Wings songs that Wings did not release
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Who is credited writing them?
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According to the CD label, Laine/McCartney on Send Me the Heart, just Laine on the other two.
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Well, that's probably your answer then. Denny has more to do with them & he must keep changing labels & has the cover redesigned so that people will keep buying it.
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I'm not surprised he has the publishing rights. What surprises me is that he apparently has the rights to the actual recordings.
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I forget the name of the author (Gerry McGee??)...but he has a book called "Band On The Run" and it's pretty much the bible when it comes to Wings. Has info on all those unreleased songs and more.
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BertoneBeatle:
I forget the name of the author (Gerry McGee??)...but he has a book called "Band On The Run" and it's pretty much the bible when it comes to Wings. Has info on all those unreleased songs and more.
That book didn't sit well with me. Here's my issues with it from my Amazon review: As the back cover states that Mr. McGee is an 'authority on Wings", I'm here to tell you he is not. Errors are found on just about every other page ranging from: Wrong dates given as to when sessions took place (Ram, RRS, McGear, etc...) Songs being released when they haven't (Robber's Ball) Songs being listed as recorded from one time frame when they were either recorded years earlier or later (When The Wind Is Blowing, Seaside Woman) McCullough and Seiwell recording with Denny Laine in 1980 (sorry, didn't happen) The interview as being described 'real' from 1976 where the reporter was asleep was actually from Australia 1975 and the reporter is a local hero called Norman Gunston who 'pulls pranks' on celebs even though the Mac's were aware of it. So in other words, that whole interview was staged. I think the biggest crime of this book was to re-tell stories from one JoJo Laine (the 1975 housekeeper Rose story, Jimmy contemplating murdering the Macs, etc...) that she initially told to Geoffrey Giuliano. Come on, everyone knows JoJo can be trusted about as far as you can throw her and those stories are the work of Geoffrey and JoJo wanting to dump crap on the McCartney's legacy. About the only thing this book is usefull for are the quotes from Paul, Linda & Wings collected from various magazines over the past 30 + years. Nothing new isn't reported that hasn't already been told in previous books on Macca. He even missed a golden oppurtunity while speaking with Henry McCullough in 2002 about asking him to comment on the original Band On The Run rehearsal tapes from the Summer of '73 that Henry has kept all these years. He's the only one with copies and it would've shed light on how far the album was truly developed at that point and which guitar riff was it that got him so heated with Macca that he up and quit.
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BertoneBeatle:
I forget the name of the author (Gerry McGee??)...but he has a book called "Band On The Run" and it's pretty much the bible when it comes to Wings. Has info on all those unreleased songs and more.
I read that as well. Didn't like it much. McGee's writing style is really clunky, as if he's cobbling together stories from other sources. Plus, large portions of the book are written in a strange pseudo-first-person persective. That is to say, he writes about some events as if he were personally present. Point is, I thought it ws badly written. Not sure about his factual accuracy (or lack thereof).
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oobu24:
another that he could do now! Here is a diff version of my carnival...
regular versionNo joke .... I was listening to the top version ..... When he whistled .... my dog came running to me (As if I was whistling for him to see me).
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The_Fool:
oobu24:
another that he could do now! Here is a diff version of my carnival...
regular versionNo joke .... I was listening to the top version ..... When he whistled .... my dog came running to me (As if I was whistling for him to see me).
That IS a good whistle huh? Now all you have to do is record that & play it outside to see if the dog will come to it all the time. How cool!!!
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cb70:
He even missed a golden oppurtunity while speaking with Henry McCullough in 2002 about asking him to comment on the original Band On The Run rehearsal tapes from the Summer of '73 that Henry has kept all these years. He's the only one with copies and it would've shed light on how far the album was truly developed at that point and which guitar riff was it that got him so heated with Macca that he up and quit.
I spoke with Henry last year. He said he had no such tapes.
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'Rainclouds' was recorded while Wings were still together, co-written with Denny, and released as the b-side to 'Ebony and Ivory'
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Is there a Wings version of I'll Give You A Ring?
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What about the stuff from Cold Cuts?
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In my opinion a lot of good unreleased stuff from Red Rose Speedway and Back to the Egg, had great stuff that should of been released. Hopefully with future reissues, we'll finally get official releases from these great unreleased songs.