Time is on my side.

Purplepenelope in music frenzy! What better way to start up this series of posts than with (drum roll) the Stones!

Featured Artist: The Rolling Stones
Featured Song: Time is on my side (1965, Rolling Stones No. 2)
Original Artist: Kai Winding (1963)
Used as soundtrack in: Fallen (movie, 1998, with Denzel Washington)
Other Artists who covered this song: Michael Bolton, Cat Power, Hattie Littles, Wilson Pickett, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, The Pretty Things, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Kim Wilson, Tracy Nelson, Andres Calamaro, Vanessa Carlton

The Stones was in their first ever TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show (yes, the same show the Beatles first came out in, at least in the US that is) playing "Time is on my side".

The moment after seeing the movie Fallen (almost a decade ago now, wow) this song was difficult to shake off. It was infectious (very apt for the movie's theme) with its hypnotic repetition of the phrase "time is on my side, yes it is". There were two Stones songs in that movie, there was also "Sympathy for the Devil" which played in the beginning [not sure? have to go check] and end credits. For some surreal reason I developed an interest in the Stones after this movie.

Credits:
Lyrics from lyricsfreak.com.
Chords from azchords.com.
Ed Sullivan's Show Appearance: Video from YouTube
Vanessa Carlton plays and sings her cover of the song.
Also posted here.