After sessions in Chicago in June 1964, the Stones' UK label Decca Records released the five-song EP "Five by Five". Because EPs were never a lucrative format in the US, London Records – their American distributor at the time – spread its songs across an album, adding seven new recordings to create a release of 12 songs by five musicians, hence the album's title. The rest of the songs were singles "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" with their B-sides, plus three that were later included on "The Rolling Stones No. 2". Decca would use the same cover (minus the lettering) for the band's second UK album, "The Rolling Stones No. 2", in early 1965.