Charlie White Eagle - Get Off Of My Cloud (The Rolling Stones Cover)

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From '' Get Off Of My Cloud ''
Label: Teenbeat Club - TB-1004
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: US
Released: 1966
Tracklist
A Get Off Of My Cloud
B Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Backing Band [Uncredited] - The Weeds
Producer - Keith Austin, Steve Miller
Notes
Recorded live at the Teenbeat Club in Las Vegas, NV.
From Mike Stax’s 2018 interview with Weeds guitarist Ed Bowen:
Charlie was a novelty act at the Teenbeat Club. He would come up as a guest performer during our sets. We were his back up. His performances were received as a bit of a caricature by the teens No one was fully sure whether or not Charlie intended that, or if he was truly genuine. That's what made his performances so wonderful and funny. Everyone loved him, and we agreed to record behind his vocals for no charge. We recorded on stage in the Teenbeat Club during closed hours, and it was a live recording. I hope Mick Jagger can forgive us!
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"Get Off of My Cloud" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for a single to follow the successful "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
Recorded in Hollywood, California, in early September 1965, the song was released in September in the United States and October in the United Kingdom.
It topped the charts in the US, UK, Canada, and Germany and reached number two in several other countries.
Composition
The Stones have said that the song is a reaction to their suddenly greatly enhanced popularity and deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them after the success of "Satisfaction". Richards commented: "'Get Off of My Cloud' was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow-up to 'Satisfaction' ... We thought 'At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events'. Suddenly there's the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was 'Get Off of My Cloud'".
In 1971 he added:
I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A. [Los Angeles, where "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was recorded], and it was time for another single. But how do you follow-up "Satisfaction"? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow, like a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham's worst productions.
In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics ... It's a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress."
I was sick and tired, fed up with this and decided to take a drive downtown
It was so very quiet and peaceful, there was nobody, not a soul around
I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream
In the morning the parking tickets were just like flags stuck on my windscreen
The song opens with a drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Richards. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci called this Watts' best drumming performance, saying that it has "one of the most unconventional drum structures ever employed in a Top 40 hit" in which Watts basically :plays the same 4/4-beat-fill-4/4-beat-fill pattern throughout the song" and does not break the beat even once.
Release
The 1965 single release was a major success for the Rolling Stones.
In the US, the single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 6 November 1965, and remained there for two weeks.
The song was included on the band's next American album, December's Children (And Everybody's), released in December 1965.
The song stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November that year. Billboard described the song as a "wild, far out beat number which will have no trouble topping their 'Satisfaction' smash."
Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, fast-moving blues-soaked thumper with an infectious danceable beat" that should be another success after "Satisfaction."
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