SONG OF THE DAY

“Miss You” by The Rolling Stones (Some Girls, Rolling Stones Records, 1978). Writ­ten by Mick Jag­ger and Keith Richards. Pro­duced by The Glim­mer Twins.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

- Although gui­tarist Keith Richards is cred­ited for co-writing, Jag­ger is gen­er­ally regarded as the prin­ci­pal com­poser. “Miss You” was writ­ten by singer Mick Jag­ger jam­ming with key­boardist Billy Pre­ston dur­ing rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs (yield­ing Side Three of the Love You Live album).
– Mick Jag­ger and Ron Wood insist that “Miss You” wasn’t con­ceived as a disco song, while Keith Richards said “…Miss You was a damn good disco record, it was cal­cu­lated to be one”. In any case, what was going on in dis­cos did make it to the record­ing.
– “Miss You” fea­tures sev­eral stu­dio musi­cians. In addi­tion to Sugar Blue, who accord­ing to Ron Wood was found while busk­ing on the streets of Paris, Ian McLa­gan played under­stated Wurl­itzer elec­tric piano, and Mel Collins pro­vides the sax­o­phone solo for the instru­men­tal break.
– The 12″ ver­sion of the song runs over 8 min­utes, and fea­tures addi­tional instru­men­ta­tion and solos, par­tic­u­larly on gui­tar .
– “Miss You” became The Rolling Stones’ eighth #1 hit in the US on its ini­tial release in 1978. It reached #3 in the UK.
– A live record­ing was cap­tured dur­ing the Rolling Stones’ 1989–1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jun­gle Tour and released on the 1991 live album Flash­point.
– Justin Tim­ber­lake col­lab­o­rated with The Rolling Stones for a live per­for­mance of “Miss You” at the Toronto Rocks fes­ti­val. Jag­ger inserted the cho­rus of Timberlake’s hit “Cry Me a River” dur­ing the song’s break­down.
– In 2010, Rolling Stone mag­a­zine rated “Miss You” num­ber 498 in its list of The 500 Great­est Songs of All Time.
– Sugar Blue (the har­mon­ica player on the orig­i­nal Rolling Stones record­ing) re-recorded the song on his 1993-album Blue Blazes.
– Etta James, in her Matri­arch of the Blues 2000 album, cov­ered “Miss You”.
– It was cov­ered by neo-soul singer Musiq Soul­child for his 2003 album Soul­star. In this ver­sion, the ref­er­ence to “Puerto Rican girls” is replaced with “pretty girls”.
– It was cov­ered in an instru­men­tal jazz ver­sion by E Street Band mem­ber Danny Fed­erici for his 2006 album Out Of A Dream.
– Amer­i­can band Black Eyed Peas made a cover of this song in Fash­ion Rocks 2008.
– “Miss You” was used in the open­ing scene of the pilot episode of Miami Vice, which first aired on 16 Sep­tem­ber 1984.
– The song was used in the 1986 Sean Penn crime drama, At Close Range.
– The song was remixed by west coast hip-hop pro­ducer Dr. Dre for the sound­track to Austin Pow­ers in Gold­mem­ber.
– The song was fea­tured in a viral video skit known as “Jagg Off” where two men have to com­pete by doing “their best Jag­ger” as in imi­tat­ing his on-stage danc­ing to the tune of this song.

TOP 10 ALL-TIME DESERT ISLAND FAVORITE ROLLING STONES SONGS

(not in order…I can’t do it!!!)

1. “Time Is On My Side” (1964)
2. “Brown Sugar” (1971)
3. “Paint It Black” (1966)
4. “Under My Thumb” (1966)
5. “Miss You” (1978)
6. “Ruby Tues­day” (1967)
7. “She’s A Rain­bow” (1967)
8. “Wild Horses” (1971)
9. “Angie“ (1973)
10. “Beast Of Bur­den” (1978)

VIDEO OF THE DAY

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