Edit 3b for headphones, October 2021/February 2024. Recorded December 3-8, 1965 in Los Angeles, RCA Studios, Hollywood, released first in the US as a B side to "19th Nervous Breakdown" on February 11, 1966. Released October 1973 in the UK on the album "No Stone Unturned". In the US in 1989 on the album "Singles Collection, The London Years". Further on, as usual, on some fifteen thousand other compilation albums... It even was released as B side to "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in 1969. Source cd of this edit: 1989 - Singles Collection - The London Years (abkco-london 844 481-2).
Guitars: Brian Jones, Keith Richards. Vocals: Mick Jagger. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano: Jack Nitzsche.
(There is a glitch at exactly 0.47 where the guitar skips a note.)
This song has a special bass part, though I think it is two bass parts:
the first one is the one which the song begins with (sounds like the bass strings of a rhythm guitar);
then at 0:09 Bill Wyman comes in playing his bass guitar in a very peculiar way, carrying this song along so wonderfully. Or is it the bass pedals section of an electric piano?
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 track list of "Aftermath".
The original tracklist was supposed to go like this:
Side One:
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Take It Or Leave It
Think
Mother's Little Helper
Side Two:
Goin' Home (short version)
Sittin' On A Fence
Don't You Follow Me (Doncha Bother original title)
Ride On, Baby
Looking Tired
All tracks in stereo. (Except for "Sad Day" which seems to be an "enhanced" mono version.)
* The above is the exact track list of the bootleg album "Could You Walk On Water" (Sister Morphine - morph14 - remastered by Cool Cool Hand). With one exception: the Sister Morphine album has "Goin' Home" in full lenght.
Issued as the American non-LP B-side to "19th Nervous Breakdown" in 1966, "Sad Day" is one of the least-known early Stones songs. It was never even issued in their native UK until 1973, and it didn't make it onto an American album until it appeared on the 1989 box set Singles Collection: The London Years. This composition is very much in the jeering, sarcastic style they were mining heavily in the "Aftermath" era. Some of the "Aftermath" elements are there: a sort of pop-R&B fusion, a dash of folk-rock influence (particularly in the sound of the acoustic guitars in the brief opening instrumental section), the sad decorous piano (by Jack Nitzsche), and the gnarly, high-pitched guitar. It has a repetitious lilting chorus that verges on both the boring and the wimpy. There are some interesting violin-like guitar textures (particularly near the end), perhaps produced by the tone-pedal guitar effect that was enjoying a brief vogue in British rock at the time.
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 that I had a dream I remembered the things that 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
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
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