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Who’s Been Sleeping Here?

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: 8th - 26th November 1966
Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA; Olympic Studios & Pye Studios, London
Producer: Andrew Oldham
Engineers: Glyn Johns


First released:
20th January: The Rolling Stones (LP) Between The Buttons Decca SKL 4852

Line-up:

Vocal: Mick Jagger
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Harmonica: Brian Jones
Tambourine: Mick Jagger
Piano: Jack Nitzsche

Who’s Been Sleeping Here?

What you say, girl
You see what is wrong?
You must be joking
You was led along

But the butler, the baker
The laughing cavalier
Will tell me now
Who's been sleeping here

I want to know

Tell me, baby, who's been sleeping...

What you say, girl
Who'd you see that night?
I, I was doing
Doing something right

Oh the soldier, the sailor
And then there's the three musketeers
Yes, they'll tell me now
Who's been sleeping here

Did I ever tell you I want to know?

Hey baby, who's been sleeping...

Don't you look like
Like a Goldilocks
There must be somewhere
Somewhere you can stop

Yes there's the noseless old newsboy
The old British brigadier
But you'll tell me now
Who's been sleeping here

Who's been eating
Eating off my plate?
Who will tell me?
Who'll investigate?

There's the sergeants, the soldiers
The cruel old grenadier
But they'll tell me now
Who's been sleeping here

Cause I want to know
Who's been sleeping right here
Was it your mummy, your daddy?
Who's been sleeping here?
Was it your auntie, your uncle?
Who's been sleeping here?
Was it your boyfriend, your girlfriend?
Who's been sleeping here?

All right

Note: Info taken from TIOMS, NZentgraf and the WW-Internet



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-04-11 10:48 by NICOS.

I can't get away from this feeling that Mick was inspired by Bob Dylan at the time.
Nevermind, I do like the result.
Was Mick already learning to play guitar during the recording of this song? I would
not be surprised if this was one of his first attempts at writing music as well as lyrics.

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

....great song..à la Dylan...!

Love the electric guitar and lyrics on this one.

Together with She Smiled Sweetly my fav from this album...

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A nice Dylan-esque song. Its bigger, better and stronger brother would be born on BB as Jigsaw Puzzle.

An interesting attempt to mimic Bob Dylan. It’s no classic, but this track has some nice guitar-work, fairly clever lyrics, and some sweet melodic elements in the verses. I guess the main problem is that I find the chorus to be annoying, not stirring.

Drew

I can't see what it is that's brighter with this lyric then for example 'I'm much rather be with the boys'? Andrews masterpiece has more humor also...

Here I am
With the gang, I don't care where you are
Cause I'd much rather be with the boys
Than be with you

2 1 2 0

A very nice track from the album: "Between The Buttons", it got some great guitars playing.

Probably the best song on Between The Buttons (other than Let's Spend/Ruby Tuesday if going of USA version). I always loved it, great melody, vocals and lyrics!

While The Beatles were able to take their Dylan influences and come up with something original, the Stones simply sound like a band imitating Dylan.
With that said, not a bad tune....part of the learning curve that would lead to eventual greatness.

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

I love Keith's acoustic guitar intro, love the feel and vibe of the track as well.

I have loved this song since I bought the album when it was released.

To me "Who’s Been Sleeping Here?" is, of course, an overtly Dylan-inspired song, but, all the same, to me still in the end emerges as a Rolling Stones song.

What makes Between The Buttons such a compelling album is its diversity. There's a lot of styles on the album - perhaps the most on a 'single' Stones album (not a double).

We have out and out rock in Miss Amanda Jones, Connection and All Sold Out, music hall in Something Happened To Me Yesterday, French chanson on Back Street Girl, folk rock in She Smiled Sweetly, and nascent psychedelic pop in Yesterday's Papers, My Obsession, and Please Go Home.

And in the line here, "was it your boyfriend, your girlfriend" Mick and Keith
are quick to pick up on the early sexual ambiguity demonstrated a few months earlier by Pete Townshend on The Who's I'm A Boy.

I love the way they also poke fun at the English establishment - exemplified here by the Old British Brigadier and the Cruel Old Grenadier - and pre-empting Keith's famous 'your petty morals don't apply to me' riposte in court as he was being sentenced in 1967.

Between The Buttons and Who's Been Sleeping Here in particular was almost Kinks like in how it lifted up the skirt of English society and took a long, humorous look at its frilly knickers.

and cool calm collected, the best buttons song. love the way it speeds up as it goes on and on.

buttons is a great album and much underrated.

Between the Buttons is one of their greatest

Porridge.

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Swayed1967
Porridge.

I don't recall that one. Is it an outtake?

The Dylan connection is always mentioned re. this song.
IMO song shows leaps forward in studio production; the swells of the instruments in between the vocal lines.
There is also a great little passage that occurs only once, after a chorus, where they extend the musical break a bit longer before dropping back into the verse. We hear a touch of bluesy lead guitar for a couple of bars. It's just so good because it only happens that one time, almost out of nowhere