I'D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS
Created on 08/03/2003Latest update on 11/02/2023
Artist: Toggery Five
Author: Keith Richards/Andrew Oldham
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1965
Written by Keith Richards and Stones manager Andrew Oldham about gay songwriter/producer Bob Crewe. Reissued on a Sixties Lost And Found lp.
Covers:
- 1965:
Donna Lynn [for Capitol as I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls]
- 1975:
Rolling Stones [on Metamorphosis; just Mick & Keith + John McLaughlin, Joe Monetti and Andy White; cut in '65 never to be released as a Stones song]
- 1982:
Nikki Sudden [on his first solo lp Waiting On Egypt]
- 1983:
Johnny Thunders [as I'd Rather Be With The Boys]
- 2002:
- 2016:
Ronnie Spector [as I'd Much Rather Be With The Girls]
