Album This song officially appears on the Put It There CD Single.
Timeline This song was officially released in 1990
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
May 5th-6th 1978
"Cold Cuts" overdubs and mixing
January 12th - 23th, 1981
Overdubs for Cold Cuts project
September / October 1986
August 1987
Cage (aka "Emotional Moments")
Unreleased song
Unreleased song
Officially appears on Standard Time
Officially appears on Japanese Tears
Ex-Wings guitarist, Laurence Juber, talks about attending "Paul McCartney University"
Aug 09, 2010 • From Daytrippin' Beatles Magazine
Same Time Next Year – Taped on May 5, 1978, in the London RAK studio, during the first session of the new Wings’ line-up and finished during the last sessions with those same people, in January 1981. It was recorded as the title track for a movie but rejected, because too much of the plot was given away in the lyrics. A commercial version was issued in February 1990 as the b-side of the ‘Put It There’ single.
Proposed theme-song for the Alan Alda film of the same name
Overdubbed with a 68-piece orchestra at Abbey Road
Must we wait another year
For the celebration, dear?
If we do, we'll hold it here,
Same time next year.
I'll be here, the same as ever,
Maybe wearing something else.
Ah, but nothing changes,
Ah, but nothing changes.
Still to me you look the same
As when I forgot your name,
Lovers in a lovers' game,
Same time next year.
I'll be here, the same as ever,
No, I never go away.
Ah, but nothing changes, (ah, but nothing changes)
Ah, but nothing changes.
Same time next year.
Must we wait another year
For the celebration, dear?
If we do, we'll hold it here,
Same time next year.
Same time next year,
Same time next year,
Same time next year,
Same time next year.
Same time next year
Flowers In The Dirt - Special Package
Official album • Released in 1990
3:06 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar (?), Arrangement, Backing vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Bass Laurence Juber : Electric guitar Steve Holley : Drums, Tambourine Chris Thomas : Producer Fiachra Trench : Arrangement John Leach : Cimbalom
Session Recording: May 05, 1978 • Studio RAK Studios, London
Session Overdubs: May 06, 1978 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
Session Mixing: August 1987 • Studio AIR Studios, London, or Hog Hill Studio, Rye, 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
CD Single • Released in 1990
3:07 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar (?), Arrangement, Backing vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Bass Laurence Juber : Electric guitar Steve Holley : Drums, Tambourine Chris Thomas : Producer Fiachra Trench : Arrangement John Leach : Cimbalom
Session Recording: May 05, 1978 • Studio RAK Studios, London
Session Overdubs: May 06, 1978 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London
Session Mixing: August 1987 • Studio AIR Studios, London, or Hog Hill Studio, Rye, 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
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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Joost van Gijzen • 4 years ago
Nobody has ever questioned the 'the lyrics gave too much away'-explanation? Because it's clearly nonsense.
And otherwise, the lyrics could have been easily changed. ('Girl, I think I've seen your face/But my mind's a stoner's maze')