Temporary Secretary

[bapo!]

All of the 'temporary' talk on the board has put one of the worst songs of the disco era in my head. I'm not trying to do the 'bunch of threads with similar titles' thing, but I want you to share my pain. (And I just want to test out a new thread, to see if I still have the phpBB touch.)

Last year, I decided that I was going to become better acquainted with Paul McCartney's solo stuff. I knew that he had a bunch of hits in the '70s, but I had never heard the albums. So I listened, and yeah, there's a lot of great stuff there. (Not surprising.) For instance, besides 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,' 'Ram' was entirely new to me, and it's a really fun bluesy thing.

Anyway, 'McCartney II' came out in 1980. 'Temporary Secretary' stands out. Sounds like nothing else that McCartney recorded, and we should be grateful for that. And it's the second track on the album! I mentioned it to a friend who's a big McCartney fan, and he said, 'Oh, yeah, I know that song. It has its own Wikipedia page.' Which I guess means that it's truly part of the culture.



'McCartney II' is also the album that features an instrumental that uses an Asian slur in the title. It's an instrumental, it could have been called anything in the world, so why go there?

[temporassy]

'McCartney II' is also the album that features an instrumental that uses an Asian slur in the title. It's an instrumental, it could have been called anything in the world, so why go there?

He had a thing with Japan. Related?

[bapo!]

He had a thing with Japan. Related?

According to this, the song was recorded before the incident, and he just kept the working title. How many months passed between the composition of the song and the album's release? How many people had a hand in it? I just don't understand how these things happen. Yeah, it was a different world in 1980, but still.

A lot of great music, some questionable judgment.

[Jerloma]

Yup...that's pretty fucking terrible.

[bapo!]

Oh, hey, since this is a quasi-Beatles thread, I have a question. Has anybody here ever watched, or even heard of, "All This and World War II"? I had been meaning to watch it for years, and I finally got thru it a few months ago. But really, 5 or 10 minutes would have been enough.

If you're not familiar, it's a 1976 20th Century Fox movie that features documentary footage and movie clips about World War II, with a soundtrack of Beatles covers. (Elton John! The Bee Gees! Tina Turner! Some dude named Leo Sayer!!!) It's even worse than you would imagine. I think this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that every single person on Earth was doing drugs in the '70s. It's out of circulation, but you can find it on YouTube in its entirety if you want to gawk at it in disbelief.

[Jerloma]

You never heard of Leo Sayer?

[temporassy]

Let's see....Leo Sayer..sort of a cover song...Beatles-esque outfits...relevant enough for me, I'm posting it:

[bapo!]

You never heard of Leo Sayer?

Not until I saw the movie. Looking at his bio now, and he actually had a pretty lengthy career. He just stuck out because he has three songs on the soundtrack.

I didn't know that "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" was his. I always thought that was a Bee Gees song.

[Jerloma]

Hey, did they get a new yellow guy?

[bapo!]

Yeah, I'm bumping this thread. My friend who shares a fascination with this song just sent me this link: It's from a McCartney concert a few months ago. Why is this noteworthy? It's the first live performance of 'Temporary Secretary'! After 35 years, he finally decided, 'Yeah, I think the audience is ready.'

[rass]

That's a grade A thread bump. Nice.

Still a horrible song.

And yes, there was a new yellow Wiggle (Greg had a mysterious illness) even before my kids grew out of them (which was at least a couple of years prior to the start of this thread).

[tennbengal]

Not a thread about Maggie Gyllanhall?

[Pruitt]

That's a grade A thread bump. Nice.

Still a horrible song.

And yes, there was a new yellow Wiggle (Greg had a mysterious illness) even before my kids grew out of them (which was at least a couple of years prior to the start of this thread).

Here are the original Wiggles featuring the guy who wore the yellow shirt first. Vintage era Wiggles, BEFORE they sold out.



And speaking of Paul McCartney, he really is a schlock-meister. Party I was at last night featured some retro-music. "Band on the Run" came on and it just struck me that lyrically, it was written at a nursery rhyme level. Never ceases to amaze that people will spend hundreds of dollars to hear mangled versions of Beatles songs.

[duff]

That is Greg. Then Sam took over when Greg had to step down after getting the mysterious illness. I think some chick is the yellow wiggle now. So sad. RIP Greg Wiggle.

[Pruitt]

Hot Potato! Indeed...

[bapo!]

When I glanced at the Swamp this morning, this thread had more responses than I was expecting. And then I remembered: 'Oh, yeah, they're probably just talking about The Wiggles.' The Swamp is a weird place sometimes.

[govmentchedda]

The yellow Wiggle shirt is bad luck? Who knew?

[The Sybian]

Hey, did they get a new yellow guy?

No, Jeff is still there.