We All Stand Together
Year: 1984
Written By: Paul McCartney
'We All
Stand Together' is an intriguing Christmas song and different from
the usual festive hit, in that it has derived from an animated
film. Not only did it come from an animated film, but it is also
gone on to be a very successful Christmas song. 'We All Stand
Together' is sometimes referred
to by other names, most usually, these names are; 'the Frog Song'
and 'the Frog Chorus'. This interesting Christmas song was by Paul
McCartney (Formerly of The Beatles and Wings) and the Frog Chorus.
The animation film, that 'We All Stand Together comes from is
Rupert and the Frog Song. The 'Frog Chorus' backing on the song
comes from the King's Singers choral group and the choir of St
Paul's Cathedral.
This song
was well received in 1984, managing to reach number three in the UK
Singles Chart. Although originally released June 1983, Paul
McCartney decided to re-release the single on the Christmas charts
in 1984 with the hope of Christmas success and the ultimate musical
Christmas goal of reaching Christmas number one. As well as Paul
McCartney's re-release decision in 1984, the track 'We All Stand
Together' has managed on another occasion to re-renter the UK
Singles Charts. The Christmas song achieved this feat just one year
later after Paul McCartney's re-release. In 1985, it re-entered the
UK Singles Chart, this leads the song to be part of an interesting
Christmas fact for 1984-1985. The fact is that 'We All Stand
Together' was one of three hits that had charted in December 1984,
to re-enter the charts again in 1985. The other two Christmas songs
to do so were 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by Band Aid and 'Last
Christmas' by Wham! Both of those two were hugely successful and
continue to feature as two much loved Christmas songs
today.
Although
'We All Stand Together' was a successful song and was part of the
musical history of 1984-1985, this song by Paul McCartney has led
to McCartney being criticised by the musical media who believe that
the song led to and was an early sign of Paul McCartney's apparent
decline and loss of musical talent after he had left The
Beatles.
There were
two shaped picture discs that were issued in 1984 and 1985. The
only difference was that there was a plain clear sleeve on the
later version.
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