ON THIS DATE (50 YEARS AGO) December 19, 1964 – The Rolling Stones: Heart of Stone b/w What a Shame (London 45LON 9725) 45 single is released in the US. Heart of Stone is a song by The Rolling Stones, released as a single in the US on this date in December 1964. It became their second Top 20 US hit, reaching #19. The song was included on the US album The Rolling Stones, Now! the following February. It was not released in the United Kingdom until featuring on the Out of Our Heads UK album released September 1965. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Heart of Stone was scheduled as a single release in the United States. In the United Kingdom it appeared as a track on the UK album Out of Our Heads and in many European countries on an EP with a subsequent single. Allmusics Richie Unterberger says, Heart of Stone [is] a slow and soulful, dramatic ballad with the kind of vaguely discordant, droning guitars heard on many an early Rolling Stones slow number. What was impressive was how the Jagger/Richards song, though similar in some respect to American soul ballads of the period...was not explicitly derivative of any one blues or soul song that they were covering on their mid-60s records. The lilt of the verses owed something to country music and the mournful harmonies heard on the latter part of the verses added to the overall feeling of melancholy moodiness. The song sees the singer discuss his life as a womanizer, and how one girl in particular wont break his heart; Thereve been so many girls that Ive known; Ive made so many cry and still I wonder why; Here comes the little girl; I see her walking down the street; Shes all by herself, I try and knock her off her feet; But shell never break, never break, never break, never break, This heart of stone” Recording began on 2 November 1964 at Los Angeles RCA Studios with Jagger singing, Richards and Brian Jones on guitars, Bill Wyman on bass, and Charlie Watts on drums. Jack Nitzsche performs tambourine and piano. The Rolling Stones
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