Got Live if You Want It!
Got Live If You Want It! | |||||
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Live album by The Rolling Stones | |||||
Released | 10 December 1966 | ||||
Recorded | 1 & 7 October 1966 except: "I've Been Loving You Too Long": 11 May 1965 "Fortune Teller": 8 August 1963 both with audience overdubs and Mid-October 1966: studio overdubs |
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Genre | Rock | ||||
Length | 33:09 | ||||
Label | London/ABKCO | ||||
Producer | Andrew Loog Oldham | ||||
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The Rolling Stones chronology | |||||
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Got Live If You Want It! is the first live album by British rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in the US in late 1966. At the time, it was not released officially in the UK; instead, the British market had the 1965 EP release got LIVE if you want it!, from which the album's name derived. The album had been compiled as a result of a contractural obligation with US distributor London Records, and the band themselves were not happy with it. They consequently disowned it, arguing that Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (1970) was their true live album debut.
The performances captured for Got Live If You Want It reportedly occurred in early October 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol while on their last UK tour for three years, despite the album's assertion that the recording hailed from the Royal Albert Hall. However, "I'm Alright" contains the same instrumental backing track as the version on the got LIVE if you want it! EP, released over a year earlier, which calls into question the actual sources of the recordings. Although the band went into the studio later in October 1966 to correct audio imperfections, Got Live If You Want It! was deemed a lacklustre and ragged live document upon release. Furthermore, to fill out the album, both "Fortune Teller" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long" were unissued studio recordings overdubbed with screaming girls.
The album was issued in December, as the group were nearing the end of Between the Buttons' sessions. It reached #6 in the US in early 1967 and went gold. Decca Records UK released the LP as Have You Seen Your Mother Live! for import purposes, while King Records Japan released the same LP under the title Hits LIVE.
In August 2002 Got Live If You Want It! was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records, for all markets.
Contents |
Track listing
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.
- Introduction by Long John Baldry
- "Under My Thumb" – 2:54
- "Get Off Of My Cloud" – 2:54
- "Lady Jane" – 3:08
- "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly/Norman Petty) – 2:04
- "I've Been Loving You Too Long" (Otis Redding/Jerry Butler) – 2:55
- "Fortune Teller" (Naomi Neville) – 1:57
- "The Last Time" – 3:08
- "19th Nervous Breakdown" – 3:31
- "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 2:49
- "I'm Alright" (Nanker Phelge) – 2:27
- An alternate version of this song was issued in 1965 on the UK live EP got LIVE if you want it! and in the US on Out of Our Heads
- "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" – 2:19
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 3:05
Musicians
- Mick Jagger - lead vocals, percussion
- Keith Richards - lead guitar, vocals
- Brian Jones - guitars, vocals, harmonica
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass
Charts
Album
Year | Chart | Position |
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1966 | Billboard Pop Albums | 25 |
1967 | Billboard Pop Albums | 6 |