VARIOUS ARTISTS: Love in Song: An Atlanta Tribute to Sir Paul McCartney

Various Artists

Love in Song: An Atlanta Tribute to Sir Paul McCartney

© 2000 Demagogue Productions (807328336626)

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Less than 10 copies remain. Energetic tribute to Macca's post-Beatles era (1970-1989). Superb subtleties for true fans. Check out our reviews below:

tracks

1 Love In Song
2 Band On The Run
3 My Brave Face
4 Come And Get It
5 Jet
6 Girls' School
7 Hi, Hi, Hi
8 Letting Go
9 Venus And Mars / Rockshow!
10 Another Day
11 Name And Address
12 Every Night
13 Helen Wheels
14 Temporary Secretary
15 Let Me Roll It
16 Junior's Farm
17 Cook Of The House
18 Mumbo
19 My Love
20 Singalong Junk

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Love in Song features some great Atlanta pop and rock acts covering classic Paul McCartney songs from his post-Beatle era (1970-89). Artists include Big Fish Ensemble, Tommy Rivers & Rick Richards (of Georgia Satellites fame), The Lizardmen, Kenny Howes & The Yeah!, Orange Hat, Blacklight Posterboys, Catfight!, Van Gogh, Paul Melancon, Adam Leland, The Indicators and Star Collector. Each band created their track as a labor of love for the enigmatic McCartney.

Paul McCartney is one of the most recognized and celebrated musical artists in the world. Love in Song offers a creative and exciting take on his wide range of musical styles. Hits "Band On The Run," "Junior's Farm," "Jet," "Every Night" and "Let Me Roll It" are featured, along with lesser known gems like "Name and Address," "Love In Song," "Girls' School," "Temporary Secretary," the instrumental "Singalong Junk" and perhaps the first-ever recorded cover of "Mumbo." All true Macca fans need this disc - don't let "another day" pass!

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  • The first true McCartney Tibute
    author: Alice Spiral

    The only McCartney tribute I was aware of before this was the one by Studio 99 but here its more a labor of love as 20 Indie bands from Atlanta Georgia do their versions.Most are as he did them there's no reconstructions with altered chords. Mumbo was "translated" by 2 members of the Georgia Satellites who may be the most famous on here and its not the first time they revived a Liverpool based song.Because of the unusual garbled English on this one its never till now attracted a cover. Covers of McCartney songs have previously existed on singles by the Drifters,the Faces,Phoebe Snow,Noosha Fox and Toni van Duyne to name but 5 though this collections doesn't go for the obvious but the B sides and album tracks. The sleeve which parodies the first McCartney album indicates its Georgia connections with the table full of peaches instead of cherries

  • Georgia on my mind influenced Yesterday
    author: Richard Astley-Clemas

    I always liked nonsense lyrics and McCartney's Munbo seemed to revive the art of gibberish.So it came as a surprise to realise that the words McCartney sung are actually garbled English! Full marks to those who sussed it out! Temporary Secretary always struck me as a great melody struggling to get out and here its finally escaped.It would howver still make a great ballad. My love comes across as if it was sung by the Beatles in the early days and Girls School actually has a girl vocal.So has Cook of the House but then it had to start with when Linda sung it-great piece of high school pop but then Linda was as good as Lelie Gore anyway. Name & Address by Wings featured the actual bass of Bill Black when Wings made it giving it an authentic Elvis flavor and this version is a good copy of it. Nice touch for a band to be named the Eastmans Last track as Singalong Junk is an instrumental possibly inspired by the fact that McCartney himself produced an instrumental version for his Working Classical CD Definitely one of the great tribute albums and fitting it should come outa Atlanta Georgia,the same State that gave birth to McCartney's first influence Little Richard

  • Georgia on my mind influenced Yesterday
    author: Richard Astley-Clemas

    I always liked nonsense lyrics and McCartney's Munbo seemed to revive the art of gibberish.So it came as a surprise to realise that the words McCartney sung are actually garbled English! Full marks to those who sussed it out! Temporary Secretary always struck me as a great melody struggling to get out and here its finally escaped.It would howver still make a great ballad. My love comes across as if it was sung by the Beatles in the early days and Girls School actually has a girl vocal.So has Cook of the House but then it had to start with when Linda sung it-great piece of high school pop but then Linda was as good as Lelie Gore anyway. Name & Address by Wings featured the actual bass of Bill Black when Wings made it giving it an authentic Elvis flavor and this version is a good copy of it. Nice touch for a band to be named the Eastmans Last track as Singalong Junk is an instrumental possibly inspired by the fact that McCartney himself produced an instrumental version for his Working Classical CD Definitely one of the great tribute albums and fitting it should come outa Atlanta Georgia,the same State that gave birth to McCartney's first influence Little Richard

  • Great.
    author: Mike Gio

    You advertized this perfectly because I want to hear more an dwill buy it.

  • What a collection!
    author: Ansgar Bellersen

    There are hundreds of Beatles covers, dozens of Lennon covers, but a compilation of McCartney solo tracks is hard to find. This CD shows that he deserves to be covered. And this collection consists of fine songs McCartney did apart from his old band. My favourites: Letting Go, Band On The Run, Name And Address (that's how Elvis might have sung it), Love In Song. And .. what a great artwork!

  • This is a great cd!!
    author: Monica Fudzinski

    All of the songs are awesome. I am going to keep this cd in my player forever. Each artist gave the songs they sang their own feel but stayed true to the McCartney sound which is great. I recommend this cd to every McCartney fan.

  • Awesome Tribute!
    author: David Robinson

    An incredible tribute, showing the breadth of McCarney;s solo work, and its ability to be iunterpreted without losing its original magic. Truly a must have for fans. My favorite song on the tribute is the outstanding rework of Band on the Run

  • "Love In Song" rocks like nobody's business from start to finish"
    author: Flagpole Magazine (athens, Ga)

    Well, isn't this a hoot? On Love In Song, the featured parade of local talent sidesteps McCartney's Beatles years in favor of his and late wife Linda's work with Wings and on his various solo outings. Most of the material here is drawn from Wings' Band On The Run and Venus And Mars periods as well as McCartney's first couple of solo efforts. Wings has, and most likely forever will, take a back seat to the Fab Four. Though the rambunctious love of early rock and roll undoubtedly carried over from one group to the next, Wings' spacey, sentimental sound was often lost on disenchanted listeners still yamming about The Beatles' demise. That is not so of the artists featured here, however. Love In Song rocks like nobody's business from start to finish with Atlantans of various styles and genres coming together in a grand celebration of McCartney and Co.'s power pop legacy. Mods on the run The Lizardmen perfectly revitalize "Come And Get It," an infamous, infectious pop gem written by McCartney for the boys in Badfinger, who were recruited by Apple Records shortly before the label went belly-up. Said audio perfection is achieved once more by The Blacklight Posterboy's rendition of "Jet," from Band On the Run, which still sounds like it was wired directly from a telephone cable somewhere in deep outer space. Atlanta pop mechanics Kenny Howes & The Yeah! bow in with a killer medley of "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" while the ferocious femmes in Catfight! cook up a splendid "Girls' School" complete with fetching cheers. Other highlights include Christopher Robin's revved-up "Let Me Roll It," the rockabillyfied "Name And Address" courtesy of the Cashmen, Paul Melancon's appropriately melancholy "Another Day" and Big Fish Ensemble's dense and creepy delivery of said title track. Hell, the whole damn thing is pretty much a highlight if you really want to know the truth. Love In Song is a refreshing change of pace from so many recent half-assed, overdone tribute albums. The all-Atlanta lineup works well and provides us with both old familiars and new acquaintances. So, instead of picking up some thing where Sugar Ray and Faith Hill further lobotomize the songs of your youth, go get yo'self a locally-produced face full of Sir Paul's post-matrimonial musings. Ahhh, what a nice pop rock rush, but without the nasty nosebleeds in the morning. (P.O. Box 2727, Decatur, GA 30031) - Michael Clay Andrews

  • A Peach of a Macca Tribute
    author: Beatlefan Magazine

    Fans will get a kick out of these energetic reworkings of Macca's songs by Atlanta area acts. Not everything tried works, but at least half of the 20 tracks rate as winners, and the selection of tunes is a nice mixture of hits and lesser-known selections. Generally, these versions of the songs tend to be a bit harder-edged than the originals. Particularly notable are a melancholy rendition of "Love in Song" (Big Fish Ensemble) with haunting violin; a driving take on "Band on the Run" (Sonomama); an upbeat reading of "My Brave Face" (Star Collector) that owes more to Elvis Costello than McCartney; a heavier version of "Come and Get It" (The Lizardmen) with guitar replacing the piano and spot-on harmonies; an imaginative reading of "Another Day" (Paul Melancon); and an interesting midtempo acoustic guitar version of "My Love" (The Bordellos) that is almost unrecognizable. Also worth a listen are the album's covers of "Jet" (Blacklight Posterboys); "Name and Address" (The Cashmen) as it might have sounded if a young Elvis had done it; a blues-rock "Hi Hi Hi" (Adam Leland) featuring the harmonica as lead instrument; a nicely done "Temporary Secretary" (Orange Hat); a decent if unimaginative "Every Night" (Chain Poets); and the drumming on "Helen Wheels" (Rollin' Machine). The clever packaging has a front cover take-off on the "McCartney" cover, with Georgia peaches replacing the cherries, and inside there's a variation on the "Run Devil Run" Atlanta drug store shot. - Al Becker

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