Wild Honey Pie

Song infobox
Name = Wild Honey Pie
Artist = The Beatles

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Border = yes
Album = The Beatles
Released = 22 November 1968
track_no = 5 of disc 1
Recorded = Abbey Road Studios
20 August 1968
Genre = Rock, avant-garde, experimental rock
Length = 0:52
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Apple Records
Producer = George Martin
Tracks = Disc one: Side one
#"Back in the U.S.S.R."
#"Dear Prudence"
#"Glass Onion"
#"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
#"Wild Honey Pie"
#"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
#"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
#"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"Disc one: Side two
#

"Martha My Dear"
#"I'm So Tired"
#"Blackbird"
#"Piggies"
#"Rocky Raccoon"
#"Don't Pass Me By"
#"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
#"I Will"
#"Julia"Disc two: Side one
#"Birthday"
#"Yer Blues"
#"Mother Nature's Son"
#"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
#"Sexy Sadie"
#"Helter Skelter"
#"Long, Long, Long"Disc two: Side two
#

"Revolution 1"
#"Honey Pie"
#"Savoy Truffle"
#"Cry Baby Cry"
#"Revolution 9"
#"Good Night""Wild Honey Pie" is a short song by The Beatles written by Paul McCartneycite book |first=Barry |last=Miles |authorlink=Barry Miles |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now |year=1997 |pages=497 |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-5249-6] (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and released on "The Beatles" (also known as "The White Album").

McCartney is the sole performer on the recording.cite book |first=Ian |last=MacDonald |authorlink=Ian MacDonald |title=Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties |year=2005 |pages=309 |edition=Second Revised Edition |publisher=Pimlico (Rand) |location=London |isbn=1-844-13828-3] cite book |first=Mark |last=Lewisohn |authorlink=Mark Lewisohn |title=The Beatles Recording Sessions |year=1988 |pages=150 |publisher=Harmony Books |location=New York |isbn=0-517-57066-1] John Lennon and Ringo Starr were working on other "White Album" songs, and George Harrison was on holiday in Greece.

McCartney said of this song: "We were in an experimental mode, and so I said, 'Can I just make something up?' I started off with the guitar and did a multitracking experiment in the control room or maybe in the little room next door. It was very home-made; it wasn't a big production at all. I just made up this short piece and I multitracked a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and a harmony to that, and built it up sculpturally with a lot of vibrato on the [guitar] strings, really pulling the strings madly. Hence, 'Wild Honey Pie', which was a reference to the other song I had written called 'Honey Pie'."

According to McCartney the song might have been excluded from "The Beatles" album, but Pattie Boyd "liked it very much so we decided to leave it on the album."cite book |first=Bill |last=Harry |authorlink=Bill Harry |title=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated |year=2000 |pages=1151 |publisher=Virgin Publishing |location=London |isbn=0-7535-0481-2]

Personnel

*Paul McCartney – vocals, acoustic guitars, drums:Credits per Ian MacDonald

Cover versions

The song has been covered by:
* Pixies in 1988, included on their 1998 album "Pixies at the BBC".
* Part Chimp - they recorded the song in 2005 for BBC Radio 1's anniversary of John Lennon's death. [cite web |url=http://www.partchimp.com/news.html |title=Part Chimp News |accessdate=2007-09-14]

References

External links

* [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/whp.html Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "Wild Honey Pie"]
* [http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/white_album_Lyrics.html Quotes on "Wild Honey Pie" and other tracks on "The Beatles" album]