Tuesday 28 November 2023

What's the use of worrying?

Paul McCartney & Wings - Mrs Vandebilt - Lyrics Wings

Jan 22, 2021 CALIFORNIA

Mrs. Vandebilt
Paul McCartney & Wings
(Lyrics)


Down in the jungle, living in a tent
You don't use money, you don't pay rent
You don't even know the time, but you don't mind

Ho, hey ho  Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho  Ho, hey ho

When your light is on the blink, you never think of worrying
What's the use of worrying?
When your bus has left the stop, you'd better drop your hurrying
What's the use of hurrying?

Leave me alone, Mrs. Vandebilt
I've got plenty of time of my own

What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of anything?

Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho

What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of anything?

Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho
Ho, hey ho

When your pile is on the wane
You don't complain of robbery
Run away, don't bother me
What's the use of worrying?
No use!
What's the use of anything?

Leave me alone, Mrs. Washington
I've done plenty of time on my own

What's the use of worrying?
What's the use of hurrying?
No use!
What's the use of anything?

Label - Apple
Producer - Paul McCartney
Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released in December 1973. It was McCartney's fifth album after leaving the Beatles in April 1970. Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was aided by two hit singles – "Jet" and "Band on the Run" – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to revitalising McCartney's critical standing. It remains McCartney's most successful album and the most celebrated of his post-Beatles works.

The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic location. Shortly before departing for Lagos, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group. With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts.
The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of song lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.
By 1973, three years after the break-up of the Beatles, Paul McCartney had yet to regain his artistic credibility or find favour with music critics for his post-Beatles work.
After completing a successful UK tour with his band Wings,
In July 1973,
He planned their third album as a means to re-establish himself after the mixed reception given to Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway.

Keen to record outside the United Kingdom, McCartney asked EMI to send him a list of all their international recording studios. He selected Lagos in Nigeria and was attracted to the idea of recording in Africa. In August, the band – consisting of McCartney and his wife Linda, ex-Moody Blues guitarist and pianist Denny Laine, Henry McCullough on lead guitar, and Denny Seiwell on drums – started rehearsals for the new album at the McCartneys' Scottish farm. During one rehearsal session, McCullough and McCartney argued, and McCullough quit.
Seiwell left a week later, the night before the band flew out to Nigeria.This left just McCartney, Linda and Laine to record in Lagos, assisted by former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. McCartney had chosen Lagos, as he felt it would be a glamorous location where he and the band could sun on the beach during the day and record at night; the reality, however, was that after the end of a civil war in 1970, Nigeria was run by a military government, with corruption and disease commonplace.

It's a collection of songs and the basic idea about the band on the run is a kind of prison escape. At the beginning of the album, the guy is stuck inside four walls and breaks out. There is a thread, but not a concept.
– Paul McCartney

Paul thought, 'I've got to do it, either I give up and cut my throat or [I] get my magic backing
– Linda McCartney to Sounds magazine

[Paul and I] made the album as though we weren't in a band, as though we were just two producers/musicians.
– Denny Laine

Track listing
All songs written by Paul and Linda McCartney, except "No Words" written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine.

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Of course this is not a Christian song, but I like the refrain 'What's the use of worrying?' because those who are saved don't need to worry!

Are you saved??

We all need to be saved from having to spend our eternity in God's lake of fire, because that's a fate we ALL deserve.
So be SAVED and believe that God LOVES us so MUCH that He manifested Himself on earth as the Lord JESUS Christ who shed His sinless blood for the forgiveness of our sins, who was buried and rose from the dead, three days later, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
If you believe this you're not only saved but sealed with the Holy Spirit and rapture-ready.
Read your Bible every day and talk to our creator about everything and make Him your best Friend and share this GOOD NEWS = GOSPEL with others.


11 comments:

  1. PAUL McCARTNEY (1973) - MY LOVE
    written by Paul McCartney to his wife Linda . The ballad was a number one single and the most successful track from the Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album Red Rose Speedway.
    "Red Rose Speedway" is the second album by Paul McCartney and Wings and the fourth by McCartney since leaving the Beatles. The album was released in 1973 after the relatively weak commercial performance of McCartney's previous, Wild Life, which had been credited to Wings. Red Rose Speedway winds up being a really strange record, one that veers toward the schmaltzy AOR MOR (especially on the hit single "My Love"), yet is thoroughly twisted in its own desire toward domestic art. As a result, this is every bit as insular as the lo-fi records of the early '90s, but considerably more artful, since it was, after all, designed by one of the great pop composers of the century. Yes, the greatest songs here are slight -- "Big Barn Bed," "One More Kiss," and "When the Night" -- but this is a deliberately slight record

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    1. "When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. McCartney wrote the song when he was about 14, probably in April or May 1956, and it was one of the first songs he ever wrote. The song was recorded in a key different from the final recording; it was sped up at the request of McCartney to make his voice sound younger. It prominently features a trio of clarinets (two regular clarinets and one bass clarinet) throughout.

      Recording:
      The Beatles recorded two takes of the song on 6 December 1966, during one of the first sessions for the as-yet-unnamed album that became Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Martin produced, supported by engineers Geoff Emerick and Phil McDonald. McCartney overdubbed his lead vocal onto take two without the other Beatles present on 8 December. On 20 December, McCartney, Lennon and George Harrison overdubbed backing vocals and Ringo Starr added the sound of bells.

      Martin made two reduction mixes (takes three and four) with the latter best. On 21 December, session musicians Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie and Frank Reidy overdubbed two clarinets and a bass clarinet onto take four. Emerick later explained, "The clarinets on that track became a very personal sound for me; I recorded them so far forward that they became one of the main focal points." Martin recalled, "I remember recording it in the cavernous Number One studio at Abbey Road and thinking how the three clarinet players looked as lost as a referee and two linesmen alone in the middle of Wembley Stadium." On the same day, Martin remixed the song for mono three times, although this was only a demo version. He made four new mono mixes on 29 December.

      On 30 December, unsatisfied with all of these attempts, McCartney suggested speeding up the track to raise it by around a semitone from its original key of C major to D♭ major. Martin remembers that McCartney suggested this change to make his voice sound younger. McCartney says, "I wanted to appear younger, but that was just to make it more rooty-tooty; just lift the key because it was starting to sound turgid." Martin, Emerick and Richard Lush made the sped-up remix from take four on 17 April 1967. Musicologist Michael Hannan comments on the completed track: "The rich timbres of the clarinets give the mix a fuller, fatter sound than many of the other tracks on the album."

      Release:
      The song was nearly released on a single as the B-side of either "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Penny Lane". It was instead held over to be included as an album track for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Everett comments that the protagonist of "When I'm Sixty-Four" is sometimes associated with the Lonely Hearts Club Band concept, but in his opinion the song is thematically unconnected to others on the album.

      According to author George Case, all of the songs on Sgt. Pepper were perceived by contemporary listeners as being drug-inspired, with 1967 marking the pinnacle of LSD's influence on pop music. Some fans viewed the lyric "digging the weeds" from "When I'm Sixty-Four" as a possible drug allusion. In August 1967, The Beatles Book published an article discussing whether the album was "too advanced for the average pop fan". One reader complained that all the songs except "Sgt. Pepper" and "When I'm Sixty-Four" were "over our heads", adding, "The Beatles ought to stop being so clever and give us tunes we can enjoy."

      "When I'm Sixty-Four" was included in the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. It was also used over the opening credits of the 1982 film The World According to Garp.

      Giles Martin remixed the song for inclusion on the album's 50th anniversary release in 2017. Martin mixed the song from the original tapes rather than their subsequent mixdowns. Take 2 of the song was included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition.

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    2. When I get older losing my hair
      Many years from now
      Will you still be sending me a valentine
      Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
      If I'd been out till quarter to three
      Would you lock the door?
      Will you still need me, will you still feed me
      When I'm sixty four?

      You'll be older too
      And if you say the word
      I could stay with you

      I could be handy, mending a fuse
      When your lights have gone
      You can knit a sweater by the fireside
      Sunday mornings go for a ride
      Doing the garden, digging the weeds
      Who could ask for more?
      Will you still need me, will you still feed me
      When I'm sixty four?

      Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight
      If it's not too dear
      We shall scrimp and save
      Grandchildren on your knee
      Vera, Chuck and Dave

      Send me a postcard, drop me a line
      Stating point of view
      Indicate precisely what you mean to say
      Yours sincerely, wasting away
      Give me your answer, fill in a form
      Mine forevermore
      Will you still need me, will you still feed me
      When I'm sixty four?
      Ho!

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