Edit 6c for headphones, March 2022/February 2024. Lovely, atmospheric song. Sounds best on vinyl! As usual, for a great deal Brian is making the song stand out with his high harmonica sound.
Recorded August 3 - 11, 1966, released on the album "Between The Buttons" in January and February of 1967 by Decca records and by London records. Those were the days.
Source cd of the edit: "Between The Buttons" (US version)(1986 remastered German manufacture.)(London 820 138-2).
Harmonica & autoharp: Brian Jones. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic & electric guitars: Keith Richards. Drums: Charlie Watts. Bass: Bill Wyman. Piano: some mention Jack Nitzsche, some Nicky Hopkins, some Brian Jones.
The back cover of "Between The Buttons" is a six-panel cartoon accompanied by a rhythmic poem drawn by drummer Charlie Watts. When Watts asked Oldham what the title of the album would be, he told him it was "between the buttons", a term meaning "undecided". Watts gave the phrase to the title of his cartoon which in turn became the title of the album.
"Between The Buttons" was called "among the greatest rock albums" by Robert Christgau, who later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). He also wrote of the album for Rolling Stone magazine's "40 Essential Albums of 1967": "(T)his underrated keeper is distinguished by complex rhymes, complex sexual stereotyping and the non-blues, oh-so-rock-and-roll pianos of Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche, Nicky Hopkins, and Brian Jones." AllMusic's Richie Unterberger hailed it as one of the Rolling Stones' "strongest, most eclectic LPs". In a retrospective review for Entertainment Weekly David Browne called the album "a cheeky set of sardonic Swinging London vaudeville rock", while Billboard magazine's Christopher Walsh wrote that "it's brimming with overlooked gems, the band delivering a captivating blend of folky, Beatles-esque pop and tough bluesy rockers." Tom Moon wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that the album was "lighter and thinner" than Aftermath and, "having belatedly discovered pop melody Jagger and Richards were suddenly overdosing on the stuff." Music scholars Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observed baroque pop and music hall on the album. Jim DeRogatis included "Between The Buttons" in his 2003 list of the essential psychedelic rock albums.
In 2003 the album was ranked number 357 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest albums of all time list. Based on such rankings the aggregate website Acclaimed Music lists it as the 715th most acclaimed album in history.
WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING HERE
(Jagger/Richards)
what you say girl, you see what is wrong
you, must be joking, you was led alone
but the butler the baker, the laughing cavalier
will tell me now, who's been sleeping here
I want to know
tell me baby, who's been sleeping here
what you say girl, who'd you see that night
I was doing, doing something right
oh the soldier, the sailor then there's the three muskateers
they'll now tell me now, who's been sleeping here
did I ever tell you I want to know
hey baby, who's been sleeping here
don't you look like, like a goldilocks
there must be somewhere, somewhere you can stop
yes there's the noseless old newsboy the old british brigadier
but you'll tell me now, who's been sleeping here
who's been eating, eating off my plate
who will tell me, who'll investigate
there's the seargeants the soldiers the cruel old grenadiers
but they'll tell me, now, who's been sleeping here
'cause I want to know who's been sleeping right here
was it your mummy, your daddy, who's been sleeping here
was it your auntie, your uncle, who's been sleeping here
was it your boyfriend, your girlfriend, who's been sleeping here
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