Anybody who knows anything about the Rolling Stones knows that the band was deeply influenced by iconic blues artists like Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. In fact, their first few albums were mostly R&B covers. It’s been said it was the Stones’ third studio album, Out of Our Heads, that showed a real “unity of sound.”
While the U.S. version of Out of Our Heads, released in July 1965, did include originals like “Satisfaction” and “Play With Fire,” it also featured covers such as Marvin Gaye‘s “Hitch Hike,” Solomon Burke‘s “Cry to Me,” and the soul song “Mercy, Mercy,” originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Don Covay in 1964.
It was that last one, “Mercy, Mercy,” that Ultimate Classic Rock‘s Allison Rapp included in her recent roundup of the “20 of the Best Rolling Stones’ Deep Cuts” at the top of her list (which was organized chronologically).
“We realize we might be bending the rules here a little bit since ‘Mercy, Mercy’ is a cover, not a Rolling Stones original, but it’s an awfully good one as far as the band’s earlier years go,” Rapp wrote. “This appeared on both the U.K. and U.S. versions of 1965’s Out of Our Heads, and it’s a great example of Jagger both honoring the original recording and taking his first steps into his own brand of rock ‘n’ roll singing.”
Jagger, who was just 21 years old when the Stones recorded Out of Our Heads, reflected on the band’s significance in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner.
“Most of that was recorded in RCA Studios, in Hollywood, and the people working on it, the engineers, were much better,” Jagger said.
“They knew how to get really good sounds,” he continued. “That really affects your performance, because you can hear the nuances, and that inspires you.”
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When Wenner remarked on how Jagger’s singing style had evolved on Out of Our Heads, Jagger agreed.
“Yeah, well, it is obviously soul influenced, which was the goal at the time,” he said. “Otis Redding and Solomon Burke. ‘Play With Fire’ sounds amazing — when I heard it last. I mean, it’s a very in-your-face kind of sound and very clearly done. You can hear all the vocal stuff on it. And I’m playing the tambourines, the vocal line. You know, it’s very pretty.”
As David Malvinni explained in Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s Companion (2016), “Mercy, Mercy” took a few recording sessions to perfect. They nailed the final version during their third studio session visit, with Keith Richards showing “more rhythmic confidence than his first take on the song” and taking it “in the direction of rock.”
“Mercy, Mercy” was never released as a single…but the song clearly made its mark.
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