Single:
The double-A-side single Ruby Tuesday / Let’s Spend the Night Together entered the Australian singles chart* on 4 February 1967 and peaked at #3. It was #17 on the Top 100 of 1967.
Album:
The songs are on Between the Buttons which entered the Australian albums chart* on 8 April 1967 and peaked at #7.
Songwriters:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Producer:
Andrew Loog Oldham
Record label of Australian release:
Decca
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
RUBY TUESDAY
Wikipedia:
“That’s a wonderful song,” Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. “It’s just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it.” Bill Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the lyrics were completely written by Keith Richards with help from Brian Jones on the musical composition. However, Marianne Faithfull recalls it differently; according to her, Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones. According to Victor Bockris, Richards came up with the basic track and the words and finished the song with Jones in the studio.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Tuesday_(song)
Songfacts:
Keith Richards said of Ruby Tuesday: “That’s one of those things – some chick you’ve broken up with. And all you’ve got left is the piano and the guitar and a pair of panties. And it’s goodbye you know. And so it just comes out of that. And after that you just build on it. It’s one of those songs that are easiest to write because you’re really right there and you really sort of mean it. And for a songwriter, hey break his heart and he’ll come up with a good song.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/ruby-tuesday
LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
Songfacts:
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on in this song, as Mick Jagger makes a play to bed down a lovely lady. All this talk of “satisfying her every need” got the attention of censors: many radio stations either refused to play it or bleeped out the word “night.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/lets-spend-the-night-together
Lyrics:
Ruby Tuesday
Let’s Spend the Night Together
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Also on Bang a Gong:
Ruby Tuesday by Melanie
Let’s Spend the Night Together by David Bowie
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