Edit 3 (version 2) for headphones, January 2024. The Rolling Stones released two versions of this song. Version 1 is the US single, recorded in London UK, and slower, with an organ intro. Version 2 was recorded November 8, 1964 in the US at "let's hear it for the" Chess studios in Chicago and released January 15, 1965 in the UK on "The Rolling Stones no. 2".
Tambourine: Brian Jones. Organ: Brian Jones. Guitars: Brian Jones & Keith Richards. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Source album of the edit is the 1966 US version of the album "Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)(Japanese mini lp 2006 remaster - uicy-93019).
This song was originally recorded by the jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his orchestra on the Verve Records label in October 1963. His version was mostly instrumental with just the lyric "Time is on my side" sung by the background trio of Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick.
The first fully vocal version was recorded by the New Orleans Soul singer Irma Thomas. Her version was released as the B-side of "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" in June, 1964. The Rolling Stones released their version of the song in the US on September 26, 1964, and it became their first Top 10 hit in America.
Keith Richards said of this song: "In America we were basically known for heavy, slowish kind of ballads. Time Is On My Side, Tell Me, Heart of Stone, that was what we were known for. Strangely enough that was our thing. Every single was a slow song. Who would believe it? You'd think they'd be clamoring for out-and-out rock and roll, but no, it was the soul ballads that happened for us in America."
This was one of two songs The Stones performed in 1964 on their first Ed Sullivan Show appearance. The other was "Around And Around." Sullivan was shocked by their looks and promised to never have them back. He ended up inviting them back several times. A sort of Dutch raw herring experience... with this difference: not several times but weekly...
TIME IS ON MY SIDE
Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade)(a member of The Coasters).
true lyrics of version two (you'll find them only here!):
time is on my side, yes it is
time is on my side, yes it is
now you always say, that you wanna be free
but you'll come running back (like I said you would baby)
you'll come running back (like I told you so many times before)
you'll come running back to me
yeah, time is on my side, yes it is
time is on my side, yes it is
searching for good times, but just wait and see
you'll come running back (I said you would darling)
you'll come running back (spend the rest of my life with you, baby)
You'll come running back, to me
go ahead baby, go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
and baby, do anything your heart desires, remember, I'll always be around
and I know, I know, like I told you so many times before
you'll gonna come back
yeah you'll gonna come back baby
knocking, yeah knocking right on my door, yeah!
time is on my side, yes it is
time is on my side, yes it is
'cause I got the real love, the kind that you need
you'll come running back (I knew you would one day)
you'll come running back (I told you before)
you'll come running back, to me
yeah time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
I said time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
I said time, time, time is on my side
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