Tomorrow (Paul McCartney song)

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"Tomorrow"
Wings
from the album Wild Life
Released7 December 1971
RecordedJuly–August 1971
GenrePop[1]
Length3:28
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
Producer(s)Paul McCartney
"Tomorrow"
Single by David Cassidy
from the album Home Is Where the Heart Is
B-side"Half Past Your Bedtime"
ReleasedJuly 1976 (South Africa)
GenrePop
Length3:32
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
Producer(s)Bruce Johnston, David Cassidy

"Tomorrow" is a song by the British–American band

Wings from their debut album Wild Life, released in December 1971. It was written by band members Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. In 1976, American singer David Cassidy
had a hit with his cover version of the song.

Composition and recording

Paul McCartney had taped a

Yesterday", as McCartney reveals his insecurity and "plead[s] with his lover not to let him down".[6]

Wings recorded the basic track for the song between 25 and 27 July 1971 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Overdubs on this and other songs from the band's debut album took place in August.[7] According to drummer Denny Seiwell's recollection, McCartney played piano on the basic track and Denny Laine played bass; he says Linda might also have played some piano.[8]

Release and reception

Beatles bandmate John Lennon.[9] The album received highly unfavourable reviews from music critics.[10][11][12] Writing in Rolling Stone, John Mendelsohn said that "Tomorrow" was "archetypal post-Beatles McCartney: banal, self-celebrating lyrics full of many of the most tired rhymes in Western pop; glossy, if unfocussed production; pretty, eminently Muzakable melodies".[13] By contrast, Billboard's reviewer highlighted the track as one of the album's four "triumphs".[14]

Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner said that, although the song was among the "one or two half-decent tunes" on Wild Life, it was "suffocated by Linda's gloppy oohs and aahs unaccountably mixed as high as the lead vocal".[15] Howard Sounes identifies it and "Dear Friend" as the album's "only two interesting songs".[16] In his book on the former Beatles' careers from 1970 to 1980, Rodriguez includes "Tomorrow" in a chapter covering the best "unsung" McCartney songs.[17] He describes it as a composition that "evoked his Beatle triumphs, or at least McCartney's stronger cuts" and says that had it been released as a single, the song might have created more public interest in Wild Life.[3]

In 1975, McCartney recorded an instrumental version of "Tomorrow" in the reggae style, which, according to author Luca Perasi, appears to be a musical parody.[8] The track began circulating on bootleg compilations, paired with "Proud Mum", an instrumental that McCartney recorded as an intended advertising jingle for Mother's Pride bread.[18] In a 1976 interview with Paul Gambaccini, McCartney said that "Tomorrow" was one of the Wild Life tracks that had become well known to "freaks" and "connoisseurs".[8][19] He also recalled that Lee Eastman, Linda's father, had urged him to re-record it at a much slower tempo.[8] Some sources claim that McCartney recorded a new version of "Tomorrow" in 2011 with Diana Krall. As of 2013, neither the 1975 instrumental nor the rumoured duet with Krall had been officially released.[8] McCartney included the 1971 Wings recording on the 2001 compilation Wingspan: Hits and History.[19]

Personnel

Personnel per Andrew Grant Jackson:[20]

David Cassidy cover

"Tomorrow" became a hit for David Cassidy in 1976. It was released a single from his album Home Is Where the Heart Is. The song was produced by Bruce Johnston.

The song reached number 10 in South Africa.[21] McCartney remarked about Cassidy's cover of "Tomorrow" as taking the song to its ultimate potential.[citation needed]

Chart history

Chart (1976) Peak
position
South Africa (Springbok)[21] 10

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4165-9093-4
    .
  2. ISBN 978-88-909122-1-4
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  3. ^ a b c Rodriguez 2010, p. 372.
  4. ISBN 978-0-313-34969-0
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  5. ^ Benitez 2010, p. 40.
  6. ISBN 978-0-8041-7914-0
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  7. ^ Perasi 2013, pp. 66, 72.
  8. ^ a b c d e Perasi 2013, p. 73.
  9. ISBN 978-0-87833-304-2
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  10. ^ Rodriguez 2010, p. 44.
  11. ISBN 0-07-055087-5
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  12. ISBN 978-0-297-87075-3
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  13. ^ Perasi 2013, p. 74.
  14. ^ McGee 2003, p. 182.
  15. ^ Schaffner 1978, p. 151.
  16. ISBN 978-0-00-723705-0
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  17. ^ Rodriguez 2010, pp. 369, 371–72.
  18. ISBN 0-615-11724-4
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  19. ^
    Ultimate Classic Rock
    . Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  20. ISBN 978-0-8108-8222-5
    .
  21. ^ a b "SA Charts 1965 – March 1989". Retrieved 2 September 2018.

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