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[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL McCARTNEY "the family way" cd,1966.

whole John Lennon was away working on his "how the war was won" movie, Macca approached George Martin and asked if it was possible for him to write a theme song for a movie...
GM enquired with a few people he knew and Macca got given the chance to work on "the family way"...
because he cannot read or write music he played all the pieces on this albumon acoustic guitar to GM who then wrote them down and transcribed for classical instruments...
the result here is fourteen tracks for the movie of the same name above...
two of these tracks, "love in the open air" and "theme from the family way" were released as singles in the UK under the name "the tudor minstrels", i cannot find anything anywhere to say whether they charted or not, but they probably did on some 'classical' chart somewhere...
anyway, these little pieces of music arent too bad IMO, as they are each only a couple of minutes long...just short enough for my to hold my interest LOL!...
mostly this does sound classical but there are a couple of tracks with distinct jazzy overtones, all nice subtle pieces of work IMO, and shows just how Macca's craft and mind was developing at such a young age...
also, inbetween doing these tracks tracks The Beatles were also recording "strawberry fields Forever"..two totally different styles of music..
i am not rating this one as i simply do not know how to rate classical music really, only to say that if i did this would probably come close to a pass mark...so 1.6 it is!

from the album:

love in the open air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvkyFXDPnA audio

theme from the family way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84w9x0FNgo audio