A Melodic Tribute to 70s-Era Paul McCartney
by Jim Windolf December 19, 2008
Charles Gansa, a Brooklyn songwriter and musician formerly of the indie band Guv’ner, has come up with the wittiest musical joke of the year: a song called “Love Take Me Down (To the Streets),” which can be heard during the closing credits of the hit comedy Role Models. It’s an affectionate parody of the melodic hit singles turned out by Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band, Wings, in the 1970s.
The great thing about “Love Take Me Down (To the Streets)” is that it doesn’t sound like any particular McCartney song of the 70s, but it somehow manages to evoke the mood and sound of “Live and Let Die,” “Junior’s Farm,” “With a Little Luck,” and many others.
“I was just taking my impression of being a kid and how it felt when ‘Band on the Run’ came on the radio,” says Gansa, 39. “I was trying evoke some of the feelings that those songs did, so it wasn’t out of an academic or superfan interest.”
Бруклинский композитор Чарльз Ганза написал забавы ради песенку в стиле Пола Маккартни 1970-х годов. На это подвигла его любовь с детства к сэру Маккартни и его группе The Wings. Песня действительно похожа на известные вещи Пола 70-х годов? А мы сейчас проверим:
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