Rocky Raccoon
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| "Rocky Raccoon" | ||
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| 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
- This song was also sampled on DJ Danger Mouse's popular Grey Album, coupled with the a cappella of "Justify My Thug."
- In the early to mid-'90s, John Porcellino's King-Cat comic book series featured stories about Racky Raccoon, an anthropomorphic, slacker cartoon who worked a series of dead-end jobs, drank too much and listened to punk rock.
- James Blunt and Jack Johnson have both recorded cover versions of this song.
- 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.
- This song was referenced in Fur and Loathing (CSI episode), where a furry by the name of "Rocky the Raccoon" dies of mysterious causes.
- In RV, Bob Monroe calls the raccoon (the one that inflitrates the RV) as Rocky from the song.
[edit] References
- ^ "Notes on "Rocky Raccoon"", MoreThings.com.
