The Andrew Oldham Orchestra Explained

The Andrew Oldham Orchestra was a musical side project in the mid-1960s created by Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager and record producer of the Rolling Stones. There was no actual orchestra per se. The name was applied to recordings made by Loog Oldham using a multitude of session musicians, including members of the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones Songbook included an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time",[1] which was sampled by The Verve for their track "Bitter Sweet Symphony". The threat of litigation over the licence for the sample led to the entire copyright to the composition, belonging to Richard Ashcroft, the Verve's frontman, being taken by ABKCO Records, and the assignation of the songwriting credit to Jagger and Richards.[2] At the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards, Ashcroft announced that Jagger and Richards had "signed over all their publishing for Bittersweet Symphony", ending the dispute.[3]

Discography

Albums

YearAlbumRecord Label
1964Lionel Bart's Maggie MayDecca Records
16 Hip HitsAce of Clubs Records
1965East Meets WestParrott Records
1966The Rolling Stones SongbookLondon Records

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrllfAMwHI The Andrew Oldham Orchestra version of The Last Time
  2. Book: Goodman, Fred . 2015 . Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll . Boston, New York . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . 265–267 . 978-0-547-89686-1.
  3. News: The Bittersweet Symphony dispute is over . BBC News . Mark . Savage. May 23, 2019. May 23, 2019 .