The Rolling Stones-Around and Around (1964)


 

Artist: The Rolling Stones


Label: Decca

Format: LP

Catalog Number: 6 21392 AO

Year of Release: 1964

Country and Year of Edition: Germany late 70's/early 80's

Sell Price: $11.65

Sell Date: 5/1/24

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold  4/30/24 M/NM $34.41

Low: $6.45 VG+/VG+ 4/17/23

Median: $14.52

Average: $16.92

High: $48.17 M/M 11/16/23

Current low price: $11.82 VG+/G+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 42

Have/Want: 698/137

Where Sold: Denver, CO

Time It Took To Sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought: new mid 80's Worcester bookstore near library selling cutouts and flooded stock.

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

I had this idea that somehow I was going to give this in-it's-day import Stones compilation something less than an A.  The European album from 1964 was a counterpart of 12x5 in the US with a slightly different track listing..  This compiled the Five By Five 7" EP that came out shortly after the debut Rolling Stones album which consisted of "If You Need Me," "Empty Heart," "2120 Michigan Avenue," "Confessing The Blues" and the Chuck Berry cover "Around and Around."    Who was I kidding, this is a great listen.

The 1963 singles added were the Beatles cover "I Wanna Be Your Man" (but not the B-side "Stoned"), "Poison Ivy" the Leiber/Stoller song previously released by The Coasters (but not the "Fortune Teller" flip).  Three other tracks come from another 1964 EP entitled The Rolling Stones that also had "Poison Ivy," taking another Chuck Berry cover "Bye Bye Johnny" along with "You Better Move On" and leaving their cover of "Money" off the album..

Yet another 1964 EP is included partially.  The title track was the Buddy Holly song "Not Fade Away"  as was the Stones standard "It's All Over Now."  "Tell Me" and "Now I've Got A Witness" were left off.  "It's All Over Now" was also issued as a single and it's flip "Good Times, Bad Times" is here as well.

So much stuff in this era it gets hard to keep the timeline straight as the music got recompiled over the decades.  I recently had a conversation that this era was viewed as somehow inferior to their later 60's recordings and maybe they were getting it together.  However, in the context of issuing singles and EP releases in such a short time span, on top of their first album, the music is more than credible on the road to "Satisfaction" and so forth.

You gotta start somewhere.



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