During the course of this year I aim to upload a song every day for your consideration as to whether they were good enough and sufficiently commercial to have become UK Top 20 singles. Many different genres will be represented, so if this particular one’s not your preferred style then hopefully it won’t be too long before you find one that is.
For those songs that are interesting enough for you to give them a proper listen, please press “like” if you think it could have been a hit, and “dislike” if you don’t, in the hope that we get enough votes to obtain a balanced overview. Also, if leaving a critical comment please try to take into account the year of original release - most of the songs that I'll be uploading are decades old so it wouldn’t be surprising if some sound dated now.
Today’s choice is Somedays by Paul McCartney which is a masterpiece in lyrical and melodic simplicity. First released in 1997 on the “Flaming Pie” (or “Flaming Pies” as this USA promo CD was called) album it’s McCartney doing what McCartney does best. Sometimes the more you try the harder things become, and the former Beatle has always had a knack of conjuring up classics from his least complicated compositions, “Yesterday”, “Let It Be” & “The Long & Winding Road” to name but three. The difference between those songs and “Somedays” is purely generational as it was recorded 30 years too late for Parlaphone to even consider releasing it as a single, but I would have argued that songs like this are timeless, and if Abba can deservedly have a hit with “I Still Have Faith In You” in 2021 then this should have been given a similar opportunity 25 years ago. However it remained purely an album track (not even any promo CD singles to test the water) and so it never had the opportunity to gain sufficient radio airplay to catch public attention.
Hopefully you’ll drop by again tomorrow for something completely different!