Dire Straits; a Dutch (hurray for Holland!) record company heard the first release of the song and contracted the band. The song was re-recorded and re-released in 1978. The song also was on their debut album "Dire Straits". "Sultans of Swing" was re-issued again as a single in November 1988.

France: 36. Germany: 20. Belgium: 14. Italy: 12. New Zealand: 12. The Netherlands (Dutch Top 40): 11. UK: 8. Ireland: 6. US: 4. Canada: 4. South Africa: 3. So South Africa was the swingingest country!

If you want to sing along:

SULTANS OF SWING
(Mark Knopfler)

You get a shiver in the dark, it's rainin' in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring

And now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places, but the horns, they're blowing that sound
Way on down south, way on down south in London town

You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
But it's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing
it's an old guitar is all he can afford, when he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doin' alright
He can play the honky tonk like anything, savin' it up for Friday night
With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing

And a crowd of young boys, they're foolin' around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band, it ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans... yeah the Sultans played Creole... Creole

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings: "Goodnight, now it's time to go home"
And he makes it fast with one more thing: "We are the Sultans... we are the Sultans of Swing"

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Edit (live Leeds) for headphones. The March 1971 UK concert tour was the first proper tour in their homeland since autumn 1966. They were becoming tax exiles and were heading for the South of France, which they did shortly after finishing the tour. As a result, this tour was also called the Good-Bye Britain Tour. Almost the entire Leeds show was later broadcast in mono by the BBC.

Mick Jagger: lead vocals, harmonica. Keith Richards: guitar, backing vocals. Mick Taylor: guitar. Bill Wyman: bass. Charlie Watts: drums. Nicky Hopkins: piano. Jim Price: trumpet. Bobby Keys: sax-o-phone, the thing I hate *. Lucky me its sound is blown away by the beautiful trumpet. So: Thank you mister Price!

STRAY CAT BLUES
(Jagger/Richards)

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs
I know you're no scare-eyed honey.
There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

I can see that you're fifteen years old
No I don't want your I.D.
You look so rest-less and you're so far from home
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Bet your mama don't know you scream like that
I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that.

You look so weird and you're so far from home
But you don't really miss your mother
Don't look so scared I'm no mad-brained bear
But it's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime
Oh, yeah
Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scratch like that
I bet she don't know you can bite like that.

You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you
Why don't you bring her upstairs
If she's so wild then she can join in too
It's no hanging matter
It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that
Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat
I bet you mama don't know you can bite like that
I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back

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* the sax-o-phone was invented by a Belgian, Adolphe Sax, in 1840, who wanted to create a group or series of instruments that would be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds. Well he succeeded, and that's why I so much hate this instrument: it is a typical instrument of this era: self centered. And that's why to me it sounds like a cheap hooter, klaxon. It says: "All other sounds, get out of my way, here I am, drowning all of you!!!". Yech!!!

Edit for headphones, May 2022. A memory from my childhood... there was just too much "la la la" & "hey!" going on in this song, I just couldn't resist removing that. (Sorry hard core Buffoons fans, please don't be offended by my playing around with sound.) "Lovely Loretta" charted 13 in Holland in 1968 and was for seven weeks in the Dutch charts.

If the official release was played to Dustin Hofman's movie character Raymond in the film Rain Man, he would have noticed he heard one hundred and fourty one "la"'s... I narrowed it down to eighty... that's sixty one less... (By the way, my wife says this is carnival music, so, to make up for that, I added some pictures of Amsterdam.)

LOVELY LORETTA
(Paul Beuselinck/Ray Randall)

lovely Loretta, I'm goin' to get her
just as soon as she passes my way
I'm gonna say
come on with me and together we'll stay

lovely Loretta don't you feel better
now that the people have all gone away
we're gonna stay
together we'll watch tomorrow meet them today

you getting bolder head on my shoulder
how could you content her you just shook your head
must have been saying
you got to glitter love dreams are all dead

now I made up my mind you're gonna be mine
and here's what I'm going to say

Loretta Loretta is doin' better
I'm glad I found you isn't it right
Loretta, Loretta is doin' better
I'm glad I found you
don't you feel better, better

la lala la lala la lalalala
lala la lalala la la la

when the morning's sunk in this feeling of hunger
the food is in the kitchen but there's nothing to eat
isn't she sweet
brushing so softly every time from my feet

smiling so sweetly she left so discretely
a book on her arm and a bag in her hand
wasn't this planned
she slipped away just like the shift in the sand

now I made up my mind you're gonna be mine
and here's what I'm goin' to say

Loretta, Loretta is doin' better
I'm glad I found you isn't it right
Loretta, Loretta is doin' better
I'm glad I found you
and don't you feel better, better

la lala la lala la lalalala
lala la lalala la la la

la lala la lala la lalalala
lala la lalala la la la

la lala la lala la lalala la
la la la lalala la la la

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Edit for headphones, May 2022. A song from the 1999 compilation cd "The Buffoons - The Singles". "The Buffoons" was a Dutch close harmony group, founded in 1966. They had several hits in the Dutch charts, this song charted #15 in May 1968. They disbanded in 1979, although they reunited several times in various settings.

SISTER THERESA'S EAST RIVER ORPHANAGE

sister Theresa, leading the orphans
on a cold winter's day
up on the rooftop Danny would watch them
poor little soft on their way

Danny was tough, king of the jungle
a fool in the eyes of the most
he never tasted love or affection
no one ever had time

every night Danny had a dream
he saw the orphans chasing him over mountains of icecream

hear the churchbells ringing
sister Theresa's singing
all the children singing
ave Maria

then one night, down in the corner
Danny robbed a store
ran with the money
and put it under the orphanages floor

father Sam Clamcy stands in the hallway, waiting for Danny to come
fires are shot only after telling him not to come
Danny laid dying in the cold and lonely place
and Clamcy couldn't understand the smile on Danny's face

hear the churchbells ringing
sister Theresa's singing
all the children singing
ave Maria

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Edit for headphones, May 2022.
The Buffoons, a Dutch band, founded in the sixties.
This song charted #4 in 1967 in Holland.

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Edit for headphones, April 2022. A song from the 1965 album "Fairy Tale", subtitled "Songs for Sunshine People" (2001 expanded deluxe edition on the label Castle Music, catalogue number CMRCD360). Skillfully mutilated by me, sorry for that. Jersey is a British channel island off the French coast. Many thanks to Quinrice on Songmeanings dot com who wrote that the vast majority of lyrics sites mistakenly mention girls instead of gulls. Donovan grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, his family moved to England when he was 10, and that explains some of his accent.

JERSEY THURSDAY
(Donovan)

in the tiny piece of coloured glass my love was born
and reds and golds and yellows were the colours in the dawn
night brought on its purple cloak of velvet to the sky
and the gulls were willing spinning on Jersey Thursday

in the tiny piece of coloured glass my love was born
and reds and golds and yellows were the colours in the dawn
night brought on its purple cloak of velvet to the sky
and the gulls were willing spinning on Jersey Thursday

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Edit 2 for headphones, February 2023. Dubbed video! Recorded September 28 & 29, 1964. Released on February 13, 1965 on the US album "The Rolling Stones, Now!" In 1968 released as b-side to "Street Fighting Man" in the UK. They had the guts to release an old mono song as b-side! Still, it is a great old gem! In 1989 it was released for the first time on a Rolling Stones album in the UK: "The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years".
It was the A2-side of the Australian single release of "Street Fighting Man"; B-side was "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love". Yes, that single had two songs as A-side. Australians do not only speak a very strange kind of English, they release strange singles too...

It was released in 1965 on the "Lord's Taverners Charity Album 14" (Decca LK 4695).*

Source cd of this edit is the Russian unofficial release: "The Rolling Stones no.2" + 8 bonus tracks (CDM 1202-1039), track 15: Surprise, Surprise (Saturday Club Sampler) BONUS.

Weaving electric guitars: Brian Jones & Keith Richards (main lead). Vocals: Mick Jagger. Drums & percussion: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman.

* The Lord's Taverners Charity Album is the title usually given to an LP album produced by Decca Records in 1965, featuring fourteen artists under the Decca label (Decca LK 4695). Decca itself advertised the album under the name of 14 Great Artists, while the name on the sleeve is 14 New Recordings. In the United States the album was released as England's Greatest Hitmakers (London Records LL 3430).
The sleeve also carries this text: "The profit from this record will be donated to the LORD’S TAVERNERS for the National Playing Fields Association, together with the royalty which has been personally given by each of these famous artists."
This text is missing from the US version, which also has a more prominent title.

SURPRISE SURPRISE
(Jagger/Richards)

heard from friends of mine
you been telling lies
how I was wrapped up in you
but surprise, surprise
surprise, surprise
I never wanted you that bad
'cause I knew you was telling lies
knew you was telling lies
I could see it in your eyes

why did you have to
go and fool after
we had got along so fine
but surprise, suprise
surprise, surprise
ain't nothing strange to me
knew you was telling lies
knew you was telling lies
I could see it in your eyes

knew you was telling lies
knew you was telling lies
I could see it in your eyes

I hope you're proud of
all your chasin' 'round
thinkin' I was alone all night
but surprise, suprise
surprise, surprise
you're only foolin' yourself
'cause I knew you was telling lies
knew you was telling lies
I could see it in your eyes

yeah, baby why did you have to go fool around
after we got along so fine
I knew you was tellin' lies and tellin' jive
yes I did
we got along so fine
but I knew you was telling lies
knew you was talkin' jive
I could see it in your eyes

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Edit for headphones, December 2022. A song from the 1966 album "Autumn '66". Charted number one in the UK, 3 in Germany, 5 in Ireland, 20 in New Zealand, 37 in Canada, 47 in the USA, 48 in Belgium.

SOMEBODY HELP ME
(Jackie Edwards)

somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
won't somebody tell me
what I've done wrong

when I was just a little boy of seventeen
I had a girl she was my queen

she didn't love me like I loved her
now I know
now I'm so lonesome on my own

somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
won't somebody tell me
what I've done wrong

I need someone in my life
I need a girl to hold me tight
someone who can make me feel
make me feel all right

somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
won't somebody tell me
what I've done wrong

somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
somebody help me yeah
somebody help me now
somebody help me yeah

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Edit for headphones. Fleetwood Mac during a live performance, November 3, 1969 in Norway in the Oslo sports hall 'Njardhallen'. Finally a useful use of a sports hall, named after a pagan god. To me, sports are nothing but idolatry.* Therefore I consider all sports as useless wasting one's time. Don't use your car, use your bicycle instead, then you don't need any sporting activities. You don't need a car to do your shopping, your parents didn't need one, why should you? Buy proper & big panniers for your bicycle and wake up! How on earth do you think we can ever get a clean environment when you go on living like this? A Dutch research: Todays traffic jams are mainly caused by people who live within ten kilometers from their travel destination!

"I'm worried", says this song, well, aren't YOU ?

Do you really think this world can go on like this? Do you really think this earth was meant to be treated this way? Do you really think that all people from all over the globe can travel where ever they want, without destroying this world? Wake up! Or do you think you're just the happy few who have a license to pollute this planet ?

* And then there's the olympic games foolery: it has absolutely nothing to do with ancient Greek events, it is purely a revenue model for cunning profiteers; they just use ignorant athletes for but one goal: their own profit. The olympic games deception is nothing but a cover up for businessmen.
And as for you athletes: if you think you mean something good to this world - for instance - by running hundred meters another millionth of a second faster than the previous olympic athlete, wow man, how much can one fool himself? That isn't any good for this world! It's pure uselessness, only meant for the glory of yourself. You are pathetic... get a life!

I'M WORRIED
(Elmore James/Morris Levy/Clarence L. Lewis)

I'm worried
worried as a man can be

I'm worried
worried as a man can be

well I'm worried 'bout my baby
she gone away from me

well I'm worried about my baby
and I wonder why's she gone

well I'm worried about my baby
and I wonder why's she gone

well I hope someday
my baby love will return

well I hope someday
my baby love will return

I hope someday
my baby love will return

if she don't come back to me
my whole life will go into ruin

I'm worried
worried as a man can be

I'm worried
worried as a man can be

I'm worried about my baby
she gone away from me

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Edit 2 for headphones. For the elderly Stones fans suffering from old age deafness. From the legendary album "Aftermath"... you don't own it? Shame on you! Second edit: clearer, brighter, happier, for bigger smiles on faces... more organ & bass.
The video was made for publicity of "Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow", so, the Stones all dressed up as mothers. Source cd of the edit: "Aftermath" (uk version)(Japanese mini lp remastered 2006)[uicy-93021].

Recorded March 6 - 9, 1966. Released on "Aftermath" in 1966. The album you need. Buy it.
"Stupid Girl" was the b-side to "Paint It Black" in the USA.

Acoustic & electric guitars: Brian Jones & Keith Richards. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Drums: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman. Organ: Ian Stewart. Harpsichord & percussion: Jack Nitzsche. Backing vocals: Keith Richards.

STUPID GIRL
(Jagger/Richards)

I'm not talking about the kind of clothes she wears
look at that stupid girl
I'm not talking about the way she combs her hair
look at that stupid girl

the way she powders her nose
her vanity shows and it shows
she's the worst thing in this world
well, look at that stupid girl

I'm not talking about the way she digs for gold
look at that stupid girl
well, I'm talking about the way she grabs and holds
look at that stupid girl

the way she talks about someone else
that she don't even know herself
she's the sickest thing in this world
well, look at that stupid girl

well, I'm sick and tired
and I really have my doubts
I've tried and tried
but it never really works out

like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen
look at that stupid girl
she bitches 'bout things that she's never seen
look at that stupid girl

it doesn't matter if she dyes her hair
or the color of the shoes she wears
she's the worst thing in this world
well, look at that stupid girl

shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up
shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up
shut-up, shut-up, shut-up

like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen
look at that stupid girl
she bitches 'bout things that she's never seen
look at that stupid girl

she purrs like a pussycat
then she turns 'round and hisses back
she's the sickest thing in this world
look at that stupid girl

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Edit for headphones, February 2013. This is a mix of the mono version and the stereo lp version, from the 2005 release of the album "Melts In Your Brain... Not On Your Wrist (1965-1967)". The vocals were a bit lower in volume on the stereo version, so I combined the two versions. A bit flangy here and there, consider it a free bonus.

The Chocolate Watchband is an American garage rock band that formed in 1965 in Los Altos, California. The band went through several lineup changes during its existence. Combining psychedelic and garage rock components, their sound was marked by David Aguilar's lead vocals, songwriting, as well as proto-punk musical arrangements. The band's rebellious musical posture made them one of the harder-edged groups of the period with many critics labeling them as America's answer to the Rolling Stones.

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