{"id":65795,"date":"2025-07-14T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65795\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:44:10","slug":"on-this-day-in-1964-the-rolling-stones-hit-no-1-with-a-song-first-released-by-an-rb-group-months-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65795\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1964, the Rolling Stones Hit No. 1 With a Song First Released by an R&#038;B Group Months Earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rolling Stones first No. 1 hit was actually a cover. On July 14, 1964, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts hit No. 1 in the U.K. for the first time with their cover of \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack wrote the tune, which was first released by The Valentinos in 1964. The song wasn\u2019t a huge success, as it peaked at No. 94 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>The Stones, however, were big fans of the tune, and \u201cjust liked the sound of it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeisonourside.com\/SOItsAllOver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wyman said<\/a> in \u201964. Bobby Womack wasn\u2019t initially all that thrilled about the idea of them covering the song, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted my songs to be sung by me and heard all round the world,\u201d Womack explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/prince.org\/msg\/8\/355176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 2011 interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless, nine days after hearing it, the band recorded their version of the song. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey recorded it, released it, it happened so fast, I was pissed, because I thought they had stolen our song,\u201d Womack said. \u201cBut Sam [Cooke] said to me, man you will get credit for this, and it will put you where you want to be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Womack only realized that to be true when he received his first royalty payment of $400,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never seen so much money in my life,\u201d Womack recalled. \u201cSam said to me, \u2018You going get a cheque like that about three to four times a year.\u2019 I replied, \u2018Do you know where The Rolling Stones live?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rolling Stones Earn Success With \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wound up being good for The Stones too, as it earned them their first No. 1 hit on the U.K. singles chart. In the U.S., the Stones\u2019 version of the track stayed in the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks, peaking at No. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its commercial success, The Rolling Stones had mixed feelings about the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not all that keen on the record. It\u2019s alright, but I don\u2019t know, there\u2019s just something,\u201d Jones said the year of the song\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Richards totally disagreed, stating, \u201cAs it happens, I think\u00a0\u2018It\u2019s All Over Now\u2019\u00a0is the best single we\u2019ve done, and I\u2019m glad to say the group improves every time it makes a single. At least, we think so. I like the overall sound on this new one more than I did on anything before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones first No. 1 hit was actually a cover. 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