Summer of Sam (Famolaro) OST: Track #1

Too Many People 
by Paul McCartney
Ram (1971)

I'm building my summer playlist one song at a time,
and I'm going to share it with you, so ya'll can join along
...If you're into that kinda thing.


So, this is the first track...




Now, Question. 


Which member of the Beatles do you like the most? 
Do you like the dead ones?
 or the live ones?


Which the exception of a few hardcores who just can't 
get enough of George Harrison's relatively hit-or-miss later catalog
(...I refer to these people as "Harrisonites")
most people will pick either John Lennon or Paul McCartney.
(Sorry, Ringo. Luv U!)


I'm not disputing that John Lennon was 
one of the greatest song writers off all-time
but his body of work outside of 
the Beatles is limited. 


Good, just... limited.


On the other hand, Paul McCartney has 
more music than I care to think about sometimes.
Between the Beatles, Wings, his solo career, 
his weird classical albums, his Michael Jackson duets 
& his highly-overlooked electronica duo, the Fireman [link],
Macca has a bigger catalog than almost any artist alive today.


it's not too hard to figure out that Too Many People 
was indeed written about the very recent (at the time) 
& highly personal, Beatles break-up.
It's interesting to hear it from McCartney's side,
He sounds like he had grown tired of Lennon's persona.
As well as the fact that John "had been doing a lot of preaching".
(Oh, if you wanna hear Lennon's response, go here.)


I love this song.
Too Many People has to have one of my 
favorite choruses in McCartney's entire catalog. 
If Paul McCartney knows anything, 
he knows his way around a vocal harmony.

Paul McCartney - Ram (1971) [link]