
Today Di of Pensitivity101 has given us the prompt for Jim Adam’s Song Lyric Sunday. Di’s prompt is – Pets, Names, Memories .
I love dogs, the are the most loving animals, they work with us and for us. The most important thing is they give us unconditional love.
Our Dog Ruby is a retired guide dog, we have taken her for her free run exercise time since she started working at eighteen months, when she retired she came to live with us.

In 1967 I was very much in love with the Rolling Stones. I was still at school and I had a Saturday job in a boutique in Ealing West London. I had met hubby…..
“Ruby Tuesday” is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones in 1966, released in January 1967. The song became the band’s fourth number-one hit in the United States and reached number three in the United Kingdom as a double A-side with “Let’s Spend the Night Together“. The song was included in the American version of Between the Buttons (in the UK, singles were often excluded from studio albums).
“Ruby Tuesday” was recorded around November 1966 at Olympic Studios, during the sessions for their album Between the Buttons. The song was produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Brian Jones plays a countermelody on an alto recorder, while the double bass was played jointly by bassist Bill Wyman and guitarist Keith Richards; Wyman did the fingerings while Richards bowed the instrument.
Richards explained that the lyrics are about Linda Keith, his girlfriend in the mid-1960s, who had left him for another superstar rocker and sent him into an emotional tailspin. In Life, his autobiography, he says, “Basically, Linda [Keith] is ‘Ruby Tuesday.
“That’s a wonderful song,” Mick Jagger told Jann Wenner in 1995. “It’s just a nice melody, really. And a lovely lyric. Neither of which I wrote, but I always enjoy singing it.” Wyman states in Rolling with the Stones that the lyrics were completely written by Richards with help from Jones on the musical composition. However, Marianne Faithfull recalls it differently; according to her, Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones. According to Victor Bockris, Richards came up with the basic track and the words and finished the song with Jones in the studio.
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single “As Tears Go By” and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.
Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party, where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. Her debut album Marianne Faithfull (1965) (released simultaneously with her album Come My Way) was a commercial success followed by a number of albums on Decca Records. From 1966 to 1970, she had a highly publicised romantic relationship with Mick Jagger. Her popularity was further enhanced by her film roles, such as those in I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname (1967), The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), and Hamlet (1969). However, her popularity was overshadowed by personal problems in the 1970s. During that time she was anorexic, homeless, and a heroin addict.
Noted for her distinctive voice, Faithfull’s previously melodic and higher-registered vocals (which were prevalent throughout her career in the 1960s) were affected by severe laryngitis, coupled with persistent drug abuse during the 1970s, permanently altering her voice, leaving it raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. This new sound was praised as “whisky soaked” by some critics and seen as having helped to capture the raw emotions expressed in Faithfull’s music.
After a long commercial absence, Faithfull made a comeback with the 1979 release of her critically acclaimed album Broken English. The album was a commercial success and marked a resurgence of her musical career. Broken English earned Faithfull a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and is often regarded as her “definitive recording”. She followed this with a series of albums, including Dangerous Acquaintances (1981), A Child’s Adventure (1983), and Strange Weather (1987). Faithfull also wrote three books about her life: Faithfull: An Autobiography (1994), Memories, Dreams & Reflections (2007), and Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record (2014).
Faithfull is listed on VH1‘s “100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll” list. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Women’s World Awards and was made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France.
There is so much that Marianne went through it is an amazing story if you have time do read here it is worth it.
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE 💜💜
Love your choices, Sis 🐶💛
Thank you Sis are you going to pick on for your beautiful fur boy 💜💜
I’d ask Lil Man for a song, since they are so close! But, there’s a Bollywood song, ‘Oh Mere Sona Re’ which I sing to him sometimes!
Then that’s the one Sis put it up 💜😊
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Wow Faithful had an incredible voice in the 60’s, post ’79 meh
Yes indeed but she had such a hard life and it took its toll on her voice
Sadly yeah, and that’s a shame
Oh, wow, my mum does free run exercise for two working dogs, not sure if they are guide dogs or hearing dogs, Ruby is a star
She is and we love her, well so many coincidences!
Indeed
A great choice, and so fitting for your own Ruby. I’ve always loved this song – still one of my Stones favourites – and I quite like Marianne Faithfull’s version too. Less so Melanie, so I’m glad you didn’t play that one!
Lol no way would I play the Melanie version either. I could of played Julian Lennon’s version but I decided to go for my favourites. Our Ruby is amazing 💜💜💜
You made good choices, and it’s lovely that you have Ruby to enjoy.
She is getting so old now but we just make sure she is happy ☺️
That’s all you can do for them, isn’t it. We did the same for ours when her time came.
It’s so hard isn’t it 💜
It sure is.
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I don’t think that Linda Keith left Keith Richards for Jimi Hendrix, as she recognized his talent, and she was just trying to help him establish his career, but when your girlfriend lets another man live with her in a place that you are paying for, I imagine tht all types of things can go through your mind. Great choice Willow.
Happy memories of my youth 💖💖😂
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Thank you for the reblog💜
The story is as interesting as the music. Great share Willow!!
Thank you Jilly , I always loved the Stones and envied Marianne but knowing how her life went I am glad I am me. 💜
I new get tired of this song ☺️💕 Thanks for picking it today
It’s so beautiful isn’t it 💜😍
I ‘never’ get tired of this song. Darn autocorrect 🙃
Makes you smile, I understood 💜
Your Ruby is so cute 🐾❤️
We love her ❤️❤️
I have two Labs ❤️
Beautiful animals aren’t they , what colours are they 💜💜
Both black English Labs
Lovely 💜😜
I do like Ruby Tuesday. Good song!
It’s so beautiful 💜
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