Thursday, December 01, 2011

Some Girls Week: A Quite Remarkably Out of Tune Early Clue to the New Direction

From 1966, and the December's Children LP, please enjoy the Rolling Stones and the Jagger-Richard 12-string pop beauty "The Singer Not the Song."



I love this song with a white-hot passion, fully cognizant that it is quite as ridiculous on some levels as Greil Marcus observed in that review of Some Girls I referenced yesterday. In fact, I actually used to sing this with a couple of my old bands back in the 70s. Okay, to be scrupulously honest it might be more accurate to say that I used to yowl this, although that's a subject for another occasion.

That said, until I found this clip on YouTube recently, I had no idea whatsoever it had ever been released as a single.

In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who gleans its relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

15 comments:

joe p said...

records by the rolling stones?

edward said...

1st off, December's Children was my very first LP. Bought a mono copy for 99¢ at a Woolworth's in, I think, 1968.

Onto the list:

Great Song, Bad Singer?
Great Singer, Bad Song?
Songs done better/ worse by someone else?
Most unlikely cover version?

Sal Nunziato said...

Songs you know are terrible but love out of loyalty.

steve simels said...

Heh.
:-)

Also, no, no no and no.

Blue Ash Fan said...

Unlikely choices for singles?

And I'm with Steve on this one. Man, sometimes people think too much and just suck the pleasure out of things. I've loved this song from the first time I heard it.

Anonymous said...

I got it: Songs whose titles demonstrate how verbs become nouns...

Shriner said...

Rolling Stones songs *not* sung by Jagger or Richards?

(Wait -- are there even any?)

buzzbabyjesus said...

Songs that you're embarrassed to admit that you really really like.

Bill sings "In Another Land" on Satanic Malesties.....

fmcg said...

Whose is the odd voice on "Salt of the Earth"?

Anonymous said...

fmcg...
If you're referring to the 1st verse, I believe that would be Keith.

RichD

DJWildBill said...

"The Singer, Not The Song": songs about sewing machines?

pete said...

Or Yiddish short-story writers?

steve simels said...

Or Yiddish short-story writers?

Heh.

Anonymous said...

Songs about creating music? The creative process?

ROTP(lumber)

Anonymous said...

I actually used to sing this with a couple of my old bands back in the 70s.

... and also in the 80s ...

AP