Ruby Tuesday (song)
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| "Ruby Tuesday" | ||
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||
| from the album Between the Buttons | ||
| B-side(s) | "Let's Spend the Night Together" | |
| Released | January 13, 1967 | |
| Format | Vinyl record | |
| Recorded | November - December, 1966 | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | 3:17 | |
| Label | Decca/ABKCO | |
| Chart positions | ||
| The Rolling Stones singles chronology | ||
| "Let's Spend The Night Together" (1967) | "Ruby Tuesday" (1967) | "We Love You" (1967) |
- For the restaurant named after the song, see Ruby Tuesday (restaurant).
"Ruby Tuesday" is a song recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966, written by Brian Jones with some bits by Keith Richards concerning lyrics and texture, but credited to Jagger and Richards instead.
The song was a number-one hit in the U.S. and a number three in the UK, and remains a favorite of both fans and casual Rolling Stones listeners.
"That's a wonderful song," Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. "It's just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it." Guitarist Jones plays both recorder and piano on this song, with cello by bassist Bill Wyman. The song's lyrics concern an apparently free-spirited woman, with Jagger singing, "Who could hang a name on you?/When you change with every new day/Still I'm gonna miss you."
The song began as an instrumental collaboration between Jones and Richards, making "Ruby Tuesday" one song that apparently deserved a co-writing credit for Brian Jones - a first. "He was a gas," Richards said of Jones. "He was a cat who could play any instrument." Yet when the single was released in January 1967, it was credited to Jagger/Richards.
All post-2002 reissues of "Ruby Tuesday" on CD (comprising all versions on the ABKCO remastered CDs) are missing a vocal overdub in the chorus. The reason for this change has never been officially addressed.
Cover versions:
- A notable cover version of "Ruby Tuesday" was recorded by Melanie Safka
- Over-the-Rhine covered the song on the album Amateur Shortwave Radio
- Emiliana Torrini
- Franco Battiato (used in the soundtrack of Children of Men).
Rolling Stone ranked the song #303 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song title was the source of the restaurant chain of the same name.
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- "Ruby Tuesday" was on the list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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| Preceded by: "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams | Billboard Hot 100 number one single March 4, 1967 | Succeeded by: "Love is Here and Now You're Gone" by The Supremes |
