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Memphis Tennessee (Instrumental)

Composer: Chuck Berry
Recording dates: Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Recording location: London, Pye Studios and London, Decca Studios
Producer: Andrew Oldham
Musical Director: John Paul Jones


First Released Stones: 2nd October 1964: THE ANDREW OLDHAM ORCHESTRA.
LP '16 Hip Hits'

Label: DECCA Ace Of Clubs ACL 1180

Line up:
THE ANDREW OLDHAM ORCHESTRA Jam with Stones participating.

Alternate version

Memphis Tennessee (Live Studio Recording)
First recorded live on the BBC radio Sept. 23, 1963 (not officially released) Released on various Bootlegs

Line up:
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Guitars: Brian Jones, Keith Richards
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Piano: Ian Stewart



Memphis Tennessee

Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

Help me, information, get in touch with my Marie
She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis Tennessee
Her home is on the south side, high up on a ridge
Just a half a mile from the Mississippi Bridge

Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

"Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye
With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only six years old, information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee"

Note: Info taken from NZentgraf and WW-Internet and Deltics ;o)



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Love this version. Again, it's a hard song to get wrong. One thing I'll say though is that nothing - not even Chuck Berry's original cut - beats the Faces version on A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse.







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The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

Thanks Drew and indeed this was the last song from the list of 366 songs ...........will be continued.....................

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Great Mick vocal, great cover

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

I'm talking about the version Nicos mentions:

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NICOS
Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Am I missing something here?

Drew

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DandelionPowderman

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

I'm talking about the version Nicos mentions:

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NICOS
Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Am I missing something here?

Drew

Yes, the version released on this compilation. There is link to audio in the video I posted above.

I think you have included both versions in one in your liner notes, NICO

I'm also pretty sure that Mick was the only Stone on the version with vocals.

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

I'm talking about the version Nicos mentions:

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NICOS
Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Am I missing something here?

Drew

Actually I didn't know either.........I'm just the messenger

Funny thing is that NZentgraf nothing mention about an instrumental version...........

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I think you have included both versions in one in your liner notes, NICO

I'm also pretty sure that Mick was the only Stone on the version with vocals.

You mean I'm been fooled for over 40 years?

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

I'm talking about the version Nicos mentions:

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NICOS
Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Am I missing something here?

Drew

Actually I didn't know either.........I'm just the messenger

Funny thing is that NZentgraf nothing mention about an instrumental version...........

Might be because it was never released by The Stones, but rather by The Andrew Oldham Orchestra?

The version with vocals was indeed released as the Stones.

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drewmaster

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drewmaster
The officially-released (instrumental) version is utterly forgettable pseudo-Stones filler.

Nicos, thank you for graciously taking the helm and expertly guiding Track Talk to this point. It’s been a glorious voyage and it ain’t over yet … 2 blues covers + 10 more soon-to-be-released!

Drew

It's not instrumental.

I'm talking about the version Nicos mentions:

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NICOS
Recorded in the studio on July 1, 1964, released in the UK on the album 16 Hits, Oct , 1964. That version had no vocals and only featured Brian Jones and Keith Richards playing with sessions musicians.

Am I missing something here?

Drew

Yes, the version released on this compilation. There is link to audio in the video I posted above.

I don't have the German disc, but this YouTube video suggests that the version on "The Rest of the Best" was instrumental. So that is not correct then?

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Drew

The instrumental "Memphis" released by The Andrew Oldham Orchestra which appears on numerous Stones bootlegs and was legitimately released on Decca's REST OF THE BEST box set in 1983. This version followed Lonnie Mack's 1963 instrumental arrangment.

"Memphis, Tennessee" with a vocal is a BBC radio performance and (along with "Roll Over, Beethoven" ) arguably represents the best recording of the band from 1963. While broadcast many times (available from Westwood One on a collectible series of Stones rarities, remixes, solo tracks, and session works), it has never been legitimately offered for sale by ABKCO/Decca despite its appearance on countless bootlegs.

There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.


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

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

By whom ?

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NICOS

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

By whom ?

Throughout this thread!


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

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

Not on my copy, where Mick sings it loud and clear

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DandelionPowderman

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

Not on my copy, where Mick sings it loud and clear

Interesting! The plot thickens!!

Drew

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DandelionPowderman

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

Not on my copy, where Mick sings it loud and clear

Well that's very odd, my version is identical to the one on 16 Hip Hits.



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

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Deltics

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DandelionPowderman

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

Not on my copy, where Mick sings it loud and clear

Well that's very odd, my version is identical to the one on 16 Hip Hits.

Maybe ABKCO realized they'd included the "wrong" version (i.e. the instrumental) and corrected the mistake?

Drew

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Deltics

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DandelionPowderman

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

Not on my copy, where Mick sings it loud and clear

Well that's very odd, my version is identical to the one on 16 Hip Hits.

Maybe ABKCO realized they'd included the "wrong" version (i.e. the instrumental) and corrected the mistake?

Drew

Unlikely as the vocal version is a BBC recording and not owned by ABKCO.


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

It doesn't really sound like a BBC-recording. I'll rip it for you.

You wouldn't by any chance have the CB Blues-version of The Rest Of The Best, would you?

Might be that they did more changes to this box set than we were aware of

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It doesn't really sound like a BBC-recording. I'll rip it for you.

You wouldn't by any chance have the CB Blues-version of The Rest Of The Best, would you?

Might be that they did more changes to this box set than we were aware of

This is quite interesting as I have 4 different copies of "The Rest of the Best" but they all have the instrumental version on it. Could you maybe provide the Matrix-number of the disc with the vocal-version?



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It doesn't really sound like a BBC-recording. I'll rip it for you.

You wouldn't by any chance have the CB Blues-version of The Rest Of The Best, would you?

Might be that they did more changes to this box set than we were aware of

I don't have the single.
What is printed on your cover? This one says that the track is from "16 Hip Hits".



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



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There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

By whom ?

Throughout this thread!

Deltics, I meant who's playing on the instrumental version so I can change the original post.........

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Deltics
There seems to be some confusion here.
The version of "Memphis" by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra as incorrectly included on "The Rest Of The Best" is an instrumental version.

By whom ?

Throughout this thread!

Deltics, I meant who's playing on the instrumental version so I can change the original post.........

Dunno!
Zentgraf just says "Jam with Stones participating".
This from Aeppli:
August 31 – September 4, 1964 Pye Recording and/or Decca Studios, London: THE ANDREW
OLDHAM ORCHESTRA & CHORUS, 16 HIP HITS (Decca-Ace Of Clubs ACL 1180 [UK], Oct. 2,
1964/Decca/Universal UICY 75672, CD [Japan], July 31, 2013: cuts 1-4); RARITIES (See For Miles
SEECD 394, CD [UK], Dec. 1993: cuts 1, 3): 1. Needles And Pins (Nitzsche, Bono), 2. I Just Don’t
Know What To Do With Myself (Bacharach, David), 3. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Lennon,
McCartney), 4.You’re No Good (Ballard)
KR: guitar; supporting The Andrew Oldham Orchestra; Andrew L. Oldham: producer; —
NOTES: KR did not play on two other titles from these sessions, Memphis, Tennessee (Berry)
and I Wanna Be Your Man (Lennon, McCartney).
[aeppli.ch]


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

This is gettig interesting. My sister purchased the LP box set in 1984 from a retail store that carried it as an import. It has the 45 of "C*cksucker Blues" included. The version of "Memphis" is the cover of Lonnie Mack's instrumental arrangement. The LP box says MADE IN GERMANY but the track listings and notations are in English.



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