Good Morning/Good Afternoon/Good Evening. Song of The Day. Rocky Raccoon is a song by the Beatles from the double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). The song was primarily written by Paul McCartney, who was inspired while playing acoustic guitar with John Lennon and Donovan in India (where the Beatles had gone on a retreat). The song, a folk rock ballad, is titled from the characters name, which was originally Rocky Sassoon, but McCartney changed it to Rocky Raccoon because he thought it sounded more like a cowboy. Former 13th Floor Elevators drummer Danny Thomas claims the name Rocky was inspired by Roky Erickson, the American rock bands then vocalist and guitarist. The Old West-style honky-tonk piano was played by producer George Martin. The lyrics describe a conflict over a love triangle. During take 8 of the song (featured on Anthology 3), Paul McCartney flubbed the line stinking of gin, singing sminking instead. This caused him to laugh, exclaim Sminking?! and make up the remaining lines in the song. This take also has a noticeably different spoken-word introduction, with Rocky coming from a little town in Minnesota, rather than the album versions somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota, and McCartneys faux-Western accent is more pronounced. In Mojo magazine in October, 2008, McCartney acknowledged that the style of the song is a pastiche, saying, I was basically spoofing the folksinger. Lennon attributed the song to Paul, saying Couldnt you guess? Would I have gone to all that trouble about Gideons Bible and all that stuff? youtube/watch?v=_k8W4LE2xts
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:43:37 +0000
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