Junior's Farm

Infobox Single
Name = Junior's Farm


Artist = Paul McCartney and Wings
from Album =
B-side = "Sally G"
Released = October 25, 1974
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:23
Label = Apple Records
Writer = Paul McCartney
Producer = Paul McCartney
Certification =
Chart position =
* #16 (UK)
* #3 (US)|
Last single = "Band on the Run"
(1974)
This single = "Junior's Farm"/"Sally G"
(1974)
Next single = "Listen to What the Man Said"
(1975)
Misc =Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Background = khaki


Lower caption = Italian single cover

"Junior's Farm" is a song written by Paul McCartney and recorded by Paul McCartney and Wings. A #3 hit single in the US, it was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1974, while the band was staying at the farm of Curly Putman Jr., which accounts for the title. The song continued McCartney and Wings' success after the "Band on the Run" album. However it only made #16 on the British charts.

A special full-colour photo was taken for this single's picture sleeve, which featured the members of Wings dressed in appropriate costumes from the song's lyrics (for example, Geoff Britton as a poker dealer and Denny Laine as the "Eskimo"). However, the photo only appeared on the picture sleeve of the single in Spain. In the UK and the US, Apple Records released the single without any picture sleeve, apparently as a cost-reduction move. In some other countries in Europe, a black-and-white band photo was used instead (see alternate cover).

The B-side, "Sally G," was also a Top 20 hit on the US charts, peaking at #17. Although "Junior's Farm" was never released on one of McCartney's original albums, "Sally G" was released in 1993 on "Wings at the Speed of Sound" in The Paul McCartney Collection.

This was the last Wings (or McCartney) release on Apple Records.

Cover versions

In 1996 "Junior's Farm" was covered by Galactic Cowboys on their "Feel the Rage" E.P.