Signs of Love is an unidentified instrumental funk/soul song. It started circulating on cassette tape trading in the 1980s due to being included in the Wings - Wild Wonders outfake album. It comes to an abrupt ending.
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Sometime around 1987, bootleggers circulated the song on audio tapes, mislabeling it as a Paul McCartney & Wings studio outtake.[1] This song is the first track on the tape, and the title was labelled as “Signs Of Love”.
This lead to the song being featured in two separate newsletters devoted to unofficial Beatles recordings, Scott Belmerfeatured it in 1987, and L.R.E. King subsequently included it in another newsletter in 1989 as a direct response to Scott Belmer's review of the song.
The song's earliest known online mention dates to sometime around 1998 when user Randwolf included it on his now-defunct website, which aimed at cataloging recordings of The Beatles.[2]
On July 13th, 2018, user BeatlesBootlegs9 posted the song to YouTube, along with all the other songs on the tape. The tape said the song was from 1978, but the dates on the tape have so far been incorrect.
The artists behind the four identified songs from the tape are all from Long Island, New York. And according to two of them, their songs were submitted to various radio contests in the late '70s, such as WBAB 102.3's Homegrown Hour show and WALK's radio show's, which was dedicated to showcasing local talent. These shows are likely the source from which bootleggers stole the song.
On December 27th, 2022, user Antonio's Remastered Works uploaded a remaster of this song. The song is six minutes long, the longest from the album. This song and Runaway Teenager are the only instrumental songs from the tape.
Over time, the song was reuploaded to YouTube by several users, such as Q, S2h, AlianTheObscure, SpikeytheCactus, 𝑀𝑟. 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠, and multiple others, amassing over 7k views.
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Wings - Wild Wonders' Lostwave Songs | |
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| Relax In Red • Lookin' Into Love • Shake Up Your Engines • Guarantee | |
| Signs Of Love • Please Come Home • The Best Is Yet To Come • Go For The Beer • Runaway Teenager | |
| Jimmy Takes A Ride [The Sheiks - Ginny, Take A Ride?] | |