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You Can Make It If You Try

Composer: Ted Jarrett Original performer: Gene Allison (1958)
Recording date: 3rd and 4th January 1964
Recording location: Regent Sound Studios, London
Producer: Andrew Oldham
Engineer: Bill Farley

First released: 16th April: The Rolling Stones (LP)
Label: Decca LK 4605

Line-up:

Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Acoustic guitar: Brian Jones
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Background vocals: Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Bill Wyman
Organ: Ian Stewart
Tambourine: Brian Jones

You Can Make It If You Try

You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try

Sometime you had to fall
Don't you know sometime you want to cry
Don't it make you feel so bad sometime you want to lay down and die?
Yeah, yeah - you can make it if you try

If your baby treats you wrong
Don't run around being blue
Remember my friends, everybody can't win
'Cause you know sometimes, sometimes you've got to lose

You can make it if you try
They always told me I could make it if I tried
I'm going to make it if i try, yeah, yeah
I'm going to make it if I try

If you try

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



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2016-07-04 10:58 by NICOS.

ROCKMAN



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-06-20 12:35 by Rockman.

Great song by Gene Allison and as well The Stones with a great raw singing Mick Jagger, the album: "England's Newest Hitmakers" , was an immediate succes in the UK and even knocked The Beatles at the top in May 64.

LOVE it...and Mick sings it SO well.

I'm going to make it if i try, yeah, yeah
I'm going to make it if I try

If you try

YEAH!

Well said.
Mature great singing by Mick Jagger, one of my favourite track of the early years.

Also love the original!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2016-06-20 17:50 by 1962.

One of the best covers by the Stones, and as mentioned Mick's vocals are great - singing it like he really means it.
With that said, nothing can beat the original which is as perfect as it gets.

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

I love it, as I do any of the tracks off the first 3 albums (US versions, Hitmakers, 12x5, Now). People mention Mick's singing, I love the 'yeah ... yeah' in the chorus!

I dont know the original but with the Stones doing a version as wonderful as this I dont care for the original. Ah, those were the days! Back then Mick knew how to handle a ballad, these days he doesn´t or has forgotten. Raise your glass to the early Stones, everything´s perfect.

Have never quite gotten that song. Possibly the only 'weak' track on the debut.
Not that it's bad, but there are way more inspired tracks on the album.

A nice cover that fits like a glove on their first album.

Drew

Not one of the best songs on the market. A 3 out of 5...

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