Mandatory mania essentials The latest work of M Claudel Label includes “ONE HAND CLAPPING” which includes studio rehearsals for the world tour which took place from 1975 to 1976 for 2 years, It becomes a set of sound source and video of 1975. ■ Various television appearance video etc. ■ High quality picture of ONE HAND CLAPPING ■ Other, ONE HAND out take, back yard tape, Nashville session etc. Examine.Stereo take sound source of recording different from ONE HAND CLAPPING video Board has some light edgeand corner wear. From – Lot consists of an original watercolor illustration on board of Paul McCartney and Frank Sinatra by Marvel artist Bob Larkin. It was finally officially released in 2011, when the 1969/1970 version was included on the “ McCartney Archive Collection“.Īn interesting anecdote related in the Steve Hoffman forums: in 1977, Paul McCartney hired the Marvel illustrator Bob Larkin to do a watercolor painting to be given to Frank Sinatra with the demo tape of the song “Suicide”, backstage at the Royal Albert Hall, early March 1977 (Paul & Linda were there with George & Olivia Harrison). Over the years, the song was copyrighted a few times and under different names (“ Suicide, “ Call It Suicide“, “ I Call It Suicide“). In 1999, he performed a short rendition of the song during his appearance on the TV show, “Parkinson”.In 1984, McCartney mentioned the story about “Suicide” and Frank Sinatra during his participation to the TV Show “Aspel & Company”.Circa 1979 / 1980, it was considered for inclusion on the never-to-happen “Cold Cuts” project.In March 1977, he recorded a studio demo, that was sent to Frank Sinatra (see story above).In April 1976, he performed an a capella rendition of it, when interviewed by Alan Freeman.In 1975, he recorded it again during the sessions for the film “One Hand Clapping” but the song didn’t make it for the final result.The song appears in full length at 3:46 with a structure Intro/Verse/Verse/Bridge/Verse/Bridge/Outro. In 1974, he recorded a demo that appeared on the so-called “Piano Tape”.Paul then got back to it many times during his career, without cracking it. Paul McCartney – From “ McCartney – Archive Collection“, 2011 But I used that little fragment at the end of one of the tracks, ‘Glasses’. So I never did anything with it but around the time of McCartney, I was just goofing around on piano and at the end of one of the takes there was a little bit of tape left, so I just did it and didn’t think to use it because it was Rat Pack, tongue in cheek. He did not get it! But I did think, “Oh God, maybe I should have changed it a bit to send it to him.” “Is this guy kidding?” You know, sending Sinatra a song called “Suicide”. And I sent it him and he thought I was taking the piss. And I spoke to him on the phone and told him about it, “Great, Paul, send it along.” “Thank you, Frank”. I actually once got a request from Sinatra, for a song. It was a real early song of mine, and I used to do it as a joke, really. I thought it would be a bit of a Rat Pack, smoochy, with words like “When she tries to, run away, uh-huh…” Boom! And stabs from the band, you know. So around that time I wrote “When I’m 64” and this other thing. That would be the greatest stuff that you could do, really a little bit before rock ‘n’ roll, so you were thinking of standards and things. And my feelings were, then, that if you were ever going to be a songwriter, the height of it all was Sinatra. I had my Dad’s old piano at home, that I used to tinker about on when there was no-one in the house. That was a song I’d had forever, since I was about 16. A 9-second long fragment of it appears at the end of “ Glasses“. Paul McCartney revisited the song at the end of 1969, during the recording of his debut solo album, “ McCartney“. (If it was, “Suicide” was an unusually sombre choice of title for an optimistic 14-year-old, let alone as a potential Sinatra hit.) Interestingly there is a full lyric in place, which might have been written at the song’s genesis – it is impossible to be sure. Here we find audio of the song, with McCartney plonking through the track on piano, and Lennon joining in – obviously recognising it (thereby proving that it had been shown to him after the two teamed up). From earlybeatlessongs:Īlthough the song disappears from the radar after Lennon and McCartney met, it popped up with several other oldies during the Get Back sessions, on January 26, 1969. On January 26, 1969, Paul performed a 46-second long, single versed, version of the song during the Get Back sessions. At this stage, it was formed of only one verse and a chorus. It was likely composed in 1956 when he was fourteen. “ Suicide” is one of the earliest songs written by Paul McCartney.
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