Paul McCartney & Wings complete ‘Bridge On The River Suite’ in Nashville 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 11 1974)


Video: 'Bridge On The River Suite (Remastered 2014)'

(Thursday, July 11, 1974; during the Nashville sessions) — Paul McCartney and his post-Beatles band Wings completed “Bridge On The River Suitetoday at Soundshop Recording Studios in Nashville, recording overdubs to a track initially recorded on Sept. 29, 1972.

The song, co-written by McCartney’s wife, Linda, would be released under the name the Country Hams later in 1974 as the B-side to single “Walking in the Park with Eloise,” a jazz instrumental written by Jim McCartney in the early 1920s to the late 1930s and would be recorded by his son on July 16, 1974.