- UK release date:
- Oct 03, 1983
- Publisher:
- Parlophone
- Reference:
- 12R 6062
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This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
April 1982
Feb 15, 1983
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Side 1
1.
Written by Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson
5:40 • Studio version • A1 • 12" Remix
- Paul McCartney :
- Arrangement, Backing vocals, Electric guitar (?), Electric piano (?), Percussion (?), Synthesizers (?), Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Michael Jackson :
- Backing vocals, Vocals
- Eric Stewart :
- Backing vocals
- George Martin :
- Arrangement, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Jon Jacobs :
- Mixing engineer assistant, Recording engineer assistant
- Jerry Hey :
- Horns
- Nathan Watts :
- Bass
- Bill Wolfer :
- Keyboards, Synthesizers
- David Williams :
- Electric guitar
- Chris Smith :
- Harmonica
- Ricky Lawson :
- Drums
- Ernie Watts :
- Horns
- Gary E. Grant :
- Horns
- Gary Herbig :
- Horns
- John Benitez :
- Remixing
- Session Recording:
- May 1981
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK ; Odyssey Studios, London, UK
- Session Recording:
- April 1982
- Studio :
- Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, USA ; Sigma Sound Studios, New York City, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 15, 1983
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Side 2
1.
Written by Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson
7:00 • Studio version • A2 • Instrumental version
- Paul McCartney :
- Arrangement, Electric guitar (?), Electric piano (?), Percussion (?), Synthesizers (?)
- George Martin :
- Arrangement, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Jon Jacobs :
- Mixing engineer assistant, Recording engineer assistant
- Jerry Hey :
- Horns
- Nathan Watts :
- Bass
- Bill Wolfer :
- Keyboards, Synthesizers
- David Williams :
- Electric guitar
- Chris Smith :
- Harmonica
- Ricky Lawson :
- Drums
- Ernie Watts :
- Horns
- Gary E. Grant :
- Horns
- Gary Herbig :
- Horns
- John Benitez :
- Remixing
- Session Recording:
- May 1981
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK ; Odyssey Studios, London, UK
- Session Recording:
- April 1982
- Studio :
- Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, USA ; Sigma Sound Studios, New York City, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 15, 1983
- Studio :
- AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
2.
About
About this 12″:
Paul goes mod with ‘Say Say Say’, bringing in John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez to remix the song in vocal and instrumental versions (plenty of backing voices on the latter, though), clocking in at a combined 12 mins. 40 secs. ‘Ode To A Koala Bear (not on album) is the kind of good-humoured love song I thought people had forgotten how to write: lovely.
From Club Sandwich N°36, 1985
From The Beatles Monthly Book, N°91, November 1983:
The four-minute-long version of the song on the 7” is what you have been hearing on the radio; but to feel the full effect of a fine production by George Martin and remix by ‘Jellybean’ Benitez you should get a copy of the 12”. For a start, “Say Say Say” is nearly two minutes longer there; there’s the bonus of a seven-minute instrumental version on the
flipside, giving you the chance to play at being a Beatle for a day; and most important of all, the song leaps out of the speakers at you, with a depth of sound totally missing on the 7” take. […] The 12” also has extra instrumental breaks between the verses and the middle eight, and generally sounds much more like a fully-fledged disco dance classic than the rather more gentle 7”.
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