Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Ninety-Eight Point Six Degrees Longitude

Dada, by Craig J. Clark -- Week Ninety-Eight

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Dispatches from the Premium of Lemon Meringue Gravel:

15 December 2003 - Quote of the Week: "If you want good eggs, you gotta feed that hen." --Denny Laine & Paul McCartney, 2/3 of Wings at the time they recorded "Deliver Your Children"

16 December 2003 - Then again, it may have been 2/5. It's hard to tell the way the credits on London Town are listed. Probably 2/5.

17 December 2003 - Hey, today may be the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first manned, powered plane flight, but I want to keep talking about Wings' London Town album. You see, there are five band members listed in the credits, but only Paul & Linda and Denny Laine are pictured on the cover -- just as they were on the single for "Mull of Kintyre," which came out the year before -- so I always imagined that the other two members of the band -- Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English -- left early in the recording sessions. But did they play on "Deliver Your Children"? That's the question.

18 December 2003 - Hey, I just got back seeing The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Good movie, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with who played what on London Town, so I guess I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to clear that up. Aren't you just dying of suspense?

19 December 2003 - I have my answer! (I'm walking on air!) Thanks to Graham Calkin's absurdly complete site, I have learned that "Deliver Your Children" was committed to tape during the first batch of London Town recording sessions, when Wings was still a five-piece. Well, that's one of the great mysteries solved, eh?
P.S. - If you're planning on getting your Christmas on this weekend, by all means please avoid NBC's made-for-TV movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. You know if they couldn't even get Chevy Chase to come back for it, it's got to be a Grade A stinkburger. (The man was in Snow Day, for Rod's sake.)