>>>>Louie, Louie....
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>>>Oh THAT song - can't understand a blind word, never mind misinterpret them! :-)
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>>>There have been several songs to which I've been singing the wrong lyrics for years. It's funny when you hear a song in your youth, interpret it, then years later hear it in better HiFi, or even in stereo, for the first time, and suddenly hear that elusive lyric is totally diferent.
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>>Mick Jagger was once quoted saying he got some advice from one of the great old bluesmen -- I'm thinking Muddy Waters, although it may have been Howlin Wolf -- don't say the words too clearly. It makes you sound more mysterious. Mick clearly took this advice to heart ;-) Not that it's hurt his career any.
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>>One of my favorite concert memories is of Mick and the boys coming on stage at Soldier Field one Sunday night in early September, one of those gorgeous enjoy-it-before-it's-gone late summer days. The Stones came out right at sunset. The first thing he said was, "It's a lully Settember enin, innit?" And it was.
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>Not a bad approximation of a London drawl :-)
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>>My other favorite memory from that show happened during "Satisfaction." We went to the show with two lifelong Chicagoans and Stones fans, Chester and Linda. (You meet the most interesting people through your kids). At the chorus Chester called his sister in Phoenix, another Stones fan. "Listen!" he shouted, and held the phone toward the stage. "Can you turn the music down?" she said. "No, I can't!" he said. LOL
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>Ha Ha!
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>What a cool memory, never mind having the opportunity to see them (did you get a letter from the Pope authorising your attendance, and take out a 2nd mortgage to afford the ticket?)
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>Funny thing about "Satisfaction": Otis Redding, as you probably know, did a great version of that. Interstingly, I noticed that the Stones started doing it more his way afterwards. This was as far back as the famous free "Concert in the Park" (Hyde) when Hell's Angels acted as security. The original record went:
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>"I can't get no ... " more or less all the way through.
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>After Otis it built up to :
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>"I cannot get me no ... no, no ..."
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>and other features that bore a strong resemblance to Otis's version, and stayed like that in all the performances I've heard. Can't say hand-on-my-heart that this is the case but I'd be very interested to know if Jagger consciously affected this style. Do you remmeber how he sang it at that gig?


Not like Otis. Nobody sang like Otis, and nobody as smart as Mick Jagger would even try. 27. So sad. The news today is of the death of Wilson Pickett, at 64, and that's not wrong. (Gonna wait till the midnight hour, till my looooove come tumbling down, in the midnight hour). But Otis said more in 27 years than Wilson Pickett did in 64. He was one of a kind.

These .... arms .... of .... mine ....

I've been loving you too long .... to stop now ....