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My Valentine

Kisses on the Bottom
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Cover photo by Mary McCartney
Studio album by Paul McCartney
Released 6 February 2012
Recorded March 2010 at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles
2011 in New York City and London
Genre Jazz, traditional pop
Length 49:19
Label Hear Music
Producer Tommy LiPuma
Paul McCartney chronology
Ocean's Kingdom
(2011)
Kisses on the Bottom
(2012)
iTunes Live from Capitol Studios
(2012)
Paul McCartney studio album chronology
Memory Almost Full
(2007)
Kisses on the Bottom
(2012)
New
(2013)
Singles from Kisses on the Bottom
  1. "My Valentine"
    Released: 20 December 2011
  2. "Only Our Hearts"
    Released: 7 February 2012
External video
"My Valentine" Music video
from McCartney's official account on YouTube
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 62/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
The A.V. Club C+
Chicago Tribune 2/4 stars
The Daily Telegraph 4/5 stars
The Guardian 4/5 stars
The Independent 2/5 stars
Mojo 3/5 stars
PopMatters 6/10 stars
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars
Spin 3/10

Kisses on the Bottom is the fifteenth post-Beatles studio album by Paul McCartney (discounting his Wings-era discography, his orchestral works and his output as the Fireman), 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 Eric Clapton on guitar, while the latter features Stevie Wonder on harmonica. 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.

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.

A year prior to recording the album, jazz producer Tommy LiPuma and an unnamed keyboardist tried out some ideas for five days with Paul McCartney at McCartney's home studio in East Sussex. Featuring just vocals and piano, the trio "put about 15-20 songs on tape", to see what tracks would work. Around this time, an unknown McCartney original was recorded, with the help of engineer Geoff Emerick. The songs that McCartney would work on were voted upon democratically: McCartney comments, "I pulled up some [songs] from my memories, when I was a kid and we had family sing-songs, which was the original inspiration for the whole idea, I said to Tom, 'Let's look at these ones. This is the kind of era I want to look at.' Tommy himself suggested some; a girl in my office; [...] Diana [Krall] suggested some. Then I played Tommy a couple that I'd written, and he said, 'Whoa, that's a great idea,' so we selected a couple of those. [...] We all made suggestions, and we took all those suggestions to the studio."


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