The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

The Andrew Oldham Orchestra was a musical side project in the mid-1960s created by Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager and record producer of The Rolling Stones. There was no actual orchestra per se. The name was applied to recordings made by Oldham using a multitude of session musicians, including members of the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones Songbook included an orchestral version of the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards song "The Last Time",^[1] which was sampled by The Verve for their track "Bitter Sweet Symphony". The threat of litigation over the license for the sample led to the entire copyright to the composition, belonging to Richard Ashcroft, The Verve's frontman, being taken by ABKCO Records, and the sharing of the songwriting credit with Jagger and Richards, even though they didn't compose the string segment that The Verve sampled.^[2]

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Record Label
1964	Lionel Bart's Maggie May	Decca Records
	16 Hip Hits	Ace of Clubs Records
1965	East Meets West	Parrott Records
1966	The Rolling Stones Songbook	London Records

References

1. The Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of The Last Time
2. Goodman, Fred (2015). Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 265–267. ISBN 978-0-547-89686-1.

External links

• rateyourmusic.com - features the discography of the Andrew Oldham Orchestra