- Wild Honey Pie
Song infobox
Name = Wild Honey Pie
Artist =The Beatles
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 byThe Beatles written byPaul McCartney cite 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 toLennon/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 andRingo Starr were working on other "White Album" songs, andGeorge Harrison was on holiday inGreece .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
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Paul McCartney – vocals, acoustic guitars, drums:Credits perIan MacDonald Cover versions
The song has been covered by:
*Pixies in1988 , included on their1998 album "Pixies at the BBC ".
*Part Chimp - they recorded the song in2005 forBBC Radio 1 's anniversary ofJohn 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]- "
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