NB: French television. Would they care?
Which in my mind was a good thing
Cream, anyone?
What did we ever do before the internet?
I’ll tell you what we did, when I was in my late teens many many moons ago - we went to the Rexall Drugstore where on the magazine rack there were sometimes cheap pulpy no-name thin magazines that had black and white picture of a band on the cover, and lyrics to their songs inside. Very hit or miss, and only bigger bands like the Stones, the Beatles,
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Great, now this thread is all wrecked up like a douche, another rumor in the night.
I thought it was Granny. Can’t remember the title or artist, or I’d look it up.
I have just listened to
and
(around 2:26 in both)
And Im confident it’s “girly action”. There’s no R in there.
The title is “The Weight,” the original artist is the Band, and the name is Fanny. (The last verse refers to “Miss Fanny” as being the one who started the whole chain of events in the song; although “Annie” defenders claim that this is not necessarily the same person mentioned in the chorus.)
Edit: On reading this back, it occurred to me that a case could even be made that “Miss Fanny” indicates a character’s last name, and Annie could be interpreted as the same person’s first name. Good lord–the song is about Little Annie Fanny! 
Just can’t remember the band, eh? 
The Stones are too cool to use a word like “girly.”
I’ve always heard “girl reaction.”
Thanks for the info. Oddly, I’d always heard that as “Granny”, but if you have a reliable printed version of the lyrics, then I was wrong.
Which is why I always heard it that way. I remember the “scandal” being concerned with whether he said “half-fast” or “half-assed.”
But scandal or no, I recently I listened to the 2002 SACD remaster in a headset (for the first time), and was shocked to hear Mick sing “high class.” The CL in “Class” was audible.
I suppose this may turn out to be an unprovable opinion. Either way, it’s one of my two all-time favorite Stones songs. (“Beast Of Burden” being the other.)
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To me it sounds like “girl re-action”, he says “re” and “action” separately.
It goes with the flow.
I can’t get no, sat-is-fac-tion
I can’t get no, girl re-ac-tion
'cause I tried, and I tried, and I tried
I CAN’T GET NO! NO, NO, NO!
It’s “girly action.” Any opinions or authority to the contrary are wrong. 
That’s the way I’ve always heard and screamed it while driving at 77 mph… 
“Girl in Acton”. A notoriously difficult place to pull, unlike nearby Ealing. That place is just full of sluts.
I not sure that was even a word “girly” in 1965. There was “girlie”, but that has seedy connotations which don’t seem to fit with the song.
I pulled up the song again and listened on headphones. It definitely could be “high class.”
The best Stones song is of course “Gimme Shelter.”
Girly/girlie are for all intents and purposes the same word. And I have no idea where you are going with this connotations thing.
Or
It’s not??