Suzy and The Red Stripes - "Seaside Woman"

"Seaside Woman"

According to an 1974 interview with Linda, she wrote the song during a McCartney family visit to Jamaica in 1971 "when ATV was suing us saying I was incapable of writing, so Paul said, 'Get out and write a song.'"

Wings first performed "Seaside Woman" during the Wings University Tour in February 1972. It was then recorded by Wings during the Red Rose Speedway sessions later in 1972.

The single was first released five years later, in 1977, on Epic Records in the US, due to the efforts of Epic's Steve Popovich, who was given label credit for mastering the original single. The B-side, "B-Side to Seaside", was written by Paul and Linda McCartney and recorded by the McCartneys (without Wings) in March 1977. Two years after that, "Seaside Woman" was released by A&M Records in the UK in a regular version, which featured diagonal red stripes on the cover and circular ones on the label, and a special "boxed" version with 10 "saucy" seaside-style postcards. In 1986, a remixed version was released by EMI on 7" and an extended 12" version.

"Seaside Woman" charted at number 59 in the US but did not chart in the UK. Both sides of the single were later included on Linda McCartney's posthumous album Wide Prairie.