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  • What is BOWIE doing there? 1:12

  • McCartney is the greatest songwriter in music history period! No one has had more of an impact in terms of influencing and changing music. Considering what he accomplished with Lennon and his solo career he is without a doubt the real King of Pop!

    Without him music would sound very different today.

  • Another Masterpiece. Can't imagine life without this mans music.

  • Oooh my sweet baby jesus, it looks like Paul's wearing makeup. THAT'S SEXY o_e

  • interesting song

  • Arrow through...my knee

  • I could listen to this song over and over! But my favorite part has to be from 3:26 to the end. I think that's the part that I remember the most from hearing the song in my childhood.

  • when he made it?

  • @minijumpi 1979

  • awesome !!

  • I agree Dave W,  I'm glad he has (hopefully) found true happiness. :-)

  • Cheers, Sir Paul, on marryin' Miss Nancy!

  • There are 6 retarded Lady gaga fans that didn't like this...

  • oh god! Finally I found someone who likes man we was lonely, when the night and monkberry mon delight. Arow through me is great too, but those ones are perfect songs! (momma mis america is my favorite instrumental music ever, great one!)

  • Is there anything this guy couldn't do? Pop, rock, dance! He did it all!

  • Oh, I LOVE this song, so chill! I love macca, The Wings , Linda , The Beatles, great music to set the right feeling

  • He is so cute! He was the only cute one in the Beatles.

  • DISCO AND TECHNO AR SH1TE.

  • OMG I always thought that at 1:17 it was real brass (not keyboards). I love songs like momma miss america, dear friend, dear boy, man we was lonely, when the night, lazy dynamite, waterfalls, temporary secretary, monkberry moon delight, ram on, too many people, we're open tonight, some people never know.... ... but ARROW THROUGH ME was always my favourite. It has a fantastic chord progression. Wierd dissonances. Good soul music.

  • I was just watching Oh Heavenly Dog too!!! Chevy Chase, Paul Mc Cartney, Jane Semore, and ELTON JOHN...... all classic and good talents!

  • Oh Heavenly Dog was just on yesterday. Bought me back to this old favorite. Thx for posting it.

  • sample to question-bows at 1:38

  • Been looking for this for years. First heard it on WLAC in Nashville in 79' Had it on tape for years.

  • Although I already loved the Beatles and much of McCartney's work, WKRP in Cincinnati first introduced me to this particular tune. I really dig it, too.

  • BADU

  • where is the "LOVE" button?

    

  • I love what P.M. Dawn did to this one! They are both great tracks.

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  • This song was released as a single and good as it is it went to only about number ten or so. I like the tempo changes and the instrumentation.

  • Steve accents the offbeat with the kick and open hi hat. The other Wings follow suit. Tasty little sucker, innit?

  • flying lotus produced Badu's song

  • Best song from the back to the egg album. I know that it was heavily critisized but it had a nice different sound to it. just like the rest of the songs from that album like old siam, sir. I am very suprised that this song wasn't a bigger hit. This is one of my favorites. There is a nice range to it as well.

  • @WINGSFAN567

    it's crazy that's it was criticized for being different sounding...this song has gots to be on the list of best overall songs as far as arrangement, lyrics, composition hands down...i guess being criticized for being different is a diamond buried deep...

  • 1Luv. Thanks for posting. Always greatful to get put on to old music, that's new music to me XD ! smh I had to find out where EB sampled this from.

  • Linda let Paul be Paul; Yoko did not let John be John.

  • @greenwich1754 thats a very good point actually..i was always much much more drawn to Paul anyway..

  • I thuink that Paul McCartney was happiest married to Linda. a very accomplished business-woman in her own rite..In spite of the fact that other Beatles (namely Lennon) resented the relationship. I think that they were pissed off cause Mccartney drew happiness from his marriage, while Lennon and the other Beatles couldn't find that between themselves...

  • @greenwich1754--Sampling was not even relevant back then. Instead people did covers--Don't know all about the Beatles, but as artists, their inspiration and style came from somewhere, just as other artists--maybe not sampling, but other influences. I see you love the Beatles/ Paul McCartney very much, so don't u think it is kinda cool that this old song has been made relevant again thru another form of music in the modern world? Obviously, he did because he allowed the sample.

  • @toy4230 The Beatles were influenced by Motown and often spoke of people like Chuck Berry as inspiration. In the end though, THEY were their own inspiration and blazed a trail that no one can touch today or ever.

  • @xenatikkanen Hey, to each his own. No one is denying what the Beatles did. Yes, they were creative geniuses; weren't the first and will not be the last. No one is contesting their talents, sweetie, so relax. I really don't care where they did or didn't get their influences from; their finished product was great. All I was saying was that someone used this as a sample and did a great job. In the end, their music still has relevance for people, so that is all that matters, right?

  • @toy4230 What is the attack for? I didn't attack you; you commented that you didn't know all about the Beatles, yet you were commenting. Secondly, don't call me SWEETIE, nor tell me to relax. I wasn't riled up, nor did I attack you, so YOU relax DUDE and take a pill.

  • @xenatikkanen dang, x, I didnt know it came off offensive; I think you picked up on my comment from someone else and jumped into our convo in some "matter of fact" stuff. You didn't know what we were talking about. Didn't attack you sweetie (Don't take sweetie as a condescending remark:I just call people that). Just don't want to argue with you Beatles fans off of a remark I said about someone's sample. You are too sensitive. You take a pill and reread my post because I did not attack you

  • @greenwich1754--Don't think u were following the thread too well my friend--we were saying how Erykah Badu did a good sampling of this song for her recent album. I said she doesn't sample garbage, meaning she has good taste when she samples (which she rarely does), so that would make it a compliment to this song. Since you do not know her and have never heard the song, maybe you should look it up, you might like it.

  • You are an ASS!

  • Erykah is a true musician and artist. She doesn't sample garbage--this is a classic too.

  • @toy4230 Don't take this the wrong way - I have no clue who"Erykah" is ( I was born in 1961, so there's a hint), but how is one a "true musician and artist", if one samples someone else's song? I don't think Paul, or any of the other Beatles sampled anything, to my knowledge.

  • @greenwich1754

    The Beatles started off as a cover band. If sample means cover, anyway.

  • @greenwich1754

    so what about revolution no9, being for the benefit of mr kite, i am the walrus, and all you need is love, to name a few

  • @LemmingdeMerciless True, although I don't know if any "direct" sampling (i.e. sampling exact original directly from someone else's song) was on those songs. Sound bites, audio clips from movies/conversations, perhaps. But all the songs you mentioned were Lennon songs, and in the later years of the Beatles, he tended to get lazy/into drugs/Yokofied. McCartney wrote the lions' share of the hits/songs from 1967 forward. Rev. #9 is complete crap.

  • @greenwich1754

    True on the no9 !! but i always thought hey were pioneers of sampling with using greensleeves on all you need is love and the audio clips that you mentioned, i also agree on mccartney writing the lions share of songs from 67, and i also think Lennon had a hang up since McC wrote yesterday onwards

  • @LemmingdeMerciless I guess I think of sampling as a direct lift of a commercially successful song, in part or all, with no alterations, but yeah, Greensleeves is a direct lift, unless the Beatles had a separate orchestra play that, which I doubt! In regards to your comment on Paul's "Yesterday" - yeah, even the most secure person (and Lennon wasn't) would have to be at least a little envious of one of the most recorded songs ever!

  • @dancehallcrasher she damn sure did.man she really took want she wanted out of this song and really put together a tight track

  • BEAUTIFUL VOICE!

  • Dr Robin Parry .

  • The sample was chopped and applied by T'Racch a protege of J Dilla.

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  • My favorite part of this song is 0:22. The way it changes. I don't know anything about musical technique; is there a name for it...like what is he doing with the instruments here? just hittin the cymbal or what? Happens again at 0:35, 1:06, well you get the idea :)

  • @fluffieb i completley agree with you i love that part as well. i also love the part at 1:35 to1:46. Listen to Erykah Badu 'Gone Baby,Don't Be long' she's amazing. 

  • @anita1051 I know right? This song is aweeeesomeee!!! :)

  • @fluffieb in simple musical terms what grabs you is when the bass note, highlighted by a double cymbal called "hi-hat" are being hit simultaneously a beat earlier, creating what's called a "syncope". Hope that makes sense to you.

  • @0mniron That is awesome. Yes you made it more clear to me. Thank you for replying! :D

  • @fluffieb - Don't know if it has a name but it's basically the product of opening the Hi-Hat with a pedal, letting it ring for a sec and closing it. It's also prominent in disco. I agree it works to great effect here :)

  • @JFUNK128 - It still hypnotizes me! hehe.

  • @fluffieb The drummer is playing a basic 4/4 beat, and when he gets to that portion of the song, he plays an eighth note on the snare plus the hi-hat (while opening the hi-hat). The eighth note would be the snare first (count hits on 2), then the hi-hat (while opening) (count hits on "and" after the 2). I would be happy to demonstrate this on my drums if you'd like.

  • @p756 I am impressed, demonstrate away! This song still fascinates me!

  • @fluffieb your ears are right on... that change is what makes the song..it's not just the cymbal crashing but the way the chord is changing...check out erykah badu's sample -- she samples the part you like and basically loops it!

  • I am responsible for 100 hits!!! Maybe more....

  • @86MzD10

    i got this on repeat on my queue...i'm responsible for maybe 3oo...maybe more...this is one of the best youtube vids ever...

  • @lanigirod He has soo much soul....I love it.

  • This is the ONLY LP I bought for just one song. Correction: the only one I kept after buying for one song. Richie Havens covered this song back in the 80's.

  • SO DOPE

  • 4 FOLKS DONT LIKE THIS........AND WHY NOT??? THIS SONG IS THE BOMB!!! IM 24 AND I CAN GROOVE TO THIS

  • @86MzD10 in 13 and i can aswell

  • @duncansby96 The beat is so smooth and mellow....funky and soulful. I play this song everyday.....hell its on my playlist!!

  • splendid song, great voice, full of nostalgy...

  • Back in 1985 or 86 a small radio station in a tiny town in Texas started an all Beatles/solo Beatle format. Sadly it didn't last very long but I credit them for introducing me to this song. I remember calling and asking what it was and the D J said he always received calls about this song.

  • that female percussionist is soooo serious with her little toy instrument lol

  • @WahkibaJ Nvmd she is the keyboardist i think lol

  • This is my FAVE song by Wings.

  • Cool beat, makin me repeat it and repeat it again in my brain ....

  • Heeeeyyyyyy, Im feelin this song. My first time hearing it. Go Paul

  • I just keep coming back to this McCartney chestnut - shoulda been a bigger hit. So much time has passed that if they re-issued/played on the radio, it would sound new. (Sorry, know nothing about "Erykah Badu, or Bah Fongu, or whatever his name is).

  • Blechhh.

    This is the kind of crap that was coming out in the late 70's that (thankfully) gave rise to the birth of punk rock.

  • @TKL90266 Yeah, and we all know how classic and time tested punk is!

  • @TKL90266 This was off Back to the Egg which produced by Chris Thomas - best know as the producer of, er, Never Mind the Bollocks by the Sex Pistols. Maybe it's a bit more punk than you think!

  • aw i love this song and paul looks so dishy here

  • im glad he rose above the gaudiness of the 80s

  • Beatles suck, Wings rule

  • @mattingly234ever You are quite simply a moron.  Well done.

  • @Nigelxman

    i pray to allah your children go on amber alert

  • @mattingly234ever What does that even mean? lol Amber alert?

  • @mattingly234ever Wings rule over the Beatles only at KFC.  (For those of you in Rio Linda, that's Kentucky Fried Chicken).

  • @mattingly234ever, you suck hows that goof

  • Paul has always been my favorite Beatle. He is so scrumptous!

  • Paul is awesome, The Beatles are awesome. I was reading a comment that said the stones are better. PLEASE!!! Yeah they're still around and touring, and they STILL aren't as good or popular as the Beatles.

    As for sampling this song, just goes to show that some people aren't good enough to come up with their own stuff.

    Take the worst McCartney song= Better than anything.

  • nice use of this song on Erykah Badu's "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long"

    (thanks wikipedia!)

  • I love how eccentrically loud the horns are in the mix ! at 1:16

  • I LOVE THIS SONG TO BITS!!!

  • Passionate lyrics, reggae/jazz type beat, horns, and a Stevie Wonder type clavinet - way 2 funky!!! I even liked it when it's sampled on Erykah Badu's "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long"

  • A fantastic song from such an underrated album. One album I have no choice but to listen to from beginning to end whenever it starts.

  • this is pretty badass. Erykah Badu didn't do this a disservice with "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long"

  • the greatest band ever???? almost... where r they now???  The greatest band ever IS STILL A BAND ..... don't START ME UP!! are you frikin crazy?

  • @040404049 Agree and I love the Beatles but people please. The Beatles been gone for 40 years now and Paul's solo career bests his Beatles stint by some 31 years. Went to McCartney show last week, it was real good but those Beatle (only) fans were friggin' GEEKS!

  • back to the egg baby

  • @pauljames00 From the best Wings album of all!

  • @Kieronoldham nope, wildlife...

  • Simply awesome

  • PAUL IS DEAD!!!

  • Love the atmospheric funky/discoey groove going on in this song and McCartney's voice is really soulful. Back To The Egg was a great album imo, a superb mix of melodic ballads and rockers. Cheers for posting.

  • Great song from a terrific talent. I miss Linda!

  • I'm really surprised - this must be the original I've never heard before - the first version of this song I ever heard was from Richie Havens and it caught me from the first time I heard it. Fantastic music that I love very much - greeting from slideede

  • Great song. Has a lot of funkiness and soul to it. And Back to the Egg is severely underrated! 5*

  • I first heard this song in 1979 and it has been my favorite song ever since. It's one of those things that you try to identify why it has never been surpassed in my mind by any other song, but you can't. For about 20 years after, I used to make calls to radio stations to see if they would play it on the air. It never received the play time it deserved.

  • Back To The Egg was underrated album.

  • I love a lot of Paul McCartney tunes, but this is one of my favs.

  • I never heard another song that sounded like this.

  • yup,i like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • awesome song to start my day!

  • This song is smooth!

  • Super song inspirational as well.

  • AYYY PAUL, IGUAL TE KIERO !!

  • Gotta love that tom fill at exactly 1:00 and again at 2:17.

  • Funny, when someone samples something like this 1979 classic; it practically goes hidden. Nice to see it revived! Deservedly!

  • Sorry to go against the trend, but this is like disappointing Stevie Wonder, from a guy who is shit at the piano.

  • Funny, I found this through Erykah Badu's 'Gone Baby'. Lovin it, thanks Mr.McCartney!!!

  • @Myonie ME 2 !!!Paul gots DA FUNK !!

  • the man is a genius

  • Oooh Babe, omfg, ignorance+malice=death. Black is the color that happens when you converge every color of the rainbow. Hence, Harvard Brainbows. Google it... you won't be sorry or sad ever again.

  • This is one of the greatest songs Paul ever wrote. Incredible melody!!!!! WOW!

  • i like the beat

  • Man..this is one of my favourite Paul McCartney solo tracks ever. I wish he would play this live more often.....I can't understand why this song was never as big as some of his better known hits.......This is a classic!!!!!!

  • Erykah Badu really sampled this so beautifully. I love "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long" so much and now I can understand why.

  • esta cancion es realmente buena la mejor de el album backto the egg una mustra de el gran manejo vocal de paul mccartney

  • @mariemaureen si!

  • ERYKAH BADU TURNED PAUL MCCARTNEY's SOULFUL MASTER PIECE INTO THE MONA LISA OF NEO~SOUL..THANK YOU.

  • @THEMADAM2U you said it BEST!!!! YESS...

  • I recently discovered this song and i have fallen in love with it. Great video.

  • @kimberlymichelle2011 Good taste, that's from the album "back to the egg" the whole album is really good, try " getting closer" from the same album and also some tunes from the album "band on the run" hope you like.

  • The combination of chords is just SOOOOOOO ODD!!!!! Wonderful song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @buzonperiodista that's why he's a genius

  • Erykah did a masterful job at sampling this beat.

  • I actually like Wings better than the Beatles, but then I grew up in the Seventies.

  • @Julyman08 dude if the original comment was comparing The Beatles to The Jackson5, then Beatles all day. To say Paul...not the others, is "the real king of pop" over MJ is silly. If you wanna compare all the Beatles to MJ it doesn't make sense. If you wanna call The Beatles the four kings of pop, cool. But if there could only be one...MJ. Btw keep your flames to yourself, talk like a real person.

  • Great song, great songwriter, great arrangement. Pure genius.

  • This song has officially been sampled!

    2010- Erykah Badu has flipped for her joint Gone Baby, Don't Be Long.

  • @funktuall im listening i hear a smidget of the sample... but not much i love Erykah arrangement

  • You can like or dislike their solo projects bcause in the end is a matter of taste. Now talking about Paul's solo work, my favorite is London Town and Ram.

  • Well ...from reading the comments here ...my opinion is that the reason the Beatles' music is so superior to whatever the Beatle members did solo, is simply because the four together created a synergy that they couldn't replicate by themselves alone. Those guys, including Ringo, were such geniuses ...also add to that another superb force behind them: George Martin.

  • @JohnLennon100 See......dude......and I promise I am not trying to be confrontational....I honestly thought the large majority of the Beatles music was simple minded soft shit.....McCartney and Wings blow the Beatles away in my opinion....Lennon was a big disappointment solo.....the other two are not important.....never were

  • @jmallton Well ...again ....that's your opinion and your entitled to it. I think you're wrong about the Beatles, and subestimating George Harrison and Ringo it's a huge mistake. I like Wings but I never thought it was a big deal compared to the Beatles. I do agree Wings were a more consistent band in the 70's than others in terms of good songs. Wings was Paul's band. It wasn't a real band 'cause Paul's name was really something after the Beatles. The Beatles made Paul, George, John and Ringo.

  • @JohnLennon100 What about Lennon ? Did he become to fucked up on drugs and Yoko to produce good music ?........I dont believe Lennon was near the artist McCartney was after the Beatles broke up .....Harrison had a few good songs and he got sued in court and lost for plagerizing one of them....LOL.....but I still like the song

  • Sorry to disappoint you "supercooled" but there's no "Hammond" Organ on this track. "But I do agree Back To The Egg" was a really great album probably Wings best next to "Venus & Mars". "Baby's Request", and "Getting Closer" come to mind too. Not sure why the Album didn't do better. Holly was the best technical drummer had to date as well as Juber being the best guitarist to date, maybe even better than Robbie McIntosh, I'm kind of split on that one.

  • Come on people.....McCartney was far more dynamic as a solo artist.....I always thougtht a lot of the Beatles songs were soft shit.......

  • I just had to find the original groove....and I LOVE THIS groove....glad erykah brought it back, and reminded us how great Paul was!

  • Ahhh I remember this. Hello Jerri : )

  • Great song from THE most underrated album in rock history, back to the egg

  • Great song from THE most underrated albums in rock history, back to the egg.

  • Heard that!!!!!

  • haha, haven't heard this for a long.long time... and it brings back sweet memories! Go Paul, go! :)

  • Curious to hear how Eryka Badu will use this as a sample on her upcoming album.

  • @brendanbuyers2009 me too wow i just looked this up...can't wait til her album drop...

  • @brendanbuyers2009 Erykah Badu - Don't Be Long (Radio Rip)

    /watch?v=1_4ot_RjtZE

  • @brendanbuyers2009 fantastic!!!

  • oh my gosh, I just looked up Erykah's album on Wiki too. We think alike.

  • @MsDivaJonelle lmao me too . . i had to find out where the sample was from . . this is amazing

  • Curious to see what Eryka Badu is going to do with this song.

  • Que canción! Parece que fue ayer que la escuché en la radio y ya han pasado 30 años! Además me remontó a una pelicula muy graciosa: Oh! Heavenly Dog, La canción está incluida en la banda sonora de la película. Saludos a los fans de Paul.

  • @TheMoraxella666 saludos a vos tambien!!!!! desde Italia! esta cancion es una de mis preferidas!!!

  • Baby makin music

  • This song is awesome when high.

  • what a great songª!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!