Melody
Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards (Inspiration by Billy
Preston)
Recording date:
January, October & December 1975 & January-February 1976
Recording locations:
Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Mountain Recording
Studios,
Montreux, Switzerland;
Musicland
Studios, Munich, West Germany; & Atlantic Studios, New York City
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins Chief
engineers:
Keith
Harwood, Glyn Johns
& Lew Hahn
Performed onstage: 1977,
1999

Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Foot stomp: Mick Jagger
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Harmony vocal: Billy
Preston
Piano: Billy
Preston
Organ: Billy
Preston
Horns: (unknown
musicians)
Percussion: Ollie
Brown
Handclaps: ---
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
I came home one morning about a quarter to
3
I'm banging on my door 'cause I just lost
my key
Open up baby, you've got someone else inside
I'm going to come and get you dead or alive
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
I took her out dancing but she drank away my
cash
She said I'm going to fix my face, don't
you worry I'll be back
I'm looking for her high and low like a mustard
for a ham
She was crashed out in the bathroom in the
arms of my best friend
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody
It was her second name
Then one day she left me, she took everything
that moved
My car, she took my trailer home, she took
my Sunday boots
My nose is on her trail, I'm going to catch
her by surprise
And then I'm going to have the pleasure to
roast that child alive
What I say?
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody, oh
It was her second name
Melody, melody, well
It was her second name
Melody, oh
It was her second name
Melody, melody, well
It was her second name
Yeah, yeah, yeah baby
It was her second name
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It was her second name
Uh...
So...
So...
Yeah, yeah
Melody was her second name
Melody was her second name
Ah sweet, sweet, sweet baby - baby
Ooh ooh yeah, sweet melody - sweet melody
Melody, melody, melody, melody
Melody, melody, melody, melody
Melody, melody, melody, melody
Melody, melody, melody - oh
Baby
Sweet baby
Ooh...
Baby
Ow baby
Two more times
Melody, melody, yeah
It was her second name
Melody, melody
It was her second name
Melody
TrackTalk
Actually, I do really like it. What it is,
it sort of came out of something that Billy [Preston] and I were
messing around with, just piano and voice. It's got an incredible
amount of overdub now, but down in the nitty-gritty it's really just a
rhythm section and voice, very simple, sort of four-to-the-bar kind of
bass line and drums, sort of old-fashioned rhythm. And it's a duet, me
and Billy... I wouldn't say that (he's playing a kind of coctail
piano). He'd get really offended. It's more sort of stride piano, isn't
it?... (I)t lends itself to that (Bobby Short-type) treatment. But it's
more bluesy. All that falsetto singing is live. Billy doing the piano
part and singing. Fucking marvelous.
-
Mick Jagger, 1976
Don't know (how much Billy Preston had to do with
it). You'd better ask him. Oh, he had a lot to do with it, it's got on
the label inspiration by Billy Preston, but Keith forgot to put
it on here... See, Keith did all these credits, and he forgot to put the
writers on, see?
-
Mick Jagger, 1976
Melody was a bit tongue in cheek for
me really. It's hard to play live and take it any further. All we could
do is make a reasonable copy of the reord onstage which I'm not particularly
interested in doing.
-
Keith Richards, 1976
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