Posted on 12/05/2015 12:02:45 AM PST by WhiskeyX
WINGS GREATEST
No. Title Writer(s) Performer Length
1. "Another Day" Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney Paul McCartney 3:42
2. "Silly Love Songs" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 5:52
3. "Live and Let Die" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 3:11
4. "Junior's Farm" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 4:21
5. "With a Little Luck" P. McCartney Wings 5:45
6. "Band on the Run" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 5:10
Side Two
No. Title Writer(s) Performer Length
7. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul & Linda McCartney 4:48
8. "Hi, Hi, Hi" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 3:07
9. "Let 'Em In" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 5:09
10. "My Love" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 4:08
11. "Jet" P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 4:06
12. "Mull of Kintyre" P. McCartney, Denny Laine Wings 4:43
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Wings, also known as Paul McCartney and Wings, were a British-American rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda McCartney, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Wings were noted for frequent personnel changes as well as commercial success, going through three lead guitarists and four drummers. However, the core trio of the McCartneys and Laine remained intact throughout the group's existence.
Created following the McCartneys' 1971 album Ram, the band's first two albums, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway (the latter featuring guitarist Henry McCullough), were less successful than Paul McCartney's work with the Beatles. After the release of the title track of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die, McCullough and Seiwell resigned from the band. The McCartneys and Laine then released 1973's Band on the Run, a commercial and critical success that spawned two top ten singles in "Jet" and the title track. Following the album, the band recruited guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton (who shortly after joining quit the band, being replaced by Joe English), releasing the Venus and Mars album in 1975 (including the US number one single "Listen to What the Man Said".) Their next album, Wings at the Speed of Sound, intended by the band to be more of a group effort, featured the hit singles "Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'Em In".
In 1977, the band earned a UK number one single in "Mull of Kintyre", becoming the then-best selling UK single in history. However, Wings once again experienced another line-up shuffle, with both McCulloch and English quitting the band. With this change, Wings released 1978's London Town, the second Wings album featuring only the McCartneys and Laine. The band once again added new members, guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Steve Holley. The resulting album, Back to the Egg, was a relative flop, with its singles under-performing and the critical reception negative. During the supporting tour, Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for cannabis possession, putting the band on hold. Despite a final US number one, the live version of Paul McCartney's solo single "Coming Up", Wings broke up permanently in 1981.
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Wings discography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_discography#Compilation_albums
Wings Greatest
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Wings Greatest is a compilation album by Wings and is their eighth album as well as Paul McCartney's 10th since leaving the Beatles. It is notable as being the first official retrospective release from McCartney's post-Beatles career. Excepting interest in its vinyl LP mix, this collection has become largely irrelevant since the releases of All the Best! and Wingspan: Hits and History.
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Enjoy quite a few of those.
I’ve always like the intro-instrumental leading into Band on the run. It sounds like what A Hot Summer Day feels like.
The pace is of a lanquid flowing promenade passing fragrant fields of Holyhocks. The trail brings you next bubbling brooks now filled with trout, snails and buzzing dragonflies.
"Holyhocks" ...?
(Is that some kind of a blessed pork shank?)
{;^)~
Did I do that? I meant Holly-hocks, a very colorful, very common Wildflower back in Michigan. Bumblebees love them. I used empty glass jars to catch bees and grasshoppers from those flowers during the summer. My friends and I just liked to study them for a day or so, if they survived the night. I would put holes in the metal jar lid for air.
Jus’ funnin’ with ya.
I know. A snifter of something potent sounds pretty good in the ‘Eleventh Hour’ of the day.
Seiwell’s still traveling, teaching and gigging. He’s active in the Los Angeles music scene. Fun and funny guy!
“Sally G” should have been included in this collection. It was originally released as the flip side of “Junior’s Farm” but got more airplay and became the first record by a Beatle to chart on the country charts (topped out at #8 if I remember). Around the same time Ringo scored big with his own double-sided hit, “Snookeroo/The No-No Song” with the the noveltyish “No-No Song” getting 10x the airplay after the first couple of weeks.
I always liked Wings.
Wings is the confirmation: Paul is Dead
Wing’s Greatest Hits? Isn’t that an Oxymoron.
(Everyone has their favorites....just not my cup of tea. :-))
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