As Tears Go By (song)

As Tears Go By "is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and their manager Andrew Oldham. It was first sung by British singer Marianne Faithfull, who had a hit with it in 1964. In 1965 The Rolling Stones released the song itself out too. In the United States they took sixth place with it.

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• 2 version of Marianne Faithfull
  • 2.1 Radio 2 Top 2000
• 3 version of The Rolling Stones
  • Radio 2 Top 2000 3.1
  • 3.2 on albums
• 4 other versions
• 5 external links

The number

As Tears Go By was one of the first original compositions by Jagger and Richards. The Rolling Stones had in their start time mainly played songs of others. In an interview from 1992 told Keith Richards that their manager Andrew Oldham shut them two in a kitchen with the command not to come out before they had a song. The result was called As Time Goes By. However, there was already a song that so was called; that was famous by the 1942 film Casablanca . Oldham changed the title therefore in As Tears Go By.

It is an atypical number for The Stones. It is not a rhythm and blues, but a ballad. The I-figure in the song looks with a certain melancholy to children playing.

Version of Marianne Faithfull

As Tears Go By
Single from: Marianne Faithfull
B-side (s)	Greensleeves
Released	June 1964
Type of carrier	Vinyl single
Recording	1964
Genre	Softrock
Duration	2: 33
Tag	Decca F. 11923
Writer (s)	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,Andrew Oldham
Producer (s)	Andrew Oldham
Position (s) in the charts
9 (UK Singles Chart) 22 (Billboard Hot 100)
Marianne Faithfull
– As Tears Go By (1964) Blowin' in the Wind (1964)
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Oldham left the record number by Marianne Faithfull, when a novice singer. The song was originally intended as a b-side, but Decca Records made there of the A-side . In the guidance is a prominent role for the oboe.

The single was the first album by Marianne Faithfull and with a ninth place in the UK Singles Chart, the British hit parade, and a 22nd place in the American charts, theBillboard Hot 100, her first success.

Radio 2 Top 2000

The song was not a hit, but in Netherlands is noted in the Radio 2 Top 2000.

Number (s) with markings in the Radio 2 Top 2000	' 99	' 00	' 01	' 02	' 03	' 04	' 05	' 06	' 07	' 08	' 09	' 10	' 11	' 12	' 13
Marianne Faithfull, As tears go by	1031	-	1251	1287	978	1060	1248	914	1096	1049	1105	1194	1237	1271	1487

Version of The Rolling Stones

As Tears Go By
Single from: The Rolling Stones
From the album: December's children (and everybody 's) (US)
B-side (s)	Gotta Get Away
Released	18 december1965 (USA)
Type of carrier	Vinyl single
Recording	26 October1965
Genre	Softrock
Duration	2: 45
Tag	London 45-LON9808
Writer (s)	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,Andrew Oldham
Producer (s)	Andrew Oldham
Position (s) in the charts
6 (Billboard Hot 100)
The Rolling Stones
Get Off of My Cloud (1965) As Tears Go By (1965) 19th Nervous Breakdown
Order on ''December's children (and everybody 's)' '
8 I'm Free (2: 23) 9 As Tears Go By (2: 45) 10 Gotta Get Away (2: 06)
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In October 1965 The Rolling Stones names its own version of As Tears Go By on in the IBC Studios in London. Of the group only did Mick Jagger (vocals) and Keith Richards (12 string acoustic guitar) with it, and a String Orchestra led by the arranger Mike Leander. On 4 december 1965 the number came out on the American albumDecember's children (and everybody 's) and on 18 december 1965 it became number, likewise in the United States, released as single.

The single was also released in other countries, such as Canada, Australia and Germany, and was overall a hit. In the United States, she reached the sixth place in theBillboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom As Tears Go By only came out in February 1966, as back of 19th Nervous Breakdown .

In Italy the group released Italian version of the song as a single from: Con le mie lacrime, with Heart of Stone as the b-side.In July 2006 The Stones brought the number in Italian live in Milan.

The group released the song live regularly, but then of course without strings. It was a regular part of the promotional tour for the album A Bigger Bang from 2005/2006.One of those versions can be found on the live album Shine a Light .

Radio 2 Top 2000

The song was not released as a single in Netherlands (at least not as A-side), but is noted in the Radio 2 Top 2000.

Number (s) with markings in the Radio 2 Top 2000	' 99	' 00	' 01	' 02	' 03	' 04	' 05	' 06	' 07	' 08	' 09	' 10	' 11	' 12	' 13
Rolling Stones, As tears go by	-	1054	-	522	538	667	598	568	692	616	737	729	758	650	883

On albums

The number is on the following albums:

• December's children (and everybody 's) (1965)
• Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (1966)
• Stone Age (1971)
• Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (1971, 1990)
• Rolled Gold: The very best of The Rolling Stones (1975)
• Stones Story (1976)
• Slow Rollers (1981)
• Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
• Rolled Gold +: The very best of The Rolling Stones (2007)
• Shine a Light (2008)
• GRRR! (2012)

and on the cd box set Singles 1965-1967 (2004).

Other versions

• Marianne Faithfull performed the song along with Vanessa Paradis and guitarist Johnny Marr live during a Memorial concert for Linda McCartney in the Royal Albert Hall in april 1999.
• There is a Catalan version by the singer Maria del Mar Bonet.
• Nancy Sinatra recorded the song in 1966 on for her album Boots.
• The Group The Toreros Hilversum (with Hans Hollestelle on guitar) in 1966 with a cover of this song was briefly in the lower regions of the Dutch Top 40.

The song is featured in the last episode of the fifth season of the American television series House and in the film Made in u.s.a. by Jean-Luc Godard, where the a capella sung by Marianne Faithfull.