Songfacts®:

• This was an early Stones effort at the blues. It was released as the B-side of "Not Fade Away."
• Phil Spector produced this and played the maracas.
• The writing credits go to Phil Spector and Nanker Phelge, which was a silly name the Stones sometimes used for the five band members from this era: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. Fans who read the liner notes sometimes thought this Nanker guy was an outside writer, but when the Stones were questioned about it, they made it clear it was them, and they did, in fact, write those songs.
• Gene Pitney played the piano. Said Pitney: "When I stopped in from Paris one time and Phil Spector was in London and Andrew Oldham called me from the hotel and told me he was having a terrible time because he was trying to do what was the follow up to 'I Wanna Be Your Man' and all the boys hated each other that day and he had them in a little dinky studio in Denmark Street and he couldn't get them to do anything. I had five fifths of cognac that I was bringing home, so I took one fifth over to the studio and I told them it was a custom in my family that when anybody had a birthday, that everybody had a water glass of cognac until the bottle was empty. So, we ended up with a hell of a session and I played piano and Phil Spector played an empty cognac bottle with a half dollar, clicking it, and we played on the flip side which was 'Little By Little.'" >>>

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  Bertrand - Paris, France