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31 March 2008
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Wings recorded a cover version of Mickey & Sylvia’s 1956 R&B hit ‘Love Is Strange’ for their debut album Wild Life. See more…
We got the band together and just started to play the reggae thing. We did the backing track and decided that ‘Love Is Strange’ would fit over it so we started singing over it and that’s how it ended up. Reggae is the newest and best beat around. There are more possibilities with reggae than anything at the moment.
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5.33pm
14 December 2009
Offline I’ve long wondered why Paul and Linda didn’t bother doing the whole “How do you call your lover boy?” spoken bit? It’s the best-remembered part of the song; and Paul/Linda were an actual married couple – unlike Mickey and Sylvia, whose relationship was strictly professional, not romantic at all…
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6.30pm
7 November 2022
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I’ve long wondered why Paul and Linda didn’t bother doing the whole “How do you call your lover boy?” spoken bit? It’s the best-remembered part of the song; and Paul/Linda were an actual married couple – unlike Mickey and Sylvia, whose relationship was strictly professional, not romantic at all…
I’m woefully ignorant of the 50s music for the most part so I had to do some research — listening first to Buddy Holly’s version, then Mickey and Sylvia’s original (whom I say, with chagrin, I didn’t know existed until 15 minutes ago). Before I did, I assumed maybe the answer was that Paul was modeling after Buddy Holly’s version, but in fact, his version is musically closer to Mickey and Sylvia’s, so Von Bontee’s question is even more apropos. I agree it would have been cool if Paul and Linda had done that and even added a little new repartee to that part. I guess Paul just felt that musically it wouldn’t fit.
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8.11pm
7 November 2022
Offline Watching Mickey and Sylvia on the Steve Allen show in 1957. I’m surprised they allowed it, given how sizzlingly sultry Sylvia was — HUBBA HUBBA! I also note that Mickey was a pretty good guitar player. There’s one moment where he does an interest strumming sound effect with his electric guitar as a comical response to what Sylvia speaks/sings at one point —
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8.24pm
30 December 2022
Offline The drums in this song omg
It’s just so good idk
Also Linda… I live her… and her vocals are perfect…
Haha anyways back to ur normal convo
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1 December 2009
Offline Mickey Baker was actually a guitar instructor/session player who teamed up with Sylvia Vanderpool, a student of his, to form an r&b/pop duo in the manner of Les Paul and Mary Ford, even though Baker’s true passion was for jazz. But his solos undeniably rock:
Neely said
The drums in this song omg
Denny Seiwell was possibly my favourite drummer Paul worked with after 1969; based purely on this wild two-person jam outtake from the “Ram ” period
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12.07am
7 November 2022
Offline @vonbontee — is it Denny Seiwell on “Too Many People ” and other Ram songs? If yes, I’d agree he was the best drummer Paul had. Also I know he was drummer on “Mumbo” — another good example of solid drums.
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12.10am
7 November 2022
Offline Speaking of Mickey Baker, I like to see what musicians who flared up in a particular decade long ago like the 50s or 60s (or even 70s) were doing many years later, as the musical world continued to explode in new and kaleidoscopic ways all around them. I note he died in 2012. So far, I’ve only found a live concert he did in the early 1980s.
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1.36am
1 December 2009
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@vonbontee — is it Denny Seiwell on “Too Many People ” and other Ram songs? If yes, I’d agree he was the best drummer Paul had. Also I know he was drummer on “Mumbo” — another good example of solid drums.
Yes, according to Wikipedia, Seiwell seems to be the only drummer on the album.
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15 February 2015
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Genuinely had no idea this was a cover song – it makes a lot more sense now, haha. Listening to the original was very interesting, and I think Paul & Linda doing the spoken-word bit would’ve been very charming (I can easily hear Paul proclaiming it a la his monologues in “Rock Show” and “Famous Groupies”), but perhaps Linda didn’t want to be that bold, or perhaps they were focusing on a more musical/jam-focused approach to the album.
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2.51pm
7 November 2010
Offline I always loved how different each iteration of this song is. Took me a long time to realise the Wings version was the same song as the Mickey and Sylvia version, even though I love Dirty Dancing!
Love Linda’s vocals – “a-yeah yeahhh!”
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11.38pm
14 December 2009
Offline Mickey & Sylvia are one of my top 10-12 favourite acts of the original 1950s rock ‘n roll boom (alongside Chuck/Bo/Buddy/Elvis/etc); but until recently I had no idea that they kept recording sporadically through the 60s, and as late as 1972….or that one of their last collaborations was this 1969 cover of a song by one James Paul McCartney himself!:
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