Tallahassee Lassie

Composers: Stay, Crewe & Picariello            Original performer: Freddy Cannon (1959) 
Recording date: August-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


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

(Note: actually a post-'78 tour/early EMOTIONAL RESCUE outtake)

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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