“Rocky Raccoon”

Two-fers for the next two weeks! Somehow, it became fashionable for critics to rip this as being one of the Beatles’ lesser efforts. But I beg to differ. Why not have some fun with a song? “The doctor came in, stinking of gin...” It’s a talking blues ditty from the White Album that Paul mostly wrote while in India, done in a sort of fake American Western accent. George Martin played the barrelhouse piano.