UK Release date : Friday, July 18, 1980
Seaside Woman / B-Side To Seaside
By Suzy and the Red Stripes • 12" Single • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney as producer, composer, or session musician in the 70s”
Last updated on February 29, 2020
UK Release date : Friday, July 18, 1980
By Suzy and the Red Stripes • 12" Single • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney as producer, composer, or session musician in the 70s”
Last updated on February 29, 2020
Previous single Jun 13, 1980 • "Waterfalls / Check My Machine" by Paul McCartney released in the UK
Session Jul 04, 1980 • Rehearsal session
Session July 11st-21st, 1980 • "Can't Fight Lightning" / "Stop And Smell The Roses" sessions
Single Jul 18, 1980 • "Seaside Woman / B-Side To Seaside" by Suzy and the Red Stripes released in the UK
Single Jul 22, 1980 • "Waterfalls / Check My Machine" by Paul McCartney released in the US
Session August 1980 • Home recordings
About this 12″ single:
We couldn’t leave out ‘Seaside Woman’ by Linda (alias Suzy and the Red Stripes), produced by Paul and issued on 12″ three years after reaching no. 38 in the US charts. Several voices (all Linda?) add atmosphere to her own ditty of seashore life, set to a great lurching reggae back-up. Recorded several years before the Tom Tom Club’s 1980 hits, it captures the same sun-kissed mood. ‘B-Side To Seaside’ is just as rustic and enjoyable. Bizarrely enough, Oscar Grillo’s red-striped ladies on the cover (from his award-winning Seaside Woman cartoon) were deemed not busty enough by A&M Records, who discreetly-er-boosted them in the right area. Oscar was not amused.
From Club Sandwich N°36, 1985
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