Honey pie

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Honey pie
The Beatles
publication November 22, 1968
length 2 min 41 s
Genre (s) Music Hall , Vaudeville , Pop
Author (s) Lennon / McCartney
album The Beatles

Honey Pie ( English ; "honey cake" '[literally], "sweet treasure"' [analogously]) is a song by the British rock band The Beatles . The McCartney composition was recorded in early October 1968 and appeared on November 22, 1968 on the album The Beatles , also known as the White Album . The song appeared under the copyright of Lennon / McCartney , as usual .

interpretation

The piece pays homage to the British music hall style . Honey Pie is the nickname of a now famous actress in the song, which is sung by her former lover in England. The premise - an admirer intimidated by stardom and longing for his old flame, the former simple 'working girl', is a typical music hall topos . To establish a decent old-fashioned sound, the Beatles added the third line of the prelude - Now she's hit the big time! - in the form of the announcement of a conférencier in the artificially generated crackling tone of an old shellac record .

Admission and cast

The final recordings for Honey Pie took place at Trident Studios in London (October 1st, 2nd and 4th, 1968). A rough version of the piece has been preserved from the so-called " Esher demos", which were created in George Harrison's Bungalow Kinfauns ( Surrey ) in May 1968 ; it was published on Anthology 3 in 1996 .

Paul McCartney sang and played the piano. According to George Harrison, John Lennon played the genre-typical jazzy guitar solo. Harrison played a six-string bass and Ringo Starr played the drums. The 1920s-style wind section was played by five saxophones (played by Harry Klein, among others ) and two clarinets and arranged by George Martin .

Cover versions

There are several cover versions of the piece, including one by Barbra Streisand and the Golden Gate Quartet . Perhaps the strangest version comes from Dom DeLuise from the American comedy film Sextets from 1978. The German comedian Otto Waalkes played the song in 1973 with Peter Horton in his first television show. The English a cappella group The King's Singers also interpreted the song on the 1986 recording The Beatles Connection .

literature

  • Ed Whitley: Postmodernism and the Beatles' White Album. Brigham Young University, 1997

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