Английская Википедия:Dandelion (Rolling Stones song)

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"Dandelion" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a B-side to "We Love You" in August 1967. As recently as October 2023 [1] Keith Richards confirmed that John Lennon and Paul McCartney sing backing vocals.[2] Billboard described the single as "an easy beat rocker with good story line."[3]

Background

The song has lyrical references to British counting or nursery rhymes. The first demo version of "Dandelion" was recorded in November 1966. Originally titled "Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Blue", it had different lyrics and was sung and played by Keith Richards. On the released version, Mick Jagger sings the lead vocal.Шаблон:Sfn

The recording's arrangement makes use of baroque instrumentation; Brian Jones contributed a distinctive melodic figure played on Mellotron, while Nicky Hopkins performed on harpsichord.Шаблон:Sfn The two parts move in contrary motion, with Jones' melody ascending against Hopkins' descending pedal point. The song is in the key of B-flat major and in the 4/4 time signature.Шаблон:Cn

In a letter to Robert Creeley dated 28 November 1967, Allen Ginsberg describes watching the recording: "spent a lot of evenings with Mick Jagger singing mantras and talking economics and law-politics during his court crisis — found him very delicate and friendly, reading Poe and Alistair Crowley — on thick carpets with incense and wearing ruffled lace at home — later spent nite in recording studio with Jagger, Lennon and McCartney composing and fixing voices on pretty song “Dandelion Fly Away” everybody exhilarated with hashish – all of them drest in paisley and velvet and earnestly absorbed in heightening the harmonic sounds inch by inch on tape, turning to piano to figure out sweeter variations and returning to microphone to try it out – lovely scene thru control booth window, I got so happy I began conducting like a madman thru the plate glass."[4]

The Rolling Stones have never performed "Dandelion" live;[5] nonetheless it has been included on several compilations, including Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies), Singles Collection: The London Years, and Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones.

The original single release fades out with a brief section of the Nicky Hopkins piano intro from the A-side, "We Love You".[6] The coda is missing on most versions of "Dandelion" appearing on compilation albums, which include the song in a 3:32 edit, but it may be heard, for example, in the 3:48 version included on Singles Collection: The London Years and Through The Past, Darkly.

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon,Шаблон:Sfn except where noted:

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Charts

"Dandelion" reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and number 14 on the US Billboard 100 singles chart.

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  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQ_xZPvaYo
  2. ↑ In a journal entry for 18 July 1967, poet Allen Ginsberg describes Lennon and McCartney’s participation in the recording session: The Fall of America Journals, ed. Michael Schumacher (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 262-63.
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  4. ↑ Morgan, Bill (ed.), The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2008), p. 338.
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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