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Nanker/Phelge (also known as Nanker Phelge) was a collective
Rolling Stones group compositions.[1] According to manager Andrew Loog Oldham the 'Nanker/Phelge' credit was mostly used for tracks where the origin lay in blues standards from the 1950's they heard when visiting the Chess studios in Chicago. It also enabled Oldham to benefit from writing credits.[2]
Stones bassist Bill Wyman explained the origins of the name in his 2002 book, Rolling with the Stones:
When the Stones cut "Stoned" – or "Stones", according to early misprinted pressings – as the B-side to "
Brian [Jones] suggested crediting it to Nanker/Phelge. The entire band would share writing royalties. Phelge came from Edith Grove flatmate Jimmy Phelge, while a Nanker was a revolting face that band members, Brian in particular, would pull.[3]
Thus anything credited to Nanker Phelge refers to a
ASCAP files for the very earliest Nanker Phelge compositions also list early Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart (also known as "the sixth Stone") as a co-author covered by the pseudonym.[4]
The name resurfaced in the late 1960s on the labels of the original vinyl pressings of London and Decca labels).
Songs credited to Nanker Phelge
- "ASCAP also credits Ian Stewartas co-writer)
- "ASCAPalso credits Ian Stewart as co-writer)
- "Andrew's Blues" (Feb. 1964) (unreleased)
- "And Mr. Spector and Mr. Pitney Came Too" (Feb. 1964) (an instrumental blues-rock jam with prominent harmonica, unreleased, co-written with Phil Spector) Appears on the Black Box bootleg compilation.
- "Now I've Got a Witness" (credited as 'Phelge') (Apr. 1964)
- "Stewed and Keefed (Brian's Blues)" (Jun. 1964)
- "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (Aug. 1964)
- "Empty Heart" (Aug. 1964)
- "BMI)
- "Play with Fire" (Feb. 1965)
- "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" (May 1965)
- "BMI)
- "I'm All Right" (July 1965) (sometimes credited to Phelge/McDaniel, although it is an Ellas McDaniel cover song. Now credited to Jagger/Richards)
- "Godzi" (unreleased but registered with BMI)
- "We Want the Stones" (a recording of the audience cheering on the 1965 Got Live If You Want It! EP)
- Jagger/Richards.[5]
See also
- Jagger/Richards
References
- Discogs.com. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ^ Goodman, Fred (2015). Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-89686-1
- OCLC 689519658.
- ^ "Who/What is Nanker Phelge?". Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- OCLC 689519658.
External links
- More About Nanker Phelge
- A Stones' Throw Away , article about James Phelge at Chicago Reader