Stones lore: Jagger and Mr. Jimmy in Excelsior

[geardaddy]

http://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2015/06/stones-lore-jagger-and-mr-jimmy-excelsior?utm_content=buffer9bc89&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

In the summer of 1964, a fledgling British band rolled into town for a one-night stand at a suburban dance hall. Not yet the international rock icons they would later become, the Rolling Stones played to an unimpressed group of fewer than 300 concertgoers at the Danceland Ballroom at Excelsior Amusement Park.

When the Stones return to Minneapolis this week for their concert at TCF Stadium on Wednesday, they will receive a far different reception from a wildly enthusiastic crowd in the 50,000-seat stadium.

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Danceland was clearly not a highpoint in the Stones' career, but the Minnesota event deserves a footnote in the history of rock 'n' roll because of a chance encounter between Mike Jagger and a local character named Jimmy Hutmaker.

According to local legend, Jagger had gone to an Excelsior drugstore the day after the concert. While he was waiting to fill a prescription, Jimmy was ahead of him in line, ordering a cherry Coke, but the drug store had run out, so he had to settle for a regular Coke. At that point, Jimmy turned to Jagger and uttered the famous line: “You can’t always get what you want.”

Years later, Jagger used that line as the title of a song, and it became one of the Stones’ greatest hits. Jagger put the drugstore in Chelsea and cherry Coke became "cherry red" soda, but Mr. Jimmy got a mention in the lyrics.

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[msongs]

1. so did Mr. Jimmy get royalty checks for writing the lyric? titles have no protection but words used

in the lyrics do. of course the Glimmer Twins have a history when it comes to sharing songwriter credit....and income

[underpants]

2. Ron Wood

In "Old Gods Almost Dead" Stephen Davis details many things (great read) one of them being that Ron Wood was paid a salary until maybe 10 or12 years ago. He is now actually a member of the band.

Yes Mick is very tight with the money.

[Mnpaul]

3. I heard that many booed the Stones at the concert

They wanted to hear Elvis

[dflprincess]

4. I have heard that too

BTW "Mr. Jimmy" was from my mom's hometown. According to Mother and her sisters he was always a bit "odd" .