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For the British statute passed the same year, see Slave Trade Act 1807.
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
Long title
An Act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight
Enacted by
the 9th United States Congress
Effective
January 1, 1808
Citations
Public law
9-22
Statutes at Large
2 Stat. 426
Legislative history
Signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson on March 2, 1807
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that stated that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect in 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.
This legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union Address. He had promoted the idea since the 1770s. It reflected the force of the general trend toward abolishing the international slave trade, which Virginia followed by all the other states had prohibited or restricted since then. South Carolina, however, had reopened its trade. Congress first regulated against in the Slave Trade Act of 1794. The 1807 Act ended the legality of trade with the U.S. However, it was not always well enforced and slaves continued to be smuggled in limited numbers. All the northern states had ended slavery by 1804, but ownership remained legal in all the Southern states. The 1807 law did not change that—it just made importation from abroad a crime. The domestic slave trade within the U.S. was unaffected by the 1807 law. Britain, the major power involved in the Atlantic slave trade, passed the comparable Abolition of the Slave Trade Act that same month.
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1 Background
2 Passage of the Act
3 Effectiveness and prosecutions for slaving
4 Antebellum proposals by Fire-Eaters to reopen
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
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Article 1 Section 9 of the United States Constitution protected the slave trade for twenty years. Article 5 said this clause could not be affected by constitutional amendment. Only starting January 1, 1808, could there be a federal law to entirely abolish the international slave trade, although individual states could and did ban it at any time.
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.[1]
In the 18th century, Great Britain had become the world's largest slave trader.[2] During the American Revolution (1775–1783) against Great Britain, all the states banned the international slave trade. This was done for a variety of economic, political, and moral reasons depending on the state. The trade was later reopened in South Carolina and Georgia.[3]
On March 22, 1794, Congress passed the Slave Trade Act of 1794, which prohibited making, loading, outfitting, equipping, or dispatching of any ship to be used in the trade of slaves, essentially limiting the trade to foreign ships.[4] On August 5, 1797, John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, became the first American to be tried in federal court under the 1794 law. Brown was convicted and was forced to forfeit his ship Hope.[5] On April 7, 1798, the fifth Congress passed an act that imposed a three hundred dollar per slave penalty on persons convicted of performing the illegal importation of slaves. It was an indication of the type of behavior and course of events soon to become commonplace in the Congress.[6] In the Slave Trade Act of 1800, Congress outlawed U.S. citizens' investment in the trade, and the employment of U.S. citizens on foreign vessels involved in the trade.[7]
Passage of the Act[edit]
On December 2, 1806, in his annual message to Congress, widely reprinted in most newspapers, President Thomas Jefferson denounced the "violations of human rights" attending the international slave trade and called for its criminalization on the first day that was possible (January 1, 1808). He said:
I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.[8]
The House and Senate agreed on a bill, approved on March 2, 1807, called An Act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight. The bound measure also regulated the coastwise slave trade. President Thomas Jefferson signed the bill into law on March 2, 1807.[9] Many in Congress believed the act would doom slavery in the South, but they were mistaken.[10]
The role of the Navy was expanded to include patrols off the coasts of Cuba and South America. The effective date of the Act, January 1, 1808, was celebrated by Peter Williams, Jr., in "An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" delivered in New York City.[11]
Effectiveness and prosecutions for slaving[edit]
While there are no exact figures known, historians estimate that up to 50,000 slaves were illegally imported into the United States after 1808, mostly through Spanish Florida and Texas, before those states were admitted to the Union.[12]
Carl C. Cutler's classic book on American clipper ships records:
The act outlawing the slave trade in 1808 furnished another source of demand for fast vessels, and for another half century ships continued to be fitted out and financed in this trade by many a respectable citizen in the majority of American ports. Newspapers of the fifties contain occasional references to the number of ships sailing from the various cities in this traffic. One account stated that as late as 1859 there were seven slavers regularly fitted out in New York, and many more in all the larger ports.[13]
In 1820, slave-trading became a capital offense with an amendment to the 1819 Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States and Punish the Crime of Piracy. A total of 74 cases of slaving were brought in the United States between 1837 and 1860, "but few captains had been convicted, and those had retrieved trifling sentences, which they had usually been able to avoid".[14] Nathaniel Gordon, who was hanged in 1862, was the only person to be executed for slave-trading in the United States.[14]
In addition, after the 1808 abolition of the slave trade to the United States, many Americans continued to engage in the slave trade by transporting Africans to Cuba. from 1808-1860, almost one-third of all slave ships were either owned by American merchants, or were built and outfitted in American ports.[15] It is possible that U.S. citizens "may have transported twice as many Africans to other countries such as Cuba and Brazil as they did to their own ports".[15]
Antebellum proposals by Fire-Eaters to reopen[edit]
In the South, the Fire-Eaters—antebellum pro-slavery extremists—proposed repealing the act and once more legalizing the international slave trade in the United States. Historian Erskine Clarke writes that this call "was a shameless expression of their contempt for any antislavery sentiment and a part of their stratagem to divide the nation and create a slaveholding confederacy. Among other things, the fire-eaters hoped that a reopened international slave trade would incense the North, and that Northern outrage would cause white Southerns to unite and move toward secession."[16]
In addition to whipping up sectional tensions, Fire-Eaters advocated the reopening of the slave trade in order to drive down the price of slaves; to balance the millions of European immigrants who had settled in the North and maintain Southern representation in Congress; and assert the morality of slavery: "Slave trading had to be made right, otherwise slavery was imperiled."[17] Fire-Eaters essentially desired to "legitimize the slave trade in order to make the point that both slavery and the African slave trade were morally acceptable practices"—a view intended to be precisely opposite that of the abolitionists, who affirmed the immorality of both slavery and the slave trade. The view alarmed even pro-slavery figures, such as former President John Tyler, who in a widely-republished letter written in his retirement condemned the Fire-Eaters' call to abrogate article 8 of the Webster–Ashburton Treaty (which barred the slave trade), noting that the South had voted to ratify the treaty.[18]" Arguably the Civil War's 600,000 deaths could have been avoided through more presidential correspondence with Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee explaining that Congress abolished the slave trade previously. Nothing wrong with presidential correspondence. James T. Struck BA, BS, AA, MLIS
See also[edit]
Blockade of Africa
Slave Trade Act 1807 (equivalent British act of Parliament)
Slave Trade Acts
Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States and Punish the Crime of Piracy (1820)
Slavery in International Law
Abolitionism
References[edit]
Jump up ^ U.S. Constitution – Article 1 Section 9
Jump up ^ "European traders". International Slavery Museum. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
Jump up ^ Finkelman, Paul (2007). "The Abolition of The Slave Trade". New York Public Library. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
Jump up ^ Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade Archived March 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Papers of the American Slave Trade
Jump up ^ United States; Joseph Story (1827). The public and general statutes passed by the Congress of the United States of America: from 1789 to 1827 inclusive, whether expired, repealed, or in force : arranged in chronological order, with marginal references, and a copious index : to which is added the Constitution of the United States, and an appendix. Wells and Lilly. p. +1798%22+%22three+hundred+dollars%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oJu6UPXtFea3iQeSqIHwAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22April%207%2C%201798%22%20%22three%20hundred%20dollars%22&f=false 495.
Jump up ^ "REGULATING THE TRADE". New York Public Library. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
Jump up ^ John Paul Kaminski (1995). A Necessary Evil?: Slavery and the Debate Over the Constitution. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 256.
Jump up ^ United States (1850). The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America. Charle C. Little and James Brown. pp. 426–430.
Jump up ^ Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (1993) p 80
Jump up ^ Pater Williams, Jr., An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; Delivered in the African Church in the City of New-York, January 1, 1808, Paul Royster, Ed., online pdf version, Digital Commons, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, accessed 31 May 2012
Jump up ^ Randy J. Sparks, Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2016), p. 80.
Jump up ^ Cutler, Carl C. (1984). Greyhounds of the Sea (3rd ed.). p. 39.
^ Jump up to: a b Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 (Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 774.
^ Jump up to: a b Matt D. Childs, "Cuba, the Atlantic Crisis of the 1860s, and the Road to Abolition" in American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s (ed. Don H. Doyle: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Jump up ^ Erskine Clarke, By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey (Basic Books, 2013), p. 324.
Jump up ^ Erik Calonius, The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), pp. 43-43.
Jump up ^ Edward P. Crapol, John Tyler, the Accidental President (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), pp. 247-48.
Further reading[edit]
Channing, Edward (1921). A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. Macmillan. pp. 432–36.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1904). The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. Longmans, Green and Company.
Marques, Leonardo. The United States and the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 (Yale University Press, 2016).
Marques, Leonardo. "Slave Trading in a New World: The Strategies of North American Slave Traders in the Age of Abolition" ' Journal of the Early Republic 32#2 (2012) pp. 233-260 online
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In the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship, the "Elite Eight" (also called the “Great Eight”) are the final eight teams and, thus represent the regional finals, or national quarterfinals. In Division I and Division III, the Elite Eight consists of the two teams in each of the four regional championship games. The winners advance to the Final Four. Since 1997, when the NCAA trademarked the phrase,[1] in Division II the Elite Eight consists of the eight winners of the eight Division II regions. Like the Division I Final Four, the Division II Elite Eight games are all held in one predetermined location.
In the men's Division I, the lowest-seeded team ever to reach this round in the modern 64 team tournament era was #12 Missouri in 2002, who upset #5-seed Miami (Florida), #4-seed Ohio State, and #8-seed UCLA before losing to #2-seed Oklahoma in the West regional that year. Eight #11 seeds have advanced to the Elite Eight: LSU in 1986, Loyola Marymount in 1990, Temple in 2001, George Mason in 2006, Virginia Commonwealth in 2011, Dayton in 2014, Xavier in 2017, and Loyola Chicago in 2018.
On average, three of the four #1 seeds make it to the Elite Eight each year. In men's play, the Elite Eight exists intact for less than 24 hours between the second Friday evening and the following Saturday afternoon of the tournament. The Elite Eight also represents the halfway mark of the men's tournament since each qualifying team must win three rounds (games) to reach the national quarterfinals, with three rounds remaining to reach and win the national championship game.
Like "March Madness," the phrase "Elite Eight" originally referred to the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship, the single-elimination high school basketball tournament run by the Illinois High School Association. When the IHSA finals were reduced from sixteen to eight teams in 1956, a replacement nickname for Sweet Sixteen was needed, and Elite Eight won popular favor. The IHSA trademarked the term in 1995; the trademark rights are now held by the March Madness Athletic Association, a joint venture between the NCAA and IHSA formed after a 1996 court case allowed both organizations to use "March Madness" for their own tournaments.
Elite Eight can also refer to the eight NCAA Division I baseball teams that reach the College World Series.
Notable Elite Eight teams in the men's Division I NCAA tournament[edit]
During the first 12 years of the tournament (1939-50, inclusive) only eight teams competed, meaning every team that qualified in those years was an automatic "Elite Eight" team.
Idaho State in 1977, which defeated UCLA in the previous round to end the Bruins' streak of consecutive Final Four appearances at 10 to end the John Wooden-era dynasty[2]
11-seed Loyola Marymount in 1990. One of the team's stars, Hank Gathers, collapsed and died on the court during the WCC Tournament, and teammates (including Bo Kimble, who shot his first free throw of each tournament game left-handed) honored Gathers during the tournament.
12-seed Missouri and 10-seed Kent State in 2002
10-seed Providence College in 1997
10-seed Gonzaga in 1999
11-seed Temple finished the 2001 regular season on a remarkable run, won Atlantic-10 tournament behind play of Lynn Greer before succumbing to Michigan State.
11-seed George Mason in 2006, which became the first 11-seed to advance to the Final Four since 1986, after defeating 1-seed Connecticut in overtime in the Elite Eight
10-seed Davidson College in 2008
11-seed Virginia Commonwealth in 2011 (the first "First Four" team to advance to the Elite Eight)
11-seed Dayton in 2014
10-seed Syracuse in 2016
11-seed Xavier in 2017
11-seed Loyola–Chicago in 2018
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Trademark record for serial no. 74687330 (Elite Eight)". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
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"Gimme Shelter"
Song by The Rolling Stones
from the album Let It Bleed
Released
5 December 1969 (1969-12-05)
Recorded
23 February & 2 November 1969
Genre
Hard rock[1]
blues rock
Length
4:37
Label
Decca Records/ABKCO
Songwriter(s)
Jagger/Richards
Producer(s)
Jimmy Miller
Audio sample
file
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"Gimme Shelter" is the opening track to the 1969 album Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones. Although the first word was spelled "Gimmie" on that album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made "Gimme" the customary spelling. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of its release, praised the song, stating that the band has "never done anything better."
The recording features Richards playing in an open tuning on electric guitar. The recording also features vocals by Merry Clayton. Lisa Fischer was later recruited to perform the song during concerts.
Contents
[hide]
1 Inspiration and recording
2 Releases on compilation albums and live recordings
2.1 Music video
3 Personnel
4 Accolades
5 In popular culture
6 Certifications
7 Cover versions
7.1 "Putting Our House in Order" project
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Inspiration and recording[edit]
"Gimme Shelter" was written by the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, the band's primary songwriting team.[a] Richards began working on the song's signature opening riff in London whilst Jagger was away filming Performance. As released, the song begins with Richards performing a guitar intro, soon joined by Jagger's lead vocal. Of Let It Bleed's bleak world view, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine:
Well, it's a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn't like World War II, and it wasn't like Korea, and it wasn't like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn't like it. People objected, and people didn't want to fight it ... That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole record's like that.[2]
Similarly, on NPR in 2012:
It was a very moody piece about the world closing in on you a bit ... When it was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week [during Hurricane Sandy]. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.[3]
However, the song's inspiration was not Vietnam or social unrest, but Keith Richards seeing people scurrying for shelter from a sudden rain storm. According to him:
I had been sitting by the window of my friend Robert Fraser’s apartment on Mount Street in London with an acoustic guitar when suddenly the sky went completely black and an incredible monsoon came down. It was just people running about looking for shelter — that was the germ of the idea. We went further into it until it became, you know, rape and murder are 'just a shot away'.[4]
The recording features guest vocals by Merry Clayton, recorded at a last-minute late-night recording session during the mixing phase, arranged by her friend and record producer Jack Nitzsche.[5] After the first verse is sung by Jagger, Merry Clayton enters and they share the next three verses. A harmonica solo by Jagger and guitar solo by Richards follow. Then, with great energy, Clayton repeatedly sings "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!", almost screaming the final stanza. She and Jagger then repeat the line "It's just a shot away" and finish with repeats of "It's just a kiss away." When speaking of her inclusion in the recording, Jagger stated in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones: "The use of the female voice was the producer's idea. It would be one of those moments along the lines of 'I hear a girl on this track - get one on the phone.'"[5][6] Summoned - pregnant - from bed around midnight by producer Jack Nitzsche, Clayton made her recording with just a few takes then returned home to bed.[5] It remains the most prominent contribution to a Rolling Stones track by a female vocalist.[7]
At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks under the strain; once during the second refrain on the word "shot", then on the word "murder" during the third refrain, after which Jagger is faintly heard exclaiming "Woo!" in response to Clayton's powerful delivery.[8] Upon returning home Clayton suffered a miscarriage, attributed by some sources to her exertions during the recording.[9]
Merry Clayton's name was erroneously written on the original release, appearing as 'Mary'. Her name is also listed as 'Mary' on the 2002 Let It Bleed remastered CD.[10]
The song was first recorded in London at Olympic Studios in February and March 1969; the version with Clayton was recorded in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Recorders and Elektra Studios in October and November that same year. Nicky Hopkins played piano, the Rolling Stones' producer Jimmy Miller played percussion, Charlie Watts played drums, Bill Wyman played bass, Jagger played harmonica and sang backup vocals with Richards and Clayton. Guitarist Brian Jones was present during the early sessions but did not contribute, Richards being credited with both rhythm and lead guitars on the album sleeve.[citation needed] For the recording, Richards used an Australian-made Maton SE777, a large single-cutaway hollowbody guitar, which he had previously used on "Midnight Rambler". The guitar barely survived the recording before literally falling apart. "[O]n the very last note of 'Gimmie Shelter,'" Richards told Guitar World in 2002, "the whole neck fell off. You can hear it on the original take."[11]
Releases on compilation albums and live recordings[edit]
"Gimme Shelter" quickly became a staple of the Rolling Stones' live shows. It was first performed sporadically during their 1969 American Tour and became a regular addition to their setlist during the 1972 American Tour. Concert versions appear on the Stones' albums No Security (recorded 1997, released 1998),[12] Live Licks (recorded 2003, released 2004),[13] Brussels Affair (recorded 1973, released 2011),[14][15] and Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live (2013).[16] A May 1995 performance recorded at Paradiso (Amsterdam) was released as audio on the 1996 Saint of Me single, included in The Singles Collection 1971-2006 (45CD Box Set, 2011), and as video, on Totally Stripped Blu-Ray and DVD (2016).
The song appears in the 2010 official DVD release of the 1972 Rolling Stones tour film, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones.[17] It is also featured on Bridges to Babylon Tour '97–98 (1998), Four Flicks (2003), The Biggest Bang (2007), Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live (2013), and The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon (2016).[18]
The female contributor to the song live is Lisa Fischer, the only woman to appear in all their tours since 1989.[19]
In their 2012 50th anniversary tour, the Rolling Stones sang this song with Mary J. Blige,[20] Florence Welch,[20] and Lady Gaga.[21][20]
"Gimme Shelter" was never released as a single. Nevertheless, it has been included on many compilation releases, including Gimme Shelter,[22] Hot Rocks 1964–1971,[23] Forty Licks[24] and GRRR!.[25]
Music video[edit]
Michel Gondry, an Academy Award-winning French filmmaker, directed a music video for the song, which was released in 1998. The video features a sixteen-year old Brad Renfro, playing a young man escaping with his brother from a dysfunctional home and the abuse they suffered at the hands of their abusive alcoholic father, and then from society as a whole.[26]
Personnel[edit]
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica
Keith Richards – guitars, backing vocals
Bill Wyman – bass
Charlie Watts – drums
Additional personnel
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Jimmy Miller – percussion
Merry Clayton – co-lead vocals (credited as "Mary Clayton")
Accolades[edit]
Greil Marcus, writing for Rolling Stone magazine at the time of the "Gimme Shelter"'s release stated that "[t]he Stones have never done anything better."[27] "Gimme Shelter" was placed at number 38 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004. Pitchfork Media placed it at number 12 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".[28] Ultimate Classic Rock put the song at number one on their Top 100 Rolling Stones songs [29] and number three on their Top 100 Classic Rock Songs [30]
In popular culture[edit]
"Gimme Shelter" has been played in a variety of movies and television shows/commercials. The 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin,[31] chronicling the last weeks of the Stones' 1969 US tour and culminating in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert, took its name from the song.[32][33][34] A live version of the song played over the documentary's credits.[35]
Appearance
Additional info
Reference
American Red Cross
"Play Your Part" public service advertising campaign in 1989 [36]
Gimme Shelter (2013)
[37]
Goodfellas (1990)
[38]
Casino (1995)
[38]
The Departed (2006)
[38]
That '70s Show (1998-2006)
Episode "Gimme Shelter" [38]
Air America (1990)
[39]
Wild Palms (1993)
[40]
Layer Cake (2004)
[38]
Flight (2012)
[38]
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Trailer for the video game [41][42]
The Simpsons
Episode "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays", in a scene parodying Woodstock [43]
Nip/Tuck
Season 4/episode 5 ("Dawn Budge") of the FX television series [44]
Life (NBC TV series)
Episode 10, season 1 (season finale) in 2007
Heineken beer commercial
Featuring Brad Pitt (2008)
Person of Interest
Season 2, episode 10 (2012)
The Daily Show (2013)
[45]
Hockey Night in Canada (2013)
[46]
20 Feet from Stardom
[47]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2014)
Covert Affairs
Episode 10, season 2
ABC's coverage of the 2014 Indianapolis 500
The Gambler (2014)
[48]
Supernatural
Episode "Don't Call Me Shurley"
Monday Mornings (2013)
Season 1, episode 1, Pilot (2013), end of episode [49]
Dexter
Season 2, episode 5, The Dark Defender (2007) [50]
The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode 9, "A Disrespectful Loyalty", Operation Dewey Canyon III [51]
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Italy (FIMI)[52]
Gold 25,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[53]
Gold 500,000
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Cover versions[edit]
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Ruth Copeland on her first album Self Portrait, performed with George Clinton's Parliament, in 1969 (reissued on The Invictus Sessions in 2002)[54]
The original backing singer, Merry Clayton, recorded her own version in 1970 which entered the Billboard Hot 100[55]
Grand Funk Railroad on the album Survival in 1971; a number 61 US single[56]
Josefus for their album Dead Man[57]
Puddle of Mudd on the 2011 album Re:(disc)overed[58]
The Sisters of Mercy in 1983, on the B-side of their single "Temple of Love" (released on the album Some Girls Wander by Mistake in 1992). In this version the words "shot" and "kiss" were interchanged.[59]
The London Symphony Orchestra on the album Symphonic Music of The Rolling Stones.[60] This version of the song is heard in the Children of Men (2006) trailer.
Patti Smith released the song as a single from her April 2007 covers album Twelve.[61]
Paul Brady & the Forest Rangers covered the song for the final episode of season 2 of Sons of Anarchy.[62] This version is available on the 5-song EP Sons of Anarchy: Shelter.
Tom Jones recorded the song with New Model Army. It was released on his album The Definitive Tom Jones 1964-2002.[63]
U2 covered the song at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame benefit concert on 30 October 2009, with Mick Jagger sharing lead vocals with Bono and featuring the Black Eyed Peas members Fergie, singing Merry Clayton's vocal part, and will.i.am, playing piano and synthesizer.[64][65][66]
The Underachievers used the introduction of "Gimme Shelter" for the production of their 2013 single "The Proclamation"[67]
Stone Sour covered the song on their EP Straight Outta Burbank... with female vocals performed by Lzzy Hale of Halestorm[68]
Jazz vibist Cal Tjader covered the song on his 1971 album Agua Dulce.[69][70]
"Putting Our House in Order" project[edit]
In 1993, a Food Records project collected various versions of the track by the following bands and collaborations, the proceeds of which went to the Shelter charity's "Putting Our House in Order" homeless initiative. The versions were issued across various formats, and had a live version of the song by the Rolling Stones as a common lead track to ensure chart eligibility.[citation needed]
"Gimme Shelter" (pop version – cassette single)
Voice of the Beehive and Jimmy Somerville[71]
"Gimme Shelter" (alternative version – CD single)
New Model Army and Tom Jones[72]
Cud and Sandie Shaw
Kingmaker
"Gimme Shelter" (rock version – CD single)
Thunder[73]
Little Angels
Hawkwind and Samantha Fox
"Gimme Shelter" (dance version – 12" single)
808 State and Robert Owens
Pop Will Eat Itself vs Gary Clail vs Ranking Roger vs the Mighty Diamonds vs the On U Sound System
Blue Pearl (produced and mixed by Utah Saints)
See also[edit]
List of anti-war songs
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The Mick Jagger and Keith Richards writing team is commonly referred to as the "Glimmer Twins" and has occasionally been credited as such on releases, see Jagger/Richards.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Wenner, Jann. ""Jagger Remembers"". Archived from the original on 18 May 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2007. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) , Rolling Stone (14 December 1995). Accessed 20 May 2007.
Jump up ^ "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". November 16, 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
Jump up ^ Giles, Jeff (27 October 2017). "Keith Richards Recalls Making the Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter'". Ultimate Classic Rock.
^ Jump up to: a b c Springer, Mike. "Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind 'Gimme Shelter' and Merry Clayton's Haunting Background Vocals Open Culture". Openculture.com. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
Jump up ^ Jagger, Mick; Richards, Keith; Wood, Ronnie; Watts, Charlie (2003). According to the Rolling Stones. California: Chronicle Books. p. 117. ISBN 0811869679.
Jump up ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Gimme Shelter". allmusic.com (2007). Accessed 20 May 2007.
Jump up ^ 20 Feet From Stardom - Gimme Shelter, 2016-02-12, retrieved 2017-09-03
Jump up ^ Snowden, Don (13 March 1986). "For Clayton, The Gloom Is Gone". Los Angeles Times.
Jump up ^ Jagger, M., Richards, K., “Let It Bleed." Album credits. 2002. CD.
Jump up ^ "From the Archive: The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards Looks Back on 40 Years of Making Music". Guitar World. 6 January 2012.
Jump up ^ "No Security | The Rolling Stones". www.rollingstones.com. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
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Jump up ^ Harris, John (2011-11-22). "Why a Rolling Stones bootleg is one of my albums of the year". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
Jump up ^ "Brussels Affair (Live 1973) - The Rolling Stones | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
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"Love in Vain"
"Country Honk"
"Live with Me"
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"Midnight Rambler"
"You Got the Silver"
"Monkey Man"
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
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Mick Jagger
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Carlo Little
Dick Taylor
Video releases
Let's Spend the Night Together (1983)
Stones at the Max (1992)
The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge Live (1995)
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996)
Bridges to Babylon Tour '97–98 (1998)
Four Flicks (2003)
The Biggest Bang (2007)
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (2010)
Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 (2011)
Sweet Summer Sun: Live in Hyde Park (2013)
The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon (2016)
Documentaries
Charlie Is My Darling (1966)
The Stones in the Park (1969)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
Video Rewind (1984)
25×5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones (1989)
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Stones in Exile (2010)
Crossfire Hurricane (2012)
Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (2017)
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50 & Counting
14 On Fire
Zip Code Tour
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No Filter Tour
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"It's All Over Now"
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"Time Is on My Side"
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"Heart of Stone"
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"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?"
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"We Love You" / "Dandelion"
"In Another Land"
"She's a Rainbow" / "2000 Light Years from Home"
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
"Street Fighting Man" / "No Expectations"
"Honky Tonk Women" / "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Rolling Stones/
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"Wild Horses" / "Sway"
"Tumbling Dice" / "Sweet Black Angel"
"Happy" / "All Down the Line"
"Angie" / "Silver Train"
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" / "Dancing with Mr. D"
"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" / "Dance Little Sister"
"Fool to Cry"
"Hot Stuff"
Rolling Stones
"Miss You" / "Far Away Eyes"
"Beast of Burden" / "When the Whip Comes Down"
"Respectable" / "When the Whip Comes Down"
"Shattered"
"Emotional Rescue"
"She's So Cold" / "Send It to Me"
"Start Me Up"
"Waiting on a Friend" / "Little T&A"
"Hang Fire" / "Neighbours"
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"Time Is on My Side" (live) / "Twenty Flight Rock" (live)
"Undercover of the Night"
"She Was Hot"
"Too Much Blood"
"Harlem Shuffle"
"One Hit (To the Body)"
"Mixed Emotions"
"Rock and a Hard Place"
"Almost Hear You Sigh"
"Highwire" / "2000 Light Years from Home" (live)
"Ruby Tuesday" (live) / "Play with Fire" (live)
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" (live) / "Tumbling Dice" (live)
Virgin singles
"Love Is Strong"
"You Got Me Rocking"
"Out of Tears"
"I Go Wild"
"Like a Rolling Stone" (live) / "Black Limousine" / "All Down the Line"
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"Anybody Seen My Baby?"
"Saint of Me" / "Gimme Shelter" (live)
"Out of Control"
"Don't Stop" / "Miss You" (remix)
"Streets of Love" / "Rough Justice"
"Rain Fall Down"
"Biggest Mistake" / "Before They Make Me Run" (live)
Universal singles
"Plundered My Soul" / "All Down the Line"
"No Spare Parts" / "Before They Make Me Run"
"Doom and Gloom"
"One More Shot"
Other countries
"Let It Bleed" / "You Got the Silver" (London Japan)
"Rocks Off" / "Sweet Virginia" (Japan)
"Star Star" / "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" (France, Germany)
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Max Carl
Tim Cashion
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Mark Farner
Craig Frost
Dennis Bellinger
Howard Eddy Jr.
Studio albums
On Time
Grand Funk
Closer to Home
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E Pluribus Funk
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We're an American Band
Shinin' On
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Born to Die
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"Inside Looking Out"
"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)"
"Feelin' Alright?"
"Gimme Shelter"
"We're an American Band"
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"The Loco-Motion"
"Some Kind of Wonderful"
"Bad Time"
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Patti Smith
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Horses
Radio Ethiopia
Easter
Wave
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Gone Again
Peace and Noise
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Twelve
Banga
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Horses/Horses
The Coral Sea
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Set Free
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"Gloria"
"Pissing in a River"
"Pumping (My Heart)"
"Ask the Angels"
"Because the Night"
"Privilege (Set Me Free)"
"Frederick"
"Dancing Barefoot"
"So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"
"People Have the Power"
"Up There Down There"
"Summer Cannibals"
"E-Bow the Letter"
"Gimme Shelter"
Promotional singles
"1959"
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"When Doves Cry"
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"Redondo Beach"
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"Rock N Roll Nigger"
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Ivan Král
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Discography
Studio albums
Read My Lips
Dare to Love
Manage the Damage
Home Again
Compilations
The Singles Collection 1984/1990
The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat and The Communards
For a Friend: The Best of Bronski Beat, The Communards & Jimmy Somerville
Singles
"Suspicious Minds"
"Comment te dire adieu"
"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
"Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)"
"To Love Somebody"
"Smalltown Boy ('91 Remix)"
"Gimme Shelter"
"Heartbeat"
"Hurt So Good"
"By Your Side"
"The Number One Song in Heaven"
"Why? (Almighty Mix)"
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Other songs
"Love to Love You Baby"
"Johnny Remember Me"
"Lover Man"
"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
"From This Moment On"
"Someday We'll Be Together"
"But Not Tonight"
"I Was Born This Way"
"Tell Me Why"
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Tom Jones
Discography
Studio albums
Along Came Jones (It's Not Unusual)
What's New Pussycat?
A-tom-ic Jones
From the Heart
Green, Green Grass of Home
Delilah
Help Yourself
Reload
Mr. Jones
Praise & Blame
Spirit in the Room
Long Lost Suitcase
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John Farnham & Tom Jones – Together in Concert
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"All You Need Is Love"
"Baby, It's Cold Outside"
"Black Betty"
"Burning Down the House"
"Carrying a Torch"
"Darlin'"
"Daughter of Darkness"
"Delilah"
"Detroit City"
"Gimme Shelter"
"Green, Green Grass of Home"
"Help Yourself"
"I (Who Have Nothing)"
"Islands in the Stream"
"It's Four in the Morning"
"It's Not Unusual"
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
"Kiss"
"Lady Lay Down"
"Mama Told Me Not to Come"
"Move Closer"
"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow"
"Sex Bomb"
"Sixteen Tons"
"She's a Lady"
"Stoned in Love"
"Till"
"What's New Pussycat?"
"Without Love"
"The Young New Mexican Puppeteer"
"Thunderball"
Related articles
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