David,
This might be a bit off topic (even more so), but I have always wondered if
McCartney ever made comments regarding XTC's music (or Andy Partridge).

I would think he would most certainly like XTC.

Anyone?

Tiny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net>
To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: Paul McRaspberry


> --- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@c...>
> wrote:
>
> > They were both on EMI-Capitol so Paul could have easily heard them. And
> its
> > been well documented that Lennon and Ringo loved "Overnight Sensation".
> > Was "Go All The Way" or any Raspberries single hits in the UK?
> >
> > Billy
>
> No Raspberries single charted in Britain, and after looking that up I got
> curious to see if they charted in some other countries.  According to my
> library, they also didn't chart in Sweden, Australia, or New Zealand, but
> "Don't Want To Say Goodbye" and "Go All The Way" did make the "tip" charts
> in The Netherlands (which doesn't rank things numerically).  Also, "Go All
> The Way" hit #9 and "I Wanna Be With You" #17 on Toronto's premier radio
> station, CHUM.
>
> Yeah, I know, this info has nothing to do with the question of whether or
> not the Raspberries influenced Paul McCartney, but I thought I'd throw it
> out there for all the chart geeks like myself.  :-)
> --
> Pop Rules!!!!!
> Take Care,
> David
>