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Kisses on the Bottom

Kisses on the Bottom is the fifteenth solo studio album by Paul McCartney, consisting primarily of covers of traditional pop music and jazz. Released in February 2012 on Starbucks' Hear Music label, it was McCartney's first studio album since Memory Almost Full in 2007. The album was produced by Tommy LiPuma and includes just two original compositions by McCartney: "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts". The former features jazz drummer Karriem Riggins. Kisses on the Bottom peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and number 5 on the US Billboard 200, while also topping Billboard magazine's Jazz Albums chart.

This article is about the Paul McCartney studio album. For the Into the Dark episode, see My Valentine (Into the Dark).

Kisses on the Bottom

6 February 2012[1]

March – November 2011

Jazz, traditional pop

49:19

Hear Music

Tommy LiPuma

In addition to the standard release, the album was made available in a "Deluxe" edition, which added the songs "Baby's Request"—written by McCartney and originally recorded by Wings for their 1979 album Back to the Egg—and another cover, "My One and Only Love". In November 2012, an expanded edition of Kisses on the Bottom, subtitled Complete Kisses, was released exclusively on the iTunes store. The latter release features the fourteen-track album with four bonus tracks, and the complete iTunes Live from Capitol Studios performance.

Commercial performance[edit]

Kisses on the Bottom peaked at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart,[36] and number 5 on the US Billboard 200.[37] It also debuted at number 17 on Billboard's Jazz Albums listings, before climbing to number 1 the following week.[38] In addition, it hit number 2 on the Billboard Tastemaker Albums chart,[39] just behind Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth, and number 5 on the magazine's Digital Albums chart.[40]

– vocals; acoustic guitar on "Get Yourself Another Fool" and "The Inch Worm"

Paul McCartney

– piano, rhythm arrangements (except on "Only Our Hearts")

Diana Krall

– piano on "Only Our Hearts"

Tamir Hendelman

– harmonica on "Only Our Hearts"

Stevie Wonder

– guitar

John Pizzarelli

– guitar on "The Glory of Love" and "My Very Good Friend the Milkman", rhythm guitar on "Get Yourself Another Fool"

Anthony Wilson

– guitar on "My Valentine" and “Get Yourself Another Fool"

Eric Clapton

– guitar on "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"

Bucky Pizzarelli

John Chiodini – guitar on "Only Our Hearts"

– double bass on 1–4, 6–9, 11, 13

Robert Hurst

– double bass on "The Glory of Love", "My Very Good Friend the Milkman"

John Clayton

– double bass on "Get Yourself Another Fool"

Christian McBride

– double bass on "Only Our Hearts"

Chuck Berghofer

– drums on "Only Our Hearts"

Vinnie Colaiuta

– drums

Karriem Riggins

– drums on "The Glory of Love", "My Very Good Friend the Milkman"

Jeff Hamilton

– vibraphone on "Home (When Shadows Fall)", "More I Cannot Wish You", "The Glory of Love", and "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)"

Mike Mainieri

London Symphony Orchestra

Alan Broadbent

– violin on "It's Only a Paper Moon"

Andy Stein

Eddie Karam – orchestra conductor

Assa Drori – concertmaster

– orchestra arrangement, orchestra conductor, rhythm arrangement

Johnny Mandel

Ira Nepus –

trombone

Chloe Arzy –

children's choir

Evyn Johnson – children's choir

Makiah Johnson – children's choir

Michael Johnson – children's choir

Delany Meyer – children's choir

Ilsey Moon – children's choir

Sabrina Walden – children's choir

Sasha Walden – children's choir

Scottie Haskell – children's choir conductor

Personnel per standard edition booklet.[8]

at Discogs (list of releases)

Kisses on the Bottom