YMMV / Wings (Band)

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• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The middle verse of "Junior's Farm" refers to a British political situation that, well, might be incomprehensible to Americans and people born after the '70s. Most likely for this reason, this verse is omitted in Paul's current live performances and on many compilation albums.
• Covered Up: The group's song "Girlfriend" is sometimes more recognized as a Michael Jackson song, although it was originally intended to be sung by him, so no surprises there. However, "Live and Let Die" made Paul's grandchildren think he was trying to be cool covering a Guns N' Roses song...
• Harsher in Hindsight: Both of the songs Jimmy McCulloch wrote and sang for the band, "Medicine Jar" and "Wino Junko", carried strong anti-drug messages. After leaving the band, he would die of a drug overdose.
• Misattributed Song:
  • The theme to Live and Let Die is often mistakenly attributed to The Beatles.
  • One classical pops Cover Album for the Beatles included "Mull of Kintyre"(!).
  • Many of the songs Paul did after leaving the Beatles, but before The Beatles Anthology, have a tendency to be attributed to Wings. It doesn't help that compilations make little distinction between Wings and Paul on his own; they all include songs from both "artists" regardless of what the focus of the compilation is supposed to be. All The Best! is officially a Paul McCartney album, but over half the songs are by Wings. Wingspan: Hits and History features quite a few songs which are Paul solo or Paul and Linda. Even Wings Greatest includes Paul solo and Paul & Linda.
  • For a long time it was thought that they recorded a song called "Penny O'Dell" during the Nashville sessions that produced "Junior's Farm" and "Sally G", thanks to a Beatles bootleg album that presented a poor-quality recording of that name attributed to Wings. Eventually it was established that it wasn't by Wings at all, but was a 1972 song by Country Music Singer-Songwriter Kenny O'Dell called "Homecoming Queen". It was apparently recorded at the same studio, and somehow the tapes got mixed up with the Wings tapes from a few years later. On the really tinny bootleg version, O'Dell's tenor voice does sound vaguely Paul-like, especially surrounded by the vocal harmonies, but no one hearing the full-quality version would ever mistake it for Paul, since O'Dell's Oklahoma drawl is very prominent there.
• Periphery Demographic: "Sally G" got enough Country Music radio airplay to reach #51 on the Billboard Country chart.
• Remade and Improved: The band's version of "Go Now" is considered far superior to the version by The Moody Blues, which also had Denny Laine singing on it.
• Retroactive Recognition: Laurence Juber went on to solo success for his acoustic guitar work - including an album of Wings covers, natch - making Back to the Egg an example for his fans.

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