C-T, you're struggling with this '3 minute or less concept' aren't you clip = 3:13 are you still on pre-decimal time out there?
As you've already implied Ron, I'm just rebelling against my aristocratic background. Ask my missus...
Buddy wouldn't have had any say given how he and the Crickets were stitched up on song ownership and royalties by Norman Petty. But as Buddy was a big Bo Diddley fan he would have been delighted to hear them record Not Fade Away with a Bo Diddley beat backing.
Almost everything on this album qualifies but here's one with more words than a 1:25 song should possibly have.
Rather surprisingly, as most people think Irma Thomas did it, this is the original. Though I didn't find that out for a long time.Written by one of my favourite writers, Jerry Ragovoy who did some classics quite a few of which Janis Joplin covered. Hardly any lyrics on this, but they were sung by Cissie Houston,Dee Dee Warwick and, surprisingly as she was a big star by the, Dionne Warwick. Lyrics were added at the last minute at an Irma Thomas recording session and it was released as a B side. Ragovoy signed over half the royalties to the bloke who did the extra lyrics. A thing they both did well out of as it was probably the biggest seller either of them was involved in. The Stones did 2 versions, one featuring an organ introduction which was released as a single in the US and this one which is the more widely played one. Anyway, I rather like the original.
Wasn't particularly research. First made aware of it some time ago when someone, an American, had accused British acts of ripping off American acts. One example they gave was Time Is On My Side and they said that the Stones ripped Irma Thomas off and she didn't get her dues ( I have read the same since). It was pointed out that Irma Thomas wasn't due anything as she hadn't written it and went on to mention the original version which I wasn't aware of. Saying Irma Thomas was due anything was like saying Sjnatra and not Paul Anka was due royalties for cover version of My Way. BTW, did you know that David Bowie was asked to write Englisg lyrics to the tune used for My Way? It was a French song called Comme D' Habitude. His lyric were turned down but he later used it as the basis for Life On Mars. The year after Paul Anka heard Comme D'Habitude and bought up the rights from the French composers. He agreed to give them half the royalties from any song he came up with. Must have set them up for life from that one tune.
Didn't know the Bowie connection. First disc I ever bought was Anka's "Diana", and we didn't even have a record player at the time. My father played the sax (amateur) at the time & it was the sax component of Anka's recording that turned me onto pop music. That & Buddy Holly/Crickets at the same time.
