Paul McCartney: When The Wind Is Blowing

A 1970 unreleased song from the Rupert the Bear sessions (around the time RAM was recorded... yet another lost gem). Paul claims the inspiration to this song came from a Picasso painting. "There was this Picasso print on the wall, of an old man playing the guitar. And I looked at it all week and towards the end of the week I thought, "what cords he playing?" you know, on the guitar, "what is he playing?" and I noticed he just had two fingers [on the guitar], just two fingers there and so I thought I would try and see, you know, if the cords would sound any good, "Oh, that's nice!", you know, so then I tried to use that as the inspiration and tried to write a song that only had to use "two fingers"

To hear the full story and live acoustic performance of the song check out the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFBKXQILeqI&NR=1

P.S There's a cool pic entitled "The Beatles Sons" near the end of the video (3:19), with 5 Beatle sons... Here come the sons :) As well a relatively current pic of Paul and Denny Laine (2:51) which kind of looks like John Lennon, doesn't it?

"When the wind is blowing" (McCartney)
The "Ram" sessions (Late January - Late February 1970):
After the release of the successful debut McCartney, Ram is an album by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, released in 1971, the only album credited to the pair. The sessions also birthed future songs like "Dear Friend," released on the debut Wings album Wild Life later in 1971, as well as "Get On The Right Thing" and "Little Lamb Dragonfly", both of which would be finished for 1973's Red Rose Speedway. John Lennon believed that songs on Ram included jibes at him in the lyrics, including "Too Many People" and "Dear Boy"

Rupert the Bear:
During the late 1970's Paul recorded songs and narration for a planned full-length Rupert the Bear animated film to be shot by Oscar Grillo. The film was never made, but test pressings of an album containing Paul's music and narration were made. These appeared later on bootleg CD's

Lyrics:
"Da da da da da da da da da da da
Oh well, when the wind is blowing"

Musicians:
Paul McCartney - Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards
Linda McCartney - Vocals, keyboards
Dave Spinoza - Guitars
Hugh McCracken - Guitars
Denny Seiwell - Drums, percussion

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[kooodeal]

Junk and Night-out are my other unknown favorites by Paul..

[imranicus]

Junk is one of my all time favorites!

[Swooshswish]

@imranicus Lennon taught him all that he knows, he took him and turned him into the man that he is 2day and the life he leads its all because of lennon, lennon, lennon the most talented of the beatles and paul comes close and then george and whos the last one that useless beatle......i forgot his name, nevermind cuz hes the useless one....

[imranicus]

@Swooshswish Ok... thats your point of view, and somewhat valid, without Lennon, McCartney would not be the McCartney he is. The same can be said about Lennon. Without McCartny's drive and ambition, Lennon (and maybe even the Beatles) would probably have faded away in a drug fuled haze after Revolver and Brian Epstein's death.

[WiltatKansas]

I love when McCartney whistle, he is a genius.

[Magamaguitam]

A contemporary Master and genius of Music!!!!!!!!!!!!

*} M

[McLen194042]

@Swooshswish I'm fairly certain that when John met Paul, John didn't know how to tune a guitar, and he played it like a banjo. Paul taught him the basics, and they learned the rest together. They learned song writing together. Did pretty much everything at the same pace. I read a study that said Lennon songs, Lennon/McCartney songs, and Harrison songs were all similar in structure, but Paul's were very different. He had his own style that he developed outside of their relationship.

[lillan53]

Paul played a little bit of this song in Michael parkibsons talkshow 1999 I think it was.

[reneperezz]

i read that this was made during the Ram sessions on wiki... nice!

[jjjuuullliiitttooo]

q drogadicto este tema

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

dear rupert

s friend windy, as far as clamcoes go and flamingeauxs...

it's fine

/watch?v=FCARADb9asE&feature=r­­­elated

the rapture seemed to leave the rest

of us here in 2011

you never give us our situation of orr in history

as related to sevenths ninths and progressivessives unending as a rounder record couldn't have made ever perfectingly of it's self!

[TheMichaelseymour]

Love the guitar work by hugh McCracken ...he's brother is an even better player -yet nobody took him seriously cos he's name was PHIL .

[1lundun]

this is Two Fingers a whistle tune he played somewhere (i forgot) but i loved the whistle tune so much that i whistled it EVERYWHERE i went. at school, on the bus, at home, in the grocery store. and no one would know what i was whistling.