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Also Known As: My Only Girl 20-21 November
1963: Place: Regent, IBC, London, England.
Producer: Andrew Oldham.
Track status: Unavailable.
On 17 November and 22 November, respectively, the
band lip-synched a performance of I Wanna Be Your Man for the Thank
Your Lucky Stars TV programme in Birmingham and also Ready, Steady,
Go! in London. Gene Pitney was there to promote his Burt Bacharach
hit Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa. Gene remembers being in the same
dressing room as the Stones when a man appeared at the door way.
Gene thought he recognised him and asked if he was Mr. Mancini.
It was the great composer Henry Mancini who had gone to the studios
to see what all these youngsters were up to; he was not going to
miss a trick. Andrew Oldham was impressed that Gene had worked with
Phil Spector on his second USA hit Every Breath I Take and also
the Oscar nominated movie soundtrack, Town Without Pity. Gene had
first met Phil Spector in 1962. Gene was an up and coming songwriter
and performer. He heard the Crystals and was determined to write
a song for them. This he did with He's A Rebel. He took it to his
publisher's office in New York and Phil walked in, heard the first
eight bars and his eyes lit up and a classic pop song was born.
They both proceeded to seal the deal at a 7th Avenue Chinese restaurant.
At the TV studios, Andrew in his typical style, hussled Gene into
agreeing that Andrew could be his UK publicist and so another link
in the chain was created. As a result, Gene recorded the Richards
(with s and before Mick in the credits), Jagger composition That
Girl Belongs To Yesterday. The original tune was called My Only
Girl and intended for George Bean but Gene changed the melody, left
the lyrics as they were and recorded it for himself. It was released
in March 1964 and reached number seven in the charts. This was the
first time a Jagger, Richards song had gone top ten in the UK.
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