What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?
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@wandy Thank you. I apparently had never really paid all that much attention to all of the lyrics. The part where you mentioned...."While you see it your way....,"I always thought Paul was singing...."Why not see it your way.... So...whenever I sang along with him on the song, those were "my" lyrics! I thought he was just being a bit sexist...just being a typical male!! I really like when the song slows into a bit of a waltz. It adds to the interest....."So I will ask you once again...." I read that it was George who suggested that change. It is very effective and works great. Love the song. Always did!!!
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@beatles4ever-1 The lyrics that got me was, I thought, "everybody screeeee eem, cos I'm the one that won your love". But if they see eal you talking that way, then how can I say" ( You can't Do That) There was another Beatles song where the lyrics baffled me, but I can't remember which one it was now.
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@wandy I played guitar after seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and had a sheet music book of al their songs, so knew the correct lyrics. The only song they messed up was A Hard Dayâs Night - the line is â So why on earth should I moan, âcause when I get you aloneâŠâ and they wrote âSo why I love to come home!â For years I thought that was the correct lyric! There is an old thread on here where we discussed misheard lyrics and thatâs probably where I was clued in to the correct line.
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@wandy My mixing up Beatles' songs...lyrics.....pales in comparison to what I did to CCR! (...bad moon rising...) I sang...."There's a bathroom on the right.." I mean who would sing that??? While I was quite young, I still should have figured it out or paid better attention. Where was Google when I needed it???
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@njr I kinda didn't like hearing/having then sing a Broadway tune.....till there was you. And add to that is the way Paul makes "saw" into "sar." I never sar them winging...., no I never sar them at all... Drives me nuts. I still can't listen to it. I discovered the Brits just pronounce "w" a bit differently. That "r" sound is their "w." I think I'm correct in concluding this....or maybe it was having someone from Britain tell me that. Maybe not!
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@beatles4ever-1 I never knew Till There Was You was a Broadway tune (from The Music Man) until MANY years later! I just loved hearing Paul sing it and I knew the âsarâ was because he was British which made it even cooler to my young ears! đ„°
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@njr I believe initially I just guessed it was. It had all the makings of "that kind of music," based, I think, on what my mother listened to...I thought, it's one of "those" tunes. It wasn't rock. It was later I learned about its source....and told myself...."See, you guessed right!"
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I thought it said bathroom too. The radios were not that good back then LOL
Went on a Mississippi type paddleboat once and looking into the toilet, there was a long metal tube that went down into the river⊠shocking to a young girl!
So actually the bathroom comment sounded about right.
Oops looks like I wasnât replying to a CCR comment about thereâs a bathroom on the right. Have to figure this new site out! -
@love2travel said in What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?:
@beatles4ever-1
I thought it said bathroom too. The radios were not that good back then LOL
Went on a Mississippi type paddleboat once and looking into the toilet, there was a long metal tube that went down into the river⊠shocking to a young girl!
So actually the bathroom comment sounded about right.
Oops looks like I wasnât replying to a CCR comment about thereâs a bathroom on the right. Have to figure this new site out!No, you correctly replied to @Beatles4Ever-1 who was the one who heard bathroom. The funny thing is, the title of the song is âBad Moon Risingâ so I always heard it correctly as âbad moon on the rise!â
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Hi @love2travel,
I haven't seen you on the forum for a long time. It's really nice to see you. -
@njr I think I just didn't pay attention to the full name of the song (Bad Moon Rising) or maybe it wasn't always stated on the radio....just started saying the words I thought I heard in the song.
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@beatles4ever-1 said in What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?:
@njr I think I just didn't pay attention to the full name of the song (Bad Moon Rising) or maybe it wasn't always stated on the radio....just started saying the words I thought I heard in the song.
I think it helped I had several of their albums - well actually they were 8-track tapes!
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I was about 14 in 1970, and though my older sister was a Beatles fan I liked them, but I didn't really key in on them as four distinct personalities. It was about a year or two later, I was 15 or 16 in high school, one weekend a friend who was more popular than me invited me to some horse ranch with some other cool kids somewhere in the wilds outside of Seattle, and I didn't really get along with the other kids, I was kind of a loner, so I just kind of wandered around the ranch or the farm or whatever it was. Some young people seemed to own at least one of the houses there, they had long hair and beards and stuff, and they set out these two giant speakers on their porch and started blasting Ram -- from Too Many People all the way to the end. I was struck as if by lightning, I'd never heard such cool music before. As soon as I could a couple of days later I walked over to this record store and bought the album, and became a McCartney fan that day. I remember I guess it was a couple of years later when Wings Wildlife the next album came out. I remember on my little rinky dink "monaural" record player the bass-heavy song Mumbo kept skipping the needle. So I took the record back to that same record store and asked them about it. The lady took me into a little booth to listen to it and it sounded just fine (I also noticed she was smiling at the Paul's screaming). Anyways she told me to adjust the weight of the needle and that should take care of the problem. It wasn't long until after high school when I actually saw him and Wings at the Kingdome in Seattle 1976.
Been a fan ever since, though I'm one of those fans who only like solo McCartney in the 70s and 80s. It seems to me that his musical genius kind of died out from the '90s forward. The last good songs I can remember are Let Him In and Listen To What The Man Said and With A Little Luck and of course Rock Show and Venus and Mars. After that there's only Ballroom Dancing and Take It Away. I can't think of any other songs after that point the have that spark of his musical genius -- except one: Dance Tonight. But that's the exception that proves the rule. So that's basically three decades where he has not actually had inspired songs. Bob Dylan in a very frank interview in the early 2000s admitted that he no longer can write the songs he used to write back in his golden age. I've never heard Paul admit that, and most of his fans are in denial about it it seems. But anyway I don't know why it is. Sometimes I theorize that maybe it's because his lifestyle by the time of the 90s and ever since then has been so wealthy and busy with elitist projects that he just doesn't make the time for himself to sit out in the garden barefoot with a guitar and just try to come up with something. It seems like maybe he needs more of the unpredictable rough and tumble that was probably more part of his lifestyle back in the 70s than after he settled into being a wealthy elderly statesman of pop music.
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@fast-city-line You are only a year younger than me and I didnât have older brothers or sisters to introduce me to the Beatles - discovered them on my own in Dec. 1963 when I was 8. Turned 9 in May 1964.
And what about 1997âs Flaming Pie album?!
"The Song We Were Singing" â 3:55
"The World Tonight" â 4:06
"If You Wanna" â 4:38
"Somedays" â 4:15
"Young Boy" â 3:54
"Calico Skies" â 2:32
"Flaming Pie" â 2:30
"Heaven on a Sunday" â 4:27
"Used to Be Bad" (Duet with Steve Miller) (Steve Miller, McCartney) â 4:12
"Souvenir" â 3:41
"Little Willow" â 2:58
"Really Love You" (McCartney, Richard Starkey) â 5:18
"Beautiful Night" â 5:09
"Great Day" â 2:09There are some fantastic songs on there - Calico Skies, Little Willow and Beautiful Night are my favorites.
P.S. Ram was released May 17, 1971 and Wild Life was released Dec. 7, 1971 (not a couple years later)
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@njr I have had the experience of dipping into some of Paul's later albums and finding a couple of tunes here and there that I like sort of. I also may have forgotten a couple that I like a lot -- Wanderlust and That Was Me. Also With a Little Luck. Now I've listened to Flaming Pie once through and I was not impressed, although yes there are parts of Willow that I like and Calico Skies to some extent. It's just the problem I have with Paul songs that I don't like, is that they don't grab me the first time. It's a distinct experience with the songs that I like from Paul where the first time I hear them I just know they're good. But I will give that album another listen at some point. I'm trying to think of a song by Paul that I didn't like at first and then I grew to really like it a lot. I can't think of one right now...
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@fast-city-line said in What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?:
@njr I have had the experience of dipping into some of Paul's later albums and finding a couple of tunes here and there that I like sort of. I also may have forgotten a couple that I like a lot -- Wanderlust and That Was Me. Also With a Little Luck. Now I've listened to Flaming Pie once through and I was not impressed, although yes there are parts of Willow that I like and Calico Skies to some extent. It's just the problem I have with Paul songs that I don't like, is that they don't grab me the first time. It's a distinct experience with the songs that I like from Paul where the first time I hear them I just know they're good. But I will give that album another listen at some point. I'm trying to think of a song by Paul that I didn't like at first and then I grew to really like it a lot. I can't think of one right now...
Wow! Well, to each their own. I can listen to Flaming Pie straight through without skipping any songs. It is his only âlaterâ solo album I can do that with, with perhaps the exception being âNEW.â
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@fast-city-line That is pretty interesting. I also, over the past few years, haven't been "grabbed first time" by Paul's albums. In fact, not since the day's of Wings, has this happened. But my theory on this, 1. Has Paul's knack for writing instantly catchy songs, diminished? OR, and I think this might be a definite factor, have i just got OLD. Or, hsve both me AND Paul, just got oldïž
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@wandy said in What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?:
@fast-city-line That is pretty interesting. I also, over the past few years, haven't been "grabbed first time" by Paul's albums. In fact, not since the day's of Wings, has this happened. But my theory on this, 1. Has Paul's knack for writing instantly catchy songs, diminished? OR, and I think this might be a definite factor, have i just got OLD. Or, hsve both me AND Paul, just got oldïž
Yes and no. You got old and so did Paul, but how many #1 hits can one man write in 60+ years? Some people only have ONE! (and they consider themselves fortunate)
Remember in the Flaming Pie era documentary (In The World Tonight) when Paul is recording âBeautiful Nightâ and George Martin says âYouâve still got it!?â Well that was recorded in 1996 and was probably his last true masterpiece (imho) This is not to say he hasnât written some good, great or cool songs since then. -
@njr I wasn't too keen on "NEW" When I first heard it, but after a few "listens" it did grow on me. But I haven't bought any of his cds since, and then I had "issues" with his aging voice. And, apart from the "McCartney" cd, I haven't liked his McCartney cds all that much. As I have already said in previous postings, I think he's more inspired by being in a band, rather than flying solo. Just saying.
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@wandy said in What was the first song you heard from Paul McCartney that made you a fan?:
@njr I wasn't too keen on "NEW" When I first heard it, but after a few "listens" it did grow on me. But I haven't bought any of his cds since, and then I had "issues" with his aging voice. And, apart from the "McCartney" cd, I haven't liked his McCartney cds all that much. As I have already said in previous postings, I think he's more inspired by being in a band, rather than flying solo. Just saying.
Same, I was not sure about NEW. but after listening to it a few times I would have to say it is one of my favorites.
For all of Paul's new albums I have had to listen to them a few times for them to grow on me.