Wild Wonders (partially found full versions of unidentified songs from bootleg tape; 1970s-1986)

The Wings - Wild Wonders Tape is the name given to 10 songs of varying quality, all misattributed to Wings & Paul Mccartney. The Tape was recorded in the 70s. There has been an online search to not just track down high quality versions of the songs, but also their names and authors.

History

Around the mid 80s, the tape was going around Beatles tape collectors. Scott Belmer, who wrote several songs on The Beatles, looked at the tape in the newsletter, "Belmo's Beatleg News".

In 1989, L.R.E King mentioned the tape in his book "Fixin' a Hole".

“Some parts sound a little like Paul and co., but the sound quality is abominable and seems to be deliberately distorted, which is certainly a reason to be suspicious. Extremely dubious.”

In 2001, a user called Randwolf2 made "The Beatles Tapes", a site dedicated to documenting and debunking supposedly unreleased Beatles material. He organized the songs as Outfakes, Songs which are misattributed to a band or artist, either intentionally or unintentionally. He later released "LIES - Volumes 1 - 6", Which uses "Please Come Home, a song from the tape.

In 2023, Reddit user GameMonkeyDev mentioned the tape on the Long Island Subreddit. On Febuary 24th, Beyond Obscure posted a restoration of the tape, and on October 16, LMW user Spade uploaded a restoration of "Please Come Home" to Youtube, followed by the entire tape on November 24th, drawing attention to the mystery.

Tracklisting

Placeholder Track Title	Status	ID	Date
"Signs of Love"	Lost		1978
"Please Come Home"	Lost		1977
"The Best is Yet to Come"	Lost		1975
"Go for the Beer"	Lost		1978
"Looking into Love	Partially Found		Late 70's
"Shake Up your Engines"	Partially Found		Late 70's
"Need A Guarantee of Love"	Lost		1974
"Runaway Teenager"	Lost		1979
"Jimmy Takes A Ride"	Lost		1978
"Relax in Bed"	Found		1984

Identified Tracks

Tracks 5 & 6 were confirmed to have been written by Neal Ferraro, A notable producer from Long Island. However, there is no way to fully confirm this, as no HD audio of the two songs have ever resurfaced online.

Track 10, which was correctly identified as X-Offender - Relax in Red, Was confirmed to have been written in 1984, despite the tape saying it's from 1978. The version on the tape is a demo version of the song on the EP.

Therories

One possible theory is that these songs were preformed on The Homegrown Hour, a radio show which features underground and local bands. These songs were then recorded by bootleggers, and then intentionally distorted to hide the Fact that it's not Paul Mccartney or Wings. This theory is further supported by the fact that some tracks (Most notably Runaway Teenageer & The Best is Yet to Come") have an abrupt and unnatural start, almost as if it wasn't recorded properly.

Availability

Only track 10, Relax in Red, has ever been fully identified. all of the songs on the tape are in horrible quality, And as of February 2024, the rest of the tracks are either Partially found, or lost.

Audio

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