SATURDAY'S SINGLES : PAUL AND LINDA MCCARTNEY and CLARENCE CLEMMONS AND JACKSON BROWNE

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Good morning gang and welcome to the return of Saturday's Singles. Our first selection comes to us as we remember Norfolk County, Virginia musician and actor, Clarence Clemmons (Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr.) , who passed away on this day in 2011. The Big Man, as Clemmons was known died of complications from a stroke at age 69. He was best known as the saxophonist for The E Street Band from 1972, until his death. We honor his legacy with this 1985 CBS Records single, "You're a Friend Of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. The song, written by  Narada Michael Walden (who also serves as producer) and Jeffrey Cohen, hails from Clarence's second solo album, Hero. It peaked at #21 on the Adult Contemporary charts, #18 on the Hot 100, #16 on the Mainstream Rock charts, #12 in Belgium, #9 in Australia, and #7 in the Netherlands. It's B-side is "Let the Music Say It", a non album track.

I cannot find individual credits for this single, so I will post the credits from the Hero album.

Clarence Clemons - lead vocals, background vocals, saxophone, percussion, cover design

Daryl Hannah - background vocals on "You're a Friend of Mine"
Kitty Beethoven - vocals, background vocals

Princess Loria - vocals, background vocals
Jennifer Hall - vocals, background vocals
Liz Jackson - vocals, background vocals

Brenda Joy Nelson - vocals, background vocals

Sundari - vocals, background vocals
Tina B. - vocals, background vocals

Richard Walsh - vocals, background vocals
Craig Thomas - vocals, background vocals, saxophone
Jackson Browne - vocals, producer on "You're a Friend of Mine"

Lotti Golden - vocals

Darlene Love - vocals
Norman Mershon - vocals

Tony "Rocks" Cowans - guitar, rhythm guitar
Carlos Pepper - guitar, rhythm guitar
Lewis West - guitar, rhythm guitar

Billy Loosigian - guitar, acoustic guitar

Corrado "Rock" Rustici - guitar, acoustic guitar
Vernon "Ice" Black - guitar

Stuart Kimball - guitar
Bobby Messano - guitar
Maurice Starr - bass guitar

John Siegler - bass guitar

Doug Wimbish - bass guitar, drums
Preston "Tiger Head" Glass - acoustic guitar, keyboards, vibraphone

Booker T. Jones - keyboards, organ
Walter Afanasieff - keyboards, sound effects
Frank Martin - keyboards

David Sancious - keyboards

Richard Scher - keyboards
William Beard - drums

Anton Fig - drums
Premik McFly - baritone saxophone, saxophone
Greg Gigi Gonaway - glockenspiel, percussion

Bill Sebastian - glockenspiel, percussion

Randy "The Emperor" Jackson - bass guitar, drums, percussion, sequencing
Michael Rado - harp

Hangsa - choir, chorus
Charles Robin - choir, chorus, vocals, background vocals
Venu - choir, chorus

Yogaloy - choir, chorus

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Our second selection comes to us via  Paul and Linda McCartney. Paul is celebrating his 80th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Paul. In May 1971 they released the only album credited to them both, Ram. Our single from the LP is "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". It was released in August 1971 on the Apple label and was written and produced by produced by Paul and Linda. It reached #30 in West Germany, #9 on the Easy Listening charts, #5 in Australia, #3 in Mexico, and #1 in Canada, New Zealand, and the Hot 100. It's flip side is "Too Many People", also from Ram. 

Paul McCartney – vocals; electric guitar; acoustic guitar; piano; bass; & xylophone

Linda McCartney – backing vocals

Hugh McCracken – acoustic and electric guitar

Denny Seiwell – drums

Paul Beaver – synthesizer

David Nadien, Aaron Rosand – violin

Marvin Stamm, Mel Davis, Ray Crisara, Snooky Young – brass

New York Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestral arrangement

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