Paul and Linda McCartney "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"

For the first song of this blog I chose one of the first songs I can remember hearing..."Uncle Albert" by Paul and Linda McCartney. My mom would be cleaning the house listening to Paul McCartney and singing and dancing along. While my mother went about the household chores I would hop from couch cushion to couch cushion so as to not touch the "lava" and bop around to this song. I'll never forget my  young, naive feelings towards this particular tune..."this song is weird".

The song always felt like an odd play to me. Like I was at a performance of sort at a highschool. The song changes about three or four times and gets progressively catchier. One minute you're singing along to "hands across the water; hands across the sky", and then you find yourself bopping your head and smiling singing "live a little, be a gypsy, get around...".

The song, from what I have read, is a single song made up of snippets of unfinished songs Paul had written previously. He wrote the song influenced by his actual uncle, Albert Kindall, and his drunken delves in the Bible. Apparently his uncle Albert had a habit of reading aloud from the Bible when he was getting plastered.

So to that I want to thank Paul, his wife (who helped co-write the song), and dear old drunken uncle Albert.


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