- The Rolling Stones (EP)
Infobox Album | Name = The Rolling Stones
Type = EP
Artist =The Rolling Stones
Released =17 January 1964
Recorded =8 August 1963 Decca Studios, West Hampstead
14 November 1963 De Lane Lea Studios, Kingsway
Genre = Rock
Length = 9:31
Label = Decca DFE 8560
Producer =Andrew Loog Oldham ("Bye Bye Johnny")Eric Easton
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfpxqtsldhe link]
Last album =
This album = "The Rolling Stones"
(1964)
Next album = "Five by Five"
(1964) |"The Rolling Stones" is the debut EP released by
The Rolling Stones in January 1964. It was released both to capitalise on their first Top 20 hitI Wanna Be Your Man and to test the commercial appeal of the band before their UK labelDecca Records would commit to letting them record an album. "The Rolling Stones" includes four songs recorded at two separate sessions in August and November 1963."The Rolling Stones" features
R&B covers of some of the band's favorite artists, and some recent American hits.Eric Easton is officially listed as the EP's producer.Despite the rawness of the production, the EP reached #1 in the UK singles charts. "Bye Bye Johnny" and "Money" would not see official US release until 1972's retrospective "
More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) "; "You Better Move On" was featured on 1965's "December's Children (And Everybody's) "; and "Poison Ivy" was issued in 2002 on the remastered version of More Hot Rocks.Unavailable for decades, "The Rolling Stones" was finally reissued on
CD in 2004 on the "Singles 1963-1965 " box set throughABKCO Records .Track listing
#"Bye Bye Johnny" (
Chuck Berry ) – 2:09
#"Money" (Berry Gordy Jr./Janie Bradford) – 2:31
#"You Better Move On" (Arthur Alexander ) – 2:39
#"Poison Ivy" (Version 2) (Jerry Leiber /Mike Stoller ) – 2:06
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