"Same Time Next Year" session (session) • The Paul McCartney Project

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Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Put It There CD Single.

Studio:: EMI Studios, Abbey Road

Studio:: RAK Studios, London

Songs recorded

1.

Same Time Next Year

Written by Paul McCartney

Recording

Staff

Production staff

Paul McCartney:: producer

Chris Thomas:: producer

About

Wings went into RAK Studios in London on May 5th to record a new, mystery song which may be featured in a film. They had a most successful day taping bass, drums, guitar and piano. The following day a full 68-strong string orchestra was added at Abbey Road Studios. The arrangement, written by Paul with Fiachra Trench, also featured a small clarinet section and a cimbalon, which for anyone who didn’t know, is a strange zither-like instrument which can be seen in one of the pictures below. The Dolmetsch family made up a recorder quartet to complete the song with vocals by Paul. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED!
From Club Sandwich N°8, April / May 1978

From Laurence Juber on Twitter : This photo was used as the cover of a UK guitar magazine – taken in Scotland May ’78, shortly after I joined Wings.

From Meet the Beatles for Real: Spotted near Abbey Road – May 7, 1978 – This is the last photo I have from this time period of Paul with the mustache.

Last updated on May 10, 2023