"The World Tonight" is a song by

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and is the second track on his 1997

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''. In the

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, the song was released as the first and only single from the album on 17 April 1997, peaking at number 64 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 23 on the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart. The B-side for the

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release was originally released in the UK as the B-side for "

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" single and is an additional collaboration with Ringo Starr. In the UK the song was released as the second single from ''Flaming Pie'' in July, peaking at #23 in the

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(see 1997 in British music). The

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for the

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release are two songs from ''Flaming Pie'': "Used to Be Bad" and "Really Love You".

Track listings

All songs written by

, except where noted. *US CD C2 7243 8 58650 2 2, released 6 May 1997 by

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. #"The World Tonight" – 4:03 #"Looking for You" – 4:48 #"Oobu Joobu" (Part 1) – 9:55 *UK 7" RP6472, UK CD1 CDRS6472 #"The World Tonight" – 4:03 #"Used to Be Bad" ( Steve Miller, McCartney) – 4:08 #"Oobu Joobu" (Part 3) – 9:48 CD only *UK CD2 CDR6472 #"The World Tonight" – 4:03 #" Really Love You" (McCartney,

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) – 5:14 #"Oobu Joobu" (Part 4) – 7:06

Oobu Joobu information

The "Oobu Joobu" songs are a series of demos, interviews, and unreleased songs jumbled together into one track. The name is taken from McCartney's radio program. *"Oobu Joobu" (part 3) contains: #Intro chat – 0:09 #"Oobu Joobu Main Theme" – 0:48 #"Squid" – 6:25 #Paul talks about "The World Tonight" – 1:23 #Link – 0:05 #"Oobu Joobu Main Theme" – 0:59 *"Oobu Joobu" (part 4) contains: #Intro chat – 0:06 #"Oobu Joobu Main Theme" – 0:37 #Link – 0:18 #"Don't Break the Promise" – 3:39 #Paul talks about reggae – 1:25 #Link – 0:04 #"Oobu Joobu Main Theme" – 0:57

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, acoustic and electric guitars,

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Jeff Lynne Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder of the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), which was formed in 1970. As a songwriter, he has cont ...

- harmony vocals,

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External links

Paul McCartney - The World Tonight
at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages. {{DEFAULTSORT:World Tonight, The Paul McCartney songs 1997 singles Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne Songs written by Paul McCartney Parlophone singles Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney Music published by MPL Music Publishing 1995 songs