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The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hit Makers: The Rolling Stones

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Format: CD
Catalog: 93752
Rel. Date: 08/27/2002
UPC: 018771937524

England's Newest Hit Makers: The Rolling Stones
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Format: CD
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Remastered 1964 debut US album. With Beatlemania & the British invasion in full swing the band were announced as "England's Newest Hit Makers". Released to coincide with the Stones' arrival in New York City on June 1, 1964, where they began their first US tour. The band played to very small audiences in the eight cities. The track listing is the same as their eponymous first UK release except for their Buddy Holly cover of "Not Fade Away" replacing "Mona (I Need You Baby)". Keith Richards describing the album said it "reflected what we used to play at the Crawdaddy, a regular diet of Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters with some Slim Harpo. The album was the cream of the set." Mostly covers there is one Jagger/Richards original "Tell Me" & two group compositions under their nom de plume Nanker Phelge (including one co-write with Phil Spector). The album was recorded at Regent Sound in London mostly live in the studio.

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''England's Newest Hit Makers'' is the US debut album by The Rolling Stones, released by London Records on 30 May 1964.

Recorded at Regent Sound Studios in London over the course of five days in January and February 1964, ''England's Newest Hit Makers'' was produced by then-managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton. ''England's Newest Hit Makers'' was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, under the title ''The Rolling Stones''.

The majority of the tracks reflect the band's love for authentic R&B material. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (whose professional name until 1978 omitted the ''s'' in his surname) were very much fledging songwriters during early 1964, contributing only one original composition to the album: "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)". Two numbers are credited to "Nanker Phelge" - a pseudonym the band used for group compositions from 1963 to 1965. Phil Spector and Gene Pitney both contributed to the recording sessions, and are referred to as "Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene" in the subtitle of the Nanker Phelge instrumental "Now I've Got a Witness".

The album cover photo was taken by Nicholas Wright. Upon its release, ''England's Newest Hitmakers'' reached #11 in the US, going gold in the process. To date, this is the only of the Stones' American studio albums that failed to place in the top five on the ''Billboard'' album charts. The album was also number 1 in Australia for three weeks.

In August 2002, ''England's Newest Hitmakers'' was reissued as a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO, while its British counterpart has remained out of print since 1987. - Wikipedia

        
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