Mary Had a Little Lamb by Paul McCartney – ***

First released: 1972

McCartney decided to make a kids record. In retrospect with McCartney releasing classical music, avant garde material, as well as other songs for cartoon soundtracks, this doesn’t seem that strange. But at the time, coming only two years after The Beatles breakup, this was considered a major letdown. If you watch Flip Wilson introduce the video for this song on "The Flip Wilson Show" DVD, you can see Wilson almost suppressing laughter. Actually I really do like this song, not as much as the b-side "Little Woman Love", but it’s good nonetheless, but probably not the wisest thing for McCartney to release if he’s trying to establish a solo career, and it’s much better than the stuff McCartney has released in the 21st Century. He might be wise to consult Mother Goose again. It was finally released to CD on the "Wild Life" reissue in 1989.