This is the un-remastered February 10, 1967 - U.S. London release. To further explain:

With the release of the remastered super audio CDs (SACD) of the Stones ABCKO catalog (which includes all the early Decca/London material), there are now 2 different Between The Buttons releases available, the original UK version that was released on January 20, 1967 and the US version that was released on February 10, 1967. There are now 2 US versions, the original CD release (which is the same mix as the original vinyl release) and the remastered version, which has much better sound, although some reviewers are commenting that not all tracks have been mixed to the same quality level.

In addition, the UK and US versions include different tracks. The Stones designed the UK release, which did not include the just released single Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday. The American record execs removed Back Street Girl and Please Go Home to make room for the two single cuts. To clarify:

There are 3 Between The Buttons releases:
January 20, 1967 - U.K. Decca (remastered on SACD)
.....does not include Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday
February 10, 1967 - U.S. London (remastered on SACD)
.....does not include Back Street Girl and Please Go Home
February 10, 1967 - U.S. London (not remastered)
.....does not include Back Street Girl and Please Go Home

Back Street Girl and Please Go Home were released in the U.S. on the Flowers album on July 14, 1967. Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday were released on an album in the U.K. on Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) on September 12, 1969.

Note: ABCKO acquired the Stones' catalog when Allen Klein became their manager in the 70s. The resulting legal battles produced releases that the Stones opposed (they took out full page adds asking fans not to buy them), including the controversial Metamorphosis releases (which are now available on CD for the 1st time ever). But the sad fact is that the Stones lost control of their great early material. With the remastered SACD releases, we at last have some idea of what they really sounded like in the studio. I guess if we had these 40 years ago they would have ended up Greatest Rock And Roll Band in the Universe instead of just the Greatest Rock And Roll Band in the World.

The Between The Buttons tracks were recorded in 1966 as follows:

Aug 3-11, 1966 at RCA Studios in Hollywood
.....Who's Been Sleeping Here?
.....Miss Amanda Jones
.....Connection
.....Back Street Girl
.....All Sold Out
.....Please Go Home
.....Let's Spend The Night Together
.....Something Happened To Me Yesterday
.....Cool, Calm, Collected
.....Complicated
.....Yesterday's Papers
.....She Smiled Sweetly
.....My Obsession
Nov 9-26, 1966 at Olympic and Pye Studios in London
.....Ruby Tuesday
.....final mixes were done on all the Aug RCA Studio tracks as well

Tracks recorded at the Aug RCA sessions but not released on Between The Buttons were:
.....Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
.....Who's Driving Your Plane (also released as Who's Driving My Plane)
Tracks recorded at the Aug RCA sessions but never released were:
.....Panama Powder Room
.....Godzi
.....Get Yourself Together
.....Something BB
Tracks recorded at the Nov Olympic/Pye sessions but not released on Between The Buttons were:
.....Dandelion
Tracks recorded at the Aug RCA sessions but never released were:
.....Trouble In Mind
.....English Summer

An interesting note is that English Summer was intended as a UK single release, but it was put on hold (and never released) when Brian, Mick, and Keith's arrests began in the summer of 67. We Love You was released instead. It was recorded with Nicky Hopkins, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney as a thank you for fan support during the trials.

This information comes from "It's Only Rock And Roll: The Ultimate Guide To The Rolling Stones" by Karnbach and Bernson and from my own collection.

It's hard to call any Stones album "overlooked", but "Between The Buttons" comes closest to that tag. The US version available on CD includes both sides of the #1 single "Ruby Tuesday" (one of their all-time finest ballads, with a chorus which never grows tired even after hundreds of listenings) b/w "Let's Spend The Night Together", but there are many more delights to be found on the record: tentative attempts at psychedelia ("Yesterday's Papers", "All Sold Out"), Kinks-inspired music-hall kitsch ("Cool Calm Collected", "Something Happened To Me Yesterday") and some of their hardest rockers to date ("My Obsession", "Miss Amanda Jones") make this a unique and fascinating record in the group's career. The original UK album also featured the seductive French waltz "Back Street Girl" and Bo-Diddley-on-acid "Please Go Home". Those looking for the classic Stones sound found on "Beggar's Banquet"or "Exile" won't really find it here, but it's also refreshing to hear a great Stones album which doesn't adhere to their later formula. Overall, "Between The Buttons" reflects its era--post-"Revolver", pre-"Pepper" Swinging London at its glittery best--with a clutch of catchy tunes and varying moods. Jagger later professed to disappointment in the results, but since when was he ever right about anything!

This album was panned by the critics but is loved by those of us who have taken the time to check it out. My only complaint is the inclusion of Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday which do not belong on this album. They were only put on to cash in on their hit status. On the original UK version they are left off and the songs Back Street Girl and Please Go Home appear. Also if you have the original on vinyl there is a cartoon on the back drawn by Charlie Watts. Whether you have the US or UK version this album is a lot of fun to listen to. One of the many highlights of this album is Keith's vocals on Something Happened to Me Yesterday. Keith sings lead for the first time. This tune is supposedly about Mick's first experience with acid. This album is unique for the Rolling Stones. Noone has recorded anything like it before or since. The only thing that comes close (about a million miles away) is Paul McCartney's Wings Wild Life which was a radical departure from the rest of his work. When I first bought this album (US version) over 20 years ago I played it once or twice and forgot about it. Years later I bought it on cassette (UK version). I started playing it in my car and I was hooked. Don't overlook this album like I did. It is an underated, often forgotten Stones' classic.

This was the Stones' "folk-rocky" album....the raw one with hummables a go go, lots of guitar and a definite folk-rock-country flavor. The one thing I think you will find with ALL of the Stones' earlier work, say, before "Satanic Majesties" is that there is an AWFUL lot of country influence that next to no critic has ever acknowledged! "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Satisfaction", "Mother's Little Helper" and "Sittin' On A Fence" are so country influenced, you half expect to see Conway Twitty in the band credits!

But back to "Buttons"....This album was actually getting AWAY from that to some degree, while keeping a kind of raw, agrarian feel nonetheless. There is a lot more rock-ish guitar work in this, on cuts like "Miss Amanda Jones" or slapping bass on "Yesterday's Papers", a vicious song aimed at their old loves, with Richards doing his thing in creating riffs that you THINK you've heard before, but never have. There's also a LOT of keyboard and even xylophone on these cuts...the Stones were just starting to experiment! This, for all intents and purposes, was the Stones' first single-heavy album...they could have mined it forever for top-ten hits, well into the "Sticky Fingers" era. I'm trying to fathom, though, why they picked the least creative tune on the album, "Let's Spend The Night Together" for the B-side of "Ruby Tuesday", when they could have put something like "Cool, Calm, Collected" on it.

Mick STILL can't sing, but the venom he projects against the type of female hangers-on he and the Beatles encountered after their initial splash of fame is priceless to behold. He also exhibits admiration for some other ladies he encountered....I wonder if he was talking about Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull or some of the other legendary Stones' women in these songs!

Anyway, if I were to recommend ANY Stones album over all, it MIGHT be this one. I've bought this album maybe 3-4 times since it came out, for some odd reason, due to loss, damage, or whatever, and STILL can't figure out why.

Buttons is not your conventional Stones LP, but give it time, it'll grow on you. The 2 sole hits are Let's Spend the Night Together (heavy on piano and organ) and the sensitive Ruby Tuesday (a ballad featuring Brian on recorder). The catchy Connection and the hard rocking Miss Amanda Jones (they should consider adding these 2 songs in concert if they ever tour again) are 2 more great underrated tracks. All Sold Out sounds like a precursor to Citadel. The most interesting "strange" tracks include Something Happened to Me Yesterday (obviously a drug song with a Salvation Army style band in the background), the cockney flavoured Cool, Calm, and Collected, and the folksy Who's Been Sleeping Here? (which of all things is about the 3 Bears!) Charlie's liner notes and drawings are amusing and as a whole, this album is a great moment before the infamous drug busts which would come to the Stones only months before this release.