Sally G

"Sally G" was the B-side to the Paul McCartney and Wings single "Junior's Farm."

Writing, recording and release

McCartney composed the song after visiting a country music club in Printer's Alley.

Like the A-side, it was recorded in Nashville in 1974 during the band's visit. Unlike the A-side, it was strongly country music-influenced, including prominent use of Nashville backing musicians such as Vassar Clements, Lloyd Green and Johnny Gimble supporting Wings.

In the US, "Sally G" charted separately from "Junior's Farm" on both Billboard's country singles chart and on the Billboard Hot 100 where it reached #51 and #39 (#17 when still listed as the flip of "Junior's Farm"), respectively. Like many Wings singles, the song was not included on an album at the time of release.

Chart performance

Notes

G minor

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F♯. Its relative major is B-flat major, and its parallel major is G major.

Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. G minor is one of two flat key signatures that require a sharp for the leading-tone (the other is D minor).

Mozart's use of G minor

G minor has been considered the key through which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart best expressed sadness and tragedy, and many of his minor key works are in G minor, such as the Piano Quartet No. 1 and the String Quintet in G minor. Though Mozart touched on various minor keys in his symphonies, G minor is the only minor key he used as a main key for his numbered symphonies (No. 25, and the famous No. 40). In the Classical period, symphonies in G minor almost always used four horns, two in G and two in B-flat alto. Another convention of G minor symphonies observed in Mozart's No. 25 was the choice of E-flat major for the slow movement, with other examples including Haydn's No. 39 and Johann Baptist Wanhal's G minor symphony from before 1771 (Bryan Gm1).

G-sharp minor

G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G♯, consisting of the pitches G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, E, and F♯. For the harmonic minor, the F♯ is raised to F. Its key signature has five sharps.

Its relative major is B major, and its parallel major is G-sharp major, usually replaced by A-flat major, its enharmonic equivalent, since G-sharp major, which would contain a double-sharp in the key signature, is rarely used for practical composing and arranging, with a similar problem to that of A-flat minor. Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

The main theme of the Academy Award-winning score for the film Gravity, as well as the songs "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz, "New York" by Paloma Faith, "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga, "Timber" by Pitbull featuring Kesha, "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne and "Problem" by Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea were in the key of G-sharp minor.

Few symphonies are written in G♯ minor; among them are Nikolai Myaskovsky's 17th Symphony, Dimitrie Cuclin's 11th Symphony, Christopher Schlegel's 5th Symphony, and an abandoned work of juvenilia by Marc Blitzstein.