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Also Known As: Title 8 16 November - 6 December
1966: Place: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England.
Producer: Andrew Oldham.
Engineer: Glyn Johns.
Track status: USA Single: 13 January 1967: No 1 - 9 weeks
UK B-side Let's Spend The Night Together: 13 January 1967
USA LP BETWEEN THE BUTTONS: 20 January 1967: No 2 - 19 weeks
USA Compilation LP FLOWERS: June 1967: No 3 - 18 weeks
UK Compilation LP THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY (BIG HITS VOL 2): 12 September
1969: No 2 - 37 weeks
USA Compilation LP THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY (BIG HITS VOL 2): September
1969: No 2 - 16 weeks
USA LP THE ROLLING STONES HOT ROCKS 1964-1971: 11 January 1972:
No 4 - 30 weeks
UK Compilation LP ROLLED GOLD: 14 November 1975: No 7 - 50 weeks
UK Compilation LP GET STONED - 30 GREATEST HITS, 30 ORIGINAL TRACKS:
21 October 1977: No 13 - 15 weeks
UK & USA LP THE ROLLING STONES SINGLES COLLECTION - THE LONDON
YEARS: 15 August 1989
Rolling Stones with Jack Nitzsche
The Rolling Stones followed their stint in American
studios by returning for what was to become a three year period
in the tranquility of their native recording studios. Rugby Tuesday
launched a significant change in direction and fortified the band's
recent innovative moves made on AFTERMATH. The sound is romantic
in nature, aided by Brian Jones playing the recorder. The cello
is played beautifully by Bill Wyman and Keith Richards (Bill holds
the cello for Keith to strike it with the bow); the piano accompaniment
by Brian and keyboards by Jack Nitzsche is also superb. When Andrew
Oldham re-mastered the track for CD release he discovered additonal
bass guitar sounds and whispered count-ins for the cello. It was
a well-deserved American Number 1. The Stones had tended to serve
the American public with the more tepid (on beat) sounds. The rock
had been reserved for the British public, hence the swap in A-sides
in Britain. The song was written almost exclusively by Keith Richard
and Brian Jones and is said to be about a well known groupie. The
Richard/Jones combination was a promising move to rekindle the band.
An out-take of Ruby Tuesday exists without the vocals and has a
1-2-3-4 introduction. In it, the structure of the song can be witnessed
at first hand. Before the final take the cello was removed into
the background.
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