Honey Pie

Song infobox
Name = Honey Pie
Artist = The Beatles
Album =

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Released = 22 November 1968
track_no = 9 of disc 2
Recorded = 1 October 1968
Genre = Jazz, music hall, pop
Length = 2:41
Writer = Lennon/McCartney
Label = Apple Records
Producer = George Martin
Tracks = 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"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"Side three
#"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"Side four
#

"Revolution 1"
#"Honey Pie"
#"Savoy Truffle"
#"Cry Baby Cry"
#"Revolution 9"
#"Good Night""Honey Pie" is a song by the Beatles, from their 1968 album "The Beatles" (the "White Album"). Although credited to Lennon-McCartney, it was composed entirely by Paul McCartney. Noting the similarity of title, the song served as an inspiration to "Wild Honey Pie".

The song is a direct homage to the British music-hall style. It concerns a famed actress, known through the hypocorism "Honey Pie", who becomes famous in the United States, and her old lover, who wishes for her to rejoin him in England. The premise – a humble admirer yearning for the return of his lover – is not unlike a typical music-hall plot. In order to establish an appropriate, old-timey sound, 'scratches' were added to the third line, "Now she's hit the big time!" from a 78 RPM record.

The song has been covered by Alan Klein (1969), Barbra Streisand, the King's Singers, The Golden Gate Quartet, Tuck & Patti, and John Pizzarelli, among others. Perhaps the strangest version was performed by Dom DeLuise in the 1978 film
Sextette (which included the comic tapdancing on a piano).

Credits

*Paul McCartney – Piano, vocals
*John Lennon – Lead guitar, rhythm guitar
*George Harrison – 6-stringed bass
*Ringo Starr – Drums

*George Martin – Clarinet arrangement
*Harry Klein – Clarinet

External links

* [http://www.beatlesweb.co.uk/white/HoneyPie.htm Lyrics]
* [http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/honey-pie/ The Beatles Bible: Honey Pie]
* [http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/hp.shtml Alan W. Pollack's analysis of "Honey Pie"]