60s - stereo remixes & processed 'stereo' by ruudtes - 4

Edit for headphones. Written and recorded in 1965 and released in 1966. Janis Ian (born to a Jewish family in New York City as Janis Eddy Fink) was born April 7, 1951. She completed the song at the age of fourteen. The original title for the song was "Baby, I've Been Thinking". The song would have been a national US # 1 hit if it wasn't for the racial problems that were still haunting the US in the mid sixties, causing various radio stations to refuse to play the song, as it was about the then-taboo subject of interracial romance.

This was about the 10th song Janis wrote. Her first was a song called "Hair Of Spun Gold," which was published in Broadside when she turned 13. Broadside was an underground magazine that published folk songs by artists like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger before they hit the mainstream. They invited her to sing it at one of their periodic shows they put on in Greenwich Village, where it got a huge reaction. Broadside kept asking Janis back, and "Society's Child" became one of the songs that became part of these performances.

Janis didn't write this about a particular person: "My parents were the complete opposite of the parents in the song. They wouldn't have cared if I married a Martian, as long as I was happy... I felt bad for my dad because everyone assumed he was a racist."

YouTuber Richard Wieder wrote: "This song had trouble getting air play, but a New York dj, Murry the K of WNEW AM had the courage to put it out there and deserves some recognition."

SOCIETY'S CHILD
(Janis Ian)

Come to my door, baby,
Face is clean and shining black as night.
My mother went to answer you know
That you looked so fine.
Now I could understand your tears and your shame,
She called you "boy" instead of your name.
When she wouldn't let you inside,
When she turned and said
"But honey, he's not our kind."
She says
I can't see you any more, baby,
Can't see you anymore.
Walk me down to school, baby,
Everybody's acting deaf and blind.
Until they turn and say, "Why don't you stick to your own kind."
My teachers all laugh, the smirking stares,
Cutting deep down in our affairs.
Preachers of equality,
Think they believe it, then why won't they just let us be?
They say I can't see you anymore baby,
Can't see you anymore.
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening
Gonna raise my head up high.
One of these days I'm gonna raise up my glistening wings and fly.
But that day will have to wait for a while.
Baby I'm only society's child.
When we're older things may change,
But for now this is the way, they must remain.
I say I can't see you anymore baby,
Can't see you anymore.
No, I don't want to see you anymore, baby.

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Edit 3 for headphones, July 2022. New approach in editing. Dubbed video. DUBBED VIDEO ! Just to get in the atmosphere of the album.
Note: the riff at 1.02 is from "Bell Bird" (pajaro campana) a traditional theme of the republic of Paraguay. Luis Alberto del Parana was recording just next to The Rolling Stones and they heard this Paraguayan song and used part of it for the riff. (Thank you Marcelo Pozzo.)

Source of this edit is the album's 2006 Japanese mini lp remastered version, catalogue number uicy-93026

Recorded in July of 1967.
Mellotron: Brian Jones. Percussion: Brian Jones, Bill Wyman & Mick Jagger. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Electric guitar: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts.

ON WITH THE SHOW
(Jagger/Richards)

good evening one and all we're all so glad to see you here
we'll play your favorite songs while you all soak up the atmosphere
we'll start with old "Wood River", then maybe "Stormy Weather", too
I'm sure you know just what to do
on with the show good health to you

please pour another glass it time to watch the cabaret
your wife will never know that you're not really working late
your hostess here is Wendy, you'll find her very friendly, too
and we don't care just what you do
on with the show good health to you

Bettina starts the show at two o'clock

oh if by chance you find that you can't make it anymore
we'll put you in a cab and get you safely to the door
oh we've got all the answers, and we've got lovely dancers, too
there's nothing else you have to do
on with the show good health to you

you're all such lovely people dancing gaily round the floor
but if you have to fight, please take your trouble out the door
for now I say with sorrow, until this time tomorrow
we'll bid you all a find adieu
on with the show good health to you

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Edit for headphones, February 2022. I edited out the vocal parts of this song, sorry, Amen Corner fans. The instrumental part however I have extended, for it is absolutely beautiful. A pity that the original release of the song was destroyed by a dull repeating of only one chorus line - "the evil man's gonna win" - for a shameful thirty two times... sometimes while recording ignoring your producer is the best thing to do...

"Amen Corner" were a Welsh rock group formed in Cardiff, Wales. They are best known for their sixties hits "Bend Me Shape Me", "High in the Sky" and the chart-topper "(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice".

The band was formed in late 1966 and named after "The Amen Corner", a weekly disc spin at the Victoria Ballroom (later to become The Scene Club) in Cardiff, Wales.

Initially they specialised in blues and jazz, but their record labels drove them towards a commercial sound. Their first hit was a rendition of "Gin House Blues". Their first singles and album appeared on Decca's label Deram, but they left at the end of 1968 to join Immediate, for which they had a No. 1, "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" in early 1969, followed by another top 5 entry with the Roy Wood composition, "Hello Susie".

After recording a final studio album, "Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven" they put out a single with a cover version of the Beatles' "Get Back" as their swansong. The single didn't chart. They disbanded by the end of 1969.

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Edit for headphones. This is an edit of the mono movie version that is on the bootleg album "Collector Treasures 1968-1974" by Wonderland Recordings (WLR SF 6874) cd 3 track 15.
About the musicians on this version, Wikipedia says: Ry Cooder on slide guitar, Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass) and Gene Parsons (drums).

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Not an edit. This song is from Larry Norman's 1976 album "In Another Land" (25th Anniversary Edition).

I LOVE YOU
(Larry Norman/Randy Stonehill)

we can be together for now and forever
I love you, I love you
hey can you hear me I got to have you near me
I love you, I love you

I was lonely 'til you came along
and now you've got me singing your love song

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you

life is a mystery, love is a dancer
I love you, I love you
I had a question, you brought the answer
I love you, I love you

oh but I need you so
I could never let you go no

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
I love you, yes I love you

(guitar solo)

oh but I need you so
I could never let you go no

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you,
                              I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you,
                              I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you

I was lonely once but then you came along and I love you (I love you)
then you gave me love so I wrote down this song hey I love you (I love you)
I wanna spend my life with you like the angels on high, hey I love you
You're the Morning Star, You're the Son in My Sky, I love you, I love you...

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Edit (Joe Loss show) for headphones. Source file of the edit is on the cd "The Rolling Stones - Get Your Kicks" by World Production Of Compact Music (WPOCM cat.nr. 0289D018-2) which says: recorded June 26th, 1964, during a live performance in the London Alexandra Palace. Says the the bootleg cd, but that's wrong, it was recorded on Friday 17th July 1964 during the Joe Loss Pop Show, a BBC radio show.

Back in 1964, to coincide with a new release from The Rolling Stones, the band’s fan club organised a huge 'All Night Rave' at London’s infamous Alexandra Palace.
The band played the huge gig on the eve of their single release ‘It’s All Over Now’, which was released at midnight on the 26th June 1964. Also on the bill that night were: John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, Alexis Korner, Millie & Five Members, and Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions.

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Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death. In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to 1967 they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group "Mountain City Four". Kate's son is Rufus Wainwright, her daughter is Martha Wainwright.

A # 18 hit in Holland. Can't find any info on other countries' charts about this song. Anyone?

COMPLAINTE POUR STE CATHERINE
(Anna McGarrigle and Philippe Tatarcheff)

moi j'me promène sous Ste Catherine
j'profite la chaleur du métro

je n'me regarde pas dans les vitrines
quand il fait trente en dessous d'zéro

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique
vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

je ne me sens pas intrépide
quand il fait frais j'fais pas du ski

j'ai pas d'motel aux Laurentides
le samedi c'est l'soir du hockey

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique
vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

faut pas croire que j'suis une imbécile
parce que j'chauffe pas une convertible

la gloire c'est pas mal inutile
au prix de gaz c'est trop pénible

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique
vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

on est tous frères pis ça s'adonne
qu'on a toujours eu du bon temps

parce qu'on reste sur la terre des hommes
même les femmes et les enfants

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique
vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

croyez pas qu'on n'est pas chrétien
le dimanche on promène son chien

la la la la la la laaa laaa
la la la la la la la laaa

la la la la la la laaa laaa
la la la la la la la laaaaaaaaa...

Translation (found on the web)

me, I walk along Ste Catherine
getting the warmth from the Métro
I don’t look through shop windows
when it’s thirty below zero
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
I don’t feel intrepid
when it snows I don’t go skiing
I don’t have a motel in the Laurentians
saturday night is hockey night
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
don’t think that I’m an fool
because I don’t drive a convertible
the glory is fairly useless
at the price of gas (petrol) it’s too distressing
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
we’re all brothers ’cause we devote ourselves
to always having a good time
because we’re on the earth of men
and women and children
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
don’t believe that we’re not Christians
on Sundays we walk our dogs
la la la etc.

Some commentary from the web:

Ste Catherine is the name of Montreal’s main shopping street. It’s also the name of a metro station, but you ‘profite de la chaleur du métro"’ when you’re above ground, standing atop the exhaust vents that pump out stale hot air from the subway.

The bit about ‘la politique’ is a joke, seeing as the only politics the narrator’s interested in is the battle against mosquitos (though admittedly this is a serious enough concern during the Canadian summer!).

Je n’ me regarde pas dans les vitrines – when it’s 33 degrees C minus zero, people run from metro to metro and have no time to look in window panes to see if their hair is right or what is in the windows.

J’ai pas d’ motel aux Laurentides – People tend to have a small second house up in the Laurentides, north of Montreal, mainly to ski. In summer there’s a lot of mosquitos.

S’adonner means to like each other very much in a familiar way: to be fond of each other. We are all brothers because we are all fond of each other (i.e. the singer and her friends) Ça = that = (here) part of colloquial or vernacular : the people or thing we are talking about = us (used because it is ‘logical’, ‘goes without saying’, this exists in France as well).

le dimanche on promène son chien – We don’t do anything sinful on Sundays.

Edit 2 for headphones. Source cd is the 1967 album "Something Else By The Kinks" (2011 DeLuxe Edition). A no.1 hit in Holland in 1967, no.2 in the UK. A top 10 hit in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe. Failed to chart in the United States (too busy with Elvis & Priscilla's marriage?).

WATERLOO SUNSET
(Raymond Douglas Davies) *

dirty old river, must you keep rolling flowing into the night
people so busy, makes me feel dizzy tTaxi light shines so bright
but I don't need no friends
as long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise

every day I look at the world from my window
but chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station every Friday night
but I am so lazy, don't want to wander I stay at home at night
but I don't feel afraid
as long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise

every day I look at the world from my window
but chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine

millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground
but Terry and Julie cross over the river where they feel safe and sound
and the don't need no friends
as long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset they are in paradise

Waterloo sunset's fine

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*
One morning in February 1967, Ray Davies rolled out of bed in his little semi-detached house in North London, and there was a song waiting for him. "Waterloo Sunset came to me in a dream," Davies tells. "I woke up and it was there."
But the song began as a love letter to a different city altogether.
"Originally I wanted to call it Liverpool Sunset," Davies reveals. "I loved Liverpool and Merseybeat. I knew London better than I knew Liverpool. So I changed it. "Waterloo was a pivotal place in my life," he continues. "And I saw several Waterloo sunsets. I was in St. Thomas’ Hospital there when I was really ill as a child, and I looked out on the Thames. Later I used to go past the station when I went to art college on the train. And I met my first girlfriend, who became my first wife, along the Embankment at Waterloo."

As Davies free-associated on memories of his youth, two names spilled out unexpectedly. "As soon as I sang "Terry and Julie"," he recalls, "it seemed that they didn’t need description. With records, I like to let the listener do some work and conjure up some images in their own way. If everybody could draw a picture of Terry and Julie, they’d all draw a different picture, according to people they knew."
At the time, many were convinced that the names referenced one of Swingin’ London’s "it" couples: actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie. Ray Davies, who has always been protective of the song’s mystique, denies the connection, commenting: “I think the characters have to do with the aspirations of my elder sisters, who grew up during the Second World War and missed out on the 60s. I was thinking of the world I wanted them to have."
Ray played it to his brother Dave. "I had a feeling it was going to be a hit," the younger Davies wrote in his autobiography, Kink. "It had a wonderfully hypnotic descending bass line contrasting magically with rising vocal harmonies, gentle but stirring textures. Immediately, we started ad-libbing vocal parts around the chorus."

On March 12 the band gathered to tackle the backing track for Ray’s new song, and recorded it live to four-track. But exactly who produced the session has long been the subject of debate. During the making of 1967’s "Something Else" album, The Kinks and Talmy ended their partnership. Ray has said that he wasn’t happy with early takes of "Waterloo Sunset" so he produced it himself. Talmy disagrees: "It’s my record, and I don’t know what else to tell you. All the records in which I was listed as the producer, I produced."

Whatever the truth, there’s no disputing that the band’s performance, which Davies calls "sparse but tightly arranged", was magical. After Ray added his lead vocal he overdubbed a cascading choral arrangement of "ooh"s that featured Dave, bassist Pete Quaife, and Ray’s wife Rasa. But there was still one final touch needed.

Of this Dave Davies wrote: "We messed around with various guitar ideas and sounds before we finally tried working the guitar part through a tape delay. It worked like a dream."

Edit 1 for headphones. Recorded June 10 & 11, 1964. Released in the UK and US as B side to "It's all over now". Released on the "12 x 5", "Big hits (high tide and green grass)", "More hot rocks (big hits and fazed cookies)" and some two million more compilation albums, a nasty habit of these rolling stones...

Harmonica: Brian Jones. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts.

This song is quite like "As tears go by", with this difference: no strings messing up the Stones sound. This is how "As tears go by" could have sounded... pure guitar and singing.

GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES
(Jagger/Richards)

there've been good times
there've been bad times
I have my share of hard times, too
but I lost my faith in the world
honey, when I lost you

remember the good times we've had together
don't you want them back again
though these hard times are bugging me now
honey, now it's a sin

there's gotta be trust in this world
or it won't get very far
well, trust in someone
or there's gonna be war

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Edit for headphones. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) With the stereo version of the song. Edit.
A #1 hit in the US and in the UK. A #3 hit in Holland.

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Edit (early mix cold end) for headphones. Source is song 17 of cd three ("Living In The Stone Age") of the six cd bootleg box set "Genuine Black Box" (Scorpio). April 20 1968, Olympic Sound Studios, London.
Bootleggers state: early alternate mix (faster) with different vocal track.
Others state: a live version recorded for an alternative performance clip, which I think is true.

Recorded during the "Beggars Banquet" sessions in 1968, but kept off the album and released as a single on May 24, 1968. 1968. Released on "Through the past, darkly (big hits vol. 2)", September 12, 1969.

Main guitar riff was devised by Brian Jones and Bill Wyman, but they were'nt credited.

Electric guitars: Brian Jones. Mellotron: Brian Jones. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic guitars and bass: Keith Richards. Drums: Charlie Watts. Maracas: Jimmy Miller. Organ: Bill Wyman. Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.

JUMPIN' JACK FLASH
(Jagger/Richards)

Watch it!

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
and I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
but it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
but it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash,
it's a Gas! Gas! Gas!

I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag,
I was schooled with a strap right across my back,
but it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
but it's all right, I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash,
it's a Gas! Gas! Gas!

I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled.
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread.
yeah, yeah, yeah
I was crowned with a spike right thru my head.
but it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas!
but it's all right, I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash,
it's a Gas! Gas! Gas!

jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
jumping Jack Flash, its a gas
jumping Jack Flash, its a gas

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Edit for headphones. A self composed and written song by José Feliciano and his wife Janna Merlyn Feliciano. From his beautiful album "10 to 23". Great voice, great song, didn't chart that well, pity, for it is a a masterpiece. In 1969 it was #19 on the Adult Contemporary (based on radio airplays), #76 Billboard Hot 100, #67 Canada, #36 Australia, #21 Spain, #9 New Zealand, #7 Austria, #6 Sweden, #1 in Japan, #1 in Turkey, the land that now has a new Hitler running it... a dangerous idiot, good friends with the pope. Watch these two fools, together they are a menace to this planet's peace & welfare ! May it rain fire on these two bastards... Or do you think the heads of a phedophile movement and a killer movement deserve better?

RAIN
(José Feliciano/Janna Merlyn Feliciano )

listen to the pouring rain
listen to it pour,
and with every drop of rain
you know I love you more

let it rain all night long,
let my love for you go strong,
as long as we're together
who cares about the weather?

listen to the falling rain,
listen to it fall,
and with every drop of rain,
I can hear you call,
call my name right out loud,
I can here above the clouds
and I'm here among the puddles,
you and I together huddle.

listen to the falling rain,
listen to it fall.

it's raining,
it's pouring,
the old man is snoring,
went to bad
and bumped his head,
he couldn't get up in the morning,

listen to the falling rain,
listen to the rain

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Edit for headphones, October 2021. A song from cd one of the 2001 remastered four cd box set "Buffalo Springfield" (8122-74324-2). Recorded by "Doc" Siegel at Gold Star recording studios, Hollywood, ca. June 1966. This is a demo for Sonny & Cher. The demo was previously unreleased until this four cd box set.

THERE GOES MY BABE
(Neil Young)

the end has come
the sky has lost it's sun
the harm is done
he was the only one

there goes my babe
there goes what might have been
there goes my babe
in the cool morning rain
and now my heart
lies empty and still again

if he were here
I'd long to hold him near
but now it's clear
the price of love is dear

there goes my babe
there goes what might have been
there goes my babe
in the cool morning rain
and now my heart
lies empty and still again

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Edit for headphones. From the bootleg album "Genuine Black Box" a 6 cd production by Scorpio.
Of much better quality than the one on "Grrr!", that has a lot of noise. Shame on you, ABKCO!

Recorded during the Stones first recording session in March of 1962, Re-recorded March 11, 1963. Never before officially released in the US or UK, but released in 1983 in West Germany on the album "The Rest of the Best".

Guitars: Brian Jones, Keith Richards. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Bass: Dick Taylor, Bill Wyman (second recording). Piano: Ian Stewart. Drums: Charlie Watts (second recording).

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BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
(Jimmy & Mary Reed)

bright lights, big city
gone to my baby's head
bright lights, big city
gone to my baby's head

I'd tried to tell the woman but she doesn't believe a word I said
go light pretty baby... gonna need my help some day
it's all right pretty baby... gonna need my help some day

you're gonna wish you listened to some of those things I said

go ahead pretty baby
oh, honey knock yourself out
go ahead pretty baby
oh honey knock yourself out

I still love you baby cause you don't know what it's all about

bright lights, big city
gone to my baby's head
bright lights, big city
gone to my baby's head

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Edit for headphones. Source of the edit is the song on cd 1 of the 2014 Kinks 50th anniversary album "The Anthology 1964-1971" (remastered 5 cd box)(cat.nr. 88875021542).
Interesting song, standing out from the rest of the early Kinks' songs.

Edit (extended) for headphones. Two minutes and six seconds longer, 'cause I just can't get enough of this piece of art. Kate and Anna McGarrigle were from Quebec. In the 1960s, in Montreal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to 1967 they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group "Mountain City Four". Kate's son is Rufus Wainwright, her daughter is Martha Wainwright.
This song is from the album "Kate & Anna McGarrigle" (2011 remaster).

A #18 hit in Holland in 1976. Can't find any info on other countries' charts about this song. Anyone?

COMPLAINTE POUR STE CATHERINE
(Anna McGarrigle and Philippe Tatarcheff)

moi j'me promène sous Ste Catherine, j'profite la chaleur du métro
je n'me regarde pas dans les vitrines, quand il fait trente en dessous d'zéro

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

je ne me sens pas intrépide, quand il fait frais j'fais pas du ski
j'ai pas d'motel aux Laurentides, le samedi c'est l'soir du hockey

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

faut pas croire que j'suis une imbécile, parce que j'chauffe pas une convertible
la gloire c'est pas mal inutile, au prix de gaz c'est trop pénible

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

on est tous frères pis ça s'adonne, qu'on a toujours eu du bon temps
parce qu'on reste sur la terre des hommes, même les femmes et les enfants

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

croyez pas qu'on n'est pas chrétien, le dimanche on promène son chien

la la la la la la laaa laaa
la la la la la la la laaa

la la la la la la laaa laaa
la la la la la la la laaaaaaaaa...

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

je ne me sens pas intrépide, quand il fait frais j'fais pas du ski
j'ai pas d'motel aux Laurentides, le samedi c'est l'soir du hockey

il y'a longtemps qu'on fait d'la politique, vingt ans de guerre contre les moustiques

la la la etc.

The bit about ‘la politique’ is a joke, seeing as the only politics the narrator’s interested in is the battle against mosquitos (though admittedly this is a serious enough concern during the Canadian summer!).

Je n’ me regarde pas dans les vitrines – when it’s 33 degrees C minus zero, people run from metro to metro and have no time to look in window panes to see if their hair is right or what is in the windows.

J’ai pas d’ motel aux Laurentides – People tend to have a small second house up in the Laurentides, north of Montreal, mainly to ski. In summer there’s a lot of mosquitos.

S’adonner means to like each other very much in a familiar way: to be fond of each other. We are all brothers because we are all fond of each other (i.e. the singer and her friends) Ça = that = (here) part of colloquial or vernacular : the people or thing we are talking about = us (used because it is ‘logical’, ‘goes without saying’, this exists in France as well).

le dimanche on promène son chien – We don’t do anything sinful on Sundays.

Translation (found on the web):

me, I walk along Ste Catherine
getting the warmth from the Métro
I don’t look through shop windows
when it’s thirty below zero
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
I don’t feel intrepid
when it snows I don’t go skiing
I don’t have a motel in the Laurentians
saturday night is hockey night
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
don’t think that I’m an fool
because I don’t drive a convertible
the glory is fairly useless
at the price of gas (petrol) it’s too distressing
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
we’re all brothers ’cause we devote ourselves
to always having a good time
because we’re on the earth of men
and women and children
we’ve been in politics for a long time
twenty years of war against mosquitos
don’t believe that we’re not Christians
on Sundays we walk our dogs

Some commentary from the web:

Ste Catherine is the name of Montreal’s main shopping street. It’s also the name of a metro station, but you ‘profite de la chaleur du métro"’ when you’re above ground, standing atop the exhaust vents that pump out stale hot air from the subway.

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Edit 2 for headphones. (Less channel separation, more bass, more brass, more of everything.) This is an edit of the version of a Japanese "Let It Bleed" blu-ray cd (2013 cat. 018771812425). "You can't Always Get" was recorded on November 16 & 17, 1968. First released on "Let It Bleed" in 1969. Brian Jones ran into Al Kooper outside the studio during a break in the recording and invited him in to play on the track. Kooper became a main contributor to the song, whereas Jones didn't play on the cut. Brass instruments, great idea, Brian!

Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic & electric guitars: Keith Richards. Maracas & congas: Rocky Dijon. Bass: Bill Wyman. French Horn: Al Kooper. Piano & organ: Al Kooper. Drums: Jimmy Miller. Choir: London Bach Choir. Background vocals: Madeline Bell, Nanette Newman, Doris Troy & the London Bach Choir.

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
(Jagger/Richards)

Choir:
I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she would meet her connection
At her feet was her footloose man

No, you can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
And if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

I saw her today at the reception
A glass of wine in her hand
I knew she was gonna meet her connection
At her feet was, footloose man

You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, well you might find
You get what you need

Oh yea-ay (hey-hey-hey, oooh)

And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singin', 'We're gonna vent our frustration
If we don't, we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse'
Sing it to me, now

(You can't always get what you want)
(You can't always get what you want)
(You can't always get what you want)
But if you try sometimes, well you just might find
You get what you need
Ooh baby, yeah, ooh

I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standin' in line with Mr. Jimmy
A-man, did he look pretty ill

We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was 'dead'
I said to him

(You can't always get what you want) well no!
(You can't always get what you want) tell ya baby
(You can't always get what you want) no
But if you try sometimes, you just might find, mmm!
Mmm! you get what you need
Ooh yes! Woo!

(Instrumental & choir) Ooow-ooh!

You get what you need
Yeah!
Ooow, babe!
Ooh, yeah

I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well, I could tell by her blood-stained hands
Say it!

(You can't always get what you want) yeah!
(You can't always get a-what you want) ooo-yeah, baby!
(You can't always get a-what you want)
But if you try sometime, you just might find
You just might find

Edit for headphones, June 2022. A song from the 1977 album "Peter Green Splinter Group", their first album. Peter Green was the leader of Fleetwood Mac until 1970. He suffered a mental breakdown during the 1970s. Peter was rehabilitated with the aid of Nigel Watson, Cozy Powell and other friends, and then began touring and recording with the Splinter Group. The group was disbanded in early 2004 with Green's departure from the group. Oh, if only Brian Jones had friends like that... not like the ones who dumped him as they were eager to tour America...

Band members:

Peter Green – (vocals, lead guitar, slide guitar, harmonica)
Nigel Watson – (vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar)
Cozy Powell – drums (1997)
Roger Cotton – (piano, Hammond C3, rhythm guitar) (1998–2004)
Larry Tolfree – (drums, percussion) (1997–2004)
Pete Stroud – (fretless and fretted bass guitars, double bass) (1998–2004)
Neil Murray – bass guitar (1997–98)
Spike Edney – keyboards (1997)

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edit for headphones. dumb video, don't tell me, I know... (it is to test your video adaptor: these images should be in the same rhythm as the music). original song is from the 1964 album "kinks" (2011 deluxe remaster). the guitar riff and the stunning solo were played by Dave Davies. his brother Ray was the singer and main songwriter of the band. released as a single in October 1964 (their second single) it was a # 2 hit in the UK. in the US it reached # 7. in (shame on) holland it reached # 17.

ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT
(Ray Davies)

I'm not content to be with you in the daytime
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
The only time I feel alright is by your side
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night

I believe that you and me last forever
Oh yea, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never
The only time I feel alright is by your side
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night
Oh, come on...

I believe that you and me last forever
Oh yea, all day and nighttime yours, leave me never
The only time I feel alright is by your side
Girl I want to be with you all of the time
All day and all of the night
All day and all of the night time
All day and all of the night

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Edit 2 for headphones. Recorded December 3-8, 1965 in Los Angeles, RCA Studios, Hollywood, released first in the US as a B side single for "19th Nervous Breakdown" on February 11, 1966. Released October 1973 in the UK on "No stone unturned". In the US in 1989 on "Singles collection, the London years". Further on, as usual, on tons of other compilation albums... It even was released as b-side to "You can't always get what you want" in 1969. In Holland "Sad Day" was released as a single June 9, 1973 (its - b-side! - was "You can't always get what you want"); it reached nr 19.

Guitars: Brian Jones, Keith Richards. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano: Jack Nitzsche.

This edit is made of the non-enhanced * version of the "Singles collection" [abkco-london 844 481-2].

SAD DAY
(Jagger/Richards)

someone woke me up this mornin' and I lit a cigarette
found myself when I stopped yawnin', started getting myself dressed
then I felt I had a dream, I remembered the things I'd seen
I could still hear the things you said with that bad dream in my head
it was a sad day, bad day, sad day, bad day

so I called you on the phone and your friend said "she's not home"
so I told her where I'd be at and that you should call me back
then I looked at the morning mail, I was not even expecting a bill
your letter a-started "Dear", and it left me with these tears.
it was a sad day, bad day, sad day, bad day

think of the times that we had rows, but we patched them up somehow
think of the times I tried to go, but you screamed and told me no
there is only one thing in this world that I can't understand, that's a girl
I keep a-readin' the things you said, like a bad dream in my head
it was a sad day, bad day, sad day, bad day

oh, what a sad, sad, old day - a sad, old day
it was a sad, old day
a sad, old day. It was a bad, old day, sad old day a bad old day
if there is one awful thing in this world that I can't understand, that's a girl
it was a sad, sad old day, sad old day
it was a sad, old day

Story about "Sad day" (nme.com)

By the end of 1965 the Stones had recorded a set of brand new songs and wanted them to be released under the title of "Could You Walk On The Water". However, Decca refused to release the album because of its title. After some conflict and negociations it was agreed that the new album would be titled "Aftermath". However the band had recorded new songs in March 1966, and the original track list was changed to what became the regular tracklist of Aftermath.

The original tracklist was supposed to go like this:
Side 1:
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Take It Or Leave It
Think
Mother's Little Helper
15:40min

Side 2:
Goin' Home (short version)
Sittin' On A Fence
Don't You Follow Me (Doncha Bother original title)
Ride On, Baby
Looking Tired
14min
Full length : 29:36min
All tracks in stereo. * (Except for Sad Day which seems to be an "enhanced" mono versio

Edit for headphones. Edit of a song on cd 2 of the album "The Anthology 1964-1971" (2014 - 5 cd box remastered)(Sanctuary Records ‎– 88875021542).

I AM FREE
(Ray Davies)

sailing in-between, the land the air and me
confusion never dawns
'cause frame of mind tells me that I am free

I am free

doors are open wide
no credits to be seen

sail with me my friend
I need someone it's dark and it could get lonely

I am free

I am free

I don't care to be
assembler mass machine
to wait the gong tone
and convalesce when society doesn't need me

I am free

(lyrics by jiosaavn.com)(the only one with the true lyrics)

Edit 1b (delogood), real sharp, cuts right through...
B-side to "Tired Of Waiting For You", January 15, 1965.

COME ON NOW
(Ray Davies)

come on now
come on let the music get you movin'
let 'em see that you're not losin'
see the clock, it's gettin' late now
get you coat and fix your face

so come on now (baby come on now)
well come on now
well it's getting late and we better go
(it's getting late and we better go)

come on now
come on now while we still got time
come on, baby, the sun is shinin'
put your coat on and stop your whinin'
oh, baby, oh it's all right
so come on now (baby come on now)
well come on now
well it's getting late and we better go
(it's getting late and we better go)

come on now
come on now honey and let me see
just how much you do for me
I'm not waiting all night long
you told me to love you and that's all wrong
so come on now (baby come on now)
well come on now
well it's getting late and we better go
(it's getting late and we better go)

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edit (instr.) for headphones. listen to the piano, Ian Stewart is so much better audible in this version! always a big thrill to hear the instrumental version of a song. reveals alot of what men of genius the Rolling Stones were in the sixties. Recorded March 6 - 9, 1966. Released on "Aftermath" in 1966. Remember that name: "AFTERMATH". Legendary album. When you spot it, buy it! Lead electric guitar: Brian Jones. B R I A N J O N E S. Wow, Brian Jones.*
Piano: Ian Stewart. Rhythm electric guitar: Keith Richards. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts.

About the piano intro that ends in the "Satisfaction" guitar riff Bill Wyman wrote in one of his books that he made it up on an organ and he, Charlie and Brian were fooling around with it; Jagger and Richards later on took it as theirs.

505 was the flight number on their first trip to America. Five hundred five minus four hundred pictures in this video.

FLIGHT 505
(Jagger/Richards)

Well, I was happy here at home
I got everything I need.
Happy bein' on my own
Just living the life I lead.

Well suddenly it dawned on me
That this was not my life.
So I just phoned the airline girl
And said, Get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505.

Well, I confirmed my reservation.
Then I hopped a cab.
No idea of my destination
And feeling pretty bad.

With my suitcase in my hand.
In my head, my new life.
So then I told the airline girl
Well, get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505.
Alright.

Well, I sat right there in my seat.
Well, feeling like a king.
With the whole world right at my feet.
Of course I'll have a drink!

Well, suddenly I saw
That we never ever would arrive.
He put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.
Alright.

They put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.

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Ever seen & heard someone play a massive quitar solo on a twelve string guitar ? ? ? This is your chance ! ! !
Edit for headphones. Live performance in 1970 on the German tv show "Beat-Club". It was the b-side to the single "Rollin' and Tumblin' in 1968, but that didn't chart in the US.

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