Artist: Rolling Stones
Author: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Label: Decca
Year: 1965
Keith admits he was looking for some opener like in Dancing In The Street by Martha & The Vandellas. Stones producer and manager Andrew Oldham encouraged his boys to embrace Motown, preferably in a Can I Get A Witness-style (Marvin Gaye). Witness had already been picked up by the Stones and Dancing In The Street would follow: Jagger cut a version with Bowie. Jagger admitted inspiration from one of the lines in Chuck Berry's Thirty Days: "I can't get no satisfaction from the judge". Not to mention I Can't Be Satisfied by their common idol Muddy Waters.
Covers:
Eddy Mitchell [as Rien qu'un seul mot]
Bubblerock [Jonathan King under one of his many aliasses]
Ronnie Baker Brooks [on Chicago Blues tribute to the Rolling Stones]
Dolly Parton [with P!nk & Brandi Carlile]
Keith wanted the Stones version deeply soulful with horns and stuff. He must have been jealous hearing Otis on his album Otis Blue, cut in July '65, less than a month since the Stones' version came out in US. (Not in UK yet). Otis didn't even know the song (a rumour confirmed by his manager Phil Walden): Otis wasn't familiar with session leader Steve Cropper's handwriting, singing 'satisfashion' instead of 'satisfaction'.
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Arnold Rypens
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