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Paul McCartney - Band On The Run
Live Glastonbury Music Festival 2004

The Band:
Paul McCartney -Bass/Guitars/Piano/Vocals
Brian Ray - Guitars/Bass/Vocals
Rusty Anderson - Guitars/Vocals
Abe Laboriel Jr. - Drums/Vocals
Wix Wickens - Keyboards/Vocals

Lyrics:
Stuck inside these four walls
Sent inside forever
Never seeing no one nice again like you
Mama you, mama you

If I ever get out of here
Thought of giving it all away
To a registered charity
All I need is a pint a day
If I ever get out of here
If we ever get out of here

Well the rain exploded with a mighty crash
As we fell into the sun
And the first one said to the second one there
I hope youre having fun

Band on the run
Band on the run
And the jailer man and sailor sam
Were searching every one

For the band on the run
Band on the run
For the band on the run
Band on the run

Well the undertaker drew a heavy sigh
Seeing no one else had come
And a bell was ringing in the village square
For the rabbits on the run

Band on the run
Band on the run
And the jailer man and sailor sam
Was searching every one

For the band on the run
Band on the run

Yea the band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run

Well the night was falling as the desert world
Began to settle down
In the town theyre searching for us every where
Cause we never will be found

Band on the run
Band on the run
And the county judge who held a grudge
Will search for evermore

For the band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run
Band on the run

written by Paul McCartney to his wife Linda . The ballad was a number one single and the most successful track from the Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album Red Rose Speedway.
"Red Rose Speedway" is the second album by Paul McCartney and Wings and the fourth by McCartney since leaving the Beatles. The album was released in 1973 after the relatively weak commercial performance of McCartney's previous, Wild Life, which had been credited to Wings. Red Rose Speedway winds up being a really strange record, one that veers toward the schmaltzy AOR MOR (especially on the hit single "My Love"), yet is thoroughly twisted in its own desire toward domestic art. As a result, this is every bit as insular as the lo-fi records of the early '90s, but considerably more artful, since it was, after all, designed by one of the great pop composers of the century. Yes, the greatest songs here are slight -- "Big Barn Bed," "One More Kiss," and "When the Night" -- but this is a deliberately slight record

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Getcha Back · The Beach Boys

The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer

℗ A Capitol Records Release; ℗ 1985 Brother Records Inc

Released on: 2003-01-01

Associated Performer, Baritone Saxophone: Steve Grainger
Associated Performer, Keyboards: Terry Melcher
Associated Performer, Keyboards, Programmer: Julian Lindsay
Associated Performer, Keyboards, Drum Programming, Producer: Steve Levine
Associated Performer, Guitar: John Alder
Associated Performer, Percussion: Graham Broad
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Gordon Milne
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Greg Laney
Composer Lyricist: Terry Melcher
Composer Lyricist: Mike Love

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Minus Johnny.

The band was founded by J. T. Carter and included Talmoudge Gough, Harold Torres, and Patricia Van Dross (older sister of R&B great Luther Vandross). Carter selected vocalist Johnny Mastrangelo (later just Johnny Maestro) to perform as lead vocalist for the group. Maestro's vocal style on the group's recordings became instantly recognizable and a juke box favorite of the national teen audiences. Maestro's quality vocals, great song selections, and recordings with dance-easy beats made the winning combination for charted hits. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records, including "16 Candles", "Six Nights a Week", "The Angels Listened In", "A Year Ago Tonight", "Step By Step" and "Trouble In Paradise". They also charted with "Sweetest One" (Joyce label) in 1957. The Crests appeared and performed several times on national teen dance television shows in the late 1950s.

Van Dross left The Crests in 1958 after recording two singles for Joyce Records. Maestro left for a solo career in 1961. He would later join The Del Satins, which would merge with The Rhythm Method to become Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge. They had a Top 5 hit with "The Worst That Could Happen" in 1969. His place in The Crests was taken by new lead James Ancrum. The group recorded a new single, "Little Miracles". It was the first single not to chart in the Top 100. They also recorded "Guilty" (Selma label). Gough quit the group after the single, and was replaced by Gary Lewis (not to be confused with Gary Lewis of Gary Lewis & the Playboys fame). The group failed to find success throughout the decade.

Torres would also be gone by the late 1960s. The group continued as a trio of Carter, Ancrum, and Lewis. This lineup continued until 1978, when the group split. Carter went on to sing with Charlie Thomas' Drifters.

Carter then reformed the group in 1980. He auditioned over 200 singers, finally settling on lead Bill Damon, Greg Sereck, and Dennis Ray and New York drummer Jon Ihle. Carter continued the group well into the 1990s. He sold the trademarks to The Crests name to Tommy Mara in the late 1990s. Mara was Carter's lead vocalist at the time, and now continues the group without Carter. Carter now performs as part of the three person group Starz. Lewis is now singing with The Cadillacs.

The 1984 John Hughes teen film, Sixteen Candles, took its title from The Crests' song, which was re-recorded by The Stray Cats for the Sixteen Candles soundtrack.

In 1987, Maestro, Carter, Torres and Gough reunited as The Crests for a reunion concert in Peekskill, New York.

Patricia Van Dross died in 1993 of complications from diabetes. Hal Torres is deceased, and Tommy Gough is living in Flint, Michigan.

Johnny Maestro, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at his home in Cape Coral, Florida. He was 70 and had lived in Islip, New York, until 2003.

In April 2010, the Los Angeles-based rights-management firm Beach Road Music, LLC, acquired the Coed Records catalog, subsequently re-releasing the Maestro song "The Great Physician" on the 2011 compilation album From The Vault: The Coed Records Lost Master Tapes, Volume 1. "The Great Physician" was originally released in 1960 as Coed 527, under the pseudonym "Johnny Masters".