“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby” by The Rolling Stones

"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" hit shops in Britain and America on the same day, 23 September 1966, a first for the Rolling Stones, and it sounds like a band trying to outrun itself. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote it, the first song Richards is said to have worked out on piano, and they cut it in the late summer of 1966 as the Between the Buttons sessions were just getting going, with Andrew Loog Oldham producing for Decca.

It's a glorious pile-up: a brassy, old-time horn chart arranged by Mike Leander, stacked on Jack Nitzsche's piano until the whole thing threatens to topple. The Stones grumbled that the final cut buried their rhythm section, but it still went to number five at home and nine in the States. On The Ed Sullivan Show they mimed it with Richards faking the piano and Jones the guitar.

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