Vinyl Album - Wings - Wings Greatest - Parlophone

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Wings
Title:	Wings Greatest
Label:	Parlophone
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	PCTC 256 / 0C 066-61 963
Date:	1 Dec 1978
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	55 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Wings	Another Day	McCartney	8.0 Rate
A2	Wings	Silly Love Songs	McCartney	7.7 Rate
A3	Wings	Live And Let Die	McCartney	8.7 Rate
A4	Wings	Junior's Farm	McCartney	9.0 Rate
A5	Wings	With A Little Luck	McCartney	7.3 Rate
A6	Wings	Band On The Run	McCartney	9.7 Rate
B1	Wings	Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey	McCartney	8.5 Rate
B2	Wings	Hi Hi Hi	McCartney	9.0 Rate
B3	Wings	Let 'Em In	McCartney	9.0 Rate
B4	Wings	My Love	McCartney	9.3 Rate
B5	Wings	Jet	McCartney	8.0 Rate
B6	Wings	Mull Of Kintyre	McCartney, Laine	7.0 Rate

Notes

Produced by Paul McCartney except Live And Let Die, co-produced with George Martin.

Images

Number: 504058 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Front Cover.	Number: 504059 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Back Cover.	Number: 504098 Uploaded By: jordansongs Description: Alternate back cover with different colour font.	Number: 505710 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Inner Sleeve
Number: 505711 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Inner Sleeve	Number: 505714 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Price Sticker	Number: 530630 Uploaded By: harry1958 Description: Wings PCTC 256 poster	Number: 530631 Uploaded By: harry1958 Description: price attack insert front
Number: 530632 Uploaded By: harry1958 Description: price attack insert open	Number: 505712 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Label Side 1	Number: 505713 Uploaded By: Quad5point1 Description: Label Side 2	Number: 540879 Uploaded By: Paul Vinyl Description: A-SIDE VARIATION
Number: 510536 Uploaded By: jordansongs Description: B Side Label Variation

Comments and Reviews


Quad5point1 30th May 2021		I just happened across THIS TONIGHT This is the Official UK Charts for December 1978 and if you look at position 33 there is Wings Greatest Hits and it's listed as being on Parlophone



TopPopper 11th Mar 2016		I'm almost inclined to say "no label".



Magic Marmalade 11th Mar 2016		What also may be relevant is that the Beatles Apple singles on cat don't seem to have many demos attached (Beatles knowers will be better placed to explain than me), except for Something, which was issued as a demo on Parlophone, and released on Apple. Could the same be true of albums (at least in one or two cases), where the demo stage was under Parlophone, then release on whatever label was appropriate - in this case MPL (But still under the Parlophone-EMI umbrella). Kind of like a tree structure of label subsidiaries: EMI>Parlophone>Apple/MPL etc. ? (Admittedly, still doesn't answer whether it should be Parlophone or MPL as the heading, but if the 45s are anything to go by, and Apple is only a sideways step from MPL, and Apple is the label of issue there, then maybe this ought to be MPL??????)



TopPopper 10th Mar 2016		My impression is that McCartney wanted to turn his back on the Beatles' Apple label. While the other Beatles honoured their Apple agreement until it expired in early 1976, Macca jumped sideways to EMI's Capitol imprint before then. He moved to Capitol for his singles, and the ones which were not on Capitol were also anonymous or, arguably, mpl. See here which also lists the non-Capitol singles as being on Parlophone - but why? Look at this example - why should it be listed as Parlophone? In truth, Macca's first solo single on Parlophone is Goodnight Tonight in 1979.



Quad5point1 10th Mar 2016		Yea but the PC prefix is also on "An Apple Recording" albums



Magic Marmalade 10th Mar 2016		Isn't the "YEX" matrix prefix in the Parlophone (and Beatles) scheme... and the cat# prefix PC... also significant of that label?



Quad5point1 10th Mar 2016		Just had a look at Wings UK albums in the database and from Speed of Sound to Back To The Egg They are the same, only MPL on the label



Quad5point1 10th Mar 2016		I have looked up some other sites the most prominent one being JPGR. It's listed there as well as being Parlophone. I can see your point though, but i do remember reading another article where McCartney was playing Parlophone off against Capitol and there was bad blood about it. I must try and see if I can find that webpage again, it might shed some light on this issue



TopPopper 10th Mar 2016		We usually go by what it says on the record. Accepted wisdom might be that it's Parlophone, but when you look at Macca's albums from about 1974 to about 1979, they are, like this one, label-anonymous. His UK singles were coming out on Capitol, not Parlophone. What reason is there to think this LP is on the Parlophone label?



Quad5point1 10th Mar 2016		Wikipedia Has it listed as Parlophone UK and Capitol USA



TopPopper 8th Mar 2016		Looking at this record again - I don't see the word Parlophone anywhere (have I missed it?). If it doesn't mention Parlophone, I don't think we should list it that way. It doesn't appear to have a label at all, except possibly mpl.



Magic Marmalade 12th Dec 2015



Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Well, TopPopper, I was just trying to be fair to Linda(or at least her memory). By the way, did anyone in Australia see Part 2 of the George Harrison doco, "Living In The Material World" which aired on SBS last night at 8.30pm?



TopPopper 1st Feb 2015		As I understand it, Linda was mostly less than enthused by being roped into Wings. Her playing ability was minimal, and must have been embarrassing at times, considering how enormous the group was. I can't imagine she particularly wanted a joint credit for writing, say, "My Love" (which was written about her), and in the interests of historical accuracy, not to mention common sense, these songs should be credited to Paul alone. I get the impression he wanted to be in a double act (like John and Yoko?) but I don't think she ever did.



Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Perhaps if EMI(and I flatly refuse to acknowledge the insatiably greedy Universal[MCA] as their owner) were to re-issue this album on a new CD they could honour Linda's memory and reinstate her share of composer credits on all but Tracks A5(LP), Tr.5(CD) and B6(LP), Tr.12(CD).



jordansongs 31st Jan 2015		After further investigation, there are several examples of Linda receiving a credit on covers of Wings tunes which were released in the 1970s so it's definitely not a retrospective change. It doesn't solve the mystery of why she didn't get a proper credit on the original Wings releases however.



Record Collector 31st Jan 2015		Trivia Linda wrote the middle part of the song live and let die



Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		I would prefer to give(the late) Linda McCartney the benefit of the doubt and let her have 50% credit on those songs. She's sadly not around to argue the point anymore.



jordansongs 31st Jan 2015		Linda now seems to get a co-writing credit on all re-issues of the 1973-76 Wings material even though they were just credited to 'McCartney' on the original issues (or was that just shorthand for Paul & Linda?) Interestingly, the original soundtrack album for Live And Let Die does give Linda a credit, as does Jungle Juice's cover of Zoo Gang. I believe ATV Music head Lew Grade attempted to sue McCartney at the time as he was a bit miffed at losing 50% of his copyright on any song that was allegedly co-written by Linda. Maybe the legal shenanigans are a reason why she didn't get a credit on the original issues. Whatever your opinion on Linda's credibility as a songwriter, her creative juices seem to have dried up after 1976 as she receives no writing credits on any of Paul's releases after that time (or maybe that's just when McCartney's contract with ATV came to an end....)



Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Well, as I said, I was working by checking credits on the Wingspan compilation (Parlophone 2CD set 5 32850-2) and "All The Best" (Parlophone 2-cassette pack TC-PCSO-748507), the reason being that I extracted all the tracks bar one from the Wingspan album, the one on Wingspan I didn't use was a shortened(DJ version of) With A Little Luck. I wanted the full version, so I lifted that from a CD I'd made earlier from the tape of All The Best. For the artwork(front cover) I clicked on the image here to enlarge it, then took the top portion by pressing "PrtScn" Just above the "Insert" key on your keyboard. This take the image of what's on your screen at the moment, and puts it into the "Paint" programme, I did likewise for the bottom half, cropped out the unwanted portions to each and pasted the two parts together, result, bitmap image of front cover(FOR MY OWN USE, of course!). I wanted to be sure I had the correct composer credits.



TopPopper 31st Jan 2015		It's as well to be cautious about writing credits. Errors are common on record labels, and in any case, copyrighting a song to a spouse doesn't necessarily mean they had any input into it. (Does anyone really think Linda could write pop songs?) As I understand it, she is legally credited on some of the early stuff, but not so the later stuff - for example, check out the credits on the original Band on the Run LP. "Jet" and "Band on the Run" are Paul's alone, whatever it says on later compilations.



JPGR&B SUBS 31st Jan 2015		Neil Forbes - I stand corrected; I've just checked Wingspan.



Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		You notice what I notice here? With a slight variation in the prefix, the British and Australian issue numbers are the same. The Brit issue has PCTC- while Australia's is just P- but the number is 256.



Record Collector 31st Jan 2015		If you look at the Australian issue its the Orange release I have the purple issue I purchased in 1983 i think it was maccas super music weekend something got to do with it



Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		R.C. said: "Played this album today someone in my family has been using this for breakfast snap crackle and pop old radio announcers joke, haha"! Hey R.C., is this going to be a continuing story - a cereal - er...serial?(ha-ha).



Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		I double-checked the tracks in this compilation by reference to the compilations "Wingspan" and "All The Best" by Paul McCartney and Wings and those albums between them, cover every track in this set, and they show Paul and Linda McCartney to be the composers of all but "With A Little Luck"(Paul himself) and "Mull Of Kintyre(Paul with Denny Laine). So I stand by my earlier comment.



JPGR&B SUBS 30th Jan 2015		...... the rest are co-written with Linda McCartney. - I don't think so. Apart from Mull of Kintyre, Paul wrote them all except Another Day, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, and Hi, Hi, Hi, all three of which he wrote with Linda.



Record Collector 30th Jan 2015		Issued in Australia on capital records



Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		The composer credits are missing on one person. Apart from Mull Of Kintyre, written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, and With A Little Luck written by Paul himself, the rest are co-written with Linda McCartney.



harry1958 29th Jun 2014		Fold out poster and price attack insert uploaded.



jordansongs 17th Mar 2014		Added alternate B side label scan. The A side is the same as cptbeefheart's.



Quad5point1 11th Mar 2014		There were Woolworths branches in Ireland (North & South) but I think the vast majority of them were of the "Woolco" variety



YankeeDisc SUBS 10th Mar 2014		I would think that they are/were one and the same, and as I was at a London area Woolworths (Brixton), our Record Merchandisers product came from Hayes, Middlesex, I believe, which must have been at or very near to EMI's pressing plant at Hayes. I guess Record Merchandisers must have had other distribution depots throughout England, Scotland and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland, and perhaps Eire. I assume that Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway etc had branches of Woolworths so needed record stock, although when visiting Ireland I cannot remember them. "Irish Record Merchandisers Ltd" as you mention does sound like it was based in Eire, although I could be wrong. Northern Irish inhabitants (Ulstermen) are normally quite keen to be referred to as "Northern Irish" and not just plain Irish. Of course at the time we are referring to, mid to late 1970s, the Irish Punt (Pound) nearly had parity value with Pound Sterling, so it would be unlikely that a Record Merchandisers depot in Eire supplied product over the border to Ulster, who probably had their own arrangements. As a record importer, I could fly product from New York or Miami to London leaving US Friday evening, arriving London Heathrow Saturday morning, so I guess a similar arrangement could easily be facilitated for date sensitive vinyl chart singles and albums flown from somewhere in UK to Ulster.....who knows.



Quad5point1 8th Mar 2014		I seem to remember seeing a lot of these in record shops in Belfast but it said "Irish Record Merchandisers Ltd" or "IRM" I take it these are one and the same company ??



YankeeDisc SUBS 8th Mar 2014		.....lovely to see scan #55714 'Price Sticker', which is for Record Merchandisers Ltd., a wholesale rack jobbing company that supplied Woolworths stores thoughout the UK, and possibly other companies. If you look closely, the self adhesive sticker (top & bottom) had serrations (visible) so that the centre portion (without adhesive) with the cat. number and price could be removed for restocking advice. I was managing a Woolworths record dept. 1973-74, and handled thousands of these stickers, apparently still in use by 1978. The sticker was particularly difficult to remove completely, especially on stock that had come from RM Ltd., where the price ticket had been applied for some time, and the adhesive had cured. With laminated sleeves it was possible to have the whole sticker removed, which I instructed my staff to do, but with un-laminated sleeves, it was risky, and could tear a chunk of paper off of the sleeve. ....blurb time.... I also have the US version of this album, which I must get around to posting.



Quad5point1 2nd Mar 2014		Added Inner Sleeve & Label Scans. Just thought I would scan my front cover with price sticker. Cost = £5.99, would be nice if vinyl was still that price but you just have to laugh at where these stickers were placed, hardly a tiny & barely noticeable job



JPGR&B SUBS 26th Feb 2014		I recall I bought my copy on its release so maybe, as you say, yours was a later issue.



jordansongs 25th Feb 2014		A purple-ish font and the song titles are in a slightly different position as well. Minor variations, but variations nonetheless! I bought this copy new in 1982 so maybe it's a later issue and the black font was the first edition?



JPGR&B SUBS 25th Feb 2014		With a more purple font?



jordansongs 25th Feb 2014		Sorry JPGR&B, just sneaking in with an alternate back cover scan....