Saw Paul and Ringo in LA and they put on a 3 hour show at Dodger Stadium back in 2019. and Ringo’s brother in-law Joe Walsh came out and played Guitar. If you have time, watch the video of “Wings Over America Tour”
The best version of the song...the live dynamics, Jimmy McC(RIP) nails the guitar solos, and a full band gives the song more depth RIP Linda McCartney RIP Denny Laine(doing well on bass here)
Awesomeness beyond awesome! Paul was/is nothing but pure talent. He's a very rich man in things beyond money, and I've always admired him for those qualities.
Sir Paul is an absolute treasure. Aren’t we lucky to share a planet with him? He is very kind and absolutely lovely to his fans. He also contributes to many causes.
I was lucky enough to see Paul and Linda twice in concert...❤ You should do a live video sometime...the emotions of the crowds are very telling of the love for this man and his talent ❤ BTW...this whole album is exceptional 👌
I raised my children as a single mom... their father didn't really want to be involved in their lives and it broke their hearts and I'm just so pleased to listen to you say how involved you are and your girl's lives... there's nothing more important. NOTHING
I always liked Paul but as the years have gone by I see so much more depth and talent and wisdom in him and in his artistic endeavors. Long live Sir Paul!!!❤❤
Studio version for me, this sounds like the big production that it is and its great - studio version sounds more raw and personal, esp. if you heard it when it first came out.
Loved Denny's version of 'Go Now', his early hit with the Moody Blues from the movie, 'Wings Over America'; saw it when it came out with my then-GF. Rest In Peace, Denny, Jimmy and Linda. 🤟🏼🥹🎶❤✨️🕊
Been waiting for this one. This is the performance I was lucky enough to see live at the Boston Garden in 1976. Incredible show! I was an ‘original’ guy until this album came out. Really good musicians and very well recorded. Great album!
I love this one, I knew the original but I saw this show in 1976 when I was 14 so it has a lot of meaning for me. It also was a top 10 hit when this version was released so most people know it. I’ve seen Wings, Paul with Wings, and Paul with subsequent bands. Always a great time.
Great concert story L33 , the Garden show 76 , Paul’s leaving the stage after encores , walking out the under stage corridor with a bouquet of flowers , some photographer takes a flashbulb picture, lights up the whole area round him , months later I pick up the songbook to Wings over America and it’s on the back cover , flipped me out 😎
70's radio this Hotel California Freebird (and Molly Hatchet of course) One of Paul's best it has that optimism that isn't corny. Check his interview on Stern he's just a good dude.
Great album and live concert video! You really should see "Wings Over America"/"Rockshow"!! It's a great video with both in-concert video and backstage and tour-life video. Paul and Wings rocked it out back in the day! One of the best tours of the 70's! ** Oh, by the way, Joe English is an AMAZING drummer!! He's ambidextrous and he is in a practical state of ecstasy the whole time he is playing! He just has this smile and GLOW about him like....it's just the joy of drumming on display!
There a four versions of this....1) Studio, 2) This one from Wings Over America, 3) Live at the Cow Palace from the expanded set of this release by Paul (same tour) and 4) the "Rockshow" DVD version. All three live versions are close as they are from the same tour, but this one is the best IMHO. Paul on piano.
Brilliant song, brilliant version... back when Paul could really do it. Love that period of his life. Keep on Rocking young sir. (Don't forget Heather was together with Linda and Martha)...
Rock Show is the video of this concert it is on youtube. The beginning of this concert with Venus and Mars, Rock Show, and Jet blended together is fantastic!
This live version was all over the radio when I was a kid in the 70's. I never heard the studio version until about 2001. My Dad had other McCartney solo and Wings albums, but not the first one with the original version.
Paul didn't release the first one as a single. He didn't release a single from the first album for some reason. This live version was released as a single. I prefer the studio version as well.
Good words and thoughts at the end. Man there is a lot of Paul McCartney and Wings stuff that is dearly beloved and he had tons of hits with them. It's Just Another Day is one of those that I bet you would dig.
I love the McCarney solo song from the 80s, "Pipes of Peace". People always tend to look back to his 70s solo work and his work with Wings. It's all great material, and I love it too, but I'm an eighties kid. Shoot me.... 😉
I ‘m realizing I somehow know the live version better than the studio - guessing it was from hearing it on classic-rock stations over the years since its release. Definitely more dynamci - I love both of them.
This is fantastic, but one of the things that makes this live recording great is that it helps one appreciate the studio version because even this awesomeness cannot touch what Paul is capable of all by himself.
Wings Over America is a fantastic live album! Maybe I'm Amazed was released as a single back then. Paul had a great band then, as he does today. Love the guy.... The live version is definitely better than the original. The band does make a difference.
"Wings Over America" is a badly under appreciated Live album from the 70's . Possibly because there were just so many great Live albums in the 1970's . 🙂
Hey Mate ..... Love Your Channel .... One Of The Best ...... For Your own Viewing there is a Video of this particular performance if you'd like to watch him and the band perform it. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
You should listen to and watch the video for the McCartney solo song "Coming Up", released in 1980. Legend has it that this studio version was heard on a car radio by John Lennon, and it inspired him to go back into the studio to record again after taking a 5-year break to raise his kid, Sean.
McCullough wrote a song and Wings recorded it at the time called Medicine Jar about evils of addiction. A few years later the illness claimed this talented young man.
So you're exactly in the same situation as Paul when he wrote this song (minus dealing with the breakup of the Beatles). He had a new baby and Linda had also brought a child from a previous relationship to round out their new family.
When the McCartney album came out, it was around the time that the Beatles were officially declared broken up and everyone was blaming Paul for the break up and making him out to be the bad guy. And that was around the same time as the Let It Be album and movie, too. So Paul was being dumped on by his former friends, the critics, radio stations and Beatles fans. Thus "Maybe I'm Amazed" didn't get a fair hearing. By the time of Wings Over America--Paul and Wings were the most popular group on the planet (he was in the record books for the most hits)--so Paul's renditions of his songs from the early '70s in the live performance could finally be heard by a receptive audience.
Check out Live And Let Die from a stadium show possibly l Sao Paula, Brazil. You need a stadium to fully appreciate it. I saw him in 1990 and he does performs it the same way now as then.
I’ll never understand why the original version wasn’t released as a single. Would have been a guaranteed No 1 and might have eased some of the criticism of him.
This one has more of a wide appeal and the guitar is a little better... but that's it. I feel like the studio has it beat in all the other categories. But they both are great 👍
Question for all the Macca experts out there. I love this version - Jimmy takes it to whole other place, but the "ahs" (backing vocals) sound way too full/good . Were they added in the studio after the fact?
Like I've always said, live versions are great if you're there. The studio versions are the final expression of what the artist is trying to say.. some people really like that I understand that that is true however I've never understood why I don't enjoy listening to people's mistakes it's not even musical😊 don't ever be ashamed because you prefer for perfection over human-ness.
This was the peak of Paul's solo career. I remember when he made the cover of Time magazine around this time, and it seemed he could do no wrong. Unfortunately this band fell apart (drug problems, etc.) and the follow up album (London Town) took too long to make, was a commercial letdown, plus it landed during the height of the punk and new wave explosion. But time has been kind to this period, and the Wings material gets almost as big a response as the Beatles stuff at Paul's concerts.
From a certain point of view, he is underrated though. He had massive recognition at the time. Paul, both alone and with Wings, was probably the most successful act of the 70s. 7 No 1 Billboard singles (9 overall), 22 top 10 singles (28 charting singles). 8 consecutive top 10 singles, a record Wings share with Elton John and the Bees Gees. The only act to have their number one single replaced by its own B-side (a live version of the same song -- so technically that's 8 number 1s). Paul has written or co-written 32 Billboard number 1s and is recognized as the most successful songwriter of all time. Every Wings album was a top 10, with over half reaching number 1. Ram reached No 2 because Tapestry was in the way and London Town reached no 2 because Saturday Night Fever was in the way. So how can such a person possibly be underrated? Well, his legacy has been forgotten in the popular consciousness. I think it's coming back though, perhaps due to these reaction vids. For over 20 years though, you'd be hard-pressed to hear his songs on classic rock stations. Critics have dismissed him as a "lightweight" and irrelevant. Paul himself was surprised at how successful Wings was when confronted with the numbers; he's used to only seeing himself in the shadow of The Beatles. I mentioned Wings to my dad recently and he was like, but were they really that big? And I was like, yeah, they were. But no one remembers them. When people think about the most successful live albums of the 70s, they think of KISS and Peter Frampton, but Wings Over America sold millions -- the first triple album by a group to reach number 1.But its success was dismissed as "nostalgia for The Beatles", since he included Beatles songs for the first time. Wings is not in the RRHOF. Paul is, but basically on the strength of Wings. He Is the most successful songwriter of all time, but when people are discussing the giants of popular music, he is barely in the conversation. They talk about Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin etc. So yeah, he's underrated.
Here is the VIDEO from the LIVE concert "WINGS OVER AMERICA" ruclips.net/video/x_FiIilTwIA/видео.html take a look at it so you can SEE them perform it. It's GREAT You always say that you love to SEE them perform, so I was HOPING you would react to the VIDEO (link I provided here) I MUCH prefer the LIVE version in the link I supplied BETTER than the album cut. He has more PASSION in the live version and it is LONGER and has a BETTER ENDING than the studio version. I saw this 1976 tour in Detroit on May 8, 1976. I had just found out I was expecting our second child.
The original is by far the better track. It’s always great to hear McCartney play lead guitar Fender Telcaster which was recorded at home, on the live version Jimmy McCullough is using a Gibson SG.
This is a great song. The studio version is a little jerky, probably because of his emotional state at the time and because the song is new. He’s had five years or so to get to know the song. It’s better. There’s video to this, you know. ruclips.net/video/x_FiIilTwIA/видео.htmlsi=cn6LBHh8js-op_jx
Paul solo has a lot of great songs, you just have to avoid the early 80s (a bad period for a lot of legends, Young, Lou Reed, Dylan,... also made their worst albums then). Anyway, Band On The Run is an epic song, and also the whole Ram album is fantastic.
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“You can tell Paul’s a good dude.” He is a treasure in so many ways.
"Wings Over America" is a fantastic live album. 🙂
I love this live version! The rawness of his voice. The closing of the song. It's my favorite!
Saw Paul and Ringo in LA and they put on a 3 hour show at Dodger Stadium back in 2019. and Ringo’s brother in-law Joe Walsh came out and played Guitar. If you have time, watch the video of “Wings Over America Tour”
The best version of the song...the live dynamics, Jimmy McC(RIP) nails the guitar solos, and a full band gives the song more depth
RIP Linda McCartney
RIP Denny Laine(doing well on bass here)
Awesomeness beyond awesome! Paul was/is nothing but pure talent. He's a very rich man in things beyond money, and I've always admired him for those qualities.
Glad you had fun on your daughter’s birthday. No one like Paul. Paul singing to Linda. RIP Linda.
Sir Paul is an absolute treasure. Aren’t we lucky to share a planet with him?
He is very kind and absolutely lovely to his fans. He also contributes to many causes.
I was lucky enough to see Paul and Linda twice in concert...❤
You should do a live video sometime...the emotions of the crowds are very telling of the love for this man and his talent ❤
BTW...this whole album is exceptional 👌
I supplied him with the LINK for the live 1976 concert version
Saw Paul McCartney live in Toronto Canada in the late 80s. 3 hours of non stop incredible music! Phenomenal!!❤❤❤
I had this album on vinyl, back then..Its one of the great live albums, all of it. The band is amazing, Denny Laine especially
I raised my children as a single mom... their father didn't really want to be involved in their lives and it broke their hearts and I'm just so pleased to listen to you say how involved you are and your girl's lives... there's nothing more important. NOTHING
I got to see the Wings Over America tour live in Cincinnati 48 years ago this month! My first major concert! Wow!
Wings Over America is one of the best live albums ever recorded
RIP to Jimmy McCullough, Denny Laine and the light behind this tune, Linda McCartney.
I think this was the best recording of this song. I purchased this album when it came out. Three records, wow I was and still Amazed.
I always liked Paul but as the years have gone by I see so much more depth and talent and wisdom in him and in his artistic endeavors. Long live
Sir Paul!!!❤❤
I love McCartney so much. This song is everything.
One of the best songs ever written....Pauls vocal range is off the charts.
Studio version for me, this sounds like the big production that it is and its great - studio version sounds more raw and personal, esp. if you heard it when it first came out.
Incredible song. Incredible live version. Everyone is on it.
Can you see the video? I can't 😢
Loved Denny's version of 'Go Now', his early hit with the Moody Blues from the movie, 'Wings Over America'; saw it when it came out with my then-GF. Rest In Peace, Denny, Jimmy and Linda.
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Paul is an amazing human. ❤😊
Yes Paul,WE are amazed!
The only top 40 hit from this live double album. It peaked at # 10 on the Billboard Top 200 Singles Chart.
Been waiting for this one. This is the performance I was lucky enough to see live at the Boston Garden in 1976. Incredible show!
I was an ‘original’ guy until this album came out. Really good musicians and very well recorded. Great album!
I love this one, I knew the original but I saw this show in 1976 when I was 14 so it has a lot of meaning for me. It also was a top 10 hit when this version was released so most people know it. I’ve seen Wings, Paul with Wings, and Paul with subsequent bands. Always a great time.
You're so right-Paul is the man!!❤
Best song ever!
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Great concert story L33 , the Garden show 76 , Paul’s leaving the stage after encores , walking out the under stage corridor with a bouquet of flowers , some photographer takes a flashbulb picture, lights up the whole area round him , months later I pick up the songbook to Wings over America and it’s on the back cover , flipped me out 😎
70's radio this Hotel California Freebird (and Molly Hatchet of course)
One of Paul's best it has that optimism that isn't corny. Check his interview on Stern he's just a good dude.
Great album and live concert video! You really should see "Wings Over America"/"Rockshow"!! It's a great video with both in-concert video and backstage and tour-life video. Paul and Wings rocked it out back in the day! One of the best tours of the 70's! ** Oh, by the way, Joe English is an AMAZING drummer!! He's ambidextrous and he is in a practical state of ecstasy the whole time he is playing! He just has this smile and GLOW about him like....it's just the joy of drumming on display!
“GOAT” ❤️
Love the original. This live version blows the studio version away, IMO.
One of the best concerts I went to in the 70's!!
Was able to witness him live in Michigan in the 80’s. Floor seats, great show.
First tour for Paul in 1976 since 1966. This track was a big hit for Wings. 1973.
There a four versions of this....1) Studio, 2) This one from Wings Over America, 3) Live at the Cow Palace from the expanded set of this release by Paul (same tour) and 4) the "Rockshow" DVD version. All three live versions are close as they are from the same tour, but this one is the best IMHO. Paul on piano.
Brilliant song, brilliant version... back when Paul could really do it. Love that period of his life. Keep on Rocking young sir. (Don't forget Heather was together with Linda and Martha)...
He did a bit with James Corden, checking out his old hangouts including his old flat where the bathroom helped the acoustics in his earliest songs
Beautiful song and great reaction ❤ wings over America is awesome. Try jr's farm it's a great song. 😊 ps ,your daughter is so darn cute! Wihoo!!😅
Rock Show is the video of this concert it is on youtube. The beginning of this concert with Venus and Mars, Rock Show, and Jet blended together is fantastic!
This live version was all over the radio when I was a kid in the 70's. I never heard the studio version until about 2001. My Dad had other McCartney solo and Wings albums, but not the first one with the original version.
Paul didn't release the first one as a single. He didn't release a single from the first album for some reason. This live version was released as a single. I prefer the studio version as well.
Good words and thoughts at the end. Man there is a lot of Paul McCartney and Wings stuff that is dearly beloved and he had tons of hits with them. It's Just Another Day is one of those that I bet you would dig.
I love the McCarney solo song from the 80s, "Pipes of Peace". People always tend to look back to his 70s solo work and his work with Wings. It's all great material, and I love it too, but I'm an eighties kid. Shoot me.... 😉
I wasn't really a fan of Wings but I do really like this song.
Rod Stewart's version with his band the Faces is a favorite.
I ‘m realizing I somehow know the live version better than the studio - guessing it was from hearing it on classic-rock stations over the years since its release. Definitely more dynamci - I love both of them.
Thank you, Lee, for exposing both brilliant versions of this magnificent song.
Iconic guitar
This is fantastic, but one of the things that makes this live recording great is that it helps one appreciate the studio version because even this awesomeness cannot touch what Paul is capable of all by himself.
Wings Over America is a fantastic live album! Maybe I'm Amazed was released as a single back then. Paul had a great band then, as he does today. Love the guy.... The live version is definitely better than the original. The band does make a difference.
I saw this tour at the old Chicago Stadium, I think 1975 or 76, my memory ain't what it used to be 😆
"Wings Over America" is a badly under appreciated Live album from the 70's . Possibly because there were just so many great Live albums in the 1970's . 🙂
Was there in Denver in 1976; my first Mac concert. I went with an old girlfriend who had her fingers clamped on my arm the whole time. I had bruises.
Denny Lane on bass was a original member of The Moody Blues.
He sure was... I think he just passed recently too, right? Or was that someone else from the moody blues
@@L33Reacts yes he did.
Great tune
Hey Mate ..... Love Your Channel .... One Of The Best ...... For Your own Viewing there is a Video of this particular performance if you'd like to watch him and the band perform it.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
You should listen to and watch the video for the McCartney solo song "Coming Up", released in 1980. Legend has it that this studio version was heard on a car radio by John Lennon, and it inspired him to go back into the studio to record again after taking a 5-year break to raise his kid, Sean.
McCullough wrote a song and Wings recorded it at the time called Medicine Jar about evils of addiction. A few years later the illness claimed this talented young man.
So you're exactly in the same situation as Paul when he wrote this song (minus dealing with the breakup of the Beatles). He had a new baby and Linda had also brought a child from a previous relationship to round out their new family.
Never seen him or The Beatles in concert.
When the McCartney album came out, it was around the time that the Beatles were officially declared broken up and everyone was blaming Paul for the break up and making him out to be the bad guy. And that was around the same time as the Let It Be album and movie, too. So Paul was being dumped on by his former friends, the critics, radio stations and Beatles fans. Thus "Maybe I'm Amazed" didn't get a fair hearing. By the time of Wings Over America--Paul and Wings were the most popular group on the planet (he was in the record books for the most hits)--so Paul's renditions of his songs from the early '70s in the live performance could finally be heard by a receptive audience.
One of the better live albums, there. Effort was taken to insure audio fidelity. Some great takes.
Zeppelin's John Bonham recommended Joe English to Paul and Bonham attended five Wings over America shows.
Check out Live And Let Die from a stadium show possibly l Sao Paula, Brazil. You need a stadium to fully appreciate it. I saw him in 1990 and he does performs it the same way now as then.
I’ll never understand why the original version wasn’t released as a single. Would have been a guaranteed No 1 and might have eased some of the criticism of him.
I agree, Lee, I like the original more.
This one has more of a wide appeal and the guitar is a little better... but that's it. I feel like the studio has it beat in all the other categories. But they both are great 👍
I like Paul's studio version, but THIS...
Question for all the Macca experts out there. I love this version - Jimmy takes it to whole other place, but the "ahs" (backing vocals) sound way too full/good . Were they added in the studio after the fact?
Like I've always said, live versions are great if you're there. The studio versions are the final expression of what the artist is trying to say.. some people really like that I understand that that is true however I've never understood why I don't enjoy listening to people's mistakes it's not even musical😊 don't ever be ashamed because you prefer for perfection over human-ness.
Without watching I can confirm.
As a talent, no one beats mccartney.
I prefer the original, the sound is more raw. But I liked the live version, this is an excellent composition.
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I'm one that still prefers the original too.
This is the perfect version
This was the peak of Paul's solo career. I remember when he made the cover of Time magazine around this time, and it seemed he could do no wrong. Unfortunately this band fell apart (drug problems, etc.) and the follow up album (London Town) took too long to make, was a commercial letdown, plus it landed during the height of the punk and new wave explosion. But time has been kind to this period, and the Wings material gets almost as big a response as the Beatles stuff at Paul's concerts.
From a certain point of view, he is underrated though. He had massive recognition at the time. Paul, both alone and with Wings, was probably the most successful act of the 70s. 7 No 1 Billboard singles (9 overall), 22 top 10 singles (28 charting singles). 8 consecutive top 10 singles, a record Wings share with Elton John and the Bees Gees. The only act to have their number one single replaced by its own B-side (a live version of the same song -- so technically that's 8 number 1s). Paul has written or co-written 32 Billboard number 1s and is recognized as the most successful songwriter of all time. Every Wings album was a top 10, with over half reaching number 1. Ram reached No 2 because Tapestry was in the way and London Town reached no 2 because Saturday Night Fever was in the way.
So how can such a person possibly be underrated?
Well, his legacy has been forgotten in the popular consciousness. I think it's coming back though, perhaps due to these reaction vids. For over 20 years though, you'd be hard-pressed to hear his songs on classic rock stations. Critics have dismissed him as a "lightweight" and irrelevant. Paul himself was surprised at how successful Wings was when confronted with the numbers; he's used to only seeing himself in the shadow of The Beatles. I mentioned Wings to my dad recently and he was like, but were they really that big? And I was like, yeah, they were. But no one remembers them. When people think about the most successful live albums of the 70s, they think of KISS and Peter Frampton, but Wings Over America sold millions -- the first triple album by a group to reach number 1.But its success was dismissed as "nostalgia for The Beatles", since he included Beatles songs for the first time. Wings is not in the RRHOF. Paul is, but basically on the strength of Wings.
He Is the most successful songwriter of all time, but when people are discussing the giants of popular music, he is barely in the conversation. They talk about Bruce Springsteen and Led Zeppelin etc. So yeah, he's underrated.
Thank you for explaining it like that. You put it better then I ever could lol
The original is a little faster
Paul’s mom died when he was a teenager just like John’s mum had died when John was a teen.
Paul and Linda were my favorite couple, this song makes me sad
IMO..."Beware My Love" and "Call Me Back Again" are Wings songs that better showcase McCartney's singing talent.
Paul is a Gemini like you. He is Genius like you. Paul is a DUDE like you!
Do yourself a favor and watch Rock Show, Wings. Can find it YT Movies or NF I think. It is the performance of the Wings Over America, by Paul & W
🫶🏽 Paul is a gift! Do yourself a favor and watch this concert tour movie. It’s called ‘RockShow’ and a HD version lives here on RUclips. So damn good.
Here is the VIDEO from the LIVE concert "WINGS OVER AMERICA" ruclips.net/video/x_FiIilTwIA/видео.html take a look at it so you can SEE them perform it. It's GREAT You always say that you love to SEE them perform, so I was HOPING you would react to the VIDEO (link I provided here) I MUCH prefer the LIVE version in the link I supplied BETTER than the album cut. He has more PASSION in the live version and it is LONGER and has a BETTER ENDING than the studio version. I saw this 1976 tour in Detroit on May 8, 1976. I had just found out I was expecting our second child.
No steely Sundays?
The Nightfly is up on Patreon so guessing it got blocked.
check out the video of this
The original is by far the better track. It’s always great to hear McCartney play lead guitar Fender Telcaster which was recorded at home, on the live version Jimmy McCullough is using a Gibson SG.
I like the original better too. This one seems to drag and the fidelity isn't as good as the record.
No Dan Sunday???
Blocked. The nightfly by Donald fagen. It's on patreon though. Hopefully they'll unblock it.
This is a great song. The studio version is a little jerky, probably because of his emotional state at the time and because the song is new. He’s had five years or so to get to know the song. It’s better. There’s video to this, you know.
ruclips.net/video/x_FiIilTwIA/видео.htmlsi=cn6LBHh8js-op_jx
Paul solo has a lot of great songs, you just have to avoid the early 80s (a bad period for a lot of legends, Young, Lou Reed, Dylan,... also made their worst albums then). Anyway, Band On The Run is an epic song, and also the whole Ram album is fantastic.
i`ll skip this and wait for the live vid reaction of this performance..really like your stuff but once youve seen this performance you`ll understand..
Spoilt by the original.