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Come On
(Chuck Berry)

Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, May 1963

Mick Jagger - lead vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals
Brian Jones - harmonica, backing vocals

Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted
All day long I'm walking 'cause I couldn't get my car started
Laid off from my job and I can't afford to check it
I wish somebody'd come along and run into it and wreck it

Come on
Since me and my baby parted
I can't get started
I can't afford to check it, I wish somebody'd come along and run into it and wreck it

Everything is wrong since I've been without you
Every night I lay awake thinking about you
Every time the phone rings, it sounds like thunder
Some stupid guy trying to reach another number

Come on
Since I've been without you
I always think about you
Phone sounds like thunder, some stupid guy trying to reach another number

Everything is wrong since I last saw you, baby
I really want to see you and I don't mean maybe
I'm doing everything trying to make you see
That I belong to you, honey, you belong to me

Come on
I want to see you baby
I don't mean maybe
I'm trying to make you see that I belong to you and you belong to me

Come on
I've got to see you, baby
I don't mean maybe
I've got to make you see that I belong to you and you belong to me

Come on


Produced by Andrew Oldham

First release: UK single, June 1963
First US release: More Hot Rocks, 1972

Awwwwwwwwww come on......



ROCKMAN

Well, they had to start somewhere.

Seriously though, its a pleasant enough romp, but certainly nothing special and weak compared to subsequent releases.

Apparently it was much better in concert.

I think it's a great, groovy track.

ahhh - the first Stones tune i ever heard and it still makes me glow like a fool :E

It was my first Stones-single, but to be honest I liked 'I want to be loved' better. I was into blues-style and thought Come On was little too much blood....

2 1 2 0

Egad a Cad......!!!



ROCKMAN

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Come On
It was my first Stones-single, but to be honest I liked 'I want to be loved' better. I was into blues-style and thought Come On was little too much blood....

My father bought it upon release in '63 as well.

I played it a lot when I discovered his vinyl collection - that, and his copy of Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

don't know why they never brought their arrangement closer to Chuck Berry's original and did it that way on stage.

c'mon, it's weak

I'm getting ready, next song is going to be @#$%& Blues, right? ;-)

love to hear a longer version from hail hail rnr rehearsal

i've tried and failed to remember what book it is that mentions that they changed the original "some stupid jerk" to "some stupid guy"
because they were afraid the BBC would regard "jerk" as too suggestive.

Come on - I want to see you baby
Come on - I don't mean maybe
Come on - I'm trying to make you see that I belong to you honey you belong to me

smile smile smile: still glowin like a fool :E

not a very good cover

OK! Lets get it over with!

Come On Vs Love Me Do

Love Me Do hands down

<Come On Vs Love Me Do

Love Me Do hands down>

Nah, although a bit slick, Come On never falls down like Love Me Do, imo.

Whilist Love Me Do is basic and amaturish compared to later efforts, it was pretty damn good for 1962 and imo, fresh and unusual compared to what else was being released in the UK at the time. It has a definite northern rawness to it, which Come On certainly lacks

what's a "northern rawness"? examples, samples, pictures...please, please me

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what's a "northern rawness"? examples, samples, pictures...please, please me

There was evidently a divide between the north and south. Northerners are perceived as being tougher and I think it comes through in the early Beatles music. It is certainly rawer.

The Beatles were tough working class scousers, whilst the Stones were southerners from the Home Counties.

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what's a "northern rawness"? examples, samples, pictures...please, please me

There was evidently a divide between the north and south. Northerners are perceived as being tougher and I think it comes through in the early Beatles music. It is certainly rawer.

The Beatles were tough working class scousers, whilst the Stones were southerners from the Home Counties.

there's a nothern softness here, but of course i'm talking about bathroom tissue....

Chuck Berry with Martha Berry (relationship anyone?)






"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I never could figure out why they were so awful on this especially with Keith's ability to "out-Chuck" the man himself with the guitar licks! Instead we get the harmonica break. I read in MANY different sources that The Stones were so emabarrassed by it they practically had to be forced to perform it live! But they
sure made up for it with "I Wanna Be Your Man" with Brian's outta space slide work and Micks frenzied vocal-YEAH!

And thanks,Deltics for showing everyone the original which really brings home how weak the Stone's attempt was!

Here's Keith doing it Chuck's way (from Hail Hail Rock 'n'Roll)





Chuck Berry's original is altogether more laid-back than the Stones' cover, and I do enjoy it, but the way the Stones attack the song (there's no other word for it) has something (maybe the driving rhythm plus Brian's harmonica?) that really got my fourteen-year-old self obsessed with it in 1963. If you tell me it's weak, I suppose you're probably right, but in 1963 it sounded like nothing else that was around, and it's the first Stones song that I and many others fell in love with. Remember, we didn't know how much better they were going to get!

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what's a "northern rawness"? examples, samples, pictures...please, please me

ehmmm... me ?

Green Lady Great Video post and comments are completely agreeable!!

Green Lady,love the video but I have to respectfully disagree that Chucks is more "laid back". The great intro, attacking guitar break, and he is really pissed saying "COME ON!!" about the stupid jerk(wonder why the Stones changed it to guy?) I always felt that this was the first and LAST time that the boys took direction from someone else musically? The way they came roaring back with the next single, I dont know! But to each his own.

Great early Stones. The energy & the rawness is great. This is why we love the Stones,

It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 Light Years from home

Always loved it:

Is it Ronnie who says he always wants the band to learn it?