Wings - Wild Wonders
ⓘ This lostwave is classified as unsolved. | |
| Wings - Wild Wonders | |
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| Year | c. 1987 |
|---|---|
| Status | Partially identified |
| Original poster | Scott Belmer |
| Search started | 2001 |
| Search community | Various |
"Wings - Wild Wonders" is a bootleg tape of misattributed Paul McCartney & Wings tracks. In the 1980s, bootleggers claimed these songs were authentic Wings studio outtakes, later referred to as 'outfakes' by Beatles collectors, likely to promote sales of the tape to collectors.
Based on the identified songs, it is believed that all of the songs on the album were recorded in the late 1970s and early 1980s and aired on the Long Island radio station WBAB 102.3, possibly by Long Island, New York bands. Three of the songs on the tape were bootleg recordings of demo submissions for the station's Homegrown Hour show, which was dedicated to promoting local acts.[1]
History[edit | edit source]
Since 1987, bootleg tapes titled "Wings - Wild Wonders" have circulated among Beatles tape collectors.[2] Scott Belmer, an author and Beatles historian, first mentioned the tape when he reviewed each track in his January 1988 newsletter Belmo's Beatleg News, and the songs were thought to be genuine.[2] In 1989, another author named L.R.E. King mentioned the tape in his book Fixing A Hole: A Second Look At The Beatles' Unauthorized Recordings, and first theorized that the bootleggers purposefully distorted the audio to conceal the fact that Paul McCartney was not singing on them.[3]
In 2001, Randwolf2 launched 'The Beatles Tapes' in 2001, a website that catalogs and debunks recordings purported to be unreleased Beatles material, officially classifying the Wild Wonders tracks as outfakes.[4] Later, he featured the second song from the tape, "Please Come Home," in his sixth downloadable album, 'LIES - VOLUME 6'.[5]
On July 13, 2018, the full album was uploaded to Youtube for the first time by user BeatlesBootlegs9.[6] The search peaked in popularity in 2023 with YouTube users Antonio's Remastered Works,[7] Beyond Obscure[8] and Spade[9] uploading restorations that brought popularity to the search.
Songs[edit | edit source]
1) Signs Of Love (Status - Unsolved)[edit | edit source]
A six and a half-minute instrumental funk/jazz track. No leads have been found, and there is no confirmation of the title, so it could have been made up by the bootleggers.
2) Please Come Home (Status - Unsolved)[edit | edit source]
A funk-rock song, which is one of the few songs on the album where the singer can be clearly heard. Ralph J Weeks[10] and Arnold Worsley[11] are among the debunked leads discovered from the Cocatalog copyright database, while unconfirmed leads include Dave Schachne,[12][13] and Bruce & Jan Fields.[14][15]
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
I think about you everyday, babe You're always on my mind I haven't heard from you, honey Now I'm wondering why Nothing's the same without you I need your tender touch Just can't go on this way, honey How I've missed you so much (Chorus) Please come home, baby I feel so wrong alone, darling Please come home (Verse 2) So damn cold in New York City Colder every day But I've got this job to do, honey I can't get to L.A. You say you love me, darling But we're so far apart Can't take this situation It’s just breaking my heart (Chorus) Please come home, baby I feel so wrong alone, darling Please come home (Saxophone Solo) Please come home (Please come home, darling) I feel so wrong alone (Don't you know that I feel so wrong all lonely) Please come home (Please come home, please come home) I feel so wrong alone Please come home I feel so wrong alone Please come home I feel so wrong alone Please come home I feel so wrong alone Please come home I feel so wrong alone |
3) The Best Is Yet To Come (Status - Unsolved)[edit | edit source]
A soul song with indiscernible lyrics due to extremely high bass distortion, with the only easily-identifiable line being the chorus, which only contains the song's title.[16] The only known lead was discovered through the Cocatalog database, a klezmer musician and Long Island resident named Jonathan Dinkin, but the lead has since gone cold due to an inability to contact him.[17] On December 18, 2024, a relative confirmed that Jonathan Dinkin died in 2023; contact is now being made with his wife Aveeya Dinkin.[source needed]
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
(You know it's fine out in the lifeline?) (So insecure, it’s out of your head?) (Not even left and to the right or unsure?) (I know the best is yet to come, I know?) (Chorus) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) (If anybody's over, while you were having fun?) (Look out, the best is yet to come, I know?) (Verse 2) (You may no leave I left this big town?) (You may not know just having fun?) (You make us happy, without your smile we’d never know?) (Oh yeah, the best is yet to come, I know?) (Chorus) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) (If anybody's over, while you were having fun?) (Look out, the best is yet to come, I know?) (Bridge) (Away?) (Away you’re not too far?) (Day?) (Look, everybody’s who you are?) (Guitar Solo) (Verse 3) (Before we meet get high 'till next time?) (You overplayed this tune ???) (I'm moving on onto loves friends I know?) (Look out, the best is yet to come, I know?) (Chorus) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) (If anybody's over, while you were having fun?) (Look out, the best is yet to come, I know?) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) The best is yet to come (The best is yet to come) |
4) Go For The Beer (Status - Unsolved)[edit | edit source]
A hard rock song with a disputed chorus, with some listeners hearing "Go for the feels".[18] There have been no leads found.
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
Something tells me that there’s too many songs about love (It doesn't mean that my ideas to know are above? (and gone?)) I stick around a lotta landings and fit like a glove Oh, won’t you save me when the end comes and push comes to shove (Chorus) Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real (Verse 2) Baby I don't like it when the boyfriend gives me hints of the news There isn't reasons, though we don't want to hear about (blues?) You wanna learn, you wanna burn, (while the elders refuse?) (And for radios, dialing time and time, there's nothing to lose?) (Chorus) Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real (Bridge) Someone keeps aside the melancholy deep inside Way beyond the sidelines But if you follow so, you’ll only bother keeping her Locked within the sidelines (Guitar Solo) (Chorus) Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real (Bridge) Someone keeps aside the melancholy deep inside Way beyond the sidelines But if you follow so, you’ll only bother keeping her Locked within the sidelines (Verse 1) Something tells me that there’s too many songs about love (It doesn't mean that my ideas to know are above? (and gone?)) I stick around a lotta landings and fit like a glove Oh, won’t you save me when the end comes and push comes to shove (Chorus) Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real Go for the feel/fear It’s the only thing that’s real |
5 & 6) Lookin' Into Love/Shake Up Your Engines - Neal Ferraro and Len Rothberg (Status - Solved)[edit | edit source]
Lookin' Into Love and Shake Up Your Engines, were two songs recorded by Long Island musicians Neal Ferraro and Len Rothberg in 1977. On July 13, 2023, a copyright entry for a song titled 'Lookin' Into Love' was discovered in Cocatalog by YouTube user BaroneseBon.[19] Upon contacting Ferraro, he confirmed the song's ownership and provided a high quality recording of the song[20] and 'Shake Up Your Engines', another song from the album.[21]
The songs were recorded in 1977 at Kingdom Sound in Syosset, New York and submitted to RCA Records in Nashville.[22] Both songs were also submitted to radio contests in the late '70s, such as WBAB 102.3's Homegrown Hour show, which may have been the source from which bootleggers stole the song.
| Official Lyrics (Lookin' Into Love) |
| (Verse 1)
Say I'm sailing safely homeward Say loves course is running true It's everything, that I've been looking for I find in your eyes soft and blue. (Chorus) Looking into love Tender lines on our faces Looking into love It took time for me to do Looking into love They'll be no more empty spaces Looking into love And saying I'm needing you (Verse 2) Say my sails are down to half mast Say I surrender me to you I say broken promises, might all be in the past Looking into love that's holding true. (Chorus) Looking into love Tender lines on our faces Looking into love It took time for me to do Looking into love They'll be no more empty spaces Looking into love And saying I'm needing you (Guitar/Piano Solo) Looking into love Tender lines on our faces (Tender lines) Looking into love It took time for me to do Looking into love They'll be no more empty spaces Looking into love And saying I'm needing you Looking into love (Looking into love) Tender lines on our faces Looking into love It took time for me to do Looking into love They'll be no more empty spaces |
| Official Lyrics (Shake Up Your Engines) |
| (Verse 1)
Walking hard on the boulevard Takin' the time to feel real fine And I know you aren't walking Back to me Pay my dues to the avenue Show that smile though it takes a while Even though no-one's talking Back to you (Chorus) Shake up your engines And rattle your trains 'Cause I'm not coming on board Mr. conductor you can call out my name I won't be ridin' anymore (Guitar Solo) Shake up your engines And rattle your trains 'Cause I'm not coming on board Mr. conductor you can call out my name I won't be ridin' anymore (Verse 2) Sittin' trackside suicide Beating time to a real fine line And I know it wasn't any Good for me I pay my dues to all of you Walk a mile just to make you smile But I know that ain't Really very far to go (Chorus) Shake up your engines And rattle your trains 'Cause I'm not coming on board (I'm not coming on) Mr. conductor you can call out my name I won't be ridin' anymore Shake up your engines And rattle your trains 'Cause I'm not coming on board (I'm not coming on) Mr. conductor you can call out my name I won't be ridin' anymore (Guitar Solo) |
7) Need A Guarantee Of Love (If It's Me You're Thinking Of) (Status - Solved)[edit | edit source]
A rock song, which is one of the few songs on the album where the singer can be clearly heard. On February 28, 2025, WatZatSong user Rebornjar identified the song as Guarantee [Early Version] by The End after they discovered that it had been officially uploaded to YouTube by a band member on February 2, 2025, who were unaware of the mystery.[23]
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
I hear them talking all the time So, I, will have to ask myself Am I just walking on a fine, line, girl? Are you true to me or someone else? (Pre-Chorus) How can I be rest-assured You're not running 'round? If it's me you say you're thinking of Feel it's only fair To sign away your heart (Chorus) Need a guarantee Need a guarantee Need a guarantee of love (Verse 2) Friends are calling up to say To me, you're out 'til after three Thoughts still linger in my mind So, I'm, on my way to see a notary (Pre-Chorus) Maybe then I'll feel secure, you're mine legally Then it's possible for me to say When you're all alone You won't fly away (Chorus) Need a guarantee Need a guarantee Need a guarantee of love (Guitar Solo) (Pre-Chorus) With a guarantee I'm sure, You'll look safe and sound Won't believe the stories I've been told For me, your guarantee, is worth its weight in gold (Chorus) Need a guarantee Need a guarantee Need a guarantee of love |
8) Runaway Teenager (Status - Unsolved)[edit | edit source]
An instrumental and the album's shortest track, lasting less than 90 seconds, and has been compared to stock music or a movie OST.[16] No leads have been found, through a recreation has been created by YouTube user senyaiv.[24]
9) Jimmy Takes A Ride (Status - Nearly Solved)[edit | edit source]
A hard rock song with extremely heavy distortion, making it extremely difficult to make out any of the lyrics. A possible lead had been discovered through the Cocatalog database, "Ginny, Take a Ride" by Gary Pagano and Steven Sollog.[25] This lead was strengthened by the fact that Pagano and Sollog were from Long Island and played in a band called the Sheiks,[26] who were confirmed to have aired alongside Neal Ferraro on Long Island radio.[27]
On December 29, 2024, the song was most likely identified as Take A Ride (1981) by John Simoes and Wayne Hartmann, as they have a song with that title in the Cocatalog database[28] and a person who claims to know John identified the recording as theirs. [source needed]
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
(Jimmy/Ginny got to go better?) Now she's got to know better Babe you never know it, (you cannot deny?) (Something's catching you as you take to the sky?) (Babe you never doubt it, summer's on the way?) Then you came here rollin' (???), just my little lady Jimmy's/Ginny's (ways are so good?) On a motorcycle Then, he sends (???) to another guy (Know you're taking children?), but can I get a ride? (???) (Open your mind?) (???) (Look up at the sky, babe?) (Chorus) Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride, yeah (Verse 2) Jimmy/Ginny gets excited (And he didn't have to ride it?) (???, had to leave) (??? , running out of steam) Jimmy/Ginny's got to stop them (All, all night?) Don't know where she's goin' (But she don't give a ride?) (Chorus) Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride, yeah Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride, yeah (Guitar Solo?) (Verse 2) (???, had to leave) (???, running out of steam) Jimmy/Ginny's got to stop them (All, all night?) Don't know where she's goin' (But nope, nope, nope, tonight?) (Chorus) Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride, take a ride Jimmy/Ginny, take a ride |
10) Relax In Red (Demo) - X-Offender (Status - Solved)[edit | edit source]
Relax In Red, previously known as “Relax In Bed", is a new wave song by X-Offender, released in 1986 and solved in 2012. Louis Portela, lead singer and bassist for X-Offender, has explained that the bootleggers' version of Relax In Red was an earlier live recording from Record-O-Mat Studios in New York, which was submitted to the WBAB 102.3 station's Homegrown Hour show.[29][30]
| Presumed Lyrics |
| (Verse 1)
Searching through the darkness Interested if someone's there Moving like a hungry lion Your lips could seal a kiss from death (Chorus) Relax in red Relax in red (Verse 2) Still feeling undecided No one knows you are awaiting death I know you're feeling quite excited But you're willing to relax instead (Chorus) Relax in red Relax in red (Guitar Solo) (Verse 3) A drink or two, no one remembers You moved, but with no success Your love has starved for so many hours Like a (signal?) dancing in distress (Chorus) Relax in red Relax in red (Instrumental) Relax in red Relax in red (Instrumental) |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAB_Homegrown_Album?useskin=vector
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 http://beatlestapes.atwebpages.com/wingswildwonderstape.html
- ↑ https://amazon.com/Fixing-Hole-Beatles-Unauthorized-Recordings/dp/0944692028
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110731023422/http://beatletapes.angelfire.com/outfakesg.html
- ↑ http://beatlestapes.atwebpages.com/LIESCDs.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6cP1I_pG8&list=PLK2v-NVG9hnDYfYdlwNXF1pWj_MI455nx&index=1
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFC5vYaE2bAAKs9BEeJscQM23FemBM0B
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gcfDN2NGyg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9yxp5PiZYM
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk71oxfbsN4&lc=UgwPxJACqsBMUibJl8h4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d6hp18/comment/l6ylto8/
- ↑ https://www.bandmix.com/daveschachne/
- ↑ https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/7893408
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1d6hp18/wild_wonders_please_come_home_possible_lead/
- ↑ https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/7935335
- ↑ Jump up to: 16.0 16.1 https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/help-me-and-the-folks-on-r-lostwave-solve-a-36-year-mystery-concerning-some-wings-outfakes.1170048/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8BaSHverA0&lc=UgxFKDvQZPoEFVt3mth4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm5FfK7YLZo&lc=Ugy8Hs-jxu9kk75H6rV4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gcfDN2NGyg&lc=UgwB3zVGRpOC-ToqVy14AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp8KP4IBjvo
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8DO9ohCnY
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gcfDN2NGyg&lc=Ugzojf2H-95WBiVKyat4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDy1n8Lk2A&t
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oBQlc7xXrI
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cb1i6w/jimmy_takes_a_ride_from_wings_wild_wonders_lead/
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/15649407-The-Sheiks-Blow-It-Up
- ↑ https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lostwaves-finest/images/c/ca/Highlighted.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20240406012549
- ↑ https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/8234515
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2iBMZlGRlI&lc=Ugzox8wyNtY8cRDNIsZ4AaABAg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ofkKt1Ug8&lc=UgxMoTU73j87lCph_7l4AaABAg.8Gbmgfg5vde9FzdBBYVwal
