Once Upon a Long Ago

"Once Upon a Long Ago" is a Paul McCartney song, released as his fortieth single on 16 November 1987, as part of his compilation All the Best!, released two weeks before the single. The track was produced by Phil Ramone and mixed by George Martin, and features violin by Nigel Kennedy.^[1]

It was reported in a 2011 biography that the origin of this song is with the film The Princess Bride. McCartney was approached by Director Rob Reiner to compose a couple of songs and the incidental music for the film. Reiner rejected as "too sentimental" the two songs Paul submitted: "Once Upon a Long Ago" and "Beautiful Night" and contracted with Mark Knopfler to complete the soundtrack.

Recording

Originally it was intended that this song would be a Duet between McCartney and Freddie Mercury. The two had become friends following Live Aid and McCartney wrote the song with Mercury in mind. Mercury however was inundated with work, both Solo and with Queen and was also in the advanced stages of AIDS and McCartney very understandably allowed Mercury to depart from the project .The track was recorded at Hog Hill Studio on March 11 and 12, 1987 with overdubs added in Abbey Road in July. During this session, a full orchestra was overdubbed as well as instrumental contributions by Stan Sulzmann (sax), Nigel Kennedy (violin), and Adrian Brett (flute).^[2]

Release and charts

The song was released in four versions. Two different 12" singles feature "long" and "extended" versions (mixed by George Martin and Peter Henderson, respectively); the 7" single and the CD single (McCartney's first) features an edit of the long version and a b-side from each the two 12" singles, as well as "Back on My Feet", a b-side for all four iterations; and the album version featured on All the Best! contains an alternate ending. "Back on My Feet" was also the first released song from the songwriting collaboration between McCartney and Elvis Costello. Both 12" and CD singles also featured songs from yet to be released McCartney's cover album Choba B CCCP.

"Once Upon a Long Ago" reached number ten in the United Kingdom Singles Chart,^[3] McCartney's last Top 10 in his homeland until the release of "FourFiveSeconds" in 2015. The single was not released in the United States nor included on the US version of All the Best!, although it did appear on the longer UK/Canada version. The song has remained unavailable on any US released album, although it is a bonus track on the 1993 UK remastered version of Press to Play - the 1993 remastered Paul McCartney Collection has never been released in the US.

Track listings

7" single (R 6170)

"Once Upon a Long Ago" - 4:12
"Back on My Feet" - 4:20

12" single, version one (12R 6170)

"Once Upon a Long Ago" (Long Version) - 4:34
"Back on My Feet" - 4:21
"Midnight Special" - 3:56
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - 2:51

12" single, version two (12RX 6170)

"Once Upon a Long Ago" (Extended Version) - 6:06
"Back on My Feet" - 4:21
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" - 3:15
"Kansas City" - 4:00

CD single (CDR 6170)

"Once Upon a Long Ago" - 4:12
"Back on My Feet" - 4:21
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - 2:51
"Kansas City" - 4:00

Once Upon A Video

Along with the single and the All the Best!-album there was also released an 18-minute VHS for sale called Once Upon A Video,^[4] consisting of four music videoes:

Once Upon A Long Ago
Stranglehold
Pretty Little Head
We All Stand Together - the music video was an edit of the songpart from the movie Rupert and the Frog Song

We All Stand Together was included on the UK/Canada-release of All the Best! along with Once Upon A Long Ago.

References

↑ "Once Upon a Long Ago". JPGR. 2000. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
↑ Luca Perasi, Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013), L.I.L.Y. Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-88-909122-1-4, pp.265-267.
↑ "Official Charts: Paul McCartney". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
↑ www.discogs.com - Paul McCartney – Once Upon A Video

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Studio albums

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with Wings	Wild Life Red Rose Speedway Band on the Run Venus and Mars Wings at the Speed of Sound London Town Back to the Egg

Classical	The Family Way Thrillington Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio Standing Stone Working Classical Ecce Cor Meum Ocean's Kingdom

Electronica	Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (The Fireman) Rushes (The Fireman) Liverpool Sound Collage Twin Freaks Electric Arguments (The Fireman)

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Tours

Filmography

A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Help! (1965)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Let It Be (1970)
James Paul McCartney (1973)
Wings Over the World (1979)
Rockestra (unreleased) (1979)
Concert for Kampuchea (1980)
Rockshow (1980)
Back to the Egg (1981)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
Put It There (1990)
Get Back (1991)
Paul Is Live (1993)
In the World Tonight (1997)
Live at the Cavern Club (1999)
Wingspan (2001)
Back in the U.S. (2002)
Paul McCartney in Red Square (2005)
Between Chaos and Creation (2005)
Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road (2005)
The Space Within US (2006)
The McCartney Years (2007)
Good Evening New York City (2009)
The Love We Make (2011)

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Paul McCartney singles discography

1970s

1971	"Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why" (with Linda McCartney) "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" / "Too Many People" (with Linda McCartney) "The Back Seat of My Car" / "Heart of the Country" (with Linda McCartney) "Eat at Home" / "Smile Away" (with Linda McCartney)

1979	"Wonderful Christmastime"

1980s

1980	"Coming Up" "Waterfalls" "Temporary Secretary"

1982	"Ebony and Ivory" (with Stevie Wonder) "Take It Away" "Tug of War" "The Girl Is Mine" (with Michael Jackson)

1983	"Say Say Say" (with Michael Jackson) "Pipes of Peace"

1984	"No More Lonely Nights" "We All Stand Together"

1985	"Spies Like Us"

1986	"Press" "Pretty Little Head" "Stranglehold" "Only Love Remains"

1987	"Once Upon a Long Ago"

1989	"Ferry Cross the Mersey" "My Brave Face" / "Flying to My Home" "This One" "Où est le Soleil?" "Figure of Eight" "Distractions" (promo)

1990s

1990	"Put It There" / "Mama's Little Girl" "Birthday" (live) / "Good Day Sunshine" (live) "All My Trials" (live) / "C Moon" (live) "We Got Married" (promo)

1991	"The World You're Coming Into" / "Tres Conejos" "Save the Child" / "The Drinking Song"

1993	"Hope of Deliverance" "C'Mon People" "Off the Ground" "Biker Like an Icon" / "Things We Said Today" "Transpiritual Stomp" (The Fireman)

1995	"A Leaf" (with Anya Alexeyev) "Come Together" (The Smokin' Mojo Filters)

1997	"Young Boy" "The World Tonight" "Beautiful Night"

1998	Rushes (The Fireman)

1999	Fluid (Nitin Sawhney Remixes) (The Fireman) "No Other Baby" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" "Vo!ce" (with Heather Mills) "Run Devil Run" (promo)

2000s

2000	"Free Now" (promo)

2001	"From a Lover to a Friend" "Freedom" / "From a Lover to a Friend" "I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra" (promo)

2002	"Your Loving Flame" (promo) "Lonely Road" (promo) "Hello Goodbye" (promo)

2004	"Tropic Island Hum" / "We All Stand Together"

2005	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (with U2) "Fine Line" "Jenny Wren" "Really Love You" (Twin Freaks)

2006	"This Never Happened Before" (promo)

2007	"Dance Tonight" / "Nod Your Head" "Ever Present Past"

2008	"Heal the Pain" (with George Michael) "Sing the Changes" (The Fireman)

2009	"Walk with You" (with Ringo Starr) "Meat Free Monday" "Dance Til We're High" (The Fireman)

2010s

2010	"(I Want to) Come Home"

2011	"My Valentine"

2012	"Only Our Hearts" Christmas Kisses: "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" / "Wonderful Christmastime" "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (The Justice Collective) "Get Yourself Another Fool" (promo)

2013	"Out of Sight" (The Bloody Beetroots feat. McCartney & Youth) "New" "Queenie Eye"

2014	"Save Us" "Appreciate" "Early Days" "Hope for the Future" "Only One" (with Kanye West)

2015	"FourFiveSeconds" (with Rihanna & Kanye West) "All Day" (with Kanye West)

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Paul McCartney family

Parents	Jim McCartney (1902–76) Mary McCartney (1909–56)

Siblings	Mike McCartney (born 1944) Ruth McCartney (born 1960)

Children	Heather McCartney (born 1962) Mary McCartney (born 1969) Stella McCartney (born 1971) James McCartney (born 1977) Beatrice McCartney (born 2003)

Wives	Linda McCartney (1941–98; married 1969–98) Heather Mills (born 1968; married 2002–08) Nancy Shevell (born 1961; married 2011–present)

Relationships	Jane Asher (born 1946; 1963–68) Francie Schwartz (born 1944; in 1968)

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