I can't confirm if it was intentional, but my favorite part of that song is after the line "but Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot", Ringo hits the snare in a way that mimics a gunshot.
Unjustly underrated song. Deceptively simple as many other great Beatles tunes. However at close hearing it is impossible not to notice the very, very careful song crafting. I loved it when it came out, and I still enjoy it now and then. Still fresh some fifty years later!
It's not deceptively simple, it is simple. However, some of the greatest tunes are the simplest ones. The Beatles were amazing songwriters and it's not how complicated a song is, it's all about writing a hook that sticks in the listeners head. The simpler the better.
I am glad it's simple. Because when I was a little boy and my mom would sit me in front if the "record player" all these Beatles songs were telling me a story and taking me somewhere even if I didn't understand the words. And now all these years later I enjoy it as much or even more. It takes me back to those days as a kid. Nothing else really does that. Making "simple" do that however is genius... or magic, or a bit of both.
I live in the black mountain hills of dakota. The black hills in south dakota. Kind of fun listening to this song and thinking about the story line taking place
Listened to Rocky Raccoon for the first time when I was driving up to the mountains. I had it on shuffle, and Mother Nature's Son was up next and it was perfect.
I just want to say that thank you dude for all the great content you put on Also I wanted to let you know that I actually really help me because I suffer from really bad depression and I love the Beatles Thank you for making these videos and talking about one of my favorite bands if not my favorite band and thank you very much for helping me get through some depressing times in my life
My favorite part of Paul's music is his constant desire to try new modes (and modals) when writing his songs. From Rocky Raccoon and Maxwell's Silver Hammer and on past Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul has never rested on one particular flavor, and never will.
Until you pointed out that "Gideon's Bible" was talking about some guy named Gideon had left his Bible behind, I thought it meant that it was the Gideon's Bible
The narrator is speaking as McCartney, i.e. a quote, so it's McCartney explaining that Rocky Raccoon mistakenly presumes the Gideon's Bible he finds actually belongs to a man named Gideon. It's a joke, a colorful line explaining that Rocky...ain't too bright.
@Robert Miller I've read about it recently. Two business man had to share the only available room in a hotel once. Being Christians, they bounded because of it, one of them though it was a nice idea to spread the word through bibles in hotels, so they invested some money of their own in buying bibles for hotels, and later on other business man helped. The bibles are gifted to the hotels.
I feel the County Western infusion with British Rock bands like The Rolling Stones, Beatles and even the Kinks etc. Came from Bob Dylan and what he was doing at the time, a Revival so to speak of American Country with a Nashville influence.
Apparently the accident happened on a holiday which was why the doctor who made the house call was drunk. Paul’s sister had to thread the needle for the doctor to stitch 😂.
what I find humorous is McCartney is a huge fan of Marvel comics and allegedly the character of Rocket Raccoon (from the Guardians of the Galaxy) was named after the main character from the song "Rocky Raccoon"...I can see the big gun part for sure.
Hello hollyhobs, I just wanted to say that your videos are absolutely amazing, and the first video I saw was the one about a day in the life by the Beatles, and it inspired me to write and direct a short film based on the song, I’m happy to say that it’s finally finished and up on my TH-cam channel, thank you for making amazing content and inspiring us to make works of art that strives to be in the light of the Beatles, you deserve a lot more than what people give you credit for
I think you missed a big part of the picture here. This is not a just a quirky "faux" country song. It's an homage to Dylan and more specifically John Wesley Harding. Anyone who is familiar with Dylan's work recognizes that that was what Paul was trying to emulate with this song. The clever word plays and humorous way of telling a kind of tragic story, not to forget the harmonica intervals. It all screams Dylan or "John Wesley Harding", which came out the year before Rocky Raccoon was published. It is also known that Paul and Bob had a lot of respect for each other and each other's work.
I understand they wrote something like 48 songs while in India. Not sure what went on over there but that is a heck of a lot of good material. In their relatively short time together it seems whatever they did was just in the cards for them to produce such epic music. And not just where they were but it being those exact 4 and of course the best producer ever. We are all so lucky everything went the way it did or we would have really been missing out and not even know it.
🤣 Gideons are a charity that give bibles to hotel rooms and every school child, they were big in uk. Great vid though, one of my favourite beatles songs. Oh and i thought his southern accent was spot on but then I am English too.
Rocky raccoon. I think Dan _(nancy's man). Might have been Daniel Boone he was early american explorer. He wore a beaver hat because he didn't like the style of racoon skin. It makes sense. But it's probably just a coincidence. Makes me wonder though.
I remember saving up for The White Album and took it with me everywhere I went even though there was no power where I went I'd take my little mono record player with its 2 1/2 speaker. We had planned a camping trip down on the Shoalhaven river and I almost didn't go because? NO POWER. all the time I was wishing I was home.
junaid1 interesting point. I personally love it. Perhaps Paul hasn’t learned to appreciate it himself yet, even though he wrote it lol It’s actually a very easy song to play
McCartney wasn't trying to emulate or reproduce an American accent. He was intentionally using his version of the accent ironically. He was being playful.
The narrator sounds like Van Dyke Parks. Wouldn't have minded hearing a bit of the song either (though I am quite familiar with it). I'll check out now.
In terms of your question about the British fascination with the American, western cowboy music, it's probably due to the Beatles. The Beatles' major inspiration were people such as Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins etc.. a lot George's lead stuff seems to be inspired by people like Chet Atkins. It seems as though The Beatles just took this western rock a little further, bringing it right back to the 19th century cowboy idea for this song. So Queen were likely inspired by The Beatles who were inspired by the above.
Auditory Cheesecake I’m not sure the Beatles created interest in country music by UK bands, but I do think they made it OK to show such appreciation. Even on the “Help!” album, Ringo does a proper country song “Act Naturally”, first done by Buck Owens. I also think they (&, to be fair, Gerry & the Pacemakers) did the same for songs from the musicals ( Till There Was You, from “The Music Man”, & You’ll Never Walk Alone, from “Carousel”) - their willingness to show their influences so overtly and in defiance of the received wisdom within pop music generally was yet more evidence of their versatility & difference from the musical “crowd” of the day.
Excuse me... That's South Dakota..the Black Hills to be exact...We are "South" Dakota but we do not have "Southern Accents" as Paul would suppose..Lovely song.🇺🇲🦝🇬🇧👍
Paul actually had a Country Hit with the Song "Sally G", So did Ringo in 1989 teaming up with Buck Owns for "Act Naturally" Best British Country Songs Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John (Great Album Start to Finish) Dear Doctor, Dead Flowers, Wild Horses, Sweet Virginia, Faraway Eyes - The Rolling Stones Bee Gees- Country Lanes, Come On Over (An actual Country Hit for Olivia Newton John), Islands in the Stream Tom Jones had several Number 1s on the Country Charts
Beatles had played with country a bit on earlier tracks too, like "I Don't Want to Spoil The Party" (very Everly Brothers)....and songs like "Baby's In Black"...even "I Cry Instead" has a fun country vibe to it.
I think the Beatles in this sort of pre American based international provincial period made fun of the Yankees, like many people did in Europe at the time.
Maybe in France. You can read many statements by The Beatles how infatuated they were with all things American, popular music coming first, of course. Same goes for the Stones, for that matter.
It's hardly a fantastic Beatles song - its an odd little bit of filler that works because it is on a double album chock full of odd little bits of filler and came out in a year of odd albums full off odd songs - but seriously, how many of the great 1968 albums would you see Rocky Raccoon making the final playlist of? Would it have made the cut or a single disc "White Album"? None and No. hardly fantastic.
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Uuhhh NO
I can't confirm if it was intentional, but my favorite part of that song is after the line "but Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot", Ringo hits the snare in a way that mimics a gunshot.
Had to be intentional.
Yeaaaa, most people don't really notice that part.
Listen to phish play it 10/31/94
@@brianterrill1071 phish's version made me crack up laughing when they did the gunshot
Yes, definitely intentional, take a listen to their 8th take
Unjustly underrated song. Deceptively simple as many other great Beatles tunes. However at close hearing it is impossible not to notice the very, very careful song crafting. I loved it when it came out, and I still enjoy it now and then. Still fresh some fifty years later!
Gold!
It's not deceptively simple, it is simple. However, some of the greatest tunes are the simplest ones. The Beatles were amazing songwriters and it's not how complicated a song is, it's all about writing a hook that sticks in the listeners head. The simpler the better.
I am glad it's simple. Because when I was a little boy and my mom would sit me in front if the "record player" all these Beatles songs were telling me a story and taking me somewhere even if I didn't understand the words. And now all these years later I enjoy it as much or even more. It takes me back to those days as a kid. Nothing else really does that. Making "simple" do that however is genius... or magic, or a bit of both.
The favorite part of that song for me is Paul singing da da da da da with the player piano.
I live in the black mountain hills of dakota. The black hills in south dakota. Kind of fun listening to this song and thinking about the story line taking place
Possibly my favourite song on the white album, Paul doing what he does best!
Yes!! You're back I am so excited. I personally love Rocky Raccoon I am so glad you made a video on it. Thank you for the analysis.
Listened to Rocky Raccoon for the first time when I was driving up to the mountains. I had it on shuffle, and Mother Nature's Son was up next and it was perfect.
Fun Fact: this is the last known Beatles song to have John Lennon play harmonica.
I just want to say that thank you dude for all the great content you put on
Also I wanted to let you know that I actually really help me because I suffer from really bad depression and I love the Beatles
Thank you for making these videos and talking about one of my favorite bands if not my favorite band and thank you very much for helping me get through some depressing times in my life
LOVE THIS SONG. Your videos are awsome! Good analysis that's hard to find other places.
My favorite part of Paul's music is his constant desire to try new modes (and modals) when writing his songs. From Rocky Raccoon and Maxwell's Silver Hammer and on past Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Paul has never rested on one particular flavor, and never will.
That's for sure!
The drunken doctor is a trope in classic Westerns as well.
One of my favorite beatles songs. I think its so clever.
This is one of my favourite beatle song's..
He also did Country Dreamer and Sally G country songs
one of my favourites
Is that an acoustic cover of Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp in the background?
Can you do bungalow bill next? Love these videos (:
Love that song
That song reminds me of driving to NY with my Dad
One of my favourite songs on the white album tbh
So it’s a American western style song written by an English man who was in India at the time. Crazy.
Until you pointed out that "Gideon's Bible" was talking about some guy named Gideon had left his Bible behind, I thought it meant that it was the Gideon's Bible
Oh, dear.
The narrator is speaking as McCartney, i.e. a quote, so it's McCartney explaining that Rocky Raccoon mistakenly presumes the Gideon's Bible he finds actually belongs to a man named Gideon. It's a joke, a colorful line explaining that Rocky...ain't too bright.
@Robert Miller I've read about it recently. Two business man had to share the only available room in a hotel once. Being Christians, they bounded because of it, one of them though it was a nice idea to spread the word through bibles in hotels, so they invested some money of their own in buying bibles for hotels, and later on other business man helped. The bibles are gifted to the hotels.
@@getsome4806 wow! That's interesting. Never thought of it like that
Robert Miller to help rocky’s revival of course
I feel the County Western infusion with British Rock bands like The Rolling Stones, Beatles and even the Kinks etc. Came from Bob Dylan and what he was doing at the time, a Revival so to speak of American Country with a Nashville influence.
Definitely a factor but Johnny Cash was really pushing the country vibes over to Paul.
Good to see you back!
Great to see you back man I love ya
Finally a new Beatles video
Apparently the accident happened on a holiday which was why the doctor who made the house call was drunk. Paul’s sister had to thread the needle for the doctor to stitch 😂.
what I find humorous is McCartney is a huge fan of Marvel comics and allegedly the character of Rocket Raccoon (from the Guardians of the Galaxy) was named after the main character from the song "Rocky Raccoon"...I can see the big gun part for sure.
Hello hollyhobs, I just wanted to say that your videos are absolutely amazing, and the first video I saw was the one about a day in the life by the Beatles, and it inspired me to write and direct a short film based on the song, I’m happy to say that it’s finally finished and up on my TH-cam channel, thank you for making amazing content and inspiring us to make works of art that strives to be in the light of the Beatles, you deserve a lot more than what people give you credit for
I think you missed a big part of the picture here. This is not a just a quirky "faux" country song. It's an homage to Dylan and more specifically John Wesley Harding. Anyone who is familiar with Dylan's work recognizes that that was what Paul was trying to emulate with this song. The clever word plays and humorous way of telling a kind of tragic story, not to forget the harmonica intervals. It all screams Dylan or "John Wesley Harding", which came out the year before Rocky Raccoon was published.
It is also known that Paul and Bob had a lot of respect for each other and each other's work.
Would like to hear what Paul was singing on this video.
I just finished watching awesome video!
I understand they wrote something like 48 songs while in India. Not sure what went on over there but that is a heck of a lot of good material. In their relatively short time together it seems whatever they did was just in the cards for them to produce such epic music. And not just where they were but it being those exact 4 and of course the best producer ever. We are all so lucky everything went the way it did or we would have really been missing out and not even know it.
Rocky is a fun Beatles song
Well, the 1st time i heard this song, i was 8 years old, and i loved it...and still do.
I'm so annoyed I missed this when it came out, don't know why it wasn't in my subbox. Great Video
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Poor Rocky :( It’s a nice and upbeat song but poor Rocky :(
One of the first songs I learned on guitar. Completely fun to play.
Paul must have chipped his tooth around the time the Beatles performed in Japan. You can see he has a broken front tooth in that film footage.
His tooth is chipped in the video clip for the song 'Rain' , filmed around April/May '66
Also paperback writer music video
Still one of my favorite beatles channels.
🤣 Gideons are a charity that give bibles to hotel rooms and every school child, they were big in uk.
Great vid though, one of my favourite beatles songs. Oh and i thought his southern accent was spot on but then I am English too.
Not Minnesota! Dakota.
also take 8 is groovy: come on son, gotta get hip gotta get up gotta get back to your gun, gotta go show that Danny
I didn't get a notification for this. Great video!👌🏾👌🏾
Rocky raccoon. I think Dan _(nancy's man). Might have been Daniel Boone he was early american explorer. He wore a beaver hat because he didn't like the style of racoon skin. It makes sense. But it's probably just a coincidence. Makes me wonder though.
Great stories. Thanks!
If this is not featured on the guardians of the galaxy vol3, I’ll be really mad..
I remember saving up for The White Album and took it with me everywhere I went even though there was no power where I went I'd take my little mono record player with its 2 1/2 speaker. We had planned a camping trip down on the Shoalhaven river and I almost didn't go because? NO POWER. all the time I was wishing I was home.
Music itself, is winging it bro
British guy makes American western song in India. Awesome
Paul apparently dislikes the song. It is a very easy song for him to play and yet in 50 years he has never played it in any concert...ever!
junaid1 interesting point. I personally love it. Perhaps Paul hasn’t learned to appreciate it himself yet, even though he wrote it lol
It’s actually a very easy song to play
I LOVE THIS SONG! Thank you HollyHobs!
I really hope this song plays in GotG Vol. 3
McCartney wasn't trying to emulate or reproduce an American accent. He was intentionally using his version of the accent ironically. He was being playful.
Nancy call her self Nil( fancy word for nothing). She was shy.
The narrator sounds like Van Dyke Parks. Wouldn't have minded hearing a bit of the song either (though I am quite familiar with it). I'll check out now.
Great and interesting video, thanks.
In terms of your question about the British fascination with the American, western cowboy music, it's probably due to the Beatles. The Beatles' major inspiration were people such as Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins etc.. a lot George's lead stuff seems to be inspired by people like Chet Atkins. It seems as though The Beatles just took this western rock a little further, bringing it right back to the 19th century cowboy idea for this song. So Queen were likely inspired by The Beatles who were inspired by the above.
Auditory Cheesecake I’m not sure the Beatles created interest in country music by UK bands, but I do think they made it OK to show such appreciation. Even on the “Help!” album, Ringo does a proper country song “Act Naturally”, first done by Buck Owens. I also think they (&, to be fair, Gerry & the Pacemakers) did the same for songs from the musicals ( Till There Was You, from “The Music Man”, & You’ll Never Walk Alone, from “Carousel”) - their willingness to show their influences so overtly and in defiance of the received wisdom within pop music generally was yet more evidence of their versatility & difference from the musical “crowd” of the day.
cool pick with the straw hat
Excuse me... That's South Dakota..the Black Hills to be exact...We are "South" Dakota but we do not have "Southern Accents" as Paul would suppose..Lovely song.🇺🇲🦝🇬🇧👍
Any reason why you don't actually play the song itself?
Copyright
You could have included some of the original song in the narration.
Is this the guy from the movie "Yesterday"
This video is 1 second longer then the song.
Yes! New Video!
Probably inspired by the 1903 film "The Great Train Robbery." No way to ever prove this of course...
Paul actually had a Country Hit with the Song "Sally G", So did Ringo in 1989 teaming up with Buck Owns for "Act Naturally"
Best British Country Songs
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John (Great Album Start to Finish)
Dear Doctor, Dead Flowers, Wild Horses, Sweet Virginia, Faraway Eyes - The Rolling Stones
Bee Gees- Country Lanes, Come On Over (An actual Country Hit for Olivia Newton John), Islands in the Stream
Tom Jones had several Number 1s on the Country Charts
Beatles had played with country a bit on earlier tracks too, like "I Don't Want to Spoil The Party" (very Everly Brothers)....and songs like "Baby's In Black"...even "I Cry Instead" has a fun country vibe to it.
Kewl stuff✌
Why did I get this recommendation like super late... come on TH-cam
Furries animate this like rocky is meant to be a proper raccoon
I sat this vid and *clicked*
Very cool 😎
Ironic that his bandmate John Lennon was shot dead-at the Dakota.
Paul? This was RINGOs song
I thought it was inspired by Marvel's rocket raccoon
You should record yourself reading a book
I don't like country music myself, but I can definitely give Rocky Racoon a pass
Where tha Song?
S m i n k i n g
The pic looks like Johnny Knoxville.
Is "Band on the Run" his response to Rocky?
What do you mean?
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Rocky Rocky Raccoon discovered Gideon's Bible he may have become a believer.? God Bless
What's ridiculous about it? Paul doesn't sing in a Liverpudlian accent. Are you some latter day Henry Higgins?
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I think the Beatles in this sort of pre American based international provincial period made fun of the Yankees, like many people did in Europe at the time.
Maybe in France. You can read many statements by The Beatles how infatuated they were with all things American, popular music coming first, of course. Same goes for the Stones, for that matter.
Gideons bible is a bible for travellers- left at many hotels etc - do some research man
one of Paul's blunders
hot take rocky racoon is better than blackbird
FIRST
Except for "Weeps," The White Album was the worst.
No, the first half of the White Album is fantastic and one of their 3 most popular.
That's not possible
It's hardly a fantastic Beatles song - its an odd little bit of filler that works because it is on a double album chock full of odd little bits of filler and came out in a year of odd albums full off odd songs - but seriously, how many of the great 1968 albums would you see Rocky Raccoon making the final playlist of? Would it have made the cut or a single disc "White Album"? None and No. hardly fantastic.