Recording: Little Lamb Dragonfly by Wings

Studio One, Trident Studios, London
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: David Hentschel

Wings worked on the Red Rose Speedway song ‘Little Lamb Dragonfly’ on 20 November 1972.

The song dated from the Ram session in New York two years previously, and had been considered by Paul McCartney for a planned Rupert The Bear animation.

The recording was mostly complete, but lacked finished lyrics. McCartney and Denny Laine finished writing it during this session at Trident Studios. Laine then sang the song, with backing vocals and bass guitar added by McCartney.

I helped him with the words on ‘Little Dragonfly’ [sic]. I was contributing, but I wasn’t credited for that. But that goes for lots of things that I’ve done.

Wings drummer Denny Seiwell helped arrange the vocal harmonies.

At Trident he broke out ‘Little Lamb’, and he said, ‘We should finish this tune.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great song, I really love that.’ He hadn’t finished a lot of that song. I said, ‘Come on, let us help you with this.’ I wrote some background harmonies and stuff. I said, ‘On the background vocals why don’t we just do a little answer bit?’ And I sang little parts to him as he was playing it, and he said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’