[klaatumail] Re: McGear
- From: Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:42:03 -0400
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:22:09 -0700
> From: tnshell40@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [klaatumail] Re: McGear
> To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >That was a very productive time for Paul, releasing several singles and
> >an occasional album under these types of names and other pseudonyms.
> >(Suzie and the Red Stripes;
>
> The record shop I mentioned in an earlier email has a 45 by Suzie and the Red
> Stripes, but what made me do a 'huh', is that it is on the EPIC lable (the
> orange variety). When I first saw it in the Beatle 45 section I thought what
> is this until i saw the MPL.
>
There is also a 12" picture sleeve for that single which has a reference on it
to the album the song was being taken from "Oriental Nightfish". That album
never materialized and is probably sitting in a vault somewhere as per
McCartney's habit of testing the public's taste first and then following
through with a project (or not).
The Epic single came in two varieties - one is just the orange Epic label with
standard copyright info. But in Canada, CBS/Epic tried to pull a fast one on
unsuspecting radio stations and issued the single with the government regulated
Canadian Content designation MAPL (it's a large black circle divided into
quarters with each of these letters in the quadrants). As it's a McCartney
release and wasn't written, produced or recorded in Canada, the ruse was a
blatant lie...which many stations never bothered to check...and played the
single. But even after they found out it was McCartney...they STILL played the
single....because it was Beatles related. Win/win for McCartney.
Jaimie
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