It's All Over Now

For the unrelated song of the same name by Blackfoot, see After the Reign (album).
"It's All Over Now"
Single by The Rolling Stones
from the album 12 X 5
B-side "Good Times, Bad Times" (Jagger/Richards)
Released 26 June 1964 (UK)
July 1964 (US)
Format 7" single
Recorded 10 June 1964, Chess Studio, Chicago
B-side: 25.02.1964, Regent Sound Studios, London
Genre Blues rock
Length 3:27
Label Decca F11934 (UK)[1]
45-LON 9687 (USA)
Writer(s) Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack[1]
Producer(s) Andrew Loog Oldham[1]
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Tell Me"
(U.S.A. 1964)		 "It's All Over Now"
(1964)		 "Time Is on My Side"
(U.S.A. 1964)

"It's All Over Now" is a song written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack.[1] It was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack. The Valentinos version entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 27, 1964, where it stayed on the chart for two weeks, peaking at number 94. The Rolling Stones had their first number-one hit with this song in July 1964.

The Valentinos version

The Rolling Stones version

The Valentinos' original version of the song was played to the Rolling Stones during their first North American tour in June 1964 by New York radio DJ Murray the K. Murray the K had an extended series of interviews with the Stones on his WINS Swinging Soiree hit radio show following his similar success as the first radio DJ in the USA to have the Beatles with him on the air (February 1964). He played the Valentinos' song to the Stones, who "raved on it" and said "it was their kind of song". He also played the Stones' "King Bee" (their Slim Harpo cover) the same night and remarked on their ability to achieve an authentic blues sound. After hearing "It's All Over Now" by the Womacks (aka the Valentinos) on the WINS show, the band recorded their version nine days later at Chess Studios in Chicago. Years later, Bobby Womack said in an interview that he had told his manager he did not want the Rolling Stones to record their version of the song, and that he had told Mick Jagger to get his own song. His manager convinced him to let the Rolling Stones record the song. Six months later on after receiving the royalty check for the song he told his manager that Mick Jagger could have any song he wanted.

The Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" is the most famous version of the song. It was first released as a single in the UK, where it peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, giving the Rolling Stones their first number one hit.[2] It was the band's third single released in America, and stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at number 26. Months later it appeared on their second American album 12 X 5. The song was a big hit in Europe and was part of the band's live set in the 1960s.

In his 2010 autobiography, Life, Keith Richards says that John Lennon criticized his guitar solo on this song and Richards agreed that it was not one of his best, though Bruce Springsteen and many other guitar fans rank it as one of the most inspired guitar breaks ever recorded and one that is still hard to mimic.

Personnel

Other versions

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 80–2. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 165. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 25.

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Preceded by
"The House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals		 UK Singles Chart number-one single
16 July 1964 - 22 July 1964 		Succeeded by
"A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles
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