Back in 1973 when Paul McCartney and Wings released the vinyl single ‘My Love’, in most places around the world that’s how it was credited on the label: Paul McCartney and Wings.
For example, here’s the UK pressing:However, in a couple of territories they obviously didn’t get the memo detailing just how the band should be credited on the label.
We’ve just picked up a New Zealand pressing which is interesting for a couple of reasons. Number one is that it’s on the green Apple label. The other is the name of the band – McCartney’s Wings: Seems that this mistake may have been caused back in England when a few copies of ‘My Love’ also escaped into the public arena there with that very same band credit – McCartney’s Wings. Here’s a UK pressing that was probably quickly withdrawn and replaced with the proper band credit (seen on the UK pressing above):
And it looks like at least four other countries (Sweden, Israel, France and Venezuela) also stuffed up:In the rest of the world it is definitely Paul McCartney and Wings that performed ‘My Love’……..but we’re glad to have a unique New Zealand pressing now in the collection.
As usual, click on the labels to see larger versions. And if you know anything more on the back story to this one, please use the Comments section to let us know.
You can add Venezuela to the list of countries where it was released as McCartney’s Wings: https://www.45cat.com/record/4ap1827
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Thanks Terry! Will add that one to the story.
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Hi There, I have a copy of the English version. It probably was withdrawn because of the mistake. The biggest mistake on my version is that it has the label for My Love on both sides.
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Thanks for your note. I think pressing mistakes like that are relatively rare and some people specifically collect examples where mistakes have been made!
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