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Junior's Farm
"Junior's Farm" is a song written by Paul McCartney (though credited to Paul and Linda McCartney) and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was issued as a non-album single by Apple Records in November 1974; it peaked at No. 3 in the United States and No. 16 in the United Kingdom.
McCartney had his first ideas about writing a song about quiet farm lifestyle during his long family stay at his cottage in Campbeltown, Scotland, between April and August 1970, amidst the turbulent break-up of the Beatles, but he shelved his recording project for four years. McCartney in 1966 bought the 183-acre Scottish estate called High Park Farm, a place where he composed and recorded several songs. In his 2021 memoir book titled The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, he said:
It was such a relief to get out of those business meetings with people in suits, who were so serious all the time, and go off to Scotland and be able just to sit around in a T-shirt and corduroys. I was very much in that mindset when I wrote this song. The basic message is, let’s get out of here. You might say it's my post-Beatles getting-out-of-town song.
McCartney explained that he based the song's lyrical theme on Bob Dylan's 1965 "Maggie's Farm" and that "the idea was to just get a fantasy song about this person Junior." McCartney said that, in contrast to the degree of thought Dylan applied to his song-writing, "Junior's Farm" "has silly words and basically all it means is, 'Let's get out of the city.' ... As for reading deep meanings into the words, people shouldn't bother, there aren't any."
McCartney and his band recorded "Junior's Farm" along with its B-side "Sally G" between July 16 and 18, 1974 during a short stay in Tennessee, in a period particularly relaxed for him and no concert tours scheduled in that year.
The song was engineered by Ernie Winfrey at Soundshop Studios in Nashville, owned by Buddy Killen. While recording in Nashville, the band stayed at the Lebanon, Tennessee farm of Curly Putman Jr., which accounts for the song's title. Jimmy McCulloch played the guitar solo as his Wings debut. He is mentioned in a line in the song ("Take me down Jimmy").
Despite its relative success outside America, neither of these two songs were included on their subsequent studio album Venus and Mars of 1975, which was scheduled to start its recording sessions between November 5 and 13, 1974 in London. The track only appears in some of the band's greatest hits compilations.
"Junior's Farm" was included in the average setlist of the Wings Over the World tour in 1975, but it was not a song performed live on subsequent tours.
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Junior's Farm
"Junior's Farm" is a song written by Paul McCartney (though credited to Paul and Linda McCartney) and performed by Paul McCartney and Wings. It was issued as a non-album single by Apple Records in November 1974; it peaked at No. 3 in the United States and No. 16 in the United Kingdom.
McCartney had his first ideas about writing a song about quiet farm lifestyle during his long family stay at his cottage in Campbeltown, Scotland, between April and August 1970, amidst the turbulent break-up of the Beatles, but he shelved his recording project for four years. McCartney in 1966 bought the 183-acre Scottish estate called High Park Farm, a place where he composed and recorded several songs. In his 2021 memoir book titled The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, he said:
It was such a relief to get out of those business meetings with people in suits, who were so serious all the time, and go off to Scotland and be able just to sit around in a T-shirt and corduroys. I was very much in that mindset when I wrote this song. The basic message is, let’s get out of here. You might say it's my post-Beatles getting-out-of-town song.
McCartney explained that he based the song's lyrical theme on Bob Dylan's 1965 "Maggie's Farm" and that "the idea was to just get a fantasy song about this person Junior." McCartney said that, in contrast to the degree of thought Dylan applied to his song-writing, "Junior's Farm" "has silly words and basically all it means is, 'Let's get out of the city.' ... As for reading deep meanings into the words, people shouldn't bother, there aren't any."
McCartney and his band recorded "Junior's Farm" along with its B-side "Sally G" between July 16 and 18, 1974 during a short stay in Tennessee, in a period particularly relaxed for him and no concert tours scheduled in that year.
The song was engineered by Ernie Winfrey at Soundshop Studios in Nashville, owned by Buddy Killen. While recording in Nashville, the band stayed at the Lebanon, Tennessee farm of Curly Putman Jr., which accounts for the song's title. Jimmy McCulloch played the guitar solo as his Wings debut. He is mentioned in a line in the song ("Take me down Jimmy").
Despite its relative success outside America, neither of these two songs were included on their subsequent studio album Venus and Mars of 1975, which was scheduled to start its recording sessions between November 5 and 13, 1974 in London. The track only appears in some of the band's greatest hits compilations.
"Junior's Farm" was included in the average setlist of the Wings Over the World tour in 1975, but it was not a song performed live on subsequent tours.