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Come On
(Chuck Berry)

Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, May 10, 1963

Mick Jagger - lead vocals
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals
Brian Jones - harmonica, backing vocals

Everything is wrong since me and my baby parted
All day long I'm walkin' 'cause I couldn't get my car started
Laid off from my job and I can't afford to check it
I wish somebody'd come along and run into it and wreck it
Come on, since me and my baby parted
Come on, I can't get started
Come on, I can't afford to check it
I wish somebody'd come along and run into it and wreck it

Everything is wrong since I've been without you
Ev'ry night I lay awake thinkin' about you
Ev'ry time the phone rings it sounds like thunder
Some stupid guy try'n' to reach another number
Come on, since I've been without you
Come on, always thinkin' about you
Come on, phone sounds like thunder
Some stupid guy try'n' to reach another number

Everything is wrong since I last saw you, baby
I really wanna see you, well, I don't mean maybe
I'm doin' ev'rything try'n' to make you see
That I belong to you, hon, and you belong to me
Come on, I wanna see you, baby
Come on, I don't mean maybe
Come on, I'm try'n' to make you see
That I belong to you and you belong to me

Come on, I gotta see you, baby
Come on, I don't mean maybe
Come on, I've gotta make you see
That I belong to you and you belong to me

Come on, come on, come on, come on

Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham & Roger Savage

First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Come On / I Want To Be Loved” 7” single
(Decca F 11675) UK, June 7, 1963

I never found this song as bad a starter for a new groupin the early 60s as it is always described. Though it is no classic I always enjoyed listening to it, really.

Released 54 years ago today in UK.



Record Mirror, June 8, 1963
(thanks, His Majesty)

Come On (live on June 6, 2013, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada)

Didn't hear it until they release More Hot Rocks in early 70s. Found it clunky and odd then, and that's never really changed. It doesn't do much to advance the sound of the Stones. I don't think it would have done anything in the States.

Okay, nice R&B track, although a little childish. At least better than the demos for other other artists 1963-65, and not worse than many early album tracks. Underrated. Try the "live version" from Toronto '13 (some seconds only).



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I've always liked it. But that beat isn't really the Stones.

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I never found this song as bad a starter for a new groupin the early 60s as it is always described. Though it is no classic I always enjoyed listening to it, really.

Completely agree. I always read that the Stones were not happy with it, but I like it.

I only first heard it when I purchased the Singles Collection: The London Years box in 1989 and have LOVED IT ever since!

I think Chuck's version has a bit more bite to it, what with "Some stupid jerk", as opposed to "Some stupid guy" by the Stones.

Real Good One! My first Stones-single bought 1964....



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saltoftheearth
I never found this song as bad a starter for a new groupin the early 60s as it is always described. Though it is no classic I always enjoyed listening to it, really.

Completely agree. I always read that the Stones were not happy with it, but I like it.

From Keith, in Life: "I didn't think it was the best thing we could have done, but I did know it was something that would make a mark. As a recording it's probably better than I thought it was at the time. But I have a feeling we thought that was the only shot we had in our locker then. It was not something that we'd ever played inj the clubs. It was nothing to do with what we were doing. At the time there was a purist strain running through the band, which I obviously was not on top of".

As for Mick:

Sir Mick Jagger 'over the moon' to hear debut single on the radio 50 years after its release

"I was told by Decca that the record would be played that weekend by Brian Matthew on the big Saturday morning BBC show called Saturday Club, I was very doubtful if this was such a cert as Decca records had let us down so many times.

"But come the day I was glued to the radio at ten o'clock and there it was.

"First 45 played was ours - 'Come On'."

Sir Mick, who turns 70 next month, added: "We were, how's it go, over the moon."

Love it!
Why not as an opener on the "No Filter Tour" in Europe or as a Chuck Berry tribute?



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A slap happy tune in a novelty kind of way, I always liked it and brings back memories of listening to More Hot Rocks.
But it's always had an overall outdated poppy vibe since I first heard it, and needless to say Chuck's version is better - even though it's nowhere near one of his best.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

I always liked it, it may not be the best introduction to what the Stones would become, but it's just a fun one-off song

the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

not my cup of tea ... Mick lacks emotion singing on this one, I think Not Fade Away worked as a better indication of what was to come!

A speedy track from the Album Hot Rocks

"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

The only "Chuck" song that they really bombed in my opinion...it has none of that tuff Berry sound. I can see how Andrew was probably trying to force them to make a "pop" sounding recording tho. In David Dalton's book ( I think it is from there) I remember reading how they hated it so badly it become necessary to force them to play it or they would intentionally leave it out of their set..

Lurv it .... always have.... early primitive garage rock ...



ROCKMAN

Having added up the times I’ve listened to the Stones version (at least a hundred times in the last 35 years) and compared it to the times I’ve listened to Chuck’s version (once, just yesterday in fact) it occurs to me that I’m a moron and possibly a racist. (The math doesn’t lie. I encourage the rest of you to do your own reckoning.)

Of course this only means that from now on I’ll listen to the Stones as much if not more than ever...

^^^^^^.....Only ahundred !!!!!!..... Come on boy step up the pace .... if ya dig it spin it heaps more



ROCKMAN

Always enjoyed this. One of my abiding teenage memories is of cycling the three miles to school on my clapped out and unreliable bike, usually late and in a tearing hurry, with Come On running non-stop on my mental stereo (no mobile devices in 1963) in time with the pedals:

I WISH someone would COME along and RUN into it and WRECK it...

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Having added up the times I’ve listened to the Stones version (at least a hundred times in the last 35 years) and compared it to the times I’ve listened to Chuck’s version (once, just yesterday in fact) it occurs to me that I’m a moron and possibly a racist. (The math doesn’t lie. I encourage the rest of you to do your own reckoning.)

Of course this only means that from now on I’ll listen to the Stones as much if not more than ever...

Chuck's original version blows away the Stones version on this one! Stones do a much better job on songs like Around & Around (yes, better than Chuck, especially Love You Live version) and Bye Bye Johnny.

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Hairball
A slap happy tune in a novelty kind of way, I always liked it and brings back memories of listening to More Hot Rocks.
But it's always had an overall outdated poppy vibe since I first heard it, and needless to say Chuck's version is better - even though it's nowhere near one of his best.

Do people find Chuck's version better? I always thought his version was a bit lame, especially the chorus.

At least, the Stones's take has some drive to it.

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Hairball
A slap happy tune in a novelty kind of way, I always liked it and brings back memories of listening to More Hot Rocks.
But it's always had an overall outdated poppy vibe since I first heard it, and needless to say Chuck's version is better - even though it's nowhere near one of his best.

Do people find Chuck's version better? I always thought his version was a bit lame, especially the chorus.

At least, the Stones's take has some drive to it.

I certainly do, even with Chuck's breakup guitar solo.

But I also like the Stones version, although I think I Wanna Be Your Man (talking only about their singles released in 1963) is far better.

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Hairball
A slap happy tune in a novelty kind of way, I always liked it and brings back memories of listening to More Hot Rocks.
But it's always had an overall outdated poppy vibe since I first heard it, and needless to say Chuck's version is better - even though it's nowhere near one of his best.

Do people find Chuck's version better? I always thought his version was a bit lame, especially the chorus.

At least, the Stones's take has some drive to it.

I certainly do, even with Chuck's breakup guitar solo.

But I also like the Stones version, although I think I Wanna Be Your Man (talking only about their singles released in 1963) is far better.

Nothing the Stones did in 1963 is better than what my high school band did in 1983. Their take of 'Come On' is juvenile and amateurish, that's just a fact. Now if they had taken a stab at 'Come On' in 69 I'm sure they would've owned it.

That's kinda what I think. The Stones usually cut Chuck with his own material ( I don't know if anyone ever did this to the Stones consistently but Johnny Winter comes pretty close with JJF, Stray Cat, Let It Bleed..etc) so that is why hearing "Come On" like I did way after hearing all the other Berry tracks up until "Let It Rock" b side, it was so disappointing to me but I can understand they were being pushed to make a very commercial pop sounding record.

The Rolling Stones - Come On (Short Clip) Toronto 06/06/20 Air Canada Centre
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Come On - The Rolling Stones (HQ) 1963
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some cool old pub shots from this uploader.
heck i like it; i mean it's too easy to just put it down, i get that.
it's a guilty pleasure i guess; not too hip to dig this one but damn i sorta really get a kick out of it. very not cool i know....harmless at worst; a lot of fun and a little kick fo sho. When first hearing it even as a kid I thought it was thin too needlessly fast and all that; but hell I liked it; ain't that weird? I don't over-rate it or romanticize it or anything but i like it. yes i do. ssshhhhh



Come On - Chuck Berry -- (with Johnnie Johnson on piano; Martha Berry on harmony vokes)
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My first listen to it probably wasn't fair since it was the 70s and I had the benefit of hearing all the great other chuck covers by the band first. The biggest surprise to me was the small supporting part played by the guitar instead of being guitar driven like the others..