TS: Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" vs Aretha Franklin's "Jumpin' jack Flash"

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Right now I vote for 'Reth's, for which I've always had a soft spot. Produced by Keith Richards, with guitar by Ronnie, and a rare Aretha lead on piano, it evokes the appropriate swampy, barrelhouse air. The video is splendidly crapulous.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Boyce & Hart's version by a mile.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

STONES

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

said video features Whoopi Goldberg's Jagger impression…ugh…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The Stones. Even if the rest of the record wasn't collossal, I'd love it just for the guitar noodling (Keith, I guess) at the end.

On the covers tip, Alex Chilton (post Box Tops, pre Big Star) recorded an amazing version in 1970 that wasn't officially released for over two decades.

― James, Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd go for the stones version but only as it was number one when i was born.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Thelma Houston's version on Sunshower does something interesting with it. But c'mon, man -- the Stownes.

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

what's going on on the snare hits on 2 and 4, i can't tell if someone is doubling them on a guitar or the drum is detuned or it's just a production flourish or what

― j., Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link

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