Recording: I Would Only Smile by Wings

Studio One, Olympic Studios, London
Producer: Glyn Johns
Engineers: Phil Chapman

Wings recorded the Denny Laine song ‘I Would Only Smile’ on 22 March 1972.

Although a contender for the proposed double-disc edition of Red Rose Speedway, it was left off the final release.

I’ve already got a song on the next album, ‘I Would Only Smile’, which is a kind of early Beatles thing. But there are problems as far as publishing are concerned. That is the only hang-up with Wings. We could be doing many more things but we had to go at a certain pace because of management problems, You see, Allen Klein still owns Paul though Paul’s trying hard to get out of it. If he doesn’t, he’s technically tied up for another seven years. He’s the worst off of the lot of us really.

‘I Would Only Smile’ was eventually re-recorded by Laine for his 1980 solo album Japanese Tears.