It was 45 years ago this week that Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Silly Love Songs” began its five-week stand topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts. The track, which was the lead single to the band’s 1976 chart-topping Wings At The Speed Of Sound album, was McCartney’s 11th post-Beatles Top 10 hit, and his fifth chart-topper. Back home in Britain, “Silly Love Songs” stalled at Number Two.
To the chagrin of most fans, McCartney re-recorded an “updated” version of the ’70s classic with Toto’s Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro for inclusion in his 1984 box office bomb, Give My Regards To Broad Street.
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