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Wide Prairie Paul McCartney | 4:33 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
Track Time: 4:33
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I have always thought of this song as Linda's fantasy. Her passion for horses and riding started as a young girl and remained with her all her life. Her tongue in cheek attitude and what we caller her "twangy" voice combined to make this joyful little rocker. She recorded it during sessions at EMI studios in Paris where years before I had done a vocal for Can't Buy Me Love. We travelled there shortly after Princess Anne's first wedding in Westminster Abbey, taking the group van with the other band members who at the time included Jimmy McCullouch and Denny Laine. As you can probably hear we had a ball.Linda McCartneyLead vocals, Mellotron, Backing vocals
Paul McCartney: Bass, Piano, Rhodes, Electric organ, Backing vocals
Jimmy McCulloch: Electric guitar
Denny Laine: Acoustic guitar
Davey Lutton: Drums
Vasser Clements and Johnny Gimble: Fiddles
Thaddeus Richard: Alto sax
Hewlett Quillen: Trombone
William Puett: Tenor sax
George Tidwell and Barry McDonald: Trumpets
Norman Ray: Baritone sax
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 20/11/73 EMI Odeon, Paris France and 6/75 Soundshop, Nashville, Tennessee
Engineer:Geoff Emerick and Ernie Winfrey
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New Orleans Paul McCartney | 3:13 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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We were at Sea Saint Studios in New Orleans working on Venus and Mars when Linda came up with this number. References to the Dew Drop Inn and The Dungeon - places we visited during our stay - were included, along with many other memories of Linda's from our tripLinda McCartney: Lead vocals, Piano
Paul McCartney: Bass, Piano, Backing vocals
Denny Laine: Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar
Joe English: Drums
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 2/75 SeaSaint Studios, New Orleans and 24/5/79 RAK Mobile
Engineers: Alan O"Duffy, Doug Hopkins, Tim Summerhayes
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The White Coated Man P.McCartney/L.McCartney/C.Lane | 2:13 | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: P.McCartney/L.McCartney/C.Lane
Track Time: 2:13
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Linda's and my involvement with animal rights caused her and our friend Carla Lane to come up with The White Coated Man. Carla's poignant lyric explores the vivisection issue. Linda felt deeply about the suffering of innocent animals for mankind's gain, which still continues to this day and will until we can as a society show compassion towards the creatures we share our planet with.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Casio keyboard
Paul McCartney: Hofner bass, Emulator strings, Drums, Electric guitar
Robbie McIntosh: Electric guitar
Steve Johnson: Synth strings, Trumpet, Bass kurzweil
Carla Lane: Spoken verse
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 21/3/88 Hog Hill, Sussex, England and 18/7/89 Can Am Recorders Inc California, USA
Engineers: Eddie Klein, John Hammel and Alvin Clark
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Loves Full Glory Paul McCartney | 3:46 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
Track Time: 3:46
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When we first met, I showed Linda some basic rudiments of keyboard playing and songwriting. She soon developed her abilities and this fine song not only showsher melodic skills but her strong sense of the value of love. The pedal steel guitar ws played by Lloyd Green - one of Nashville's finest.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Piano, Harmony vocal
Paul McCartney: Bass, Drums
Lloyd Green: Pedal steel
Lawrence Juber: Acoustic guitar
Produced by Linda and Paul McCartney
Recorded 16/7/80 Superbear Studios, France and 10/80 Park Gate Studios, Sussex, England
Engineers: Peter Henderson, Steve Lipson, Geoff Emerick and Eddie Klein
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
Track Time: 3:19
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During the Paris sessions in 1973 we recorded a backing track of one of Linda's ideas. The song was completed many years later and the vocal finally added in 1998. Its gutsy feel is typical of her unwillingness to put up with other people's bullshit. She hated words like "should" and "compromise". For her, freedom to do what ou want was a basic right.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Backing vocals
Paul McCartney: Bass, Organ, Piano, Backing vocals
Jimmy McCulloch: Guitar
Denny Laine: Backing vocals
Davey Lutton: Drums
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 20/11/73 EMI Odeon, Paris and 20/3/98, 9/7/98 Hog Hill, Sussex, England
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
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The Light Comes From Within Paul McCartney | 2:57 | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
Track Time: 2:57
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If I Got Up showed Linda's strong oppposition to oppression, the The Light took it a few steps further. During the last couple of years of her life, we were required to make many trips 'up to London' for one treatment or another. We always tried to put the journey time to good use. She and I talked a lot about this album, and the lyrics to this song were finished during one such trip. When we came to record the vocal, which was sadly to be her last, I said half-jokingly, "you can't sing this". She looked at me with a sparkle in her eye and said "You wanna bet?"Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Electric piano
Paul McCartney: Hofner bass, Electric guitar, Piano, Wurlitzer, Elecric piano, Backing vocals
James McCartney: Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 18/3/98 Hog Hill, Sussex, England
Engineer: Geoff Emerick and Keith Smith
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Mister Sandman Paul McCartney | 2:50 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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During the early days of reggae when the Tighten-Up albums were pumping out the good news, we asked Lee "Scratch" Perry to make some backing tracks for us. Mister Sandman was recorded at Black Ark Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, in 1977 when the radio station RJR was still rocking the airwaves and the sun was always hot! Linda's vocal was done later in great style at Rude Studios UKLinda McCartney: Lead vocal
Paul McCartney: Electric guitar, vocals
Billy Gardner: Rhythm guitar
Baris Gardner: Bass guitar
Mike Boo: Drums
Winston Write: Keyboard
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 20/6/77 Black art Studios Kingston, Jamaica and 8/77 Rude Studios, Scotland
Engineer: Lee Perry and Paul McCartney
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Seaside Woman Linda McCartney | 3:54 |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Linda_McCartney
Track Time: 3:54
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Was the first song Linda wrote. Her delight in being exposed to the Caribbean lifestyle inspired this beautiful response. The song was made by Linda and Oscar Grillo inot an animated short which went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'or.Produced: Paul McCartney
Recorded: 27/11/72 Air Studios, London
Engineer: Bill Price
Remix: Steve Popovich 10/5/77 Columbia Recording City, New York City, USA
Musicians:
Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Electric piano, Backing vocals
Paul McCartney: Bass, Backing and Harmony vocals
Denny Laine: Piano, Guitar, Backing vocals
Henry McCullough: Guitar
Denny Seiwell: Drums
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Oriental Nightfish Paul McCartney | 2:49 | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
Track Time: 2:49
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Recorded with Wings up at the old Air London Studios, Linda's dramatic vocal harks back to the Fifties and Sixties when strange stories were told by acts like The Shangri-Las, The Coasters, and others. It was made into an excellent animatged film by Ian Eames which was later objected to by some lady writing to a newspaper to complain about the nudity and it's effect on her 5 year old child. A female figure is seen naked, yes but come on! - it's only a harmless drawing, the likes of which have been on view in museums around the world for centuries.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Moog, Electric piano
Paul McCartney: Bass, Drums, Guitar, Mellotron
Denny Laine: Flute
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 5/10/73 Air Studios, London England
Engineer: Geoff Emerick assisted by Peter Sweetenham
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Endless Days Paul McCartney | 3:11 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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A wistful ballad that Linda played often at home. Her gentle voice really captures a special kind of innocence that those of us who knew her loved deeply. The recording is in Ian Maidman's studio and there is no mult-tracking to the song - this mix being all that exists.Linda McCartney: Lead vocal
Ian Maidman: Bass guitar, Drums, Electric guitar, Backing vocals
Mick Bolton: Piano, Keyboards, Backing vocal
Steve Fletcher: Backing vocals
Produced by Linda McCartney and Ian Maidman
Recorded 21/10/87 Positive Earth Studios, London
Engineer: Ian Maidman
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Poison Ivy Paul McCartney | 2:54 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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The Fifties original of Poison Ivy by The Coasters was one of Linda's favourites. She had a lasting affections for the doo-wop music of her youth, having spent many hours under the bedclothes with a transistor radio glued to her eark listening to Alan Freed's Rock'n Roll Show. The song's sense of humour is typical of many from that period.Linda McCartney: Lead vocal
Mick Bolton: Piano, Keyboard
Ian Maidman: Bass and Drums
Geoffrey Richardson: Mandolin, Slide guitar
Produced by Linda McCartney and Ian Maidman
Recorded 21/10/87 Positive Earth Studios, London
Engineer: Ian Maidman
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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Another collaboration between Linda, Carla Lane, and myself, which in this case deals with the last days of a cow under sentence of death. The sweet innocence of the song made many of our friends decide to "go veggie". Linda probably has done more than anyone else to bring vegetarianism into the dietary mainstream of our society, and made thousands of people ponder to wisdom of our cruel treatment of animals generally.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Casio keyboard, Harmony vocals
Paul McCartney: Hofner bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Harmony vocals
Carla Lane: Spoken verse
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 24/7/88 Hog Hill, Sussex, England
Engineer: Peter Henderson
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B Side To Seaside Paul McCartney | 2:38 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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When a B-side was required for the release of Seaside Woman, Linda and I whipped up this witty little ditty. Its lighthearted flavour exemplifies Linda's attitude to life. Amongst her favourite sayings was "don't make so much of it".Linda McCartney: Lead vocal, Backing vocal
Paul McCartney: Drums, Mellotron, Backing vocals, Electric guitars, Piano, Moog, Congas, Banjo
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 16/3/77 Abbey Road Studios, London
Engineer: Mark Vigars
Remix produced by Steve Popovich 10/5/77 Columbia Recording City, New York City, USA
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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Since we first me, the two of us remembered certain songs from our childhood. This tune was a big hit for The McGuire Sisters in the late Fifties. Linda and myself would sing this as a party piece, splitting into the melody and harmony to amuse and amaze our friends and relatives. Lee Perry produced the backing track in Kingston, Jamaica, at Black Ark Studios.Linda McCartney: Lead vocal
Paul McCartney: Wurlitzer, vocals
Billy Gardner: Rhythm guitar
Baris Gardner: Bass guitar
Mike Boo: Drums
Winston Write: Keyboard
Produced by Lee Perry and Paul McCartney
Recorded 20/6/77 Black Ark Studios, Jamaica and 7/7/98 Hog Hill, Sussex, England
Engineer: Lee Perry, Paul McCartney and Geoff Emerick
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Cook of the-House Paul McCartney | 2:37 | | | | | |
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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Late one night when we were on tour renting a house in Australia, we were looking at one of those plaques found in many kitchens worldwide. "wherever I serve my guests, they like my kitchen best". This led to the song. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1976 and was included on the Wings album At The Speed of Sound. The noise at the beginning is our chip pan simmering.Linda McCartney: Lead vocals, Piano
Paul McCartney: Upright bass, Mellotron, Piano
Denny Laine: Electric guitar
Joe English: Drums
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 20/6/76 Abbey Road Studios, London
Engineers: Peter Henderson and Mark Vigars
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Album: Wide Prairie
Composer: Paul_McCartney
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The melody was one that Linda wrote many years ago and would use as a practice piece when playing piano. Her love of native American history, and in particular the Nez Perce Indians and their Appaloosa horses [named after The Palouse river] inspired this song which we recorded in March 1998.
She was drawn to the story of the Nez Perce's near escape from the American cavalry [they were chased to the U.S. border and massacred].
Linda herself rode a magnificent Appaloosa stallion named Blankit who was bred on our farm.Linda McCartney: Lead vocal
Paul McCartney: Drums, Hofner bass, Clarinet, Wurlitzer, Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar
Produced by Paul McCartney
Recorded 7/3/98 Hog Hill, Sussex, England
Engineer: Geoff Emerick and Keith Smith
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