I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
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- Album This song officially appears on the My Brave Face CD Single.
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
Lyrics
Well, I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Ev'rything gonna roll my way
I won't need nobody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
You cry and you sigh,
Girl, you wonder why
I don't look at you when
You walk on by.
I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Oh, you wonder why
I don't look at you
When I go walkin'.
Well, I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Yeah, I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Ev'rything gonna roll my way,
I won't need nobody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
You cry and you sigh
You wonder why
I don't look at you
When I walk on by.
I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Well, you cry and you sigh,
Girl, you wonder why
I won't look at you when
I go walkin' by.
Yeah, I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be a wheel
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you.
Oh, I'm gonna be a wheel someday
I'm gonna be somebody
I'm gonna be a real gone cat
Then I won't want you,
Then I won't want you,
Then I won't want you,
Then I won't want you,
I'm gonna be a wheel someday
And I won't want you
Babe, I won't want you.
Officially appears on
CD Single • Released in 1989
4:12 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Vocal
- Mick Green :
- Guitar
- Chris Whitten :
- Drums
- Mick Gallagher :
- Piano
- Peter Henderson :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jul 20, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Jul 22, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Official album • Released in 1991
4:14 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Vocal
- Mick Green :
- Guitar
- Chris Whitten :
- Drums
- Mick Gallagher :
- Piano
- Peter Henderson :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jul 20, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Jul 22, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Bootlegs
It's Now Or Never (The Complete Russian Sessions)
Unofficial album • Released in 1990
4:15 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Vocal
- Mick Green :
- Guitar
- Chris Whitten :
- Drums
- Mick Gallagher :
- Piano
- Peter Henderson :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jul 20, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Jul 22, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Unofficial album • Released in 2004
1:48 • Studio rehearsal
- Recording :
- May 1979
- Studio :
- Lympne Castle
UK Singles Collection - Volume 04
Unofficial album • Released in 2007
4:15 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Vocal
- Mick Green :
- Guitar
- Chris Whitten :
- Drums
- Mick Gallagher :
- Piano
- Peter Henderson :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jul 20, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Jul 22, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Let 'Em Out Vol. 3 - Outtakes & Upgrades
Unofficial album • Released in 2010
Alternate take • A2 • Part of 2nd "Choba B CCCP" medley used for promotional purposes.
- Session Recording:
- Jul 20, 1987
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
- Session Mixing:
- Aug 20, 1987