December's Children (And Everybody's) is the fifth American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 4 December 1965. Compiled from disparate sources across the band's recording career up to that point, including the UK version of Out of Our Heads, it features their then-recent transatlantic hit single "Get Off of My Cloud", as well as their own remake of Marianne Faithfull's Jagger/Richards-penned hit "As Tears Go By", which was released as the album's second single in the US.
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December's Children (And Everybody's) | ||||
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Studio album by the Rolling Stones | ||||
Released | 4 December 1965 (1965-12-04) (US) | |||
Recorded | August 8, 1963 – October 26, 1965 | |||
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Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 29:04 | |||
Label | London | |||
Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
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It is the last of the group's early albums to feature numerous cover songs; writers Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote only half of the songs themselves. There had been no sessions to record the album; most of the songs were drawn from the sessions for the UK edition of Out of Our Heads in September 1965 in Los Angeles. Many of the tracks had appeared earlier in the UK versions of Rolling Stones albums, but had been left off their American counterparts. Other tracks were unreleased tracks that had been recorded during other recording sessions, or had been singles-only releases. Joining core members Mick Jagger (vocals), Brian Jones (guitars), Keith Richards (guitars), Bill Wyman (bass), and Charlie Watts (drums) was former Stones member Ian Stewart on piano. As with most of their early albums, it was produced by band manager Andrew Loog Oldham.[citation needed]
The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham (who facetiously credits it to "Lou Folk-Rock Adler" in his liner notes on the back cover). According to Jagger, it was Oldham's idea of hip, Beat poetry.[1] The front cover photo of the band, by Gered Mankowitz, had previously been used for the UK edition of Out of Our Heads.
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Tom Hull | A−[5] |
December's Children (And Everybody's) reached No. 4 in the US, where it was certified "gold".[6] Bassist Bill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs." Accordingly, it is only briefly detailed in Wyman's otherwise exhaustive book Rolling with the Stones. The group's second US No. 1, Get Off of My Cloud, was the highest-charting single on the album, also a major chart topper in the band's native UK and several other markets.
In August 2002, the album was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. "Look What You've Done" remains the album's only cut issued in true stereo.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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1. | "She Said Yeah" | Sonny Bono, Roddy Jackson | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 1:30 |
2. | "Talkin' About You" | Chuck Berry | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:30 |
3. | "You Better Move On" | Arthur Alexander | The Rolling Stones EP (UK) | 2:37 |
4. | "Look What You've Done" | McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters | December's Children | 2:33 |
5. | "The Singer Not the Song" | Jagger/Richards | B-side of "Get Off of My Cloud" (UK) | 2:22 |
6. | "Route 66" | Bobby Troup | Got Live If You Want It! (UK live EP) | 2:29 |
Total length: | 14:01 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
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7. | "Get Off of My Cloud" | Jagger/Richards | single (US) | 2:52 |
8. | "I'm Free" | Jagger/Richards | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:17 |
9. | "As Tears Go By" | Jagger/Richards, Andrew Loog Oldham | December's Children | 2:45 |
10. | "Gotta Get Away" | Jagger/Richards | Out of Our Heads (UK) | 2:03 |
11. | "Blue Turns to Grey" | Jagger/Richards | December's Children | 2:27 |
12. | "I'm Moving On" | Hank Snow | Got Live If You Want It! (UK live EP) | 2:12 |
Total length: | 14:36 |
Most of the songs were recorded 5–6 September 1965 at the RCA Records studio in Hollywood, California, except:
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1966 | Billboard 200 | 4 |
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United States | RIAA | Gold |
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