Wings - Silly Love Songs [Original 1976 Music Video + HQ Audio]
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- "Silly Love Songs" is a song written by Paul McCartney and performed by Wings. The song appears on the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound. It was also released as a single in 1976, backed with "Cook of the House". The song, written in response to music critics accusing him of writing only "silly love songs", also features disco overtones.
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"Silly Love Songs" was written as a rebuttal to music critics, as well as former Beatle and friend, John Lennon, accusing Paul McCartney of writing lightweight love songs. Author Tim Riley suggests that in the song, McCartney is inviting "his audience to have a laugh on him," as Elvis Presley had sometimes done.
"But over the years people have said, 'Aw, he sings love songs, he writes love songs, he's so soppy at times.' I thought, Well, I know what they mean, but, people have been doing love songs forever. I like 'em, other people like 'em, and there's a lot of people I love -- I'm lucky enough to have that in my life. So the idea was that "you" may call them silly, but what's wrong with that?
The song was, in a way, to answer people who just accuse me of being soppy. The nice payoff now is that a lot of the people I meet who are at the age where they've just got a couple of kids and have grown up a bit, settling down, they'll say to me, 'I thought you were really soppy for years, but I get it now! I see what you were doing!'
By the way, 'Silly Love Songs' also had a good bassline and worked well live."
- Paul McCartney, Billboard
McCartney allowed the horn section to create their own parts for the song.
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The US single was released on 1 April 1976 and spent five non-consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Silly Love Songs" was the number 1 pop song in Billboard's Year-End Charts of 1976. It was also the group's second of three number ones on the Easy Listening chart. In 2013, Billboard Magazine determined the song is McCartney's biggest US chart hit of his post-Beatles career, ranking at No. 36 on the "all-time" charts. The UK single was released on 30 April 1976 and reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one million copies.
The song was McCartney's 27th number one as a songwriter, the all-time record for most number one hits by a songwriter. With this song, McCartney became the first person to have a year-end No. 1 song as a member of two distinct acts. He previously hit No. 1 in the year-end Billboard chart with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964 and "Hey Jude" in 1968. In 2008, the song was listed at No. 31 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"Silly Love Songs" has since appeared on multiple of McCartney's greatest hits compilations, including Wings Greatest and All the Best!. It also appeared on the "Hits" half of the compilation Wingspan: Hits and History.
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"Silly Love Songs" has generally received positive reviews from critics, despite the common criticism of the song lacking substance. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song, as well as its follow-up single, "Let 'Em In", as "so lightweight that their lack of substance seems nearly defiant." Music critic Robert Christgau called the two tracks "charming if lightweight singles", while Rolling Stone critic Stephen Holden said "Silly Love Songs" was "a clever retort whose point is well taken." John Bergstrom of PopMatters called the song "an exemplary piece of mid-‘70s pop production and a pure pleasure."
Always love watching Paul and Linda together. They truly loved each other . Rip Linda❤️
%100 Guarantee he thinks about her every day...She was INFATUATED with him their ENTIRE relationship..."OMG; I'm married to Paul McCartney???" Just don't make them like they used to!!!
Lead bass guitar...how fab. One of my favourite songs. I always get emotional seeing Paul and Linda together...they were so perfectly matched. It's so immensely sad when soul mates are spilt by the death of one....I can barely even comprehend that level of loss. So I send my whole heart's love to anyone who has lost the love of their life....
Go Lord Paul McCartney. Everybody deserve a silly love song. When it gets dark, your song keep ringing in my ear.
This guy. What a writer. Means a lot to me this song. The wife and I, thank you very much. We walked back down the isle after getting married...dancing to this. What a moment!
nice comment, like the lyrics of ween The party
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nailed it fotoloco!
Excellent eh Congratulations ❤
1976-A fabulous year to be 19 years old. Great music. Civil people .
Great song, heard it on True Blood and fell in love.
Such memories. Things were simpler, then.
Things weren't simpler then, but some of us were lucky enough to live a more sheltered life. I was 14 in 1976 and that summer was the first time I ever saw a husband haul off and punch his wife in the face when I went to collect their son for an outing of some kind. I was utterly shocked at what I saw, but soon learned that there wasn't a damned thing anyone would do about it. Not back then. The only thing my parents did to help was give my friend a safe space to escape to when his parents fought like that. He told me when we were adults that my family literally saved his life, by giving him both a way to escape the violence, and by letting him experience a "normal" family, if only for a few hours at a time.
One of my classmates and her sister were also being sexually molested by their father during the 70s. His younger daughter got pregnant by him, and he threw her out for "being a whore." I was an adult before I learned the truth--after the younger daughter committed suicide around 8-9 years after she graduated high school. She was a mess all the years between high school and her death--bad men, lots of drugs, lots of jail. Maybe if people had talked about those things back then, something could have been done for her before her life spiraled completely out of control.
So, no, life wasn't as simple for everyone as it was for the lucky among us.
Best sing er a song wrier of All Time
My parents would play this song 🎵 in our apt when I was little. I was 3 1976. Great memories of my childhood ❤ 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
The ABSOLUTE SPLENDOUR of Paul McCartney!
Great sounds Song Video Just Excellent Thanks Sir Paul y WINGS❤
I love this song and Paul McCartney
One of the best songs!
I heard Paul wrote this as a response to Lennon's dig (meant for him); that music no longer addressed important issues and instead that certain people were writing silly love songs instead.
Lennon was correct.
Lennon was already dead
Lennon was right
@@toallim7171 not in 1975
@@ratmonger305 Loser
Sound quality 👍💕
McLoverly Song
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Love this
You have class...
What an interesting mix of this song. Ive followed the piano for the first two minutes... how wonderful the direction is from the producer... The piano sounds like happiness... The bass Paul's bass I guess... Is himself.. bounding happily about...free.
Fab song from Our King !! 🍀💚🍀
Excellent song! Great memories!
Awesome video
If that's a cowbell in the beginning, this tune needs more of it.
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It's fine the way it is. Every part of this is phenomenal. It's no ordinary pop song, musically speaking.
McCartney put out some clunkers in the 70s, but this was far from being one of them. He just had to show us that he was second to none when it came to forging pop music gold.
Agreed. More cow bell is always recommended!
classic. i'm a weirdo. i like Wings more than i like the Beatles. always.
I can definitely see that. The Beatles broke sound barriers in music. WINGS was the original modern pop songwriter (Paul) using his box of 64 colors to groove and party with new friends and the love if his life! What fun!
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Great quality thanks for posting :)
Extraordinaria canción de Paúl. Uno de los temas que tanto le gustaba a nuestro hermano Antonio Sullca (+) (1967-2021)
Genius.
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I loved seeing a young Benny Hill in the beginning of this video
I agree
Yes
She didn't marry for money. She was probably richer than he was. Her granddad and daddy were Eastman of Eastman-Kodak
Wish I coulda been there, even if I was only 9. Best days best life ever. ~wink~
Not a Beatles fan but I do like Paul
This song was simply Paul's way of responding to John Lennon's comment about Wings music. "They're all silly love songs"
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Not so silly Sir
Just listen to the bass lilne.....
Yes!! It’s really really good!
Good horns and nice strings too 👌
I love McCartney, but this is quite possibly one of the worst songs ever written. Sickeningly sweet. Possibly worse than the Archies, "Sugar, Sugar."
So you prefer the music stylings of Manson, Dahmer? 🤨😉😂
I also used to think badly about this song - it was sappy, corny, a little too upbeat. But then I just started listening to it musically- with a focus on the bass line- and it all kind of clicked for me. Still not one of his "greatest" songs (and he has so many!) but I've come to appreciate this for the pop gem that it is...
It's meant to be slightly ironic
@@Vincenzo-wn1or Yes, intentional garbage
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, but what’s wrong with that ?
Te la dedico mi amor ❤️ linda onde quiera que estes
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