
Tumbling Dice
1972 · From Exile on Main St.
Taylor on bass, Jimmy Miller drumming the coda, and a lyric Jagger got from a housekeeper who played dice.
★ 7.5

Taylor on bass, Jimmy Miller drumming the coda, and a lyric Jagger got from a housekeeper who played dice.

Hudson ran a clavinet through a wah-wah pedal, Helm sang lead, and the single reached number twenty-five.

An 1895 St. Louis barroom killing, remade by Price into a number one he re-recorded clean for American Bandstand.
Brando sang it in the film while Sinatra played Nathan Detroit; eight years later Sinatra cut it himself.

In his father's Wisconsin hunting cabin, Vernon shaped the melody wordlessly, then wrote his gambling losses into it.

Recorded in Camden in February 1928, a vaudeville novelty from 1915 that Rodgers claimed forever with one yodel.