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May 25, 2025

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

the Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album

vinyl LP front cover detail

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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.

the Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album

vinyl LP front cover

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the Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album

vinyl LP back cover

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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

the Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album

vinyl LP back cover detail

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the Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash soundtrack album

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

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YouTube links:

Aretha Franklin ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash

Whoopi Goldberg ~ Deciphering Mick Jagger

Rolling Stones ~ Jumpin' Jack Flash

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December 27, 2024

The Supremes on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

On December 27, 1964, exactly sixty years ago today, three high-schoolers growing up in the Detroit projects appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Originally known as The Primettes, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard would go on to become the most successful “girl group” in history, The Supremes.

The Supremes first appeared on the Sullivan stage on December 27, 1964 to perform their smash single, Come See About Me which I wrote about earlier this year (link below). In the early black and white TV performance, the girls wore simple dresses and matching bouffant hair-dos, and the audience fell in love with their infectious charm and appeal.

The Supremes ~ Ed Sullivan Show

December 27, 1964

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Florence Ballard

Come See About Me

Diana Ross

The Supremes articles/mentions

Mary Wilson

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Florence Ballard articles/mentions

Buttered Popcorn w/Florence Ballard

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Mary Wilson articles/mentions

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July 21, 2024

45 RPMs 83: The Supremes – Buttered Popcorn w/Florence Ballard lead

The Supremes ~ Buttered Popcorn

45 RPM record

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On Friday, July 21, 1961, Tamla records released Buttered Popcorn, a song written by Motown executives Berry Gordy and Barney Ales, produced by Gordy, and released as a Tamla label single by the Motown singing group The Supremes.

Buttered Popcorn featured Florence Ballard on lead, rather than Diana Ross, but it is the only song with Ballard as the sole lead by The Supremes.

Buttered Popcorn was considered by Motown's Quality Control department to be the best song to be issued as the Supremes' second Motown single. However, Berry Gordy was determined that Ross should be the group's main lead and wanted the group's cover of The Miracles song, Who's Lovin' You to be the single's A-side. In the end, Gordy and Quality Control compromised; the Ballard-led song would remain the single's A-side, but the single would be promoted as if it was a "double A-side" one.

The Supremes ~ Who's Lovin' You

45 RPM record

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Stevie Chick of The Guardian, said that Ballard was 'A bold, big-voiced belter' and described the song as 'A piece of raw, ribald soul lacking the polish that gilded their [The Supremes'] later hits'. Also, 'Ballard growls salaciously on Popcorn that her boyfriend "likes it greasy, and sticky, and salty, and gooey", a knowingly saucy performance that somehow escaped the interference of Motown's infamous Quality Control department.' Bonnie Stiernberg of Paste wrote, 'the innuendo-laced track is not unlike buttered popcorn—salty, fluffy, and oh so good'

Both sides of the single received a lot of airplay on local Detroit stations, but problems arose. The first version of the song was withdrawn because it was considered "too raw", and a smoother take was released. Gordy did little to promote the single's A-side, and, some time later, the label discovered that the song could be conceived to have a scandalous "double meaning", and switch to pushing the B-side alone before ceasing promotion of the single altogether. (link to lyrics below).

Buttered Popcorn was considered by Motown's Quality Control department to be the best song to be issued as the Supremes' second Motown single.

Third Man Records, a new website, has started up and has announced an ongoing partnership with Universal Music to bring Tamla's classic early Motown records back to vinyl (link below).

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A - Buttered Popcorn, written by Barney Ales, Berry Gordy Jr.* - 2:34

Side 2:

B - Who's Loving You, written by William Robinson* - 2:44

Companies, etc.

Pressed By – American Record Pressing Co.

Notes:

Disc Jockey Advance Sample

Supremes* – Buttered Popcorn / Who's Loving You
Label:    Tamla – T-54045
Format:    Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo
Country: US
Released: Jul 21, 1961
Genre:    Funk / Soul, Pop
Style:    Soul

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Classic Motown ~ The Supremes – Buttered Popcorn

Motown Junkies ~ The Supremes – Buttered Popcorn

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YouTube links:

The Supremes w/Florence Ballard ~ Buttered Popcorn

The Supremes ~ Who's Loving You

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The Supremes ~ Buttered Popcorn lyrics

My baby likes
(Buttered popcorn) Uh-huh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh-hoh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh, yeah

He likes it greasy and sticky and gooey and salty
I said what do you like
He says you know what I like
I like (buttered popcorn)

He took me to a show (buttered popcorn)
He said he wanted some more (buttered popcorn)
I said kiss me please (buttered popcorn)
He said after I eat (buttered popcorn)
I said what do you like
He says you know what I like
I like (buttered popcorn)

For breakfast, lunch, and dinner too
He eats (buttered popcorn, buttered popcorn)
Well, it worries me so
I don't know what to do, ooh (buttered popcorn, buttered popcorn)
When I asked him what was happenin' in the world today
He said more butter, more butter, more butter, more

Oh my baby likes
(Buttered popcorn) Uh-huh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh-hoh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh, yeah

He likes it greasy and sticky and gooey and salty
I said what do you like
He says you know what I like
I like (buttered popcorn)

For breakfast, lunch, and dinner too
He eats (buttered popcorn, buttered popcorn)
Well, it worries me so
I don't know what to do (buttered popcorn, buttered popcorn)
When I asked him what was happenin' in the world today
He said more butter, more butter, more butter, more

My baby likes
(Buttered popcorn) Uh-huh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh-hoh
(Buttered popcorn) Oh, yeah

He likes it greasy and sticky and gooey and salty
I said what do you like
He says you know what I like
I like (buttered popcorn)
Uh-huh
Don't you know what he needs
Don't you know what he wants

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July 18, 2024

The Miracles articles/mentions

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The Supremes ~ Buttered Popcorn

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July 13, 2024

45 RPMs 82: The Supremes – Come See About Me

The Supremes ~ Come See About Me

45 RPM record

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On Monday, July 13, 1964, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson (The Supremes), walked into the studios of Motown records and recorded one of their biggest hits, Come See About Me, written by the Motown main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland.

The Supremes and Motown were the first to record the song but not to release it; it was recorded after them but released earlier by Wand Record and Nella Dodds. Her version started selling, climbing to No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Motown rushed to released the Supremes' version as a single, which killed the sales of Dodds's version. The Supreme's version fades in whereas the Dodds' version starts normally and is not as fast.

In the gay bars of the pre-disco period, I loved to dance to See About Me with it's infectious beat but it was only decades later that I realized it's actually a sad song about a woman whose lost her lover.

Before they became famous, the girls were in a group called The Primettes with none other than the Temptations and they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show on November 19, 1967 (YouTube link below).

Tracklist:

Side 1:

A - Come See About Me - 2:39

Side 2:

B - Always In My Heart - 2:26

Companies, etc.

    Copyright © – Motown Record Corporation
    Published By – Jobete
    Mastered At – Nashville Matrix
    Pressed By – American Record Pressing Co.

Credits:

Producer [Produced By] – Holland & Dozier
Written-By – Holland, Dozier, Holland*

Personelle:

    •    Lead vocals by Diana Ross
    •    Background vocals by Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson
    •    All instruments by the Funk Brothers[10]
    ◦    Earl Van Dyke – piano
    ◦    Joe Messina – guitar
    ◦    James Jamerson – bass
    ◦    Uriel Jones – drums
    ◦    Jack Ashford – vibraphone
    ◦    Hank Cosby – tenor saxophone
    ◦    Andrew "Mike" Terry – baritone saxophone
    •    Footstomps by Mike Valvano

Notes:

Label / pressing plant variant: No bottom scroll text on labels.

© 1964
Jobete BMI

© 1964 Motown Record Corporation

Side A: Taken from Album "Where Did Our Love Go" MT 621

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Rights Society: BMI
    Pressing Plant ID (Stamped in runouts): ARP
    Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): DM HVV-097205
    Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): DM HVV-099202
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A, Variant 1): RK4M-2604-1-S HVV - 097205 ARP Nashhville Matirx 10
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B, Variant 1): RK4M -2686-1 G Nashville Matrix DMHVV-0922 D2 ARP
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A, Variant 2): RK4M-2604-1-G HVV - 097205 Nashhville Matirx 10 ARP
    Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B, Variant 2): RK4M -2686-1 G ARP Nashville Matrix DMHVV-0922 D2

The Supremes – Come See About Me
Label:    Motown – M-1068
Format:    Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, American Record Pressing
Country: US
Released: Oct 27, 1964
Genre:    Funk / Soul
Style:    Soul, Vocal

Viewfinder links:

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YouTube links:

Nella Dodds ~ Come See About Me

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The Temptations & The Supremes "Hits Medley" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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