Paul's thirty-fifth single.
Credited to "Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus".
Taken from the animated featurette "Rupert and the Frog Song", this was only released in Britain.
Rupert the Bear had been a childhood favourite of the young Macca, and once he had bought the rights to Rupert,
Paul set about making a film and supplying the music to it.
In 1979 Paul made an entire album of songs for a full-length animation film to be made by Oscar Grillo.
The film was never made, but eventually "We All Stand Together" was used in the short cartoon.
On 13th March 1985 at the Ivor Novello Awards, Paul is awarded with "Best Film Theme of 1984" for this track.
The single was released in a picture sleeve, with photography by Terry O'Neill,
and a few weeks after it's initial release, a "cut-to-shape" picture disc single.
Original Chart run (1984): 50 - 39 - 9 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 5 - 11 - 27 - 33 - 42 - 61 - out
The same formats were released again a year later to attempt another Christmas market sales push, with minor chart action peaking at no. 32.
Following year Chart run (1985): 95 - 76 - 45 - 34 - 32 - 43 - 71 - out
2020 Re-issue
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rupert the Bear, MPL restored and remastered the BAFTA winning "Rupert and the Frog Song" 1984 short animated film.
To accompany the film a reimagined picture disc for ‘We All Stand Together’ was also released.
This new 7” shaped picture disc with the iconic image of Rupert The Bear and Paul McCartney is
packaged in a die cut sleeve to highlight the shaped vinyl and includes an exclusive folded poster in the sleeve and outer mailer.
Released 6th November 2020 on UMC with catalogue number 0711674
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