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THE ROLLING STONES – DECEMBER’S CHILDREN (AND EVERYBODY’S)

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The fifth American studio album by the Stones (London PS 451), December’s Children (And Everybody’s) was released on December 4 1965. In 1968 bassist Bill Wyman quoted Mick Jagger as referring to the record as “not an album, but just a collection of songs”, which included the band’s then big hit Get Off of My Cloud and As Tears Go By (the band’s own remake of Marianne Faithfull’s Jagger/Richards-penned hit), among others.

In fact Jagger and Richards penned only half of the songs themselves. With recording sessions prior to its release for the LP, most of the songs were taken from the UK release of Out of Our Heads album, which was recorded in Los Angeles in September 1965. In fact most opf them had previously appeared on UK versions of Rolling Stones albums, as well as singles or EPs, but the band realized they had yet to be heard in the US market.

As for its strange album title, it came from nobody the band’s manage, Andrew Loog Oldham (whom in the liner notes amusingly credits them to “Lou Folk-Rock Adler”). According to Jagger, this is Oldham’s idea of ​​”hip” poetry. The image of the band on the cover by photographer Gered Mankowitz had been previously used in the UK edition of the Out of Our Heads album.

TRACKLIST
SIDE A:
She Said Yeah (Sonny Christy/Roddy Jackson)
Talkin’ About You (Chuck Berry)
You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander)
Look What You’ve Done (McKinley Morganfield)*
The Singer Not The Song (MJ/KR)
Route 66 (live) (Bobby Troup)

SIDE B:
Get Off Of My Cloud (MJ/KR)
I’m Free (MJ/KR)
As Tears Go By (MJ/KR/Andrew Oldham)*
Gotta Get Away (MJ/KR)
Blue Turns To Grey (MJ/KR)*
I’m Moving On (Hank Snow)

From The Complete Works Website:
The album includes three new songs which weren’t already released in the UK (here marked with a star). I’m Moving On is a live track, already released on a UK EP in June 1965.

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About the Decembers’s Children (and Everybody’s) album by The Rolling Stones (from allmusic)

The last Stones album in which cover material accounted for 50 percent of the content was thrown together from a variety of singles, British LP tracks, outtakes, and a cut from an early 1964 U.K. EP. Haphazard assembly aside, much of it’s great, including the huge hit “Get Off of My Cloud” and the controversial, string-laden acoustic ballad “As Tears Go By” (a Top Ten item in America). Raiding the R&B closet for the last time, they also offered a breathless run-through of Larry Williams’ “She Said Yeah,” a sultry Chuck Berry cover (“Talkin’ About You”), and exciting live versions of “Route 66” and Hank Snow’s “I’m Moving On.”

More importantly, Jagger-Richards’ songwriting partnership had now developed to the extent that several non-A-side tracks were reasonably strong in their own right, such as “I’m Free” and “The Singer Not the Song.” And the version of “You Better Move On” (which had been featured on a British EP at the beginning of 1964) was one of their best and most tender soul covers.

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