“Hey Bulldog” by The Beatles

"Hey Bulldog" is the loudest dog in the pound on Yellow Submarine, the Beatles' 1969 soundtrack album, a snarling, piano-pounding rocker that sounds like the band just having a blast. United Artists wanted one more Beatles song for the animated film, so John Lennon started on a tune he first called "Hey Bullfrog", sketching it out on demos at his Kenwood home over the winter of 1967-68, and he and Paul McCartney finished it off in the studio. They cut it while the cameras were rolling for the "Lady Madonna" promo film.

Lennon plays guitar and piano and handles lead and spoken vocals, McCartney adds bass, tambourine and a lead vocal of his own, George Harrison lays in stinging electric guitar and Ringo Starr drums and chips in with some spoken bits. George Martin produced, Geoff Emerick recorded, and the key keeps shifting underneath it, never quite letting it settle.

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