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Length
  
29:04

December's Children (And Everybody's)(1965)
  
Aftermath(1966)

Release date
  
4 December 1965

Label
  
London Records

Language
  
English

Producer
  
Genres
  
rock music, Rock and roll

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Released
  
4 December 1965 (United States)

Recorded
  
5–6 September 1965, except "You Better Move On": 8 August 1963, "Look What You've Done": 11 June 1964, "Route 66" and "I'm Moving On": 5–7 March 1965, "As Tears Go By": 26 October 1965

Similar
  
the Rolling Stones albums, Rock music albums

December's Children (And Everybody's) is the fifth American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in late 1965. Drawn largely from two days of sessions recorded in September to finish the British edition of Out of Our Heads and to record their new single—"Get Off of My Cloud"—December's Children (And Everybody's) also included tracks recorded as early as 1963.

Contents

Half of the songs appearing on the album were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; they penned album cuts such as "I'm Free" and "The Singer Not the Song" as well as such major hits as "As Tears Go By" and "Get Off of My Cloud".

December's Children (And Everybody's) reached No. 4 in the US and went gold. Bassist Bill Wyman quotes Jagger in 1968 calling the record "[not] an album, it's just a collection of songs." Accordingly, it is only briefly detailed in Wyman's otherwise exhaustive book Rolling with the Stones.

In August 2002 December's Children (And Everybody's) was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records with "Look What You've Done" again being the album's only cut issued in true stereo.

The title of the album came from the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham (who facetiously credits it to "Lou Folk-Rock Adler" in his liner notes on the back cover). According to Jagger, it was Oldham's idea of hip, Beat poetry.

Track listing

All tracks written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

The Rolling Stones
  • Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica on "I'm Moving On," percussion
  • Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals
  • Brian Jones – guitars, backing vocals, harmonica on "Look What You've Done," piano, and organ
  • Charlie Watts – drums and percussion
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar and backing vocals
  • Additional personnel
  • Ian Stewart – piano, organ
  • Mike Leander – string arrangement
  • Jack Nitzsche – organ and percussion
  • Chart positions

    Album
    Singles

    Songs

    1She Said Yeah1:36
    2Talkin' About You2:36
    3You Better Move On2:41

    References

    December's Children (And Everybody's) Wikipedia