Out Of Our Heads is the Rolling Stones' fifth album.

Contents

1 Band lineup 2 Production & release 3 Songs 4 Rolling Stones quotes on the album and songs

Band lineup

The Stones' official lineup on this album was as follows:

• Mick Jagger - Lead Vocals, Harmonica
• Keith Richards - Lead and Rhythm Guitar s, Backing Vocals
• Brian Jones - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Harmonica, Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Backing Vocals
• Charlie Watts - Drums and Percussion
• Bill Wyman - Bass guitar

Production & release

The album was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham for the Rolling Stones in the USA 1965. Exact recording sessions and locations were: ~ November 1964: RCA studios, Los Angeles ~ January - February 1965: RCA studios, Los Angeles ~ May 1965: Chess Studios, Chicago ~ May 1965: RCA studios, Los Angeles

The studio engineers were Dave Hassinger, Ron Malo and Glyn Jones.

It was released in July 1965 in the USA by London/Decca Records (a subcorporation of Polygram which is now Abkco Records ).

Songs

• Mercy, Mercy - Originally by Don Covay . This album version was recorded on May 10 and 11 1965.
• Hitch Hike - Originally by Marvin Gaye. Recorded November 2 and 3 1964
• The Last Time - Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (Nanker/Phelge) . Recorded January 11 and 12 1965. Richards plays the guitar solo, and Richards and Bill Wyman sing backing vocals. Additionally released as a single in the USA on March 13 1965.
• That's How Strong My Love Is - Originally composed by Roosevelt Jamison and performed by Otis Redding. Recorded May 10 and 11 1965. Piano is either played by Ian Stewart or Jack Nitzsche.
• Good Times - Originally by Sam Cooke. Recorded 12 and 13 May 1965. Brian Jones plays acoustic guitar, and Ian Stewart plays percussion.
• I'm All Right(live) - Written by Nanker/Phelge. Recorded March 5, at the Edmonton Regal.
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Written by Jagger and Richards, Recorded on May 10 - 13 1965. Additionally released as a single in the USA on June 5 1965. Keith Richards sings backing vocals, and Mick Jagger plays tambourine.
• Cry To Me - Originally composed by Bert Berns (aka Russell) and performed by Solomon Burke. Recorded May 12 and 13 1965. Ian Stewart plays piano and organ.
• The Under Assisstant West Coast Promotion Man - Written by Nanker/Phelge. Ian Stewart plays piano.
• Play With Fire - Written by Nanker/Phelge. Recorded May 11-18 and February 18 1965. Additionally released as a single B-side in the UK in February 1965, and in the USA March 1965. Jack Nitzsche plays harpsichord and Phil Spector plays bass guitar.
• The Spider And The Fly - Written by Nanker/Phelge. Recorded May 12 and 13 1965. Jack Nitzsche plays keyboards and percussion, and Mick Jagger plays harmonica.
• One More Try - Written by Nanker/Phelge. Recorded May 12 and 13 1965. Brian Jones plays harmonica and Jagger and Richards sing backing vocals.

Rolling Stones quotes on the album and songs

"That was... important, I guess, to Mick and myself because the previous songs we'd written, we'd given to Andrew (Oldham) and we'd done dubs and sold them off to somebody else, you know, to do. So, I mean, that kind of... is a reason why we ended up with The Last Time because the Beatles didn't have another good one and we'd rifled (laughs) everybody else's repertoire. I guess we were just getting about into good enough to be able to resort... to write for ourselves, you know, and to believe we could do it." - Keith Richards, c. 1982

"It was just a riff. I didn't think... I didn't think of it as... I woke up in the middle of the night, put it down on a cassette. I thought it was great then. Went to sleep and when I woke up, it appeared to be as useful as another album track. It was the same with Mick too at the time, you know. It goes da-da, da-da-da... and the words I'd written for that riff were I can't get no satisfaction. But it could just as well have been 'Auntie Millie's Caught Her Left Tit in the Mangle'." - Keith Richards

"I really wasn't mad about it, but when you listen to [The Spider and the Fly] on record, it still holds up quite interestingly as a blues song. It's a Jimmy Reed blues with British pop-group words, which is an interesting combination: a song somewhat stuck in a time warp." - Mick Jagger, 1995