I was wrong.

and the Stones later made a remake of it.

http://www.simplyws.co.uk/chrisfarlowe/cfmain.html

I, too, thought it belonged to the Stones.

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Don't think I've ever heard this version before. The singer sounds like he was modeling himself somewhat after Eric Burdon or Tom Jones, but in hindsight he sounds more like Bruce Springsteen (before Springsteen).

Thanks for sharing this very cool version. Never heard of Chris Farlowe before, now he's someone to check out. I like his delivery. Sort of Wilson Pickett / Eric Burdon thing going on. The instrumentation is cool too, reminds me a bit of a Phil Spector type of production, with the strings.

Very interesting history of this song. More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Time_(The_Rolling_Stones_song)

I'm a little confused about the history of the song, though. The Wiki articles says that it was first released by the Stones, but Farlowe's official web site makes it seem like his version was first.

to hit the British charts. Maybe they gave it to Farlowe, like they gave As Tears Go By to Marianne Faithful, to cut the single version. The Stones were releasing more r & b sounding songs as singles then, though they included those songs on albums or ep's. I don't think Out of Time was a hit for the Stones till later. And maybe only in the US.

There are two versions of Out of Time by the Stones. This is the version that appeared in the US on "Flowers" in 1966:

A longer and somewhat different (but also great) version of the song was on the UK version of "Aftermath". That version runs about two minutes longer than the version on Flowers posted above. It did not appear on the US version of Aftermath.

To the best of my knowledge, Out of Time was never released as a single, at least not in the US. It is nevertheless one of the group's most popular songs from their early years. I don't have a cite for that, you're just gonna have to take my word for it

EDIT: Here's the longer version, which was released on the UK version of Aftermath:



Apparently (according to Wikipedia) the longer version was recorded first, then a second shorter version was recorded for release in the US. A demo version of the song was released in the UK in 1975 and only reached number 45 on the British charts. What do they know?

Anyway, that's everything you always wanted to know about Out of Time but were afraid to ask