Lyrics:

She’s got her pudding in the oven
And it’s gonna be good
She better not leave me
And go out to Hollywood
She got the best pudding in the neighborhood
She’s my baby

She can drive a truck
She can drive a train (My baby, m-my my baby)
She can even drive an aeroplane
She’s so good to look at in the rain
She’s my baby

She’s comin’ down the sidewalk
She’s stumblin’ through the door
She’s coming home from places
She’s never been before
She sits down on the sofa
She pours herself a drink
Says, “Honey, honey, honey, ain’t no time to think”

My baby
My baby

My baby

She’s got a body for business
Got a head for sin
She knocks me over like a bowling pin
She came home last night and said
“Honey, honey, honey, it’s hard to get ahead”

My baby
My baby

She can build a boat
She can make it float (My baby, m-my my baby)
She can play my guitar
Note for note
She likes to stick her tongue right down my throat
She’s my baby
My baby
My baby
My baby

“She’s My Baby” is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and the opening track of their 1990 album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. The song was written by all four members of the band – George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty – and each of them sing a portion of the track. The song was released as the first single from the album, although it was only issued as a promotional single in the United States.^[3] The lead guitar part is played by Gary Moore.

The band filmed a music video for the single, which was directed by David Leland and produced by Limelight Films.^[4] The clip shows the four Wilburys and drummer Jim Keltner performing the track and a snippet of Dylan riding a bike on the set.^[5]

Track listings

• 7″ W9523 / 054391952370, Cassette W9523C / 054391944344^[6]

1. “She’s My Baby”
2. “New Blue Moon” (instrumental)

• CD W9523CD / 075992179928, 12″ W9523T / 075992179904

1. “She’s My Baby”
2. “New Blue Moon” (instrumental)
3. “Runaway”

Personnel

• Spike Wilbury (George Harrison) – Joint-Lead Vocal, Acoustic-Rhythm Guitar
• Clayton Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) – Joint-Lead Vocal, Rhythm Guitar
• Boo Wilbury (Bob Dylan) – Joint-Lead Vocal, Rhythm Guitar
• Muddy Wilbury (Tom Petty) – Joint-Lead Vocal, Rhythm Guitar, Bass

Additional musicians

• Ken Wilbury (Gary Moore) – Lead Guitar
• Jim Horn – Saxophone
• Ray Cooper – Percussion
• Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner) – Drums, Percussion

References

• “She’s My Baby b/w New Blue Moon”

  . jpgr.co.uk. Retrieved February 12, 2017.

• “ACE Repertory: She’s My Baby”

  . ASCAP. Retrieved December 14, 2017.

• Madinger, Chip; Easter, Mark (2000). Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. Chesterfield, MO: 44.1 Productions. p. 479. ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
• Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 479.
• Jacobson, Colin (June 21, 2007). “The Traveling Wilburys Collection (2007)”

  . DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved November 12, 2017.

“Traveling Wilburys – She’s My Baby”

. Discogs. Retrieved November 18, 2011.

Music video by The Traveling Wilburys performing She’s My Baby. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. Exclusively Licensed to Concord Music Group, Inc.

http://vevo.ly/5J5CFD

End

Lyrics:

[Verse 1: ]
She was there at the bar, she heard my guitar
She was long and tall, she was the queen of them all

[Chorus]
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

[Verse 2: ]
She was dark and discreet, she was light on her feet
We went up to her room and she lowered the boom

[Chorus]
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

[Verse 3: Roy Orbison]
Down below they danced and sang in the street
While up above the walls were steaming with heat

[Chorus]
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night

[Verse 4: ]
I was feeling no pain, feeling good in my brain
I looked in her eyes, they were full of surprise

[Chorus]
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, talking about last night

[Verse 5: Roy Orbison]
I asked her to marry me she smiled and pulled out a knife
The party’s just beginning she said, “Your money or you life?”

[Chorus]
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, talking about last night

[Verse 6: ]
Now I’m back at the bar, she went a little too far
She done me wrong, all I got is this song

[Outro]
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, talking about last night
Last night, thinking about last night
Last night…

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut album by the Anglo-American supergroup Traveling Wilburys, comprising George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. It was released in October 1988 to commercial success and critical acclaim.^[1] Although Harrison had long planned to start such a band, the project came about through happenstance. Harrison was in Los Angeles and in need of a B-side for a single from his Cloud Nine album, which resulted in the participants collaborating informally on the song “Handle with Care” at Dylan’s home. Adopting alter egos as the five Wilbury brothers, they then recorded a full album, produced by Lynne and Harrison.

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989 and helped revitalise the careers of Dylan, Orbison and Petty. It has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Background

In early April 1988, George Harrison was in Los Angeles and needed to record a B-side for a European 12-inch single. Jeff Lynne was also in Los Angeles writing and producing some tracks for Roy Orbison on his album Mystery Girl (released posthumously), as well as Tom Petty’s first solo album, Full Moon Fever. While having dinner with Lynne and Orbison, Harrison related how he needed to record a new track and wanted to do it the next day. Harrison asked if Lynne would help, and Orbison offered his old friend his hand as well, seeing how fun it would be. Needing a studio at short notice, Harrison called Bob Dylan, who agreed to let them use his garage studio. After dinner, Harrison stopped by Petty’s house to pick up a guitar he had left there, and invited Petty along too. Gathering at Dylan’s Malibu home the following day, Harrison, Lynne, Orbison and Petty worked on a song that Harrison had started writing for the occasion, “Handle with Care“. At first, Dylan’s role was that of a host, maintaining a barbecue to feed the musicians; at Harrison’s invitation, Dylan then joined them in writing lyrics for the song. The ensemble taped the track on Dylan’s Ampex recording equipment, with all five sharing the vocals.^[2]

“Handle with Care” was considered too good to be used as a B-side, so Harrison decided to form a band and record another nine songs for an album. The group got together again for nine days in May, recording the basic tracks and vocals at Dave Stewart’s home studio in Los Angeles. Overdubs and mixing were carried out in England at Harrison’s home studio, FPSHOT (short for Friar Park Studio, Henley-on-Thames).

Masquerading as the Wilbury brothers, the participants would be known as Nelson (Harrison), Otis (Lynne), Lucky (Dylan), Lefty (Orbison), and Charlie T. Jr. (Petty) Wilbury, with drummer Jim Keltner credited as Buster Sidebury. Harrison was no stranger to the use of alternate identities, as he had adopted them with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and with his plethora of pseudonyms as a session musician, including L’Angelo Misterioso, George O’Hara and Hari Georgeson. During the Beatles’s first tour of Scotland, in 1960, he had used the pseudonym “Carl Harrison”, in reference to one of his favourite musicians, Carl Perkins.^[3] With the Traveling Wilburys, this concept was taken a step further, since the participants’ real names do not appear anywhere on the album, liner notes, or the songwriting credits.

With Harrison having the greatest claim to the band, he signed them up to Warner Bros. Records, which distributed his solo recordings, and incorporated their own Wilbury Records label, in addition to producing the sessions with Lynne that spring. Petty subsequently signed to Warner Bros. himself as a solo artist, and one of the company’s subsidiaries, Reprise Records, released Lynne’s solo album Armchair Theatre in 1990.

Songwriting

According to statements by Harrison in the documentary The True History of the Traveling Wilburys (filmed in 1988 about the making of the album and re-released on the bonus DVD included in The Traveling Wilburys Collection), the whole band gave various contributions to all songs, although each song was mainly written by a single member; the joint songwriting credit came from the fact that giving individualized credits looked egotistical.^[4]

Lynne commented that the songwriting process was relaxed and enjoyable:

We would arrive about twelve or one o’clock and have some coffee. Somebody would say, ‘What about this?’ and start on a riff. Then we’d all join in, and it’d turn into something. We’d finish around midnight and just sit for a bit while Roy would tell us fabulous stories about Sun Records or hanging out with Elvis. Then we’d come back the next day to work on another one. That’s why the songs are so good and fresh—because they haven’t been second-guessed and dissected and replaced. It’s so tempting to add stuff to a song when you’ve got unlimited time.^[5]

However, the publishing credits on the Collection book are more revealing about the actual songwriters, as each of the credited publishers belongs to a single member:

• Harrison’s Umlaut Corporation (formerly Ganga Publishing) is credited for “Handle with Care”, “Heading for the Light”, “End of the Line” and the bonus track “Maxine”, identifying him as the main writer of those songs. In a behind-the-scenes interview included among the bonus features on the 2003 DVD release of the 2002 tribute Concert for George, Petty recalls that the lyrics to “Handle With Care” were the result of a game held by Harrison during a barbecue outside his home studio, with all of the band members (including himself) shouting out lines and Harrison keeping the ones that stuck and writing them in a notebook. According to Petty, the line “Oh, the sweet smell of success” is his.
• Dylan, credited via his Special Rider Music publisher, wrote “Dirty World” (according to Harrison and Lynne’s recollections on the documentary, Dylan and all the other band members gave their input to the song by pitching in funny lines to complete the lyric line “He loves your …”^[4]), the long narrative of “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” (which was apparently intended as either a parody of or tribute to Bruce Springsteen‘s early, verbose songs^[6]), “Congratulations”, and the other bonus track “Like a Ship”.
• Petty, published by Gone Gator Music, wrote “Last Night” (again, with substantial lyrical contributions from the entire band^[4]) and “Margarita”.
• Lynne’s publisher, Shard End Music (named after his birthplace), identifies him as the main writer of “Rattled” and “Not Alone Any More”.^[7]

The separation was not repeated for the publishing credits of Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, which show all songs as being published by all four publishers.^[7]

Release and aftermath

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Robert Christgau	A–[9]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[10]
Entertainment Weekly	A–[11]
Houston Chronicle	[12]
Mojo	[13]
MusicHound	3.5/5[14]
Q	[15]
Rolling Stone	[16]
Uncut	[17]

Released on October 18, 1988, Volume One became a surprise commercial success, reaching No. 3 in the US and selling two million copies there within six months. The album also reached No. 16 in the UK. With over 50 weeks on the US charts, The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was later certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. While Harrison and Petty had had recent successes, Dylan, Orbison (who died of a sudden heart attack on December 6, 1988) and Lynne had not seen an album climb that high in several years. At the time, no Dylan album had ever achieved two million in sales. As one critic put it, it was “one of the great commercial coups of the decade”. The single “Handle with Care” was a significant hit in the UK charts, peaking at No. 21, and an even bigger hit in Australia (No. 3) and New Zealand (No. 4), though it stalled at No. 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Most critics said the group’s modest ambitions were fresh and relaxing. During 1989 and 1990 the album won many accolades, including a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year. In his book The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin describes the Traveling Wilburys as “the last of the great supergroups” and writes of the band’s accidental origins: “This wonderful potpourri of stars reintroduced ‘having a good time’ to their vocabulary and the result was not a Harrison solo album but the superb debut of the Traveling Wilburys. The outing proved to be a major success, bringing out the best of each artist; in particular, this [album] proved to be the marvellous swan song for Roy Orbison who tragically died soon afterwards.”^[10]

After Harrison’s distribution deal with Warner Bros. expired in 1995, ownership of the Dark Horse Records catalog as well as the two Traveling Wilburys albums reverted to Harrison and the albums went out of print.^[18] On June 12, 2007, Volume One and Vol. 3 were reissued by Rhino Records as The Traveling Wilburys Collection, packaged together with bonus tracks and a DVD. The box set debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 9 on the US Billboard 200.

Track listing

All tracks written by Traveling Wilburys.

Personnel

Traveling Wilburys

• Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison) – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, slide guitar, backing vocals
• Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne) – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar,^[19][20] keyboards, backing vocals
• Charlie T. Wilbury Jr (Tom Petty) – vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison) – vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan) – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica on “Handle with Care”, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Buster Sidebury (Jim Keltner) – drums
• Jim Horn – saxophones
• Ray Cooper – percussion
• Ian Wallace – tom-toms on “Handle with Care”
• Michael Palin (as Hugh Jampton, E.F. Norti-Bitz Reader in Applied Jacket) – album liner notes

Production

• Produced by Otis and Nelson Wilbury (Jeff Lynne and George Harrison)
• Engineers – Bill Bottrell, Richard Dodd, Phil McDonald, Don Smith

Accolades

Grammy Awards

American Music Awards

Charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Lyrics:

Look out your window
That grass ain’t green
It’s kinda yellow
See what I mean?

Look up your chimney
The sky ain’t blue
It’s kinda yellow
You know it’s true

It’s so hard to figure what it’s all about

When your outside’s in (Inside out)
And your downside’s up (Upside down)
Yeah, your upside’s right (Right side up)
Yeah, don’t it make you wanna twist and shout
When you’re inside out?

Look down your drainpipe
What color do you see?
It’s got to be yellow
Don’t try to fool me

And don’t it make you wanna twist and shout?

When your outside’s in (Inside out)
And your downside’s up (Upside down)
Yeah, your upside’s right (Right side up)
Yeah, don’t it make you wanna twist and shout
When you’re inside out?

Be careful where you’re walking
You might step in something rough
Be careful when you’re talking
And saying all that stuff

Take care when you are breathing
Something’s funny in the air
There’s some things they’re not saying
‘Bout what’s happening out there
It’s inside out

Look into the future
With your mystic crystal ball
See if it ain’t yellow
See if it’s there at all

Ain’t no shadow of doubt
Don’t it make you wanna twist and shout?

When your outside’s in (Inside out)
And your downside’s up (Upside down)
Yeah, your upside’s right (Right side up)
Yeah, don’t it make you wanna twist and shout
When you’re inside out?

(Inside out)
(Right side up)
Yeah, don’t it make you wanna twist and shout
When you’re inside out?
Inside out
Inside out

“Inside Out” is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys from their 1990 album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3. It was written by all four members of the band, and it was the first song they worked on for the album. The lyrics address environmental issues and describe a world turned yellow. Recording for the track began at a private studio in Bel Air in Los Angeles, in April 1990, and was completed three months later at George Harrison‘s Friar Park studio in England. The song was issued as a promotional single in the United States, where it peaked at number 16 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart. In Germany, it was released on a commercial single, backed by an instrumental version of “New Blue Moon”.

Composition and recording

“Inside Out” was the first song written and recorded for the Wilburys’ second album,^[1] which they jokingly titled Vol. 3.^[2] With the group reduced to a four-piece following the death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, the band gathered at a private house they dubbed “Camp Wilbury”,^[3] at the top of Coldwater Canyon in Bel Air,^[4] in April 1990, for the combined writing and recording sessions.^[5] George Harrison recalled that he, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan had the musical part of the song finished “within an hour” of starting work.^[6] Harrison said this encouraged him to realise that the band would be able to continue as before, despite the loss of Orbison.^[6]

The song addresses environmental issues.^[7] The lyrics refer to a world where the sky, the grass and drain water have all mysteriously turned yellow. The principal singers are Dylan and Petty,^[8] with Harrison taking over during the bridge.^[9] Author Ian Inglis identifies the main narrative as a seemingly “private … joke” between Dylan and Petty, whereas Harrison’s section provides a welcome element of musical and lyrical intrigue in which, “stressing the need to be watchful, he warns that ‘something’s happening out there.'”^[8]

The Wilburys, together with their drummer, Jim Keltner,^[10] recorded the basic track for “Inside Out” in Bel Air.^[3] As with all the songs on the album, other instrumentation and the vocals^[11] were overdubbed at Harrison’s Friar Park studio in July.^[3]

Release

The song was sequenced as the second track on Vol. 3, between “She’s My Baby” and “If You Belonged to Me”.^[12] The album was released on the band’s Wilbury record label on 29 October 1990 in the UK and November 6 in the United States.^[12]

Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter describe “Inside Out” as arguably the most commercial track on Vol. 3.^[13] Warner Bros. Records, which distributed Wilbury Records, considered the song for release on a commercial single in the US but, as with “She’s My Baby”, decided to issue it only as a promotional single there.^[13] The song was given a commercial single release in Germany, however, with an instrumental version of the Vol. 3 track “New Blue Moon” as the B-side.^[14] The band filmed a music video for “Inside Out”,^[13] in which the four Wilburys and Keltner are seen performing the track.^[15] Set on a concert stage, the original clip began with the sound of an orchestra warming up and closed with muted applause.^[13] In the US, the song peaked at number 16 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart.^[16]

Critical reception

Writing for the website Ultimate Classic Rock, Frank Mastropolo says that Vol. 3 suffered from having its best track, “She’s My Baby”, sequenced as the album opener, but he includes “Inside Out” among the songs that show that the album was still “not without its moments”. He adds that the adoption of shared lead vocals “[echoes] the give-and-take that made the first album so popular”.^[17] In her album review for New York magazine in 1990, Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote: “The Wilburys deserve praise for delivering songs about the environment (‘Inside Out’) and other issues with a fun, doo-wop tone that is never preachy but also never downplays the seriousness of the subject matter … Somehow, the combination of talent has allowed them to come up with songs that can be heartbreaking and frightening.”^[7]

In another contemporary review, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune welcomed the song’s musical quote from the Byrds‘ “Chimes of Freedom“, pairing it with the Wilburys’ rewriting of the standard “Blue Moon” as “7 Deadly Sins”, and said that “For all its disposability, this record is loaded with charm.”^[18] Writing in Rolling Stone in 2002, Kot cited “Inside Out” among examples of Vol. 3‘s “ingratiating goofiness” and said that, more so than the band’s debut, the album demonstrated the Wilburys’ embrace of a “common vernacular in the rock & roll of the Fifties and early Sixties”.^[19] In his review of the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection, for Mojo, Phil Sutcliffe said that “Inside Out”, “If You Belonged to Me” and “You Took My Breath Away” represented the “engaging sort of pop-rocking” typical of Vol. 3 and that, when played next to Vol. 1, “you can’t hear the join.”^[20]

Music video by The Traveling Wilburys performing Inside Out. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. Exclusively Licensed to Concord Music Group, Inc.

http://vevo.ly/U3jzvs

Handle With Care

Lyrics:

Been beat up and battered around
Been sent up, and I’ve been shot down
You’re the best thing that I’ve ever found
Handle me with care

Reputation’s changeable
Situation’s tolerable
But baby, you’re adorable
Handle me with care

[Pre-Chorus- Roy Orbison]
I’m so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won’t you show me that you really care?

[Chorus- Bob Dylan and Tom Petty]
Everybody’s got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine, and dream on

I’ve been fobbed off, and I’ve been fooled
I’ve been robbed and ridiculed
In day care centres and night schools
Handle me with care

Been stuck in airports, terrorized
Sent to meetings, hypnotized
Overexposed, commercialized
Handle me with care

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus- Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison]

I’ve been uptight and made a mess
But I’ll clean it up myself, I guess
Oh, the sweet smell of success
Handle me with care

“Handle with Care” is the first track from the Traveling Wilburys‘ 1988 album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, and the group’s most successful single. The song was written primarily by George Harrison, although writing credits are shared by all five members of the Wilburys: Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan.

The single peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, number 21 on the UK Singles Chart,^[2] and number 3 on the ARIA Chart.^[3] AllMusic journalist Matthew Greenwald describes “Handle with Care” as “one of the most memorable records of the 1980s”, adding: “Musically, the song is built around a descending, folk-rock chord pattern and some fine major-key chorus movements. George Harrison handles the verses, and there are also two excellent bridges featuring Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan. Orbison’s section capitalizes on his awesome, operatic vocal pipes, and the effect is wonderful.”^[4]

Genesis

The song was originally intended as the B-side of Harrison’s “This Is Love“. Harrison had not yet written a song for the B-side when an impromptu gathering of the musicians who became the Wilburys turned into an informal songwriting and jam session. Casting about for a song idea while relaxing in a garden near Bob Dylan’s recording studio, Harrison was inspired when he noticed a box in Dylan’s garage that was labelled “Handle with Care”. The box also inspired the opening line: “been beat up and battered around.” The complete song quickly followed, with different members of the gathering contributing various lines. The group moved to a recording studio and quickly laid down the basic tracks which were later polished by eventual Wilburys producer Jeff Lynne. The song can be about myriad situations one wishes it to be, such as a fragile wounded lover or somebody struggling with hard times that comes with fame, or being uprooted or down and out and lost, or perhaps a lonely outlier- pleading, “handle me with care.”

Harrison’s record company decided that the song was too good to be released as “filler”. Encouraged by this response and the enjoyable experience of recording together, the group reconvened to record the first Wilburys album, which featured “Handle With Care” as the lead track.

The music video for the song features all the group members performing the song in an abandoned building while standing around an old-fashioned boom microphone, with drummer Jim Keltner in the background. There are brief cutaways to show still photos of the singers as children or young teens.

The song was the last release and video for group member Roy Orbison prior to his death on 6 December 1988.

Charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

After performing the song during the Concert for George, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers added it to their set list for their 2003 summer tour. The band performed the song with Petty singing most of the lead vocals and band member Scott Thurston singing Roy Orbison’s parts. They also performed the song on their 2005 summer tour, their thirtieth anniversary tour in 2006, and their 2012 tour throughout the US and Europe.

Jenny Lewis covered “Handle with Care” in 2006 on her solo debut record Rabbit Fur Coat with The Watson Twins, Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst and M. Ward.

On 14 September 2014, during the BBC Radio 2 Festival in a Day event, Jeff Lynne performed “Handle with Care” as a tribute to both George Harrison and Roy Orbison.^[6]

Track listing

7″ single

A “Handle With Care” (LP Version) – 3:20

B “Margarita” (LP Version) – 3:16

12″ single (also 10″ size)

A “Handle With Care” (Extended Version) – 5:14

B “Margarita” – 3:16

CD single

1. “Handle With Care” (LP Version) – 3:20
2. “Margarita” (LP Version) – 3:16
3. “Handle With Care” (Extended Version) – 5:14

Personnel

• George Harrison – lead vocals, backing vocals and slide guitar.
• Roy Orbison – acoustic guitar, lead vocals and backing vocals.
• Jeff Lynne – electric guitar, backing vocals.
• Bob Dylan – 12 strings acoustic guitar, harmonica, backing vocals.
• Tom Petty – bass guitar, backing vocals.
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Music video by The Traveling Wilburys performing Handle With Care. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. Exclusively Licensed to Concord Music Group, Inc.http://vevo.ly/LGLafI

[Verse 1: Tom Petty]
You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring
Waiting for someone to tell you everything
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring
Maybe a diamond ring

[Chorus 2: Jeff Lynne]
Well it’s all right, even if they say you’re wrong
Well it’s all right, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well it’s all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay
Well it’s all right, everyday is Judgement Day

[Verse 2: Tom Petty]
Maybe somewhere down the road away
You’ll think of me, and wonder where I am these days
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays
Purple haze

[Chorus 3: Roy Orbison]
Well it’s all right, even when push comes to shove
Well it’s all right, if you got someone to love
Well it’s all right, everything’ll work out fine
Well it’s all right, we’re going to the end of the line

[Verse 3: Tom Petty]
Don’t have to be ashamed of the car I drive
I’m just glad to be here, happy to be alive
It don’t matter if you’re by my side
I’m satisfied

[Chorus 4: George Harrison]
Well it’s all right, even if you’re old and grey
Well it’s all right, you still got something to say

[Jeff Lynne]
Well it’s all right, remember to live and let live
Well it’s all right, the best you can do is forgive
Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please

[George Harrison]
Well it’s all right, even if the sun don’t shine
Well it’s all right, we’re going to the end of the line

“End of the Line” is the last track from the Traveling Wilburys‘ first album, Volume 1, released in 1988. It was also issued as the band’s second single, in January 1989. The song’s riding-on-the-rails rhythm suggests its theme and the on-the-move nature of the group. It features all the Wilburys (excluding Bob Dylan, who was on tour at the time) as lead singers; George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison sing the choruses in turn, while Tom Petty sings the verses. The song was mainly written by Harrison and was assigned to his publishing company.[2] In keeping with the collaborative concept behind the Wilburys project, however, all five members received a songwriting credit.[3]

In the United States, the single peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The music video for “End of the Line” was directed by Willy Smax. It was filmed in Los Angeles after Orbison’s death in December 1988, and features Dylan’s participation.[4] To honour the loss of Orbison, a shot of a guitar sitting in a rocking chair next to a photo of him was used when his vocals are heard.[5]

Legacy
The song was used over the end credits of the final episode of the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the American comedy Parks and Recreation.

“End of the Line” appeared in the George Harrison-produced cult comedy, Checking Out.

A version sung by Dennis Waterman was used as the theme tune for the pilot of the BBC production, New Tricks. The song has also been included in TV spots for the 2004 film The Terminal, as well as the trailer for the 2007 hit comedy Knocked Up.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played this song live during their 2008 North American tour.

Harrison was honored in the parody song “No Where Near the End of My Time” by radio on-air personality Bob Rivers.

The song was used on the end credits of the Australian family comedy film Red Dog: True Blue in 2016.
Charts
Year-end charts

Chart (1989)
Position

Canada Top Singles (RPM)[6]
65

Track listing

7″ single, Cassette single
A “End of the Line” (LP Version) – 3:30
B “Congratulations” (LP Version) – 3:30

12″ single, 3″ CD single
A “End of the Line” (Extended Version) – 5:34
B “Congratulations” (LP Version) – 3:29

Personnel

George Harrison – lead vocals (1st, 4th, and 7th choruses), acoustic and electric guitars, slide guitar, backing vocals
Tom Petty – lead vocals (verses), acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Jeff Lynne – lead vocals (2nd, 5th, and 6th choruses), acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals
Roy Orbison – lead vocals (3rd chorus), acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Jim Keltner – drums
Music video by The Traveling Wilburys performing End Of The Line. (C) 2007 T. Wilbury Limited. Exclusively Licensed to Concord Music Group, Inc.http://vevo.ly/xEMlQF