After yesterday’s post of Monday songs, I wondered if it might be possible to find a selection of songs to represent Tuesday. I knew that there would be Monday songs, but I thought that Tuesdays might have been neglected. How wrong I was! Here we go with some fine tunes for a Tuesday morning, and as with Mondays I have stretched the point to include a favourite from the Rolling Stones.
“Ruby Tuesday” was recorded by the Stones in 1966, and released in January 1967. The song, coupled with “Let’s Spend the Night Together”, was a number-one hit in the United States and reached number three in the United Kingdom. The song was included in the American version of Between the Buttons (in the UK, singles were often excluded from studio albums). Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 310 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
American folk and pop singer Melanie recorded “Ruby Tuesday” for her 1970 album Candles in the Rain. Her version was released as a single in the UK, where it became a Top Ten hit that year. It also reached number seven in New Zealand. She recorded a second cover version for her 1978 album, Ballroom Streets. It is one of those covers which brings something new to the song. She has a strange vibrato quality to her voice which makes her delivery quite different from that of Mick Jagger. I include her version here for your comparison.
So now on to songs about Tuesdays. Tuesday’s Gone” is the second track on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first album first album, It also appears on the band’s first live LP, One More From the Road, which is where I came across it. Al Kooper adds upfront Mellotron string sounds to the chorus of the song. It is one of a few Lynyrd Skynyrd songs on whichBob Burns, one of the original founding members and drummer, did not play. Bob Burns, however, can be heard playing on the demo version from the same session.
Sweet Tuesday Morning is taken from Straight Up the fourth studio album by British rock band Badfinger, released in December 1971 in the United States and February 1972 in Britain. Issued on the Beatles’ Apple record label. It marked a departure from the more rock-oriented sound of Badfinger’s previous releases, partly as a result of intervention by Apple Records regarding the band’s musical direction. Although Straight Up received a mixed response from critics on release, many reviewers now regard it as the band’s best album. This track Sweet Tuesday Morning was recorded with the help of Todd Rundgren. “Sweet Tuesday Morning”, Molland’s love song to his wife Kathie, was overdubbed and remixed by Rundgren.
Finally we have “Tuesday Morning” recorded by The Pogues. It was released in 1993 as a single from their first post Shane Macgowan album, Waiting for Herb. It was the band’s last single to make the UK top 20, and the first single to feature Spider Stacy on vocals. The song itself was composed by Stacy. It reached Number 18 in the UK singles charts and also culminated in their last performance on TOTP. It is also their most successful single internationally and peaked at #11 on the Billboard chart.
If you have any other suggestions for Tuesday songs, then please leave a comment.
