TEDDY BOY
“Teddy Boy” is a song by Paul McCartney and was first released on his first solo album McCartney, released in April 1970 after the Beatles disbanded. According to Paul McCartney in the documentary Wingspan, he wrote this song for the Beatles’ Let It Be sessions, but due to tension in the group at the time nobody had the patience to work with it. (More from Wikipedia)
Not long after I first got to college at North Carolina State University (probably in late 1969), one of the big record stores in Raleigh, the Record Bar (which was within walking distance of the campus) had several tables set up in the middle of the store that were piled high with bootleg albums. I had never heard of such a thing before, so I snapped up four right away, including Kum Back by the Beatles (practice sessions for the Let it Be album for the most part, sounds like, and including an 8- or 9-minute version of “Teddy Boy” – that song was originally going to be on Let it Be; but instead, “Teddy Boy” is on Paul McCartney’s solo album McCartney).
(April 2012)
