The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #6)
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The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #6) (this album) (1968)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #136) (compilation) (1988)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #127) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #127) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #127) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #116) (compilation) (1982)
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| 01/18/2026 10:28 | wizardalien | 9,050 | 65/100 | |
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Otra pieza más de sonoridad pueril, pero quizá más brillante en sus hechuras que la mucho más conocida Ob-la-di, ob-la-da
AAL2014 03/12/2023 18:32 | #294948
Undoubtedly a track that works better in the context of the White Album.
Kind of a tale of two cities in a sense for me as I think the verse sections are interestingly mysterious and how they are transitioned back into out of the chorus is brilliant. However, the choruses and the unimaginative transition into them bring this track down for me.
One of the songs on the White Album that has its roots in India. John wrote it to mock Richard "Rik" Cooke III, a young rich American who visited the Maharishi with his mother. When Rik and his mother set out on elephants to hunt tigers, John became very hostile towards them. The backing vocals in the chorus of the song were provided by Ringo's wife Maureen and John's girlfriend Yoko Ono, who also sang one line of the verse, making her the only person outside the Beatles who ever provided lead vocals for a Beatles song.
It's like Rocky Racoon, but not as good.
PinkMind 03/21/2018 14:35 | #211410
Great sond, but I am not a fan of the cheesy, folky chorus...and Yoko
Cool chorus with the always off pitch voice of Yoko Ono :D
Inspired by a tiger hunter and his mother who were staying at Rishikesh the same time as the Beatles in early 1968, this is one of the fab four's few protest numbers, albeit delivered in a slightly comic way. A kind of serious children's song, if there is such a thing.
GandalfORiley345 05/17/2014 20:30 | #112084
Sorry Yoko Ono, ahaha, very good song, and great guitar and bass rhythm
Jasonconfused 01/27/2013 04:46 | #63009
Haha Yoko Ono.. this is an excellent folk rock song though.
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