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All The Best

	Artist: Paul McCartney Title: All The Best Orignal Release: 2nd November 1987 Label: Parlophone / EMI Catalog #: CDP 7 48287 2	Physical: (CD/LP) Paul McCartney Music John Lennon Music George Harrison Music Ringo Starr Music Beatles Music	Download: (Digital) Re-Mastered McCartney Downloads soon to be released Paul McCartney Downloads John Lennon Downloads George Harrison Downloads Ringo Starr Downloads The Beatles [USB]
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Band On The Run Paul McCartney

5:12

Jet Paul McCartney

4:08

Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney

3:43

Listen To What The Man Said Paul McCartney

3:55

No More Lonely Nights Paul McCartney

4:39

Silly Love Songs Paul McCartney

5:55

Let 'Em In Paul McCartney

5:10

Say, Say, Say Paul McCartney

3;56

Live And Let Die Paul McCartney

3:12

10.

Another Day Paul McCartney

3:42

Producers: Paul & Linda McCartney
Engineers: Tim, Ted, Phil, Dixson, Armin and Jim

Musicians:
Paul McCartney: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Linda McCartney: Backing Vocals
Dave Spinoza: Guitars
Hugh McCracken: Guitars
Denny Seiwell: Drums

"Another Day" is a song recorded by Paul McCartney in New York in 1970, during the sessions for his album Ram. Although it was the first single of McCartney's solo career,[1] "Another Day" was actually written and previewed during The Beatles' Let It Be Sessions in 1969. It was officially released February 19, 1971 with "Oh Woman, Oh Why" as the B-side. [4] [5] Neither song was included on the original pressings of Ram.

"Another Day" is written in an observational style reminiscent of "Eleanor Rigby" and "She's Leaving Home". Coincidentally, Denny Seiwell, drummer from Ram Sessions, called it, ""Eleanor Rigby" in New York City." [6] [7]The lyrics describe the drudgery and sadness of an unnamed woman's life at work and at home, with the lilting melody of the verses and "du du du"s of the chorus contrasting with the darker tone (lyrically and musically) of the bridges.

Paul's wife, Linda McCartney, provided eloquent harmony vocals on "Another Day. Describing his and Linda's distinctive harmonies, McCartney said " I wanted our sound." Paul was deliberately attempting to create a unique McCartney style, a musical identity outside of The Beatles. McCartney had decided to list Linda as co-writer of more than half the songs on Ram, plus the hit single "Another Day." Despite her lack of musical pedigree, he insisted that Linda had been an active collaborator, making valuable suggestions about lyrics and melodies. [8] Linda being credited as co-writer was seen as a business manoeuvre in the post-Beatles legal matters. [1]

Matching the lyrical sense of isolation and social alienation was the unique sound of "Another Day." Studio Assistant Engineer of the Ram Sessions, Dixon Van Winkle said that Paul asked him to pick the single. With McCartney's blessing, Winkle mixed the song and pressed 100 copies for radio stations. "The next day I heard it on the air, I realized...we got carried away with the bass part...it pumped like crazy. But we never remixed the song, and Paul never said anything." [3]

Even so, the song was a hit in the US and UK, peaking at number five in the US and number two in the UK in March 1971.[9][10] In Australia the song spent one week at number one. In France, the song was a number one hit.

Although "Another Day" and "Oh Woman, Oh Why" were not originally released on Ram, some CD re-releases of Ram have one or both songs as bonus tracks. "Another Day" has also appeared on several of McCartney's greatest hits albums, including All the Best!. It also appeared on the Wings greatest hits compilations Wings Greatest and Wingspan: Hits and History even though the song was not credited to Wings and predates the formation of Wings.

McCartney was a hit solo album for Paul McCartney, but none of its tracks were released as a single. McCartney was still under the British idea that singles are stand-alone songs, not contained in albums, so that they can be strung together occasionally on EPs or �greatest hits� albums. So in February of 1971, �Another Day�, with its B-side of �Oh Woman, Oh Why�, was released as a single. The songs would not be included on the upcoming Ram album, which was released about three months later.

�Another Day� began as a track that the Beatles worked on for possible release on what would be the Let It Be album, but after the band�s break-up, it turned into something else. Just as she had co-written �Man We Was Lonely� before, Linda McCartney also co-wrote �Another Day�. While posters promoting the single listed it as �written by Mr. and Mrs. McCartney� and the single itself was credited to Paul & Linda McCartney, others found that suspicious.

The owner of Northern Songs, the publishing company who held the rights on Paul�s work, later filed a lawsuit (also citing the next single, �Uncle Albert�/�Admiral Halsey�) saying that Linda was incapable of songwriting. Paul once stated, �I thought that whoever I worked with, no matter what the method of collaboration was, that person, if they did help me on the song, should have a portion of the song for helping me.� Eventually the suit was dropped.

To �Another Day�, similar to the Paul-composed �Eleanor Rigby� and �A World Without Love�, however, �Another Day�s� main theme is loneliness. A woman goes through the everyday motions of her average life�she showers and gets ready for work at her office job�but despite her self-sufficiency, she is alone and depressed without someone (�the man of her dreams�) to love. Though she is seeing someone, it isn�t love (�He comes and he stays, but he leaves the next day�). She still sadly goes through her routine, however, thinking that things will someday change for the better, because after all, �it�s just another day�.

John Lennon once criticized his former bandmate�s writing style in the Imagine album track, �How Do You Sleep?� with the line, �The only thing you done was �Yesterday� / And since you�ve gone you�re just �Another Day��. Once referring to him as �all pizza and fairy-tales�, he shut down the fact that McCartney�s songwriting usually describes the lives and hopes of fictional, but realistic, normal people. Lennon�s writing is usually autobiographical or about a social or political issue instead. This isn�t always the case, but it is the usual main difference between McCartney and Lennon�s solo work.

Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York, �Another Day� and �Oh Woman, Oh Why� featured instrumentation from future Wings members, Denny Seiwell (drummer), Dave Spinozza, and Hugh McCracken (guitarists). The decision to release the songs on a single reportedly went to the assistant engineer, Dixon Van Winkle, who later felt they �got carried away with the bass part� on �Another Day�.

�Oh Woman, Oh Why�, the aforementioned B-side, might be seen as a continuation of the previous song, but it is unlikely. The phrase �fed up with your lying, cheating ways� implies that the woman has had to deal with this cad for a while, not that he just came and went. However, the next line, �But I get up every morning and every day� does seem a little more than a coincidence. Written solely by Paul, its dark tone, complete with gunshots, is vastly different from much of his catalog. Also notable about it is the fact that he sings both the male and female viewpoints in the song, using higher and lower voices, despite the fact that Linda is heard in the refrains.

�Another Day�/�Oh Woman, Oh Why� reportedly sold over a million copies worldwide. It was a number one hit in France and Australia, in the U.K. it reached number two, but in the U.S. it only got up to number five. Paul McCartney doesn�t perform these tracks in concert, but they are held in high-esteem. When Ram was re-released on CD, both of the songs were added on as a bonus. Whereas �Another Day� was included on the Wings Greatest, All The Best, and Wingspan: Hits and History compilations, �Oh Woman, Oh Why� has seen a different legacy. It was included twice on the DJ Freelance Hellraiser Twin Freaks remix album. It is first mixed along with elements of �Band On The Run�, �Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)�, and �Venus & Mars�, but its guitar sounds appear on �Lahula� later on in the album. It was also covered by orchestra leader Bert Kaempfert, and by Ray Paul and Emitt Rhodes on a 2001 McCartney tribute album.

�Another Day� is featured in the films 50 First Dates (2004) and The Lovely Bones (2009).

11.

C Moon Paul & Linda McCartney

4:34

12.

Junior's Farm Paul McCartney

4:23

13.

Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey Paul McCartney

4:41

"I did have an Uncle Albert that used to quote the Bible to everyone when he got drunk.It was the only time he ever read the Bible, but it was when he was drunk, He died a few years ago and he was a good man. He's someone I recalled fondly and when the song was coming it was like a nostalgic thing, 'I think I'm ganna rain' was the wistful line, really, and I thought of him. As for Admiral Halsey, he's one of your, and American adminral. I use these things like a painter uses colors.

Producers: Paul & Linda McCartney
Engineers: Tim, Ted, Phil, Dixson, Armin and Jim

Musicians:
Paul McCartney: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals
Linda McCartney: Vocals
Dave Spinoza: Guitars
Hugh McCracken: Guitars
Denny Seiwell: Drums

After the success of the �Another Day� single and the Ram album, it was time for Paul and Linda McCartney to release another single. This time, Paul accepted the American method of releasing album tracks, so �Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey� was issued with fellow album track, �Too Many People�.

Some people are of the opinion that �Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey� is about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, because of the line �Hands across the water / Heads across the sky� and because of World War II Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. While McCartney has stated that the song�s Halsey was inspired by the real-life Admiral Halsey, the chorus� lyrics were actually inspired by WW2�s American aid programs. The �Uncle Albert� parts were actually based on Paul�s own Uncle Albert, a man who had the strange habit of only quoting Bible verses when he was drunk. Instead of trying to make a cohesive meaning of the track, it is better to think of it as a combination of several songs. All of the background vocals were improvised during the recording by Linda, thus giving her both a songwriting and a producing credit.

Recorded at CBS Studios after several other Ram tracks were completed, �Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey� was slightly more complicated than the other tracks. For example, the innovative sound effect of the rain and thunder in the background was not some synthesized studio trick. Recording assistant Armin Steiner was said to have stood on the edge of a cliff, recording a thunderstorm as it raged on in order to get the sound. In order to achieve the telephone effect, Paul gurgled (in order to imitate an old-fashioned telephone ringing) and spoke through a �highpass filter�. This song wasn�t just a collaboration amongst the future members of Wings (guitarists Hugh McCracken and David Spinozza, as well as drummer Denny Seiwell worked on it)�bebop trumpeter Marvin Stamm also played a major part by performing the flugelhorn solo, albeit in a separate studio at another time. Former Beatles producer George Martin was also involved, arranging the four French horns heard slightly afterward, but the actual recording varies from his specifications. In fact, the recording was treated like that of a classical music piece, with assistant engineer Dixon Van Winkle later stating that the twelve different sections of the song gave it �the feel of an overture� and that he was �surprised when the record went so big�.

�Big� is almost an understatement. The only single from Ram released in America became Paul�s first solo Billboard number one single, and the second number one from a former Beatle. Though it was only at the top of the charts for one week, it also garnered critical praise, receiving the 1971 Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists Grammy Award. It was later covered by Buddy Rich, Freddie Hubbard, the Radar Bros., and by German artist Gaby B under the title of �Von Calais Nach Dover� (�From the Straits of Dover to Dover�). Appearing on the Thrillington, Wings Greatest, and All The Best albums, it is the only track credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney on the �Hits� portion of the Wingspan: Hits & History compilation.

Like most of Ram, �Too Many People� was recorded in New York�s CBS studios with then-session guitarist Hugh McCracken. Not much has been said about its recording, other than the fact that Paul recorded his vocals in one take.

Several indie rock bands have covered �Too Many People�, including Earlimart, the Finn Brothers, and the Arcangels, but it remains a hidden treasure in the McCartney catalog. However, Paul has shown some love to the song, most notably combining it with �She Came in Through the Bathroom Window� on his 2005 U.S. tour, and subsequently the Space Within Us DVD.

Unfortunately, with �Too Many People� comes some controversy, as Paul himself admitted that some of the song�s lyrics were about former bandmate John Lennon. The line �Too many people preaching practices� referred to Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono�s orchestrated anti-war publicity stunts, whereas �You took your lucky break and broke it in two� calls him out as the member of the group who broke up the Beatles. Still, others allege that much more of the song, as well as the Ram album itself, was a calculated slam at Lennon. Lennon himself certainly seemed to think so, mocking McCartney on his track, �How Do You Sleep?� Despite all of this resentment, they remained friends, with the two frequently making plans to record together again.

"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is a song by Paul and Linda McCartney from the album Ram. Released in the United States as a single on 2 August 1971, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1971. Paul McCartney won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists in 1971 for the song.

The song is noted for its sound effects, including the sounds of thunder, lightning, and rain, heard between the first and second verse, the sound of a telephone dialing, and a message machine, heard after the second verse, and a sound of chirping sea birds and wind by the seashore. Linda's voice is heard in the harmonies as well as the bridge section of the "Admiral Halsey" portion of the song.

McCartney said "Uncle Albert" was based on his uncle. "He's someone I recall fondly, and when the song was coming it was like a nostalgia thing."McCartney also said, "As for Admiral Halsey, he's one of yours, an American admiral", referring to Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.

* The song was used in the episode "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle" of the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, where the character of Uncle Albert leaves home.
* Harry Shearer uses a looped sample of "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" for the "Apologies of the Week" segment of Le Show, with emphasis on McCartney saying "sorry".
* The film Greenberg includes a scene where the character Florence sings along to the song while drunk on champagne.

14.

Coming Up Paul McCartney

3:31

15.

Goodnight Tonight Paul McCartney

4:20

16.

With A Little Luck Paul McCartney

3:13

17.

My Love Paul McCartney

4:08

Album Notes for: All The Best

All tracks composed by McCartney except
Say Say Say composed by McCartney / Jackson
Mull Of Kintyre composed by McCartney / Laine

All tracks published by MPL Communications Ltd except
Live And Let Die published by MPL Communications Ltd / SBK United Partnership
Say Say Say published by MPL Communications Ltd / Mijac Music

Parlaphone Release

Jet 4:08

Band on the Run 5:12

Coming Up 3:31

Ebony and Ivory 3:43

Listen To What The Man Said 3:55

No More Lonely Nights 4:39

Silly Love Songs 5:55

Let 'Em In 5:10

C Moon 4:34

Pipes of Peace 3:24

Live And Let Die 3:12

Another Day 3:42

Once Upon A Long Ago 4:06

Say Say Say 3:56

My Love 4:08

We All Stand Together 4:23

Mull Of Kintyre (McCartney/Laine) (4:42)

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