Hey Bulldog

Hey Bulldog was first released on the soundtrack album of Yellow Submarine (1969). John Lennon wrote it. He sat at the piano one day and invented a riff, which then was molded into a song. It is one of very few Beatles songs built upon a piano riff. The song was recorded on February 11, 1968, during the Lady Madonna promo video filming. Paul started barking during recording. The lines initially written as "Hey, Bullfrog" were then changed to "Hey, Bulldog," and the song took its title from that. An early demo exists, featuring John alone on the piano. The song was titled She Can Talk to Me, and was 47 seconds long. In the opinion of Geoff Emerick, the long-time recording engineer for the Beatles, Hey Bulldog was the last recording when all four Beatles were at the top of their game and working together. The session after this one, in May of 1968 for The White Album would mark the beginning of the era of personal differences that led to the dissolution of the group two years later. The song was inserted into a portion of the Yellow Submarine animation that was included only in the European prints.