Paul McCartney - Goodnight Tonight - Non-Album Tracks (1979-1980)

Here's the next in a long series of stray track albums from Paul McCartney.

This one covers 1979 to 1980, which is my opinion was a strong time for him musically after he'd coasted a little bit in the late 1970s. It contains three songs which were considered hits in the sense that you can still hear them played on the radio sometimes: "Goodnight Tonight," "Daytime Nighttime Suffering," and "Wonderful Christmastime."

Since this is still in his Wings period, a couple of the songs aren't mainly by him, but by his Wings cohort Denny Laine ("Weep for Love" and "Say You Don't Mind") and his wife Linda McCartney ("Love's Full Glory"). I could have added a lot more by these two, but these are the only songs I felt rose to being as good as Paul's songs from around this time. One of the Laine songs, "Say You Don't Mind," actually dates from around 1967 or so, and it was played live by Wings since 1972. But it wasn't until the late 1970s when a quality studio version with Wings personnel was recorded. By the way, even Paul's daughter Heather gets in the act, singing some on the song "It's Not On," despite being only about 16 years old at the time.

The time period of this album includes when McCartney was recording the "McCartney II" album. That included some musical experiments, mostly with synthesizers. Two such experiments here were way, way too long for my tastes. The official version of "Secret Friend" goes on for ten minutes, and the official version of "Check My Machine" goes on for nine minutes. I edited those way down, to three and a half minutes and three minutes respectively.

By the way, note that I have a lot of John Lennon solo material to post too. But I don't want to get lost posting albums from too many different artists at once. His stuff, and that of many other artists, will come later.

01 Goodnight Tonight (Paul McCartney)
02 Daytime Nightime Suffering (Paul McCartney)
03 Weep for Love (Denny Laine with Paul McCartney)
04 Cruising Ahead (Paul McCartney)
05 Wonderful Christmastime (Paul McCartney)
06 Blue Sway [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
07 Secret Friend [Edit] (Paul McCartney)
08 Check My Machine [Edit] (Paul McCartney)
09 Say You Don't Mind (Denny Laine with Paul McCartney)
10 Give Us a Chord, Roy (Paul McCartney)
11 Love's Full Glory (Linda McCartney with Paul McCartney)
12 It's Not On [Demo] (Paul McCartney with Heather McCartney)
13 Seems like Old Times (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696795/PALMCCRTNY1979-1980_GodnghtTonght_atse.zip.html

The cover was supplied to me by The Lighthouse. I edited it by removing the word "Wings" and replacing that with "Paul McCartney" at the top.