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Was it an indulgence by a multi-millionaire with buzzing nostalgia circuits of his own? Possibly, but it made lots of people happy, both beginning readers and older folk with attics full of dusty Rupert annuals. Paul was excoriated by the humorless and mean-spirited British press for ages for producing this movie, which doesn’t seem fair. Rupert and the Frog Song is a 1984 animated film written and produced by Paul McCartney and directed by Geoff Dunbar and Raymond 'George' Taylor.

I think this is the sort of character you need to meet as a preschooler and he’ll stick around in your nostalgia circuits for decades to come, kind of like Bob the Builder. It kept our son’s attention, and he chuckled a couple of times, but at nine, he’s certainly a little old for it already. A new remastered edition of the film debuted today on McCartney’s YouTube channel. Nothing of consequence happens in Frog Song, but it’s simple, sweet, bucolic, and nicely animated, and, unlike Broad Street, it’s over in thirteen minutes. In the UK, it was shown as a short subject before his deeply ill-advised film Give My Regards to Broad Street. McCartney had been a big Rupert Bear fan as a boy and this had been a long-simmering project with him, to put Rupert Bear on the big screen. There are two potentially mean cats and an owl, but they don’t actually do anything. The film is a thirteen minute piece about Rupert going into a cave behind a waterfall and watching some frogs sing a song, which they do every two hundred years. It seems to be a sweet and simple story about an idealized pastoral village populated by animal people being nice to each other. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that probably ninety-odd percent of those Americans who’ve ever heard of Rupert Bear are Beatles fans. He sneaks into the palace, trying to avoid getting caught by the frog guards. He walks into a cave behind a waterfall and sees three signs: Frogs only beyond this point, Everything except frogs must be kept on a lead, and Guard frogs operating. “We All Stand Together” was the theme tune to a short animated feature called Rupert and the Frog Song, starring Rupert Bear, a character who’s appeared in a strip in the Daily Express for one hundred years this week. Upon the rocks, Rupert finds a large number of multicolored frogs. Okay, so neither “Together” nor the new song, “Once Upon a Long Ago,” are among McCartney’s best.

Both “Together” and the new song were omitted. And adding insult to injury, soon there was a new McCartney best-of with a brand new single, as you get with best-ofs, and when that record made it to American shelves, it had a different track list.

The film saw Paul voice the character of Rupert. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Written and produced by Paul and directed by Geoff, Rupert and The Frog Song was eventually released in 1984. The wildest example I heard of at that time was that Paul McCartney had a massive hit single in the UK at the end of 1984 called “We All Stand Together” that wasn’t issued here. Paul McCartney's Rupert and the Frog Song.With Linda McCartney's Seaside Woman and The Oriental Nightfish. Available 6 November.Around 1986-87, when I first decided I’d start collecting records, I remember being amazed to learn that the dimwit record companies would often just not release songs or singles in one country or another. We All Stand Together has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton along with the B-side instrumental We All Stand Together (Humming Version), which was included on the original release. Produced by Sir George Martin and featuring The King’s Singers and the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, We All Stand Together (also known as The Frog Song) was a huge hit upon release, remaining in the charts for 13 weeks, becoming a classic and a much-loved song by every school child in the ‘80s. Released simultaneously with We All Stand Together, the film went on to become the biggest selling video of 1985 in the UK, earning Paul a Grammy nomination in the process as well as seeing him win a revered Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Soundtrack and picking up a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film.

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The film saw Paul voice the character of Rupert and featured the voices of the beloved British TV icons June Whitfield (as Rupert’s mother) and Windsor Davies (Father Frog). Written and produced by Paul and directed by Geoff, Rupert and The Frog Song was eventually released in 1984. The film has now been fully restored in 4k as well as getting a new audio mix. 1 The making of Rupert and the Frog Song began in 1981 and ended in 1983. The song was the focal point of Rupert and The Frog Song - a short animated film that Paul began work on in 1981 with animator Geoff Dunbar. Rupert and the Frog Song is a 1984 animated short film based on the comic strip character Rupert Bear, written and produced by Paul McCartney and directed by Geoff Dunbar.