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"Wonderful Christmastime"
Single by Paul McCartney
B-side
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae (Instrumental)"
Released
16 November 1979 (1979-11-16)
Recorded
30 August 1979
Studio
Lower Gate Farm (Sussex)
Genre
Christmas
synth-pop
Length
3:45
Label
Parlophone
Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Paul McCartney
Producer(s)
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney singles chronology
"Eat at Home" (1971)
"Wonderful Christmastime" (1979)
"Coming Up" (1980)
Music video
"Wonderful Christmastime" on YouTube
"Wonderful Christmastime" is a Christmas song by English musician Paul McCartney. Recorded during the sessions for his solo album McCartney II (1980), it was released in November 1979 following Wings' final album Back to the Egg earlier that year. It was McCartney's first solo single in over eight years since "Eat at Home" in 1971. "Wonderful Christmastime" has charted within the top 10 in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom as well as the top 20 in Canada, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland. Despite being regarded as one of McCartney's weaker compositions by some music critics, it is a popular song during Christmas and has been covered throughout the years by numerous artists.
"Wonderful Christmastime" was added as a bonus track on the 1993 CD reissue of Back to the Egg[1] and on the 2011 "Special Edition" and "Deluxe Edition" reissue of McCartney II; a longer, unedited version was also included on the Deluxe Edition. The track was also mixed in 5.1 surround sound for inclusion on the 2007 DVD release The McCartney Years.
^Stephen Thomas Erlewhine, "Paul McCartney/Wings Back to the Egg (Bonus Tracks)", Allmusic (retrieved 30 December 2012)
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