My friend had a farm, his name was Junior! Some of the best times of my life were spent there. Some bad memories as well! Junior died about 30 years ago. I'm now 66 years old. Thanks Paul!! You rocked during this time! I WANNA GO BACK!! 🙏♥️🎶🎵🎙🤠💨💨💨
Sang this sweet rocker to a new girl I was dating when the song came out (with harmony provided by my friend). Recently celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary . . .
I took a bag into a grocery store The price is higher than the time before Old man asked me why is it more….man, those lyrics really ring out true today….
I'm 62 now and remember this song So well. I used to take my ten speed out after dinner back in the 70s to get high, then come back and listen to this in my bedroom or at friends houses. Good Times!!!
I'm going to be 62 in a few days. I really loved Wings. I remember having the middle school trying to be cool with by giving us a jukebox in the cafeteria. At least this was one of the songs.
@@murasaki9 Happy Birthday early! Wow! - A jukebox in the cafeteria???? Did you guys ever eat???? lol!!! We would have been around that thing for the entire lunch period.
I've heard people comment in the past that Paul McCartney didn't put out good music after leaving the Beatles and people are free to voice their opinions. But I love the music he made with Wings.
@@michaelvaladez3012 yes indeed.srill have the 45 from ,a very long time ago .Love that song.Definately a Masterpeice.Let's Go,Let's Go.Down to Junior's Farm.!🎶☝️🔥💥💯
A song he wrote when in America,when he happened to meet Hank Williams Jr and was invited out to his large farm... I think they must have played poker and had a great time, a great time at Juniors Farm...thanks for posting this cool rocker
Every so often you hear a McCartney song and realise : Jeez, I forgot he'd written that ( ie. Let me Roll it to you / Hi Hi Hi / Take it Away etc, etc ) and how brilliant it was ! The list goes on and on . Not sure how you define " Genius " but he just is !!
Bought this greatest hits album right when it came out in December of 1978. Walked to the record store in the snow and bought it with my own allowance money. I was 12.
I moved to N. Cali in 84 and heard this song from my girlfriends. With out this song there would not have been a Queen and TLC. ❤ I was walking down the street and you gave and a smile and you assumed
It was a pretty big hit for Wings. Especially in the US where it peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts. But after that, it vanished for a long time and stopped getting a lot of airplay. Unlike the song Band on the Run which has always been played to death.
Springtime 1974 when I first heard this song. Been singin’ along to it every time I hear it ever since. Thanks, Paulie! This song always puts a smile on my face!
hey paulie! greetings from ny! ( like million others i feel like ive known you..u and your mates..like u 4 were 4 more older brothers! peace out ✌be well! 🌈
Beginning musicians.. this is a 3 chord song, very very easy to learn, and lots of fun to play. Good cover for a new band trying to get a groove.. 😉 Thanks Paul!!
This was played quite a bit on the radio. Remember coming back from overseas and spending the summer with my grandparents before starting middle school. Ugh, the best of times and the worst of times. Juniors Farm was the best.
I love every single song in this album. With this, I was introduced to Paul McCartney when I was a kid. I am 36 now and I loved to hear this song in concert in Mexico :D
I'm 63 years old. I remember when this first came out and they played it at the roller rink - everyone had hair parted down the middle. So cool we were that we were so cool.
That outro stands up with any of the best outro on which Macca contributed or outright composed. Starting at 3:37 through to the end, Macca changes up the melody, slows down the tempo, and makes the instrumentation especially the lead guitar grittier and bluesier than throughout the rest of the tune with some face-melting guitar work from the young & doomed Jimmy McCulloch, a nice soulful concluding refrain with Paul pleadingly asking to be taken back to Junior's Farm until concluding with his resolving declaration he will in fact be going back, band hits an ending, sustained chord with guitars striking a warm-toned double stop on which to fade out. Certainly one of his best pure rock song outros, second maybe to 'Helter Skelter', standing up there with the likes of the outro on 'Magical Mystery Tour' or the chanting outro of 'Hello, Goodbye'. 'Junior's Farm' seems like such an anomalistic composition for Macca. Even how it was treated as this singular song to stand on its own as a non-album single, the style, timbre, tone, temperament, lyrical subject, even the simple lyric rhyming schema and meter do not bare those upfront, obvious attributes or characteristics which define a Sir James Paul McCartney original. It's like Paul's 'Hey Bulldog' just only a few years following the John contribution--a kind of song unique, one off work for one of the 3 Beatle composers, insanely interesting, demonstrating the mastery of composing poppy yet pure rock 'n' roll turned up to 11, not bearing the classic or standard elements, call signs or trademarks if you will, that brand it a McCartney composition even if you'd never heard it before or knew of its existence.
This info may be lower in this thread but Junior is Curly Putman Jr , a Nashville musician who wrote "The Green, Green Grass of Home" among other CW songs. Paul recorded at his Nashville studio with Linda and Wings. "Take me down Jimmy' is an encouragement to Jimmy McCoullough, the Wings guitarist. "Pulled a Chi Chi and jumped the fence" is a reference to golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez who jumped into a golf course water hazard after he won a major championship, (He was also on a Devo album cover.) Sorry, I was alive when this song was recorded. Kingsuji
Curly Putnam Jr. is actually related to me. He has a farm out in either Wilson or Smith County, TN. Paul actually bought ice cream and sat on a curb and ate it just off I-40 out there near where my mother grew up. She's a huge Paul fan.
"...with Linda and Wings" _'Winda'_ is the preferred nomenclature for "Linda and Wings" in fan-context, (which the comments section of a Wings song surely qualifies as), please. You'll find a comprehensive glossary of fan abbreviations in The Wings Fanifesto ( _Whinge_ ), FYI. I suggest you commit it to memory, if you want to be taken seriously by any semi-committed Wings fan. If you need assistance, MM me (McCartneyMail. Subject line: HELP!) at: Faul-of- Kintyre 'at' insufferable dot twat dot com. ;)
The Fall of 1977. That awful Friday afternoon hearing about the plan crash. Gone but always remembered. Lynard Skynyrd was a huge part of our soundtrack to our high school years back in the late 1970’s
when your new son in law hears this in the convenience store for the first time and cannot believe it was Paul. Jammed out to it later when he got back. I still remembered the lyrics 😅😅😅 His mom grew up on a farm.
Primera vez que ESCUCHO esta canción.....en 2024 !!!!!!! Y tiene ya 50 años!!!! Ése bebé que estaba en la granja com un mes de VIDA ahora CUMPLIÓ De 50 años !!!!
My friend had a farm, his name was Junior! Some of the best times of my life were spent there.
Some bad memories as well!
Junior died about 30 years ago. I'm now 66 years old. Thanks Paul!! You rocked during this time!
I WANNA GO BACK!!
🙏♥️🎶🎵🎙🤠💨💨💨
I heard this song in 1974.
paul could teach these "rockers" today quite a few lessons. awesome song.
The World has been a much better place with Paul McCartney in it.
Has been? He's still here.
Warum schreibst Du war? Paul lebt gottseidank noch und seine Musik ist schon jetzt unsterblich!
A gem . Actually, the whole 60 rock scene . The worlds a better place under Sir Paul's influence.❤❤❤
And the some!
❤❤😊😊I was talking 👄 🤣 to Jesus christ. Amen 🙏
Sang this sweet rocker to a new girl I was dating when the song came out (with harmony provided by my friend). Recently celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary . . .
That's cool man!
That's cool man!
my bf had a dog named Junior on the farm with tags a-long! lol
lol Oh, yeah . . .
That's Sweet:) Hope you have a loving future:)
I took a bag into a grocery store
The price is higher than the time before
Old man asked me why is it more….man, those lyrics really ring out true today….
The rest of the lyrics are pretty questionable though
Personally I think the rest of the lyrics are brilliant. They are a bit subtle though, not everyone will understand them
“You should have seen me with the Poker Man I had a honey and I bet a grand, just nick of time I looked at his hand” Timeless to start the song!
@rboland2173 I'll buy the whole bag for Trump and mix it too.
Add this line: Ev'rybody's talking 'bout the President
We all chipped in for a bag of cement
Kindergarten 1974 in Willard Ohio. I loved that time period because it was colorful and exciting as people were more fun then.
Sounds like you have been walking though life with both eyes open
It was a great time. Fall 1974
@@brookehanley3659 13 then. and tried mary jane 1st. time that year. 7th. grade. orland indiana, 46776
CC
Juniors farm!!! Doing bongs! Out in the barn!! Thanks wings! Summer of 1974!!
This was a hit at the end of 1974 into early 1975.
@@dolbra4 He said he was doing bongs, don't expect exact memories!
Late Fall 1974
I'm 62 now and remember this song So well. I used to take my ten speed out after dinner back in the 70s to get high, then come back and listen to this in my bedroom or at friends houses. Good Times!!!
I'm going to be 62 in a few days. I really loved Wings. I remember having the middle school trying to be cool with by giving us a jukebox in the cafeteria. At least this was one of the songs.
@@murasaki9 Happy Birthday early! Wow! - A jukebox in the cafeteria???? Did you guys ever eat???? lol!!! We would have been around that thing for the entire lunch period.
I feel this was Paul McCartney at his best
It's my favorite song that Paul put out, after The Beatles.
Senior skip day keg party at the meadow lands
Absolutely agree
ABSOLUTELY
Absolutely!! Long live Paul
I can still smell the 70's in this track!
Marcus Olejnik ... Haah ! I can still remember puking my guts out from taking Placidly ( spelling may be wrong ). Hated them !
pickles?
1974
Awesome
I do too.
I've heard people comment in the past that Paul McCartney didn't put out good music after leaving the Beatles and people are free to voice their opinions. But I love the music he made with Wings.
I’d call that an ignorant statement if someone ever tried to say that Paul’s good material output stopped when the Beatles split.
We share the same name, I'm John Edward Wilcox in New Jersey
Paul took it to a new level
I always associate "Juniors Farm" and "Jet" together... Good old rock n roll done by the master... Quite excellent!!! :)
Same here!
Excellent fantastic fabulous
For the longest time I couldn't decide which of the two I liked better. I've finally decided it's Jet, but only by a whisker.
I love how you tie in the ROCKER "JET" TOO! ME TOO!!
don't make me suffer-a-JET, man~
My god that bass sound is killer!!!
Yup
No wonder, its Sir Paul.
pretty average. To compressed, pick flopping. farty, no real low end. I like it but as an engineer, and musician i have to say NO .. he would agree.
It's my favorite part of the song! (Sorry, Jimmy.)
A Rickenbacker. Most distinctive (and awesome) sounding bass on the market. IMHO
McCartney's best and ballsiest song. RIP Jimmy, and thanks,
🌹
So thankful to have grown up in the 70s when AM radio Rocked in 74 I was a 8th grader no Clue to life 🤣🤣🤣
I heard this on the radio today. I loved it! I had never heard it before. Killer tune!! I’m 44.
50 years ago I loved this track,its just as fantastic now!
It realky is,Been a while,makes me definitely, Not what we hear today on the radio,Fantastic song and guitar work. ☝🔥🎸🎵💯😊
One of Paul's masterpieces from the 70s!
@@michaelvaladez3012 yes indeed.srill have the 45 from ,a very long time ago .Love that song.Definately a Masterpeice.Let's Go,Let's Go.Down to Junior's Farm.!🎶☝️🔥💥💯
A song he wrote when in America,when he happened to
meet Hank Williams Jr and was invited out to his large farm...
I think they must have played poker and had a great time,
a great time at Juniors Farm...thanks for posting this cool rocker
Not hank Jr. dude. It was curly Putnams place.
лучший рокер 70-х
Every so often you hear a McCartney song and realise : Jeez, I forgot he'd
written that ( ie. Let me Roll it to you / Hi Hi Hi / Take it Away etc, etc )
and how brilliant it was ! The list goes on and on . Not sure how you define
" Genius " but he just is !!
I don't think there are any music stars as talented as him.... can play everything, write catchy melodies at the drop of a hat. He is a genius!
Someone that has their neurons & synapses functioning on Hi. Hi, Hi, alert
Bought this greatest hits album right when it came out in December of 1978. Walked to the record store in the snow and bought it with my own allowance money. I was 12.
I miss my '70s.
As do I!
✋✋✋✋✋
Robert Spillane fact
Sir Paul
That's OK Bro!....We still Got em in our Head & Hearts!
I'm 44 and the first time I heard this song was this morning. IT'S SO GOOD.
Dang where you been man lol?
Volvoplz, isn't that SO cool, when that happens !!??
I agree, a classic I never knew existed! A gem of much value hehe
Great way to wake up😇
Where have you been in a cave
I moved to N. Cali in 84 and heard this song from my girlfriends. With out this song there would not have been a Queen and TLC. ❤ I was walking down the street and you gave and a smile and you assumed
Happy birthday Jimmy McCulloch! Your spirit & memory lives on.
dang: and a belated happy birthday, jimmy, --and many more, SIR~ respect, and love~ miss ya, man~
"take me down Jimmy."
Gone too Soon!
LOVE this Song and The 45 B side SALLY G... 1974 13 and 7th. grade...12/27/24 12.28 Pm cst USA
I was born 61 dad died in 74 music was a big part of my heelin
I was born in 61. Dad died in 81.
Good memories, youth, don't we wish for younger days
Ma died whren 9..5 days b4 20th bday
A great idol sir paul your no.1
I was born in '62. My mom died in '90. I. Was 27 almost 28
Right on point as the closing track to Poker Face episode one!
This song takes me back in time just like the song take you back to the farm! Still listening in 2024 and sounds as good now as it did then❤
I named this tune in one note (the opening cymbal crash) to win McCartney tickets from the local radio station.
Awesome !! I saw Paul in Tulsa last May. Amazing show !!
I can smell whenever someone plays this song within 23 nautical miles, as the Wings fly.
It smells like birds' tears taste.
I smell more than bird tears butt hey are good too ! LOL
utubulocity wow
Impressive
It's hard to believe that "Faul" will be in the GTA next November...🎶
Paul can rock when he feels like it :)
oNE OF THE BEST ROCKERS EVER, RARE FOR PAUL
Check out sioly live from Wings Ove America
one of his best songs with Wings!
YOU SAY "WITH WINGS" WAS PAUL IN A BAND BEFORE WINGS
Right on!
Never really cared for Wings much but this is one their best songs.
@@GeorgeSawtooth wings featuring that-one-dude on the guitah, that's what they should've maybe-been-called, nah?
@@robertchandler5055 ya....the Beatles
This song Rocks!!! Let's Go!
This song is absolutely one of my all time favorites
Deny Lane on guitar. He started The Moody Blues, (Go Now), he quit them. Justin Hayward took over. Lane got with McCartney
Jimmy McCulloch on lead 👏 🎸
Take me down Jimmy
I must have played this song a billion times back in 74
let it rock and let it roll, Joe
JUst think this song is making it`s way thru my friends backyard right now LOL and we are all liking t!
This was Paul McCartney at his best
I made a cassette tape of some of my favorites to play in my car. Of course Junior's Farm had to be on it.
Heard it on the radio bout every day then! I was only 5 at the time!
Superb number, love Jimmy McCulloch's playing on it. Shame it's not on Wings Over America.
I think this was recorded in the great state of Tennessee.
Best Paul McCartney song!
How has this song never crossed my radar? I heard it for the first time today.
that McCartney guy has a million of 'em!
It was a pretty big hit for Wings. Especially in the US where it peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts. But after that, it vanished for a long time and stopped getting a lot of airplay. Unlike the song Band on the Run which has always been played to death.
Better late than never. Enjoy!
@@finster1968 Thats cause "Band On The Run" was a #1 hit for them.
@@Music-tk5oq - Yeah, I get that. But Billy Don’t Be A Hero was also a #1 hit. And you didn’t hear that one much after the 70’s (for good reason). 😉
Yeah!! Take me down Jimmy!! Juniors farm!! Smoking out in the barn! Listening to wings!!!
I was a teenager loving my life. Like a blind man feeling his way round.
One of the best "rock out in the shower" songs!
I only had to add a comment because it was 666 comments and Paul McCartney is pure and doesn't deserve any bad juju. I love him.
I made your 6 a 7
These days some people just don,t know whats good any more old but fkn great
I love this song! And it's all because of one of the greatest bass players of all time...Paul McCartney!
Jimmy McCulloch's playing WOW
He was the BEST!
This may sound strange, but this is what the 70’s FELT like.
How about those guitar parts by Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch? Intro - Denny, solo and fills by Jimmy.
My favorite song is No More Lonely Nights........love love love that song!
Sir James Paul McCartney...Musicians from around the world bow down to this Legend
Taught my five year old Niece the chorus...sometimes when we're out and about she will break into song...brings a smile to others 😊😊😊😊
Springtime 1974 when I first heard this song. Been singin’ along to it every time I hear it ever since. Thanks, Paulie! This song always puts a smile on my face!
Peaked at #3 in January '75
"Jet" was released in Spring '74, "Band On The Run" in Summer, then this 1 in the Fall.
FABulousNESD
Wings‼️Linda
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌟🎼🎶🎵🎸🎹🎹🎹🎹
hey paulie! greetings from ny! ( like million others i feel like ive known you..u and your mates..like u 4 were 4 more older brothers! peace out ✌be well! 🌈
Could you just imagine “Ringo” doing the drums🪘 on this tune. 🎵 🎶 EPIC!
Very underrated song one of Paul McCartney & Wings best songs.
One of Paul McCartney and Wings best ever rocker. Glad he is playing it back on his 2022 tour. As good as "Girl s School".
i know, it's like he's channelin' the-green-day, but proto-actively or somethin': most peculiar, eh what?
Thumbs up
Great classic rocker that DOESN'T get enough airplay !!
Wonder what they grew down in juniors farm😁🏌🎶🌿
I bought this album with lawn-mowing money at an Ace Hardware in the early 70’s. I’m retired now and still love it
Beginning musicians.. this is a 3 chord song, very very easy to learn, and lots of fun to play. Good cover for a new band trying to get a groove.. 😉 Thanks Paul!!
add in the solo and bass line then its just as tough as an other rock song LOL
@@elvispresleydaily3952 jimmy was a prodigy-of-sorts, you might say:: in a band-of-prodigies... quite-the-oddity
BEGINNING MUSICIANS?!?!?!?! Ever heard of The Beatles?
@@thedanielfamily1595reading comprehension.
Relaxed song
This was one if his best songs and not as remembered as many of his others. Great song❤
One of Wings best!!!
OMG my childhood would have been DEVOID OF MEANING without Paul McCartney and Wings!! Take me down!✌️🌸🌼💕🍄🌈🙏
I was a little lad when this song came out. Sir Paul and Linda end wings have been part of my background all that time and I'm 61 now
Awesome Song. Why can't Rock-N-Roll Musicians today write and sing beautiful songs like this anymore?
Hands across . . . , listen to what the man said, McCartney is underrated!
McCartney Gem! Bravissimo!
.. both lyrically and music-wise, It's clever from top to bottom...
The little coda jjs just magical
this is a great song for speeding down the interstate at 2am
To wake up and hear this is the best way to start a day!
Anyone listening in 2020? Uplifting song, cannot wait for 2021. HOPE
2023 going Strong 💪🏽
Thank you Paul
I loved and miss the '70's...
What a great song!!
The bass is fire in this track
This is actually my favourite solo song he has done.The only one I specifically went out to buy the 45.
This song is just as good now as it was when I first heard it way back when.
This was played quite a bit on the radio. Remember coming back from overseas and spending the summer with my grandparents before starting middle school. Ugh, the best of times and the worst of times. Juniors Farm was the best.
Juniors Farm is a great jam.
I love every single song in this album.
With this, I was introduced to Paul McCartney when I was a kid.
I am 36 now and I loved to hear this song in concert in Mexico :D
MaCa es un musico grandioso! Ha evolucionado la musica desde los 60s. Ha jecho hrandes apirtaciones a la musica, es muy inquieto!!!
The last 40 or so seconds of this song is why I liked it so much
I'm 63 years old. I remember when this first came out and they played it at the roller rink - everyone had hair parted down the middle. So cool we were that we were so cool.
One of the best bass lines I've ever heard
Have you heard "Little Girl in bloom" by Thin Lizzy
Reminds me of better times. Thanks for posting
favorite song from Wings.. great guitar! Take me down Jimmy!
It is a great rocker! 💪
😁
my dad is called Jimmy and hearing this song keeps me seeing him alive.
That outro stands up with any of the best outro on which Macca contributed or outright composed. Starting at 3:37 through to the end, Macca changes up the melody, slows down the tempo, and makes the instrumentation especially the lead guitar grittier and bluesier than throughout the rest of the tune with some face-melting guitar work from the young & doomed Jimmy McCulloch, a nice soulful concluding refrain with Paul pleadingly asking to be taken back to Junior's Farm until concluding with his resolving declaration he will in fact be going back, band hits an ending, sustained chord with guitars striking a warm-toned double stop on which to fade out. Certainly one of his best pure rock song outros, second maybe to 'Helter Skelter', standing up there with the likes of the outro on 'Magical Mystery Tour' or the chanting outro of 'Hello, Goodbye'.
'Junior's Farm' seems like such an anomalistic composition for Macca. Even how it was treated as this singular song to stand on its own as a non-album single, the style, timbre, tone, temperament, lyrical subject, even the simple lyric rhyming schema and meter do not bare those upfront, obvious attributes or characteristics which define a Sir James Paul McCartney original. It's like Paul's 'Hey Bulldog' just only a few years following the John contribution--a kind of song unique, one off work for one of the 3 Beatle composers, insanely interesting, demonstrating the mastery of composing poppy yet pure rock 'n' roll turned up to 11, not bearing the classic or standard elements, call signs or trademarks if you will, that brand it a McCartney composition even if you'd never heard it before or knew of its existence.
Preach it brother
This info may be lower in this thread but Junior is Curly Putman Jr , a Nashville musician who wrote "The Green, Green Grass of Home" among other CW songs. Paul recorded at his Nashville studio with Linda and Wings.
"Take me down Jimmy' is an encouragement to Jimmy McCoullough, the Wings guitarist.
"Pulled a Chi Chi and jumped the fence" is a reference to golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez who jumped into a golf course water hazard after he won a major championship, (He was also on a Devo album cover.)
Sorry, I was alive when this song was recorded.
Kingsuji
kingsuji This brings back memories of my senior year in high school...good times! Thanks for sharing the trivia.
+kingsuji Thanks for the info. Those facts are pretty cool and it really makes that fantastic song to me more fantastic. Thanks kingsiji
Curly Putnam Jr. is actually related to me. He has a farm out in either Wilson or Smith County, TN. Paul actually bought ice cream and sat on a curb and ate it just off I-40 out there near where my mother grew up. She's a huge Paul fan.
1976 Nashville was a VERY different place. I remember it well.
"...with Linda and Wings"
_'Winda'_ is the preferred nomenclature for "Linda and Wings" in fan-context, (which the comments section of a Wings song surely qualifies as), please.
You'll find a comprehensive glossary of fan abbreviations in The Wings Fanifesto ( _Whinge_ ), FYI. I suggest you commit it to memory, if you want to be taken seriously by any semi-committed Wings fan. If you need assistance, MM me (McCartneyMail. Subject line: HELP!) at: Faul-of- Kintyre 'at' insufferable dot twat dot com.
;)
I like the phasing on the vocal track, very nice.
The Fall of 1977. That awful Friday afternoon hearing about the plan crash. Gone but always remembered. Lynard Skynyrd was a huge part of our soundtrack to our high school years back in the late 1970’s
Paul will be 78 this coming June 18 Happy birthday Paul.....
jim jong
The harmonies toward the end take me to another place. Beautiful song.
when your new son in law hears this in the convenience store for the first time and cannot believe it was Paul. Jammed out to it later when he got back. I still remembered the lyrics 😅😅😅
His mom grew up on a farm.
Primera vez que ESCUCHO esta canción.....en 2024 !!!!!!!
Y tiene ya 50 años!!!!
Ése bebé que estaba en la granja com un mes de VIDA ahora CUMPLIÓ De 50 años !!!!
Memories of my older brothers' collection of '45 records...Ah the 1970's