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Oasis - Take Me Away (Noel lead vocal, acoustic. Studio track, live during an interview, Oasis gig in Manchester, 1994)
And then some info about this. It was the B side of their first single, Supersonic.
Studio track:
Noel singing this during an interview in Portland, during their 1994 tour. Lovely interaction with Liam, though only 5 days later they had the disastrous performance in LA after being given crystal meth they'd been told was cocaine. The Portland show was September 24, and that month they'd already done shows and lots of interviews in Stockholm, Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Tokyo (4 shows), Osaka, Nagoya, and Seattle, and after Portland it was San Francisco and Sacramento, and then LA and the Whiskey A Go Go. But before those drugs they didn't know they'd been given caused such a disastrous performance that Noel left the band for a while, you can see how he usually got along with Liam on this video.
Audio of their concert at Manchester Academy, December 1994:
From the Wikipedia article on the recording of the Supersonic single and this B side in December 1993:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_(Oasis_song)
Instead, after unsuccessful attempts to record "I Will Believe",[19] Noel wrote a new song, "Take Me Away", in less than five minutes,[21] and recorded it acoustically in 15 minutes.[17] Noel played an Epiphone acoustic guitar with a half-pint glass, creating a slide guitar sound that Coyle overdubbed through a Roland Space Echo before Scott mixing the track in another five minutes.[19]
Under 30 minutes to write, record and mix this song, which is a very nice little B side. Written just before Noel wrote Supersonic in the studio, which they'd gone into a couple of days earlier planning to record Bring It On Down as their debut single, before giving up on that because their drummer was having trouble with it.
I knew Supersonic had been written and recorded quickly. I didn't know, till today, just how much more quickly this B side was written and recorded.