This was one of Keith Richards' first lead vocal performances for The Stones (his first was on "Something Happened To Me Yesterday" from Between The Buttons). He and Mick Jagger both sing on this with the Watts Street Gospel choir singing background.
The title refers to the working class - they're "The salt of the Earth." In 1970, Jagger said: "The song is total cynicism. I'm saying those people haven't any power and they never will have."
The Stones played this on Rock and Roll Circus, a British TV special The Stones taped in 1968 but never aired because they were upstaged by other acts on the show. A series of musical acts and circus performances, it was released on video in 1995.
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