Welcome to week two of The Music of the Rolling Stones 1962 to 1974. This week, we're really going to focus on the year 1965 in the history of the Rolling Stones. And this is a year I call the year of satisfaction most obviously because the group's first big number one hit in the United States, I Can't Get No Satisfaction, was a hit in the mid year, 1965. And that was the one that, the song that really sort of put them, over the top as a, as a top act to really compete with the Beatles in the US. Now you remember last week we were talking about the groups history through 1962, 63, and 64 and saying that in 64 they had a lot of success in the UK. Number one records, EPs, things like that or, you know, very successful ones. But in the United States it was a little bit of a tougher, a tougher go for The Rolling Stones, tougher than it was for a lot of the other British invasion groups. Of course, The Beatles were at the top of that heap but there were a lot of other groups Jerry and Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five, even The Animals. Groups like that that were really big in 1964 while The Rolling Stones were struggling. But things at the end of 64 really start to pick up for the group and that's kind of where we're going to pick up our story here. Talking about just the end of 1964 and then focusing in on the 1965. In this video, we'll, we'll kind of review what's was, was happening with The Stones historically in the first half of 1965. So let's rewind to the fall of 1964 in September they released the 12 by 5 album in the United States. And they also released the, the Jagger, Richards single Heart of Stone that's backed with another Jagger, Richards tune What a Shame that's released in December of 1964. And it's number 19 on the US charts as 1965 begins so things are, things are, looking better for the group as the year begins. In January they tour Australia and that includes New Eland, New Zealand and other locales. So, getting further field getting out into the world with some of their touring. The second UK album is released in January simply called Rolling Stones Two. And Rolling Stones Now, which is now the third US album, because remember 12 by 5 was not released as a UK album. So, we're coming back together again, these albums are starting to be parallel sessions, so we'll talk mostly about Rolling Stones Now and the Rolling Stones Two album, the UK and the US version. Anyway, that was released, the American version Rolling Stones Now was released in the US in February of 1965. In the next month, the group released the song The Last Time backed with Play With Fire again, both songs Jagger, Richards compositions. That song had been released The Last Time as a single in the UK in February and gone to number one but that was by this time Nothing new for the Rolling Stones, who as I say, were having great success in the UK. But now The Last Time makes it as high as number nine on the American charts and so they're really closing in. Now, they're into the top 10, right? So that's pretty good of course, it's going to be satisfaction that's going to take them all the way to the top of those charts in a couple of couple of months. Well, in April and May they have their third US tour when I say US tour my friends in Canada please excuse me for that. A lot of time the US tours are a North American tour because there are a couple of, usually a couple of Canadian gigs. A Montreal gig or a Toronto gig on that schedule, primarily a US tour but we should probably say North America for that so, that's April and May of 1965. I Can't Get No Satisfaction is released in the United States in May and goes to number one in the charts. So, that's a really important kind of event for them, a point of arrival. And then, in the UK only, In EP, a live EP called Got Live if you Want it is released in the UK. And is on, is number one on the charts at the same time as the song Satisfaction is number one in the charts in the US. That actually delays the release of Satisfaction in in the UK until August you don't want to step on yourself by having two top records at the top of the charts in the UK. In, in, in fact in August when Satisfactions released it goes to number one. It occurred to me that maybe I should explain to folks who are either Americans, who are, who are younger under the age of 40 say. Or people who don't understand or don't have a lot of experience or understanding of American television during the 1960s, what the Ed Sullivan show means? When we talk about the career of the Beatles, one of the big Big sort of high points of their careers, their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th 1964. That show the Ed Sullivan show was a New York based variety show run by a guy who was part of the New York arts scene. A writer who, who in the 50s all ready started having a variety show where there was a really a family show. Something for everybody, something for the kids, something for grandma, something you know. All kinds of things, jugglers there were puppets, I mean, a real variety show in the sense that we don't really have so much anymore on television. Anyway to, to get on that show in America was really to get into one of the great prime time slots, 8 o'clock on Sunday night. When there were only three networks and a couple of independents around there, really the, really had a way of focusing the audience. So when we talk about the Rolling Stones appearing on Ed Sullivan, what I mean to say is it's an, whenever they appear on Ed Sullivan, the more times they appear the, the more they're at the really sort of. Really at the center of radar of the popular music business, so that, that's what I really what I mean when I say they appear on the Ed Sullivan show. Now if you go to YouTube, you'll be able to find the videos of them appearing those performances are live when they're, they're not video performances that are shipped in like. Later we'll talk about, but the ones here in these, in these early years 64, 65, 66 are all live performance. So you get a chance to hear them, performing, absolutely, live the way it sounded. Well, I'd like to take a little bit of time because I promised to do so, to talk about, Mick and Keith as songwriters and some of the early singles. You remember last week, I said that we talk about Tell Me as being the first, you know, a side that the, the Stones released and the first song that Mick and Keith really wanted to bring to the group. Also they were, they were writing a lot of Brill Building-y kind of stuff that they were having other artists record and, and release. These were oft, most often, I think almost entirely artists that Andrew Lou Golden was managing. So just as the Beatles were writing tunes for Brian Epstein's other groups Mick and Keith were doing that too. So let me just give you a list of, of some of the Jagger Richards songs that appeared not by the Rolling Stones. In January of 1964, so that's actually pretty early, that's only a couple of months after they released their version of the Beatles I Want To Be Your Man. I think that's the event that really got these guys thinking we could write our own songs that is in late 1963. Anyway, in January of 64 a song by Gene Pitney called That Girl Belongs to Yesterday went to number seven in the UK charts. A Jagger and Richards original song at number seven in January of 1964 goes a little bit against the way we usually think of a Rolling Stones' narrative, don't you think? A, a guy by the name of George Bean released a song in January 1964 called Will You Be My Lover Tonight, not much information on the chart action on that one. Bobby Jameson did a song a B-side of of of one of his records that was called Each and Every Day that was in February of 1964. Adrienne Adrienne Posta in March of 64, did a tune called Shang a Doo Lang. I really, I really recommend you go on YouTube or wherever you find videos and see if you can hear versions of these these tunes. YouTube's about the only place I've been able to find them because the recordings were so unpopular they haven't even been reissued digitally I think. Of course then in June of of, of 64, The Stones' own Tell Me is released as a single in the United States though it had appeared in April of 64, an LP and then Good Times, Bad Times was the B-side that was also released in June of 64. Then Marianne Faithful records and releases the Stones as tear or Jagger, Richards As Tears Go By, which in June of 64, again, summer of 64 is a number nine hit in the UK. Number 22 in the US, then the group called The Mighty Avengers, sounds more like Marvel Comic, characters but The Mighty Avengers do a song called So Much in Love in August of 64. Then we have the Rolling Stones, with the B-side Time Is On My Side, Congratulations which is released in September of 64. And then Grown Up Wrong is on the LP 12 x 5, released in September of '64. So you can see, there's lots of Jagger and this, and this isn't even all of them. I mean, I just, I called out a number to be able to list for you here. So, the, the real story is that Jagger and Richards as song writers are having pretty moderate success in 1964 especially on the UK charts. Before they start to have success, success, with writing songs or with singles for their own group the Rolling Stones. So I think it adds a little bit more texture to the understanding of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as songwriters. And later this week, I'll come back to talking about all the different styles that we see in the cover versions. And some of the originals of the Rolling Stones because I really want to paint a picture of these guys as being very eclectic stylistically. In spite of the fact that their image is kind of blues revivalist and tough guys. And ne'er do wells and this kind of thing, actually as songwriters as pretty sophisticated stuff. So, there, there we talk a little about the history of the first half of 1965 with the group and the role of Mick and Keith as songwriters. Let's turn in the next video to a discussion of some of the Stones' singles in more detail.
