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'I Lost My Little Girl' | |
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Song by Paul McCartney | |
from the album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) | |
Released | May 20, 1991 |
Recorded | January 25, 1991 |
Genre | Rock |
Length | 1:45 |
Label | Parlophone/EMI |
Songwriter(s) | Paul McCartney |
Producer(s) | n/a Recorded by Geoff Emerick |
Audio sample | |
'I Lost My Little Girl' |
'I Lost My Little Girl' is one of the first songs written by Paul McCartney and the first he wrote for guitar. McCartney wrote the song in 1956 or 1957, around the age of 14 or 15, shortly after his mother's death.
Composition[edit]
Some writers, including musicologistWalter Everett, describe the song as McCartney's first composition.[1] McCartney himself has also described it as 'the first song I ever wrote'.[1] Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn clarifies,
As it was written on the guitar, which he only began playing after rock's breakthrough, and as he always said he wrote the two piano songs ('Call It Suicide' and what would become 'When I'm Sixty-Four') before rock arrived, 'I Lost My Little Girl' was not his first song but his first guitar song—a distinction he, as the creator, was entitled to make.[2]
McCartney wrote 'I Lost My Little Girl' in 1956 or 1957. In his official biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney says he wrote the song 'when I was fourteen just after I'd lost my mother'.[3] In The Beatles: The Biography, Bob Spitz writes McCartney wrote the song in 1956 soon after his mother Mary's death on 29 October 1956 and that, 'McCartney remains vague about a correlation between the two events.'[4] Writer and research fellow Dave Laing writes McCartney wrote the song sometime between his mother's death and the summer of 1957.[5] Lewisohn writes McCartney wrote the song in late 1957, around the time John Lennon wrote Hello Little Girl.[6] In particular, Lewisohn notes that when McCartney sings the song he includes 'a [Buddy] Holly hiccup, pinpointing its creation to post-September 1957,'[2] the month McCartney and Lennon first heard the Crickets' song 'That'll Be the Day'.[7] Everett agrees with Lewisohn that the Holly-like vocalizations in lines 8–10 of the song likely post-date McCartney's first hearing Holly in late 1957, but contends that those were later additions and that he had already written the rest of the song before that point.[1]
McCartney wrote the song with his first guitar, a Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar.[8][page needed] In The Beatles Anthology, McCartney recalls, 'All my first songs, including that one, were written on the Zenith; songs like 'Michelle' and 'I Saw Her Standing There'. It was on this guitar that I learnt 'Twenty Flight Rock', the song that later got me into the group The Quarry Men.'[9] It is unclear whether he wrote the words or the melody first, though there is likely nothing beyond a few verses.[10] In a 1976 interview, McCartney describes it as 'A funny little song, a nice little song, a corny little song, based on three chords—G, G7 and C.'[11] In a 1991 performance, he clarifies, 'I'm gonna play a song which was the first song I ever wrote, when I was fourteen... You see, you take a G [nut-position chord] and you take a G7 and a C, that's all it is really; a bit of F, I must admit.'[1]
Lewisohn writes the influence of Buddy Holly in the songs composition is 'crystal clear',[10] being 'steeped in the Crickets' sound.'[12] Everett writes that the song did not originally have a contrasting section with the B-section added later.[1] He also writes that the song is representative of most of the Beatles' earliest compositions in being, 'thoroughly diatonic, grounded solidly in the major scale.'[13] In interviews, McCartney often expresses embarrassment over his rhyming 'girl' with 'her hair didn't always curl.' Lewisohn writes that the strength of the song instead lies in its melodic counterpoint, indicating McCartney's early skills.[10] In The Beatles Anthology, McCartney says, 'I liked the way one melody line went down and the other went up, which I think is called contrary motion. It was a very innocent little song.'[9]
After writing the song, McCartney often played it for other people.[10] In a 1989 interview, he recalled, 'I liked the idea of being able to say 'I wrote this'.[10] Ian James, a classmate of McCartney's, recalled an early demonstration:
I was in Forthlin Road once when Paul said, 'I've written this song.' I couldn't imagine what it would be like but we went up to his bedroom and while I stood there he sat on the edge of his bed and played me 'I Lost My Little Girl.' Whether it was a good tune or not, I was impressed by the fact that he'd written something. I'd never thought about writing a song—I was only interested in playing what had been recorded. He didn't only want to strum to Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis, he was more interested in creating something himself. That spark was there from the start.[10]
Recording[edit]
In the early 1970s rumors circulated about the existence of an early 1962 rehearsal of the Beatles performing 'I Lost My Little Girl', amongst several other songs. Everett writes that these rumors have never been substantiated.[14] The earliest known taping of the song[1] is the Beatles performing a version in January 1969 during their Get Back sessions.[15][16][nb 1]John Lennon is on lead vocal while McCartney supplies a repeated sustained upper descent.[1] McCartney recorded another early version on a crude home tape in the mid-1970s.[nb 2] It includes a slightly different melodic line which Everett believes is more historically accurate to the original composition.[1]
McCartney began performing the song on radio, TV and in concert in 1977.[2] On 25 January 1991, McCartney performed the song for a live audience. This performance is captured on his 1991 album, Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).[18]
Personnel[edit]
According to The Paul McCartney Project:[19]
- Paul McCartney - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Linda McCartney - backing vocals
- Robbie McIntosh - backing vocals
- Hamish Stuart - acoustic bass, backing vocals
- Paul Wickens - shaker
- Blair Cunningham - drums
Production
- Geoff Emerick - mixing engineer, recording engineer
- Eddie Klein - assistant engineer
- Gary Stewart - assistant engineer
- Peter Craigie - assistant engineer
- Gary Bradshaw - monitor engineer
Notes[edit]
- ^This recording is on the 1991 bootleg, Get Back and 22 Other Songs.[17]
- ^This recording is on the 1992 bootleg The Piano Tape, likely recorded around 1974.[17]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefghEverett 2001, p. 31.
- ^ abcLewisohn 2013, p. 818n49.
- ^Miles 1998, p. 21, quoted in Everett 2001, p. 31
- ^Spitz 2005, p. 130.
- ^Laing 2009, p. 22.
- ^Lewisohn 2013, pp. 10, 153.
- ^Lewisohn 2013, p. 147.
- ^Miles 1998.
- ^ abThe Beatles 2000, p. 20.
- ^ abcdefLewisohn 2013, p. 153.
- ^Gambaccini 1976, p. 17, quoted in Lewisohn 2013, p. 153
- ^Lewisohn 2013, p. 10.
- ^Everett 2001, p. 55.
- ^Everett 2001, p. 371n25.
- ^Everett 2001, p. 27.
- ^'Watch the Lost Beatles'. NPR's Online Music Show. Retrieved November 1, 2006.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ abEverett 2001, p. 372n38.
- ^Everett 2001, p. 31, 372n38.
- ^'I Lost My Little Girl (song)'. The Paul McCartney project. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
Sources[edit]
- The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN978-0-8118-2684-6. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-514105-4. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- Gambaccini, Paul (1976). Paul McCartney in His Own Words. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN978-0-825-63063-7.
- Laing, Dave (2009). 'Six boys, six Beatles: the formative years, 1950–1962'. In Womack, Kenneth (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 9–32. ISBN978-0-521-68976-2.
- Lewisohn, Mark (2013). The Beatles – All These Years, Volume One: Tune In. Crown Archetype. ISBN978-1-4000-8305-3.CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
- Miles, Barry (1998). Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now. London: Secker & Warburg. ISBN978-0-436-28022-1.
- Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN978-0-316-80352-6.
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Lost Girls | |
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Directed by | Liz Garbus |
Produced by | |
Written by | Michael Werwie |
Based on | Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Igor Martinovic |
Edited by | Camilla Toniolo |
Distributed by | Netflix |
Release date |
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95 minutes[1] | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Lost Girls is a 2020 American mysterydrama film. Lost Girls was directed by Liz Garbus, from a screenplay by Michael Werwie, and based on the book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker. The film revolves around the murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer, who remains unidentified.
Lost Girls stars Amy Ryan as the real life activist Mari Gilbert, along with Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Oona Laurence, Dean Winters, Miriam Shor, Reed Birney, Kevin Corrigan, and Gabriel Byrne. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2020, and was later released on March 13, 2020, by Netflix.
Premise[edit]
Lost Girl Masks
Mari Gilbert, Gilbert's mother, relentlessly drives law enforcement agents to search for her missing daughter and, in the process, sheds light on a wave of unsolved murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island, committed by the Long Island serial killer.
Cast[edit]
- Amy Ryan as Mari Gilbert
- Thomasin McKenzie as Sherre Gilbert
- Gabriel Byrne as Commissioner Richard Dormer
- Oona Laurence as Sarra Gilbert
- Lola Kirke as Kim
- Miriam Shor as Lorraine
- Reed Birney as Dr. Peter Hackett
- Kevin Corrigan as Joe Scalise
- Rosal Colon as Selena Garcia
- Dean Winters as Dean Bostick
- Sarah Wisser as Shannan Gilbert
- Austyn Johnson as Young Shannan Gilbert
- James Hiroyuki Liao as Michael Pak
- Molly Brown as Missy[2]
Production[edit]
In March 2016, it was announced that Liz Garbus would direct the film, from a screenplay by Michael Werwie, based on the book of the same name by Robert Kolker. Kevin McCormack, David Kennedy, Rory Koslow, Amy Nauiokas, and Anne Carey served as producers on the film, while Pamela Hirsch executive produced. Amazon Studios was initially set to distribute.[3] In February 2017, Sarah Paulson was set to star in the film as real-life activist Mari Gilbert.[4] In May 2018, Amy Ryan replaced Paulson, and Netflix was set as the distributor.[5] In October 2018, Thomasin McKenzie (who dropped out of Top Gun: Maverick to work on the film), Gabriel Byrne, Oona Laurence, Lola Kirke, Miriam Shor, Reed Birney, Kevin Corrigan, and Rosal Colon joined the cast.[6][7]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography began on October 15, 2018, in New York City.[8]
Release[edit]
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2020,[9] and was released on March 13, 2020, by Netflix.[10]
Critical reception[edit]
Lost Girls holds a 73% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 48 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.19/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'Raw yet rewarding, Lost Girls overcomes uneven storytelling with powerful performances and a willingness to resist easy catharsis.'[11] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 69 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews.'[12]
References[edit]
- ^'Lost Girls'. Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
- ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3111426/
- ^Siegel, Tatiana (March 9, 2016). 'Liz Garbus in Talks to Direct Serial Killer Film 'Lost Girls' for Amazon (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^Ford, Rebecca; Kit, Borys (February 3, 2017). 'Sarah Paulson to Star in Serial-Killer Film 'Lost Girls' (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^Kit, Borys (May 16, 2018). 'Amy Ryan Replaces Sarah Paulson as 'Lost Girls' Moves From Amazon to Netflix (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^N’Duka, Amanda (October 26, 2018). 'Lost Girls': Gabriel Byrne, Lola Kirke, Miriam Shor & More Round Out Cast Of Netflix Crime Feature'. Deadline Hollywood.
- ^Netflix's 'Lost Girls' Adds Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke and Dean Winters
- ^'Lost Girls'. Production List. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^Siegel, Tatiana (December 4, 2019). 'Sundance Unveils Female-Powered Lineup Featuring Taylor Swift, Gloria Steinem, Abortion Road Trip Drama'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^Russian, Ale (January 16, 2020). 'Amy Ryan Plays a Mother Fighting for Answers in Gripping Trailer for Netflix's Lost Girls'. People. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
- ^'Lost Girls'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ^'Lost Girls Reviews'. Metacritic. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
External links[edit]
Lost Girl Mac Os X
- Lost Girls on Netflix
- Lost Girls at IMDb
- Lost Girls at AllMovie
- Lost Girls at Rotten Tomatoes
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