Keef: Run Run Rudolph/Pressure Drop

Re-released last week for the first time since 1978: Keith Richards’s first solo single, a killer take of Chuck Berry’s rock-and-roll Christmas classic. My wife found a semi-decent digital version of this on Napster a few years ago, where by “semi-decent” I mean “good enough to listen to but you could hear the needle dropping on the turntable the guy used to record it to MP3”.

Odd: I paid for Run Run Rudolph and got billed for two tracks.

Re-released last week for the first time since 1978: Keith Richards’s first solo single, a killer take of Chuck Berry’s rock-and-roll Christmas classic. My wife found a semi-decent digital version of this on Napster a few years ago, where by “semi-decent” I mean “good enough to listen to but you could hear the needle dropping on the turntable the guy used to record it to MP3”. (DRM-free iTunes Plus format, to boot.)

★ [From Keith Richards’s Run Rudolph Run’]

So I went back and “bought” Pressure Drop (they seem to be a package deal, even if they don’t get downloaded as one). It downloaded, no notice that I had paid a second time.

Can you have too many versions of that one? I have at least three (Toots from The Harder They Come, The Clash, and now this one).

And DRM-free iTunes+ is 256k. Keef’s version is spot-on, as well. Definitely one for a seasonal iMix.

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