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Stones were deeply influenced by Black and African baptist church music while touring the south and sitting in on gospel choirs and on great old blues masters like Son House and Rev. Gary Davis. This is what they used to call a spiritual but done up with rhythm and soft rock. This is from Exile, which contains Shine a Light, their great rock n roll gospel anthem.
Mick Jagger asked Bobby to play a gospel sound on the keyboard, reminiscent of his Memphis (Millington, Tenn.) roots where his father was a minister, then Mick came up with the lyric “I Just Wanna See His Face”. (Later, Mick forgot who all played on the album so the album credits are incomplete.)
He had strokes of brilliance but this was not one of them. There were at least a dozen or more '60s singles that all took the "my boyfriend or girlfriend is from the bad side of the tracks and is non-conformist/ a rebel/ or poor and my parents reject him but I love him" lyrical theme. It was a common theme in The Shangri-Las singles. The 4 Seasons also worked that theme in songs like "Rag Doll" and "Dawn (Go Away)", Phi Spector worked it in "He's a Rebel", "Uptown", and "Black Pearl", Gene Pitney in "Mecca" and other tunes, and even Motown got on board with songs like "The Boy from Cross Town" (Marvelettes) and "Wild One" (Martha &the Vandellas). This demo might've flown in the '60s when ragged production and quirky vocals were more acceptable but had he not written other hits this demo would've been rejected by most publishers and record companies. Nevertheless, he made his mark in his time and made sound effects in pop records cool, thereby influencing everyone from other '60s acts like The Cascades and Freddy Cannon to '70s Barry White (Walkin' in the Rain With the One I Love)to Michael Jackson (Thriller) to '80s Pet Shop Boys (One More Chance, West End Girls, many others)...
My grandma.used to say this was way back.in the woods.in the old south lol george saud himself his mom was a.blueslady and he wanted to make music that was.influenced by the blues
As a young teen, digging The Stones, I came across a collection of their lyrics at the public library and signed it (literally) out. When I came across the lyrics to this tune I remember thinking they were pretty basic...boring maybe. I didn't have $ and I didn't even know about Exile on Main Street. Years later (mid 80's) in a smoky college dorm room, this song comes sliding out of "Ventilator Blues", and it is the Smoothest thing EVER...and I recognize the simple lyric, "That's alright, that's alright." I think I must have slowly smiled...knowingly. By the time I song was ending I had found religion. Copied the album on a cassette and the rest is history.
Thought it was just me. Sober since 02/14/2016. First time I heard this song today and this song is giving to the GOOD memories of my past. I don’t want to go back but I can smile now and say I MADE IT! this jams ❤
Revelation 22:4 "And they shall see His Face...and His name will be in their foreheads". The Rolling Stones have always had references to The Word. Because its a powerhouse of a book. Prodical son, Sympathy for the devil, never make a Saint of me (true only Jesus can do that) etc. No escaping that book.
This song does it to me💜..I go to church! 💙 My nephew even has it as his ring tone ID for me cuz...cuz it does it to me! And he knows this..................man!
