dEFROG ON 45 #38-39: STICK AROUND, I SAY

Continuing on the “solo Beatles on 45” riff from the last episode …

It’s a sad but true fact that a lot of people my age – or at least people who didn’t have hip parents – grew up thinking Paul McCartney’s first band was Wings.

Wings weren’t the coolest band in the world to like. So naturally I dug them. I mean, c’mon, they did one of the best James Bond themes ever recorded.

That said, I didn’t have many 45s by them. I didn’t need them, since I had a Wings Greatest Hits album. But I did have this.

Which technically wasn’t a Wings single – it was from a solo McCartney album. But I believe Wings plays on the live version on the B-side.

Which is another thing – this was the first time I saw both the studio and live version of the same song on a 45. Like most radio music directors at the time, I preferred the live version for some reason. (See also: Stevie Nicks)

Oh, and there was also this disco classic.

Well, like I said, Wings weren’t the coolest band in the world. But admit it, you'd prefer this over most anything in the Top 40 right now.

Don’t get too tired for love,

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MAYBE WE CAN GO HALF ON A BABY

Yr New-Twist-On-Hypocrisy lede of the day



To be fair, it’s always possible he had no idea some of the women he donated his seed to were lesbians. Except that, as it turns out, he did.

Even so, when you campaign against gay marriage on the grounds that it undermines the value of traditional hetero marriage, I’m reasonably sure one way to demonstrate the sanctity of trad marriage is NOT donating yr sperm to at least nine other women behind yr wife’s back – especially when sperm donation experts say it should be limited to four families max.

Still, points for being original in his hypocrisy.

And maybe the hypocrisy charge is unfair, as these are New Zealand lesbians. Maybe he thinks that gay marriage is only wrong when American homos do it. Or maybe he thinks if you give lesbians sperm, it makes them straight again.

Who knows? Who cares? At the end of the day it’s just one more reason why I don’t have to take conservatives seriously when they go on and on and on about The Gayz ruining the marriages.

Who’s yr daddy,

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