DECEMBER 4, 1965 – The Rolling Stones released “December’s Children (And Everybody’s)”, the last of the group’s early albums to feature numerous cover songs. 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.
TRACKLIST:
1) She Said Yeah (Sonny Bono, Roddy Jackson) “Out of Our Heads” (UK)
2) Talkin’ About You (Chuck Berry) “Out of Our Heads” (UK)
3) You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander) “The Rolling Stones” EP (UK)
4) Look What You’ve Done (Muddy Waters) “December’s Children”
5) The Singer Not the Song (Jagger/Richards) B-side of “Get Off of My Cloud” (UK)
6) Route 66 (Bobby Troup) “Got Live If You Want It!” (UK live EP)
7) Get Off of My Cloud (Jagger/Richards) (US single)
8 I’m Free (Jagger/Richards) “Out of Our Heads” (UK)
9) As Tears Go By (Jagger/Richards/Andrew Loog Oldham) (December’s Children)
10 Gotta Get Away (Jagger/Richards) “Out of Our Heads” (UK)
11) Blue Turns to Grey (Jagger/Richards) “December’s Children”
12) I’m Moving On (Hank Snow) “Got Live If You Want It! (UK live EP)