On the Wings of a Nightingale

"On the Wings of a Nightingale"
Single by The Everly Brothers
from the album EB 84
B-side "Asleep"
Released August 1984 (1984-08)
Genre Pop
Length 2:34
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Paul McCartney
Producer(s) Dave Edmunds
The Everly Brothers singles chronology
"Not Fade Away"
(1973)		 "On the Wings of a Nightingale"
(1984)		 "The First in Line"
(1985)

"Not Fade Away"
(1973)		 "On the Wings of a Nightingale"
(1984)		 "The First in Line"
(1985)

"On the Wings of a Nightingale" is a song written and composed by Paul McCartney[1] and recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1984 for their album EB 84, which Dave Edmunds produced.

Music video

The video shot to accompany the selection shows the brothers rescuing a classic car (specifically, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible) from a junk yard, restoring it (in a series of shots that compress an unknown number of weeks, or months, into 35 seconds of video time) to drivable condition, then taking it out for a spin.

Distinctions

"On The Wings Of A Nightingale" is the most popular of the duo's songs recorded since 1970 and the final Everly Brothers single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chart performance

Chart (1984-85) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 50
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Singles 9
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[2] 49
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 39
South African Singles Chart[3] 6

Cover versions

The Spongetones recorded a version for their 2000 Odd Fellows album.[4] Apple Jam also recorded three versions for their 2012 On the Wings of a Nightingale EP.

McCartney's own version still existed strictly as a demonstration recording, which he had still not released publicly, as of the middle of December 2016. Nor was he known, by then, to have performed it in concert or recorded any full-fledged studio versions of it.

References

  1. ↑ "Odd Fellows (sub-section Editorial Reviews)".
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
  3. ↑ http://rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(E).html Retrieved 6 January 2014
  4. ↑ "Odd Fellows".
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