Tallahassee Lassie
Composers: Stay, Crewe & Picariello
Original performer: Freddy Cannon (1959)
Recording date:
September 1978 &
August-September 2011
Recording locations: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA; La Fourchette, Pocé
sur Cisse, France; Electric Lady Studio,
NY and/or Berkeley Street Studios, Santa Monica,
USA
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins, Chris
Kimsey & Don
Was
Chief engineers:
Chris
Kimsey, Krish Sharma
& Matt Clifford
Mixer: Bob
Clearmountain
Never performed onstage

(Note:
actually an EMOTIONAL RESCUE sessions outtake)
Line-up:
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric
guitars: Keith Richards
(incl. solo) & Ron Wood
Vocals: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
Handclaps: Mick Jagger, Don Was & John Fogerty
Well she comes
from Tallahassee
She got a hi-fi chassis
Yeah it looks a little sassy
Yeah, to me she's real classy
She's my Tallahassee Lassie
Down in F-L-A
Well she dances to the Bop, she dances to the Stroll
She dances to the Walk, she can rock and roll
She's my Tallahassee Lassie, yeah
Tallahassee Lassie
She's my Tallahassee Lassie
Down in F-L-A
Well she
dances to the Bop, she dances to the Stroll
She dances to the Walk, whoo! she can rock and roll
She's my Tallahassee Lassie, ah yeah
Tallahassee
Lassie
She's my Tallahassee Lassie
Down in F-L-A
Well she comes from Tallahassee
She got a hi-fi chassis
She maybe looks a little sassy
To me she's real classy
She's my Tallahassee Lassie
Down in F-L-A
Well she's my Tallahassee Lassie
Down in
F-L-A
TrackTalk
This is a song made famous by Freddy
Cannon. The original version we did at the time of Some Girls
sounds like it was recorded in a wind tunnel. It now sounds like
we're
coming towards the end of the tunnel. Quite funky. I left it
alone.
Didin't do anything new, except add some handclaps - which is very
close to the feel of the original.
-
Mick Jagger, 2011
The groove (in Brown
Sugar) is slightly similar to Freddy Cannon, this rather
obscure '50s rock performer - Tallahassee
Lassie or something. Do you remember this? She's down in F-L-A. Anyway,
the groove of that - boom-boom-boom-boom-boom - is going to a
go-go or whatever, but that's the groove.
-
Mick Jagger, 1995
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