Showing posts with label Jumpin' Jack Flash. Show all posts
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May 25, 2026

The Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash

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On May 25, 1968, The Rolling Stones released Jumpin' Jack Flash in the U.K. What a great location to begin; as they say, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!    
     
Released as a non-album single in 1968, which reached the number 1 position in the UK singles chart and US Cash Box Top Singles. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London by Rolling Stone magazine, the song was seen as the band's return to their blues rock roots after the baroque pop and psychedelia heard on their preceding albums Aftermath (1966), Between the Buttons (1967) and especially Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967).      
     
Jumpin' Jack Flash was ranked number 144 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2021.       

Aside from all that, what a terrific song to dance to! The tune was used in the film of the same name, Jumpin' Jack Flash and starred Whoopi Goldberg. It occurs during the scene where Terry Doolittle (Goldberg) is trying to extract a secret message in the lyrics and is frustrated at Mick Jagger's English! It's one of the funniest scenes in American cinema!            
     
     
     
Viewfinder links:       
          
Whoopi Goldberg         
Mick Jagger          
The Rolling Stones                
The Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash & Whoopi Goldberg     
The Styrous Viewfinder Pageviews                
      
YouTube links:       
        
The Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash (song)        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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May 25, 2025

20,000 vinyl LPs 384: The Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash & Whoopi Goldberg

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                                                     the Rolling Stones   ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album
vinyl LP front cover detail
photo of album cover by Styrous®


On May 25, 1968, the Rolling Stones released the song Jumpin' Jack Flash in the U.K. In 1986, the song was used in the American spy comedy film with the same title as the song starring Whoopi Goldberg.       
 

vinyl LP front cover
photo of album cover by Styrous®



vinyl LP back cover
photo of album cover by Styrous®


My favorite part of the movie is when Terry Doolittle (Whoopi Goldberg) tries to interpret the lyrics for the song; it's a scream! She finally says, "Mick, speak English!"        


Jumpin' Jack Flash lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]
Watch it!

[Verse 1]
I was born in a crossfire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the drivin' rain

[Chorus]
But it's all right now
In fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right
I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas, gas, gas!

[Verse 2]
I was raised by a tooth-less, bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right 'cross my back

[Chorus]
But it's all right now
In fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right
I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas, gas, gas! (Ooh!)

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 3]
I was drowned, I was washed up 'n left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled, yeah, yeah
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread, yeah, yeah, yeah
I was crowned with a spike right through my head, my, my, yeah

[Chorus]
But it's all right now
In fact, it's a gas!
But it's all right
I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas, gas, gas

[Outro]
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas




vinyl LP back cover detail
photo of album cover by Styrous®




vinyl LP back cover details
photo of album cover by Styrous®





Jumpin' Jack Flash movie poster

     
Tracklist:
       
Side 1:
        
A1 - René & Angela - Set Me Free, Executive-Producer – Jerome Gasper, Producer – René & Angela, written by A. Willis*, C. Weil*, D. Sembello* - 4:25

A2 - Bananarama - A Trick Of The Night, Producer – Tony Swain And Steve Jolley*, written by Jolley/Swain* - 4:36

A3 - Kool & The Gang - Misled, Producer – Jim Bonnefond, Kool & The Gang, Ronald Bell, written by J. Taylor*, Kool & The Gang, R. Bell* - 3:58

A4 - Gwen Guthrie - Rescue Me, Executive-Producer – Jerome Gasper, Producer – We/, written by Carl William Smith*, Raynard Miner - 4:34

A5 - Billy Branigan - Hold On, Producer – John Rollo, written by B. Branigan* - 4:05
       
Side 2:
       
B1 - The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash, Arranged By – The Rolling Stones
Producer – Jimmy Miller, written by M. Jagger/K. Richards* - 3:37

B2 - Face To Face (3) - Window To The World, Producer – Peter Coleman, written by Angelo*, L. Sargent* - 3:25

B3 - The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love, Producer – Brian Holland And Lamont Dozier*, written by Holland/Dozier/Holland* - 2:45

B4 - Thomas Newman - Breaking The Code, Producer – Thomas Newman, written by Thomas Newman - 3:40

B5 - Thomas Newman - Love Music, Producer – Thomas Newman, written by Thomas Newman - 2:47
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
    Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
    Copyright © – Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
    Manufactured By – Polygram Records, Inc.
    Marketed By – Polygram Records, Inc.
       
Credits:
       
    Mastered By – Herb "Pump" Powers, Jr.*
       
Notes:
       
Some copies have "Demonstration Not For Sale" stamped in gold over the barcode on the back cover"

Mastered at Frankford/Wayne Mastering, New York City.

Printed on back cover:
Compilation ℗©1986 Twentieth Century Fox Inc.
Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

Printed on labels:
This compilation ℗ 1986 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, Inc.
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
 
    Barcode (Text): 0 422-830545-1 6
    Barcode (String): 042283054516
    Matrix / Runout (runout A): 422-830545-ASCBS-1 MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK HERBIE JR :-) GI A1
    Matrix / Runout (runout B): 422-830545-BSCBS-1 GI MASTERING BY FRANKFORD/WAYNE NEW YORK HERBIE JR :-) A8
    Pressing Plant ID (On Labels): 57
 
Various – Music From The Motion Picture Jumpin' Jack Flash
Label: Mercury – 422-830-545-1 M-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack        


         
Viewfinder links:        
        
Whoopi Goldberg           
the Rolling Stones       
        
YouTube links:        
         
Aretha Franklin ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash       
Whoopi Goldberg ~ Deciphering Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash                
        
         
        
        
        
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January 6, 2021

picture dis(c) 4: Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive!

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detail photo by Styrous®


Forty-five years ago today, on January 6, 1976, Peter Frampton released his  U.S. concert album, Frampton Comes Alive!, on the Herb Alpert label, A&M Records.     
 
The original release was a two vinyl LP discs album. The live album had been intended to be a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to a two vinyl LP set for release. 
 
The sound quality of picture discs has never been as good as the regular vinyl LP but I have always loved them.        
 
 

 
 
 
This is number 00848 of a limited edition (I don't know how many were issued) of the Frampton Comes Alive! vinyl LP picture disc.         


detail photo by Styrous®

 
I have two favorite cuts from the album. The first is his cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones; I love this song. It is an integral part of the plot line in the film by the same name which starred Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Doolittle, a computer operator at a Manhattan bank. A line from the movie that is hysterical is when Doolittle is trying to write down and interpret the song lyrics, which are almost unintelligible, then in exasperation she says, "Mick, Mick, Mick! Speak English!" (link below)    


 
 
My second favorite song is (I’ll Give You) Money because it is the most hard rock of all the cuts and drives, not with speed but dynamics and great guitar work. The singer basically says he'll give anything for the recipient's return of his love. The sentiments would be reflected, sensually but in stronger terms, some 35 years later with the song Be Mine (links below), from the album The Glorious Dead by The Heavy, an English rock band from Bath, Somerset, England.      
 
 
The Heavy ~ The Glorious Dead 
CD album cover

 
Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded in the summer and fall of 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York, as well as a concert on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Plattsburgh, New York. The Winterland songs were recorded on a 24-track master recorder. Other concerts were captured on a 16-track recorder. Recordings from four shows were used for the original album. Master tapes were recorded at 15 inches per second using professional Dolby "A" noise reduction.       
 
 

Peter Frampton was one of the beauties of the rock world; he was known and famous for his dazzling halo of blond hair which was featured in triplicate on the picture disc!     
 
 

Peter Frampton 
 date & photographer unknown
 
 
 
 
 
In an interview  with Jim Harrington for the Mercury News (link below) he discusses cutting his hair at the suggestion by David Bowie. Harrington to Frampton, "I have to ask, do you miss those long locks of hair now?" Frampton replied, "No. And, to be honest, I was kind of glad to see them go." I think he looked great with shorter hair and he looks really terrific today!            
 
 
Peter Frampton
 date & photographer unknown
 
 
Frampton Comes Alive! reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 8 million copies in the US and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.             
   
It was voted "Album Of The Year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on the Billboard 1977 year-end album chart. It was ranked No. 41 on the Rolling Stone "50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time" list. Readers of Rolling Stone ranked it No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums.         

 
 
 
  
Three hit singles were released from the album: Baby, I Love Your Way, Do You Feel Like We Do and Show Me the Way. The talk box guitar effect became strongly associated with Frampton when it was heard on the latter two singles. The Do You Feel Like We Do single version was edited to 7:19 from the 14:15 album version. But even at just over seven minutes, it is about twice the length of the average hit single and one of the longest ever to make the top 40 (longer even than The Beatles' Hey Jude which ran 7:11). The B-side of Do You Feel Like We Do, the acoustic instrumental Penny for Your Thoughts, was the shortest song on Frampton Comes Alive! at just 1:23.       
                  


   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Show Me The Way - 4:35
A2 - Baby, I Love Your Way - 4:37
A3 - Shine On - 3:29
A4 - Jumping Jack Flash - 7:21

Side 2:

B1 - Do You Feel Like We Do - 13:47
B2 - (I’ll Give You) Money - 6:33

Companies, etc.

    Pressed By – Pic Disc

Credits:

Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Stanley Sheldon
Design – Stan Evenson
Drums – John Siomos
Engineer [Assistant] – Corky Stasiak, Dave Witman*, Frankie D'Augusta, Jay Messina, Neil Teeman*
Engineer [Live Recording] – Eddie Kramer, Ray Thompson
Engineer [Live Recording], Remix – Chris Kimsey
Guitar, Vocals, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Piano], Organ, Grand Piano – Bob Mayo
Liner Notes – Cameron Crowe
Mastered By – Mike Reese
Photography By [Except John Siomos] – Richard E. Aaron
Photography By [John Siomos] – Mike Zagaris* 
Producer, Arranged By – Peter Frampton

Notes:

 Includes a small numbered card.

"This record is meant to be a collectors' item. The sound quality of this record is not equal to that of conventional records."

℗ 1976 A&M Records, Inc.
© 1978 A&M Records, Inc.
 
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Etching Side A): AM PR 4809 PF F1
    Matrix / Runout (Etching Side B): AM PR 4809 PF F2
 
Peter Frampton ‎– Frampton Comes Alive!
Label: A&M Records ‎– PR 3703
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture Disc
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock

 
   
         
Viewfinder links:        
         
David Bowie         
Peter Frampton            
Peter Frampton ~ (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics         
Whoopi Goldberg                  
The Heavy ~ Be Mine lyrics            
The Rolling Stones        
        
Net links:        
         
Best Classic Bands ~ Frampton: Still Very Much Alive! interview   
Click America ~ Frampton: how he finally found success           
Peter Frampton ~ (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics           
LA Times ~ Frampton Comes Alive! One more time          
RareRecords ~ Picture Discs – Records With an Image           
RollingStone ~ The 10 Best Live Albums of the 1970s       
Times Argus ~ Peter Frampton on the demise of albums        
Ultimate Classic Rock ~ Frampton Comes Alive Hits #1         
        
YouTube links:        
         
Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive! ~          
      Frampton Comes Alive! (complete album)     
      Baby, I Love Your Way      
      Do You Feel Like We Do (14 mins., 16 sec.)          
      Do You Feel Like We Do (Live ) (10 mins., 39 sec.)          
      (I’ll Give You) Money       
      Jumpin' Jack Flash     
      Shine On     
      Show Me the Way             
Whoopi Goldberg ~ Deciphering Mick Jagger (movie clip)       
The Heavy ~ Be Mine         
         
        
        
        

 
"I was pretty pleased that now they can’t be coming 
to see me because of my hair – because it’s gone."
                        ~ Peter Frampton  
        
        
        
        
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November 13, 2020

On TV 28: Whoopi Goldberg's birthday today on The View

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Whoopi Goldberg - November 13, 2020 
screen shot by Styrous®
 
         
This morning I was watching The View on TV and found out it is the birthday of an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality, Whoopi Goldberg.         
          
When Tom was working at the posh Slater Marinoff & Co furniture store when it was still on College Ave. in Berkeley in the late 80's she came into the store. Tom waited on her and they had a great time together. She gave him her autograph.      
 
 


She's a terrific actress and comedian; I've always loved her films! My favorites are Ghost in which she plays a psychic and Jumpin' Jack Flash which used two versions of the song Jumpin' Jack Flash, the original by the Rolling Stones, and a remake by Aretha Franklin (links below).         
 
 
Jumpin' Jack Flash movie poster
 
 
Whoopi Goldberg was born in 1955, in Manhattan. She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion; "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."       
 
According to an anecdote told by Nichelle Nichols in Trekkies (1997), a young Goldberg was watching Star Trek, and upon seeing Nichols's character Uhura, exclaimed, "Momma! There's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!" This spawned lifelong fandom of Star Trek for Goldberg, who would eventually ask for and receive a recurring guest-starring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation.    
 
 
screen shot
 
 
Whoopi Goldberg has been on the daytime talk show, The View, since 2007, however she admitted it isn't her entire life (link below).                  

 
Whoopi Goldberg - November 13, 2020 
screen shot by Styrous®
 
 
Throughout its run, The View has had 22 permanent co-hosts of varying characteristics and ideologies, with the number of contracted permanent co-hosts ranging between four and eight women per season. The original panel comprised Walters, broadcast journalist Meredith Vieira, lawyer Star Jones, television host Debbie Matenopoulos, and comedian Joy Behar, while the current lineup consists of Behar, entertainer Whoopi Goldberg, lawyer Sunny Hostin, television personality Meghan McCain, and television host Sara Haines. In addition, the show often makes use of male and female guest panelists, including television personality Ana Navarro, who came aboard as a weekly guest co-host in season 22.

The View has won 31 Daytime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Talk Show, Outstanding Informative Talk Show, and Outstanding Talk Show Host. The show has received praise from the Associated Press, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, as well as The New York Times, which deemed it "the most important political TV show in America". Beginning in its tenth season, the series became subject to on-air controversies and media criticism involving its panel of co-hosts. It was transferred from the helm of ABC's entertainment division to that of ABC News in 2014 following a decline in ratings. Two years later, the series saw viewership growth, averaging 2.5 million viewers by 2020.               

         
         
          
Viewfinder links:          
        
Whoopi Goldberg        
Tom White         
         
Whoopi Goldberg filmography         
         
YouTube link:          
          
Aretha Franklin ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash       
Whoopi Goldberg links         
Jumpin' Jack Flash ~ Movie CLIP - (Deciphering Mick Jagger)       
Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash                 
         
         
         
          
         
Styrous® ~ Friday, November 13, 2020          
         
          
         
 
Whoopi Goldberg - November 13, 2020 
screen shot by Styrous®
         
          
         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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