We All Stand Together (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the We All Stand Together 7" Single.

Rupert The Bear

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1984

Timeline This song has been written (or started being written) in 1980 (Paul McCartney was 38 years old)

Waterspout

We Are Family

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

Home recordings

August 1980

We All Stand Together session #1

Oct 31, 1980

We All Stand Together session #2

Nov 03, 1980

Overdubs, editing and mixing for "We All Stand Together"

Nov 10, 1980

Overdubs, editing and mixing for "We All Stand Together"

Nov 15, 1980

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Song facts

We were just doing this little cartoony thing, this little pilot – I’m really trying to make the big feature – just to see if we can make Rupert work. I’ll just do a little song and get George Martin along: ‘Here you are, George. I’ve done this one, it’s not much.’ George takes it away, does a monster arrangement on it all, we go and do it and it’s like the hit of the year for us. And then you start to look at it and you say, ‘Oh yeah, I see. It’s quite attractive, that one.’ It’s funny, sometimes those ones you throw away can be the biggest.
Paul McCartney, from Club Sandwich N°47/48, Spring 1988

From Wikipedia:

“We All Stand Together” (sometimes referred to as the Frog Song or the Frog Chorus) is a song by Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus.
“We All Stand Together” is from the animated film Rupert and the Frog Song and reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1984. Originally released in June 1983, McCartney re-released the single on the Christmas charts in 1984.
The “Frog Chorus” backing on the song was provided by the King’s Singers choral group and the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral. The ‘flute playing frog’ was Elena Durán. The B-side of the single contains a “Humming Version” of the song performed by McCartney and the Finchley Frogettes.
The song re-entered the UK Singles Chart one year later in 1985, one of three hits to do so that originally charted in December 1984 (“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid and “Last Christmas” by Wham! were the other two).
Despite its relative success, the song attracted criticism for its light subject matter and is sometimes cited as a sign of the decline of McCartney’s songwriting talent after The Beatles, despite being recorded for a children’s film.
Two shaped picture discs were issued on the 12 November 1984 and 1985, the only difference being a plain clear sleeve on the later version. The song also appears on the UK/Canada version of McCartney’s 1987 compilation album, All the Best!. The song was included on the deluxe edition of McCartney’s 2016 compilation album, Pure McCartney. […]

From Facebook – Paul and Rupert Bear during the video shoot for ‘We All Stand Together’ #ThrowbackThursday #TBT

Last updated on April 18, 2020

The book "The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present", published in 2021, covers Paul McCartney's early Liverpool days, the Beatles, Wings, and solo careers, by pairing the lyrics of 154 of his songs with first-person commentaries of the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

"We All Stand Together" is one of the 154 songs covered.

Lyrics

Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together

Play the game, fight the fight
But what's the point on a beautiful night?
Arm in arm, hand in hand
We all stand together

La…..
Keeping us warm in the night
La la la la
Walk in the light
You'll get it right

REPEAT

Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain we'll never give in
Arm in arm, hand in hand
We all stand together