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The Rolling Stones is the debut album by The Rolling Stones and was released in the United Kingdom in April 1964, following a month later in the United States as England's Newest Hit Makers with a song substitution.

Recorded over the course of five days spread throughout January and February 1964, The Rolling Stones was produced by then-managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton, following the release of their first two singles in 1963, "Come On" and "I Wanna Be Your Man". Their third single release, "Not Fade Away" would be released on England's Newest Hitmakers in the place of "I Need You Baby (Mona)". The Rolling Stones was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, while the US England's Newest Hitmakers appeared first through London Records.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richard (who dropped the "s" from his surname until 1978) were very much fledging songwriters during early 1964, contributing only one original to The Rolling Stones, though a couple of tracks credited to "Nanker Phelge" (a pseudonym for group compositions) are featured. Thus, the majority of the album's tracks center on the band's love for authentic R&B material.

Upon its release, The Rolling Stones became one of 1964's biggest sellers in the UK, staying at #1 for 12 weeks, while it made #11 in the US as England's Newest Hitmakers, going gold in the process.

In August 2002, this US edition of the album (England's Newest Hitmakers) was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO, foresaking — by common consent — the preferred UK edition.

UK track listing

  1. "Route 66" (Bobby Troup) – 2:20
  2. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Willie Dixon) – 2:17
  3. "Honest I Do" (Jimmy Reed) – 2:09
  4. "I Need You Baby (Mona)" (Ellas McDaniel) – 3:33
  5. * Left off of the US edition of the album, England's Newest Hitmakers, in favour of "Not Fade Away"
  6. "Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:29
  7. * "Uncle Phil" and "Uncle Gene" refer to Phil Spector and Gene Pitney, both of whom contributed to the sessions; "Nanker Phelge" was a pseudonym for group-written compositions by The Rolling Stones, used from 1963 to 1965
  8. "Little by Little" (Nanker Phelge, Phil Spector) – 2:39
  9. "I'm a King Bee" (James Moore) – 2:35
  10. "Carol" (Chuck Berry) – 2:33
  11. "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richard) – 3:48
  12. * The first released Rolling Stones song by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, the US edition of the album has an abbreviated version of "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"
  13. "Can I Get a Witness" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 2:55
  14. "You Can Make It if You Try" (Ted Jarrett) – 2:01
  15. "Walking the Dog" (Rufus Thomas) – 3:10

US track listing

The cover of England's Newest Hitmakers
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The cover of England's Newest Hitmakers

  1. "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 1:48
  2. * Replaces "I Need You Baby (Mona)" from the UK edition
  3. "Route 66" – 2:20
  4. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" – 2:17
  5. "Honest I Do" – 2:09
  6. "Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" – 2:29
  7. "Little by Little" – 2:39
  8. "I'm a King Bee" – 2:35
  9. "Carol" – 2:33
  10. "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" – 3:48
  11. "Can I Get a Witness" – 2:55
  12. "You Can Make It if You Try" – 2:01
  13. "Walking the Dog" – 3:10

External links

Albums by The Rolling Stones
U.K. studio albums and EPs 1964 - 1967: The Rolling Stones (EP) | The Rolling Stones | Five by Five (EP) | The Rolling Stones No. 2 | Out of Our Heads | Aftermath | Between the Buttons
U.S. albums 1964 - 1967: England's Newest Hitmakers | 12 X 5 | The Rolling Stones, Now! | Out of Our Heads | December's Children (And Everybody's) | Aftermath | Between the Buttons | Flowers
Albums 1967 - present: Their Satanic Majesties Request | Beggars Banquet | Let It Bleed | Sticky Fingers | Exile on Main St. | Goats Head Soup | It's Only Rock'n Roll | Black and Blue | Some Girls | Emotional Rescue | Tattoo You | Undercover | Dirty Work | Steel Wheels | Voodoo Lounge | Bridges to Babylon | A Bigger Bang
Live albums: got LIVE if you want it! (EP) | Got Live if You Want It! | Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert | Love You Live | "Still Life" (American Concert 1981) | Flashpoint | Stripped | No Security | Live Licks
Compilations: Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (US) | Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK) | Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) | Made in the Shade | Sucking in the Seventies | Rewind (1971-1984) | | Forty Licks | Rarities 1971-2003
Post-contract ABKCO albums: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 | More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) | Metamorphosis | | The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Singles 1963-1965 | Singles 1965-1967 | Singles 1968-1971
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts: Jamming with Edward

The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger | Keith Richards | Charlie Watts | Ron Wood
Former Members
Brian Jones | Bill Wyman | Mick Taylor | Ian Stewart
See Also
Chuck Leavell | Darryl Jones | Dick Taylor | Andrew Loog Oldham | Allen Klein
Related Articles
Discography | The Glimmer Twins | Nanker Phelge | Rolling Stones Records | Rock and Roll Circus
Categories
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