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Hey, @Bongo! I carn’t believe we don’t have a COWBELL thread yet. Here we go! The use of a cowbell in Beatles and post-Beatles solo songs.
I’ll clang it in with Too Many People (cowbell played by Denny Seiwell).
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I saw somewhere that there are 11 Beatles songs with cowbell in them.
2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
4. Drive My Car
5. Taxman
7. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
8. With A Little Help From My Friends
9. I Need You
Apparently I’ve missed two. Can anyone remember the last two?
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Offline Of all those cowbell songs, the one that really benefits from it I’d say is “A Hard Day’s Night “.
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Offline Did Ringo play cowbell on all The Beatles songs featuring a cowbell?
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Offline No. Off the top of my head, I know John was the one who played it on With A Little Help From My Friends .
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Hey, @Bongo! I carn’t believe we don’t have a COWBELL thread yet. .I’ll clang it in with Too Many People (cowbell played by Denny Seiwell).
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Offline I never realized that Too Many People has a cowbell in it — a good reason (not that I need any) to listen to it for the 2,001st time…
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Offline My favourite cowbell has to be from I Call Your Name . How can you not love it?
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Offline Nobody Told Me (there’d be days like these) by John Lennon has some interesting cowbell work.
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My favourite cowbell has to be from I Call Your Name . How can you not love it?
I wonder who played the cowbell on that song.
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Joe’s page says Ringo did.
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Offline I am getting more tuned into cowbell sounds.
I just heard it in Paul’s Oo You.
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Would DEFINITELY listen to an all-cow percussion quartet!
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I saw somewhere that there are 11 Beatles songs with cowbell in them.2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
4. Drive My Car
5. Taxman
7. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
8. With A Little Help From My Friends
9. I Need You
Apparently I’ve missed two. Can anyone remember the last two?
I’m not sure if “Monkey” has cowbell or not…it may be in the mix, but the prominent clanging throughout is a handball or a firebell.
As to the other two tracks (or more), one is “Polythene Pam “, and it’s really well used, adding to that great mosaic of rhythmic variety boosting the guitar solo.
(Is this the only time they used the bovine bell for irregular beats? Are there a few random clunks in “..Too Much”, maybe during the fade?)
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Offline I am pretty sure I heard a couple of cowbell beats on Magical Mystery Tour (the song) too.. 🙂
