Paul McCartney – Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) - 1991
Год выпуска: 1991
Лейбл: Parlophone, MPL Communications – 64 7964131
Страна-производитель: Italy
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Формат записи: 24/192
Формат раздачи: 24/192
Продолжительность: 58:44
Источник оцифровки: Crimson74
Код класса состояния винила: Good
Устройство воспроизведения: Technics SP-10 MK2
Головка звукоснимателя: Audio Technica ML180
Предварительный усилитель: Kora 3T SE MM
АЦП: Edirol R-44
А1 Be-Bop-A-Lula
А2 I Lost My Little Girl
АЗ Here There And Everywhere
А4 Blue Moon Of Kentucky
А5 We Can Work It Out
А6 San Francisco Bay Blues
А7 I've Just Seen A Face
А8 Every Night
А9 She's A Woman
В1 Hi-Heel Sneakers
В2 And I Love Her
ВЗ That Would Be Something
В4 Blackbird
В5 Ain't No Sunshine
В6 Good Rockin' Tonight
В7 Singing The Blues
В8 Junk
Credits
Acoustic Bass - Paul 'Wix" Wickens* (tracks: B5)
Acoustic Bass, Harmony Vocals - Hamish Stuart
Acoustic Guitar - Hamish Stuart (tracks: B5)
Acoustic Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Harmony Vocals - Robbie McIntosh
Drums - Blair Cunningham, Paul McCartney (tracks: B5)
Engineer [Live Recording], Mixed By - Geoff Emerick
Harmony Vocals, Harmonium, Percussion - Linda McCartney
Lead Vocals - Hamish Stuart (tracks: B2, B5)
Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Paul McCartney
Percussion - Blair Cunningham (tracks: B5)
Piano - Robbie McIntosh (tracks: B5)
Piano, Accordion, Shaker, Harmony Vocals - Paul "Wix" Wickens
About
This album contains the acoustic music from the MTV programme "Unplugged" recorded at Limehouse Studios, Wembley, London, on Friday january 25th 1991.
Hamish Stuart sings on 2 tracks ("And I Love Her" & "Ain't No Sunshine").
Paul always liked Stuart voice. He says that the combination of the two reminds him the combination with John Lennon's voice.
This album is a semi-pirate/semi-bootleg. Although it has the Capitol, MPL and MTV logos/trademarks, there is no reference number which makes dubious it's an official "complete" version of "Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)" released in 1991 (out of print now).
There are 5 more tracks not available on the regular release: the intro, Mean Woman Blues, Matchbox, The Fool and Things We Said Today.
4. Be-Bop-A-Lula (Vincent/Davis) 4:05
Though covered by the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lennon and now - for the first time - Paul McCartney, these musicians and the many others who have recorded "Be-Bop-A-Lula" willingly tug their foreclock to the inimitable original, taped in Nashville on 4th May 1956 by its co-composer Gene Vincent, backed by his Blue Caps.
One of the hardest of all rock and roll perennials, it remains a classic period piece.
This was also the first record that Paul ever bought.
5.I Lost My Little Girl (Lennon/McCartney) 1:45
This is the first song composition by Paul, written at 14, towards the end of 1956/early 1957, a few months before he would team up with The Quarry Men to skiffle his way around Liverpool.
This is the first public performance in more than 30 years and its first commercial release.
6. Here, There And Everywhere (Lennon/McCartney) 3:16
Recorded by The Beatles over three days in june 1966, issued two month later on "Revolver", but never performed live by the group nor by Paul in the 25 years since - until now!
7. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Monroe) 4:21
Though he has never before released it on record, Paul followers in the right place at the right time will recall this one cropping up during "Wings" initial (1972) low-key jaunts around British universities and European cities.
Though written by Bill Monroe at the end of 1946 - at which time plucking his mandolin and backed by his Blue Grass Boys, he taped the first recording - the best known version was cut by an echo-drenched Elvis Presley in only his second Sun session, 6 july 1954. Ray Charles, The Tornados and Al Kooper are among those who have since comitted it to disc.
8. We Can Work It Out (Lennon/McCartney) 2:48
From the days when albums were albums and singles were singles comes this classic McCartney song, taped by The Beatles expressmy for the 7-inch medium in a couple of quick sessions while making "Rubber Soul" in october 1965.
The original harmonium part is translated here to the accordion by Wix.
Live, The Beatles only performed the song during their final British tour in november/december 1965.
This version is Paul's first return visit.
11. San Francisco Bay Blues (Fuller) 3:29
This song was sung by George Harrison during the pre-1962 concerts.
A good decade before Scott McKenzie famously warbled the attractions of the Bay Area, folk singer/guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott was performing this one around the clubs and in the studios.
Composer Jesse Fuller recorded his own version in 1960, since when it has entered the canon of many a trouper, from Tom Rush to Richie Havens, Peter, Paul and Mary ... and now - assisted by a fine slide guitar contribution from Robbie McIntosh - Paul McCartney.
12. I've Just Seen A Face (Lennon/McCartney) 3:01
Recorded in one mightly industrous june 1965 afternoon session at Abbey Road - which also saw the start and finish of the raucous "I'm Down" - "I've Just Seen A Face" is a too frequently overlooked Beatles track nestling comfortably alongside "Yesterday" and other fine numbers on the "Help!" album.
But Paul's fondness for his song ensured its resurrection once before now, as one of the five Fab Four tunes he performed during Wings' lengthy 1975/1976 world tour.
13. Every Night (McCartney) 3:24
Though covered by the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lennon and now - for the first time - Paul McCartney, these musicians and the many others who have recorded "Be-Bop-A-Lula" willingly tug their foreclock to the inimitable original, taped in Nashville on 4th May 1956 by its co-composer Gene Vincent, backed by his Blue Caps.
One of the hardest of all rock and roll perennials, it remains a classic period piece.
This was also the first record that Paul ever bought.
14. She's A Woman (Lennon/McCartney) 3:40
First public performance and recording of this Beatles track since 1966. Two years before, it sold by the million as the B-side of "I Feel Fine", which shot to number one worldwide at Christmas 1964.
15. High Heel Sneakers (Higginbottom) 4:08
Written by Robert Higgenbotham. "Hi-Heel Sneakers" has attracted plenty of interest since Tommy Tucker took the first version into the charts in early 1964 (lt was still in the US top twenty the week that April when all top five places were occupied by The Beatles).
Its success prompted Sugar Pie De Santos "answering" song "Slip-ln Mules" and charting covers by Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Ramsey Lewis and Jose Feliciano.
Again, never before recorded by Paul McCartney.
16. And I Love Her (Lennon/McCartney) 4:16
Merit-ranking Paul McCartney's ballads would be one of life's most difficult tasks, but it's a fair bet that "And I Love Her"
would claim a high place on most people's lists.
Featured in the movie/album "A Hard Day's Night", it was recorded by The Beatles at the end of February 1964, when they had a "spare" week between returning from the USA and the start of film-shooting.
Until "Unplugged", Paul had not sung this since then.
17. That Would Be Something (McCartney) 4:02
Written in 1969 and the second of three "Unplugged" tracks that were first issued on "McCartney" in April 1970.
That original was very much a home-made recording, Paul plugging a mike straight into a four-track, singing and playing acoustic, tom-tom, cymbal, electric guitar and bass, and he has neither publicly performed nor re-recorded it until the welcome taping of this countryish, extended and generally re-arrganged version.
18. Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) 2:06
While, in the recording sense, "Blackbird" was every bit as solo as "That Would Be Something" - his vocal and acoustic guitar tracks being played all that was needed - Paul's original version appeared on "The Beatles" (White Album) in november 1968, five months after the recording.
Another "just-so" McCartney ballad, it was revived for Wings' world tour and can also be found on "Wings Over America".
19. Ain't No Sunshine (Withers) 4:08
Hamish on vocals, Paul wields the brushes, Wix plays bass and Robbie switches to piano for this recording.
Bill Withers had the original hit with a Grammy-grabbing version that broke into the US top ten the week "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" sat at number one.
Many covers followed by artists including Lionel Hampton, Michael Jackson and The Shirelles.
20. Good Rockin' Tonight (Brown) 3:42
Paul's first release of the rockabilly number one which stole the A-side of Elvis Presly's second Sun single in september 1954. But Presley's was not the first recording: author Roy Brown and also Wynonie Harris had scored R & B hits with it in 1948. Was later covered by Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and some others...
21. Singing The Blues (Endsley) 3:47
Cover of a 1957 hit by Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele.
22. Junk (McCartney) 2:27
An instrumental rendition of a song from the 1970 "McCartney" album (which also featured a version with lyrics).
The composition dates back to spring 1968, written in India when The Beatles were studying transcendental meditation under the Maharishi; when they returned, Paul routined a demo with The Beatles, but the song didn't surface publicly until "McCartney". This is the first subsequent version.