Paul McCartney One Hand Clapping (Overview)

Title: One Hand Clapping
Type: Documentary
Filming Location: Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Filming Date: August 25th - 30th & October 9th 1974
Broadcast Date: November 2010 (DVD); December 2024 (Theatrical/TV)
Country Of Broadcast: UK
Duration: 53:20 Minutes
Quality: C+ (1974 Version Bootleg); A- (Official 2024)
Source: 2024 Version: "One Hand Clapping" (TV Broadcast Dec 2024); "Paul McCartney & Wings One Hand Clapping" (BA Productions) (2024)

Notes: Over five days in late August 1974 and one more day in early October, Wings filmed a proposed TV documentary called "One
Hand Clapping" at Abbey Road Studios in London. It was directed by David Litchfield on videotape. It basically showcased the
new line-up of Wings, with Jimmy McCulloch and Geoff Britton, rehearsing songs for a proposed concert tour. It also featured
a "cabaret" segment of Paul, solo at the piano. For some strange reason the footage of "Juniors Farm" was not included in the
finished film and was only available outside the UK as a promo video to promote his next single. It wasn`t even added into
the 2024 version which would have been a nice thing to do.

Also filmed on Aug 30 was "The Backyard" which was at a later stage removed and made into it`s own very short film which, along
with "One Hand Clapping", then sat in the MPL video vault until 2024.

Initially the bootleg World got to hear the audio from these sessions long before we even knew what they were and quite awhile
before any film footage showed up. We never even knew that the "Juniors Farm" promo was actually part of a larger project. The
earliest known copies of "One Hand Clapping" starting appearing on collectors trading lists around the late 1980`s. It then
appeared on the earliest Paul DVD bootlegs in the 90`s.

Apart from the "Juniors Farm" promo video the first official release of any other footage from the film was when the entire
(un-remastered) "One Hand Clapping" film was released on the "Band on The Run" Archive Collection DVD in 2010. "Suicide" was also
included on the "McCartney" Archive Collection DVD in 2011. BTW the Yellow Cow DVD includes the "Juniors Farm" promo inserted as the second track of the film.

Many other wonderful songs were recorded during these sessions and presumably some if not all were also filmed but they remain in the MPL vault if they were ever kept at all.

These are the songs featured in the unreleased 1974 original edit and the identical official 2024 release:
Intro - One Hand Clapping
Jet
Soily
C Moon/Little Woman Love
Maybe I`m Amazed
My Love
Bluebird
Suicide
Lets Love
Sitting at The Piano
All of You
I`ll Give You a Ring
Band on The Run
Live and Let Die
1985
Baby Face

Check out Paul McCartney 1974 for more information on the filmimg of One Hand Clapping.