(I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION

Created on 31/12/2001
Latest update on 29/01/2024

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:

1965:

Otis Redding

1965:

Ventures

1965:

Eddy Mitchell [as Rien qu'un seul mot]

1965:

Paul Revere & The Raiders

1965:

Strangeloves

1966:

Chris Farlowe

1966:

Mary Wells

1967:

Aretha Franklin

1967:

Manfred Mann

1968:

Blue Cheer

1968:

Sandie Shaw

1968:

Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

1970:

Jimi Hendrix

1970:

José Feliciano

1970:

Shadows

1971:

Oscar Peterson

1972:

Herbie Mann

1973:

Common Market

1974:

Mountain

1974:

Bubblerock [Jonathan King under one of his many aliasses]

1975:

Residents

1976:

Eddie & The Hot Rods

1978:

Devo

1982:

Television

1983:

Buddy Guy

1987:

Samantha Fox

1988:

Alien Sex Fiend

1988:

Tom Jones

1990:

Tania Maria

1993:

Peter Maffay

1994:

Rob Wasserman

1998:

Sly & Robbie

2000:

Britney Spears

2000:

Cat Power

2001:

Smitty

2018:

Ronnie Baker Brooks [on Chicago Blues tribute to the Rolling Stones]

2023:

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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