Savoy Truffle

Song infobox
Name = Savoy Truffle
Artist = The Beatles
Album =

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Released = 22 November, 1968
track_no = 10 of disc 2
Recorded = 3 October, 1968
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:54
Writer = George Harrison
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""Savoy Truffle" is a song written by George Harrison and performed by The Beatles on their eponymously-titled album (the "White Album"). Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Clapton's chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a box of Mackintosh Good News chocolates. [ [http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/songs/songs-about-eric-clapton-savoy-truffle-george-harrison-mr-bluesman-richie-sambora-bon-jovi.html Songs about Clapton] ] Supposedly all of the confectionery names used in the song are authentic, except cherry cream and coconut fudge. [ [http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/savoy-truffle/ The Beatles Bible: Savoy Truffle] ] The chorus ("But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle") is a reference to the deterioration of one's teeth after eating too many sweets. The line "We all know Obla-di-bla-da" refers to the song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" which appears earlier on the album.

The Beatles recorded the first take on 3 October 1968 and the final mixes were finished by 14 October. Six saxophonists (two baritone, four tenor) were brought in and were reportedly displeased when George Harrison decided to distort them. One of the saxophonists was the British jazz musician Harry Klein. The song is on side four, track three of the vinyl release and disc two, track ten of the CD release.

Cover versions

They Might Be Giants covered "Savoy Truffle" on the compilation "Songs From the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison". [ [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000087DTV Songs from the Material World] ]

Phish covered the song as part of their cover of the entire White Album on Halloween 1994, which was released as Live Phish Volume 13.

Ella Fitzgerald covered the song on her 1969 single "I'll Never Fall In Love Again / Savoy Truffle".

References

*"The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn, ISBN 0-681-03189-1, p. 158.