Wild Life

Wings


Wild Life - Front Cover	Wild Life - Rear Cover

Wild Life - A-side Label	Wild Life - B-side Label

Wild Life - Cassette Cover

Wild Life - The Cassette

Label

Apple

Catalogue No.

PCS 7142

Release date

7th December 1971

Total time

39:55

U.K. Album Chart Detail :

Entry Date :	18th December 1971
Highest Position :	11
Weeks in Chart :	9

Detail :

Paul's third "solo" album, credited to "Wings".
Wings I - Paul, Linda, Denny Seiwell and Denny Laine.
Paul plays bass, piano and guitars.
Linda plays keyboards.
Denny S. plays drums.
Denny L. plays guitars.

The album was produced by Paul and Linda, with recording engineers Tony Clarke and Alan Parsons.
Sleeve notes are by Clint Harrigan.

Most of these tracks (there aren't many !) were recorded in the first week of August 1971, and most were done in one take. When the album received bad reviews, Paul regretted recording in such a rush

Two extra tracks were recorded at the sessions but are unreleased, "Tragedy" and "Breakfast Blues".

The front cover photography was by Barry Lategan, with graphics by Gordon House.
The inner sleeve is a plain yellow, and the record labels feature a picture of Paul taken by Linda on the A-side, and a picture of Linda taken by Paul on the B-side, as you can see above.

"Love Is Strange" b/w "I Am Your Singer" was going to be released as a single to promote the album, but was pulled at the last minute due to some controversy in Ireland which caused Paul to knock off the "Give Ireland" single.

Side 1

Track	Composer	Time
Mumbo	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	3:54
Bip Bop	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	4:14
Love Is Strange	Baker-Smith	4:50
Wild Life	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	6:48

Side 2

Track	Composer	Time
Some People Never Know	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	6:35
I Am Your Singer	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	2:15
"Untitled, unlisted track"	"none listed"	0:47
Tomorrow	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	3:28
Dear Friend	P.McCartney & L.McCartney	5:53
"Untitled, unlisted track 2"	"none listed"	0:43

Further Issues of "Wild Life"

There is also a cassette version released at the same time (TC-PCS 7142) pictured above.
The L.P. and cassette are deleted in December 1976.
The L.P. has a re-issue on the Fame label in April 1984 FA 3101 (cassette TC-FA 3101)

First C.D. release occurs 5th October 1987, once again on the Fame label, CD-FA 3101
This has a running time of 50:11 as it adds tracks :

Track Composer Time

Oh Woman Oh Why Mr. and Mrs. McCartney 4:33

Mary Had A Little Lamb P. McCartney and L. McCartney 3:30

Little Woman Love P. McCartney and L. McCartney 2:06

These bonus tracks were all previously released, including two hit single b-sides and one a-side.

A "Re-master" re-issue C.D. in April 1993 has catalogue number CDPMCOL 3 (+ cassette TCPMCOL 3),
(international number CDP 7 89237 2).
This has a running time of 53:03 and has the different bonus tracks :

Track Composer Time

Give Ireland Back To The Irish P. McCartney and L. McCartney 3:42

Mary Had A Little Lamb P. McCartney and L. McCartney 3:30

Little Woman Love P. McCartney and L. McCartney 2:06

Mama's Little Girl McCartney 3:40

This issue had two a-sides and a b-side of hit singles, but added the unreleased "Mama's Little Girl" which was recorded in early 1972 during the sessions for, but left off of, "Red Rose Speedway".
Incidentaly the C.D. releases give titles to the untitled L.P. tracks, which are :
"Bip Bop Link" and "Mumbo Link" respectively.