I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday

Song facts

From Wikipedia:

“I’m Gonna to Be a Wheel Someday” is a popular song written by Roy Hayes, Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. The song was first recorded by Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers in 1957 and released in the same year. It was later covered by Fats Domino, Sandy Nelson, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, Boots Randolph, Defenders, Asleep at the Wheel, Orion and Herbie Hancock with George Porter, Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, Sheryl Crow, Paul McCartney and Renard Poché.

Paul McCartney recorded “I’m Gonna to Be a Wheel Someday” in 1987 for his Choba B CCCP album. From the liner notes of this album:

I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday/Ain’t That A Shame/I’m In Love Again

It’s interesting to note that through their individual styles couldn’t be more diverse, when recording their innumerable hits at Cosmo Studios in New Orleans, both Little Richard and Fats Domino employed the very same band of musicians.

The living embodiment of the Crescent City’s rich cultural heritage, Fats Domino has been scoring million-selling hits worldwide since 1949, to the extent that he has amassed more gold record awards than any artist other than Elvis and The Beatles.

There is a timeless consistency common to Domino’s repertoire that attracts successive generations and, without question, Paul McCartney’s understanding of the Fat Man’s special qualities, rendering him the most genuinely skillful of the Big Man’s life-affirming music.

Be it the way he eases comfortably into the brisk characteristic 2/4 New Orleans beat of the confidence-boosting I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday, handles the singalong rolling blues Ain’t That A Shame or knowingly defuses the pent-up frustration of I’m In Love Again with one of the greatest of all catch phrases, “Oowee, baby, oowee”, McCartney is in his element.

In Western countries where Choba B CCCP was only released in 1991, “I’m Gonna to Be a Wheel Someday” was first released in 1989 on the My Brave Face CD single.

Last updated on September 4, 2016

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