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May 3, 2009 · Merry performs her classic rendition of the Stones mega smash "Gimme Shelter". Not only was she the featured female vocalist on their version she also covere...
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Watch the legendary performance of The Rolling Stones and Merry Clayton on Gimme Shelter, one of the greatest rock songs of all time.
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Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter (1970) HD. Adam Terran. 5.98K subscribers. Subscribed. 4.2K. 262K views 8 years ago.
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In an interview last week with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, Clayton talked about the night she was asked to sing on “Gimme Shelter”: Well, I’m at home at about 12–I’d say about 11:30, almost 12 o’clock at night.
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One day, Merry Clayton was in her bed, pregnant, with hair curlers in and silk pajamas on, when she received a phone call at her Los Angeles home about midnight in the autumn of 1969, according to Far Out. At the time, Clayton was a 20-year-old with extensive singing experience, having sung at her father’s church as a child. She had started her rec...
When she got to the studio, Clayton was briefed on what Nitzchke and the band wanted her to do. They wanted her to provide duet vocals for certain parts of the song, including the verses that said “Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away.” Initially, this didn’t sit well with Clayton because she was the daughter of a pastor. But after producers further...
Clayton went beyond the call of duty, doing what producers had hoped by turning a good song into a classic by contributing her talents. But it came at a heavy cost. Not long after leaving the studio, Clayton suffered a miscarriage. In subsequent years, despite her contribution to rock ‘n’ roll history, Clayton said the song was too painful to hear,...
Merry Clayton, who performed with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones version of the song (see above), released a cover of "Gimme Shelter" in 1970 on her first solo album, also titled Gimme Shelter. The song reached #63 in Canada .
Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer. She contributed vocals to numerous tracks and worked with many major recording artists for decades, including a duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter". [1] .
