This was The Rolling Stones' first single. It's a remake of a Chuck Berry song. Berry is a big influence on Keith Richards. The Stones performed this on Thank Your Lucky Stars, a popular English TV show. The show's producer told the Stones manager he should "Get rid of that vile-looking lead singer with the tire-tread lips." They decided to keep Mick Jagger. This was the first song The Stones recorded professionally. They recorded it on May 10, 1963.
Mick Jagger said "I don't think Come On was very good, in fact it was s--t. God knows how it ever got in the charts, it was such a hype. In fact we disliked it so much we didn't do it on any of our gigs." A rare appearance of Brian Jones on BU vocals. Andrew Oldham had no idea what "mixing" a song meant when asked how he wanted it to sound after the Stones had recorded it. So he just told the engineer to go ahead. A very "poppy" sounding song for the Stones in their bluesy period that was aimed at the recordbuying market.
The b-side was another cover version, Willie Dixon's "I Want To Be Loved".
The songs are available on Singles Collection: The London Years (1989), Singles 1963-1965 (2004) and Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (2007).
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