Rocky Raccoon

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"Rocky Raccoon"
"Rocky Raccoon" cover
Song by The Beatles
from the album The Beatles
Released 22 November 1968
Recorded 15 August 1968
Genre Rock
Length 3:41
Label Apple Records
Writer(s) Lennon-McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
The Beatles track listing
Piggies
(12 of disc 1)
"Rocky Raccoon"
(13 of disc 1)
Don't Pass Me By
(14 of disc 1)

"Rocky Raccoon" is a Beatles song, from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It was written primarily by Paul McCartney who thought of the song while playing guitar for John Lennon and Donovan Leitch in India (where the Beatles had gone on a retreat). Some claim that the song is a parody of a Bob Dylan ballad, much like "Back in the USSR" is a parody of The Beach Boys.[1]

The Old West-style honky-tonk piano was played by producer George Martin.

The original title was Rocky Sassoon.

[edit] Trivia

  • On their album Hot Dogma, Australian band TISM feature a song called "While My Catarrh Gently Weeps". However the lyrics tell a story of a country-boy named Rocky Raccoon who is to feature on a Beatles album, only to be removed in the final cut.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Notes on "Rocky Raccoon"", MoreThings.com.
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