05Dec1981 "Mull of Kintyre" - Glen Campbell (The Glen Campbell Music Show - Pilot Episode)

Viewers are treated to Glen Campbell singing the Paul McCartney-Denny Laine composition "Mull of Kintyre" (see below for details). The multi-talented Glen Campbell also performs the bagpipe section of the song, to the delight of the audience.

From the pilot episode of The Glen Campbell Music Show syndication broadcast of December 5, 1981.

The entire episode (with guest star Sheena Easton) is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0he79tYiC2I&list=PLlGsAJWvjFoLt8USjRi-KQgDNuYspqfeq&index=124&t=15s

More video clips of Glen Campbell on Smothers Brothers shows, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and beyond, are available on this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGsAJWvjFoLt8USjRi-KQgDNuYspqfeq

For those interested in watching full episodes of the classic CBS-TV variety series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), they are available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGsAJWvjFoKkIOgfTUCgujlKH7qRCB8d

From Wikipedia:

About the song "Mull of Kintyre":

"Mull of Kintyre" is a song by the British rock band Wings. It was written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine in tribute to the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute in the south-west of Scotland and its headland, the Mull of Kintyre, where McCartney has owned High Park Farm since 1966.

The single was Wings' biggest hit in Britain and is one of the best-selling singles of all time in the United Kingdom, where it became the 1977 Christmas number one and was the first single to sell over two million copies nationwide.

History:
The song dates as far back as at least 1974, appearing on the extended home demo recording known amongst bootleggers as "The Piano Tape". Written on piano originally, at that early stage the lyric only had the completed chorus and a few bits of the lyrics that eventually made the finished version.

The lyrics of the first verse, also used as the repeating chorus, are an ode to the area's natural beauty and sense of home:

Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire
Is always to be here
Oh Mull of Kintyre

McCartney explained how the song came into being:

"I certainly loved Scotland enough, so I came up with a song about where we were living: an area called Mull of Kintyre. It was a love song really, about how I enjoyed being there and imagining I was travelling away and wanting to get back there."

"Mull of Kintyre" was recorded on August 9, 1977 at Spirit of Ranachan Studio at High Park Farm in Scotland, during a break in recording the "London Town" album caused by Linda McCartney's advanced pregnancy. The song featured Great Highland bagpipes played by the Campbeltown Pipe Band from nearby Campbeltown. Paul's vocals and acoustic guitar were recorded outdoors. The tapes could have been ruined by insects, but they eventually managed to clean them and save the recording, as told in detail by author Luca Perasi. "Mull of Kintyre" and "Girls' School" (which had been previously recorded for London Town) were released as a double A-sided single on November 11, 1977, independently of the album. It was included on the Wings compilation "Wings Greatest" in 1978, the 2001 compilation "Wingspan: Hits and History" and the 2016 compilation "Pure McCartney."

Music video:
The official music video was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and filmed at Saddell Bay on the eastern side of the Kintyre peninsula about seven miles (11 km) from High Park Farm and two months after recording the song. Paul, Linda and Denny perform the song as they overlook the bay and walk down to the beach where the Campbeltown Pipe Band are marching and playing. It culminates in a bonfire singalong with extras from Campbeltown.

The video was shown on the nine regular editions of Top of the Pops when the song was number one. For the 1977 Christmas Special, the band were booked for the Mike Yarwood Show, and so the video shown was recorded on an indoor set, including trees, mist and the Campbeltown Pipe Band walking through the shot.

Reception:
The song's broad appeal was maximized by its pre-Christmas release, and it became a Christmas No. 1 single in the UK, spending nine weeks at the top of the charts. It also became an international hit, charting high in Australia and many other countries over the holiday period. It went on to become the first single to sell over two million copies in the UK and became the UK's best-selling single of all-time (eclipsing the Beatles' own "She Loves You") until overtaken by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984 (which also featured McCartney on the B-side). The song remains the UK's best-selling completely non-charity single, having sold 2.09 million copies. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" has sold more in its two releases, but the profits of the 1991 release were donated to charity.

The song was not a major hit in the U.S., where the flipside "Girls' School" received more airplay and reached No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.