Bonus Song Thursday - Mick Jagger "Too Many Cooks"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We find John Lennon in the throes of wicked productivity during his "Lost Weekend." This time, instead of producing an album for himself or for Harry Nilsson, or writing with David Bowie, he's helming the boards for Mick Jagger on a funky version of an old blues standard. They are joined by Jim Keltner on drums and Cream's Jack Bruce on bass along with a host of Stones-related sidemen to produce what Brian believes is the best post-Exile Stones-related thing available.

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0:00.0	Don't want to be.
0:03.0	Don't want. Hello and welcome to the Great Albums podcast Bonus Song Thursday.
0:44.1	And it's me, your host, for just a little while, Brian, because Bill is vacationing in India if you hadn't caught the last like week and a half's worth of episodes yet.
0:56.1	So what we do here on bonus song Thursday is we take a track that's related to the sort of parent
1:06.7	album that we discuss in greater detail on Monday. In this case, it was John Lennon's album
1:12.3	Walls and Bridges. We just kind of talk a little bit about that singular song and how it
1:17.9	relates back to that album, as well as, you know, read some listener emails and things like that.
1:23.9	What we're doing this week right now is a song called Too Many Cooks by Mick Jagger.
1:29.4	But Brian, didn't you talk about John Lennon on Monday? Well, yes, I did. But as we do from time to time,
1:38.8	we don't always pick a song from the same artist. We pick something related, and this song is related because
1:48.3	this is, we talked about how on Monday John Lennon's album Walls and Bridges was made during his
1:54.4	infamous Lost Weekend period, and that period was a pretty productive one. He made three solo albums, and he produced an album for Harry Nilsen called Pussycats.
2:06.9	He also, and it's criminal that I failed to mention this, but he also co-wrote the song, Fame by David Bowie, and played on the Young Americans album, did some guitar and some backup vocals, and he produced
2:20.2	this single song for Mick Jagger, and he also kind of played the funky guitar. It's called Too
2:27.3	Many Cooks. It's like an old blues standard, and it should be noted this is the first time
2:33.9	that Mick Jagger ever made an
2:35.8	attempt to do anything as a solo artist, or to the best of my knowledge, that is the case,
2:42.0	because he wouldn't start making solo albums until the 80s. So I believe this was cut in
2:47.2	1973, and it kind of had your usual suspects your you're your kind of rolling stones session guys
2:54.0	like your you know your bobby keys on sacks uh and your nicky hopkins on piano but it also had
3:01.2	jack bruce from cream on bass and as i said john lennon himself playing that funky guitar.
3:14.4	The song was never really, I'm not sure if it was ever intended to be released, but it ended up on an acetate in May Pang's possession.
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