[Harp-L] Beatles Harmonica

[Ken H in Ohio]

<<  Anyone know who is playing harmonica on Rocky Racoon? >>

According to Wickipedia, it was John Lennon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Raccoon

Ken H in OH

On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 9:30 PM Hellerman, Steven L. <
shellerman at xxxxx> wrote:

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> If there is a lead harmonica, it's John: Please Please Me, I Should Have
> Known Better, Nowhere Man.
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> I can't think of any other George Harrison tune besides Apple Scruff (seen
> pictures of him playing guitar and harp w/ a rack on that session) where he
> plays harmonica.
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> Anyone know who is playing harmonica on Rocky Racoon?
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> It's not like the Beatles stopped using harmonica with Love Me Do.  For
> the Benefit of Mr Kite has bass and I believe chord harmonica.  My
> favourite harmonica by a Beatle is George Harrison's Apple Scruff.
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> I had mentioned the bass and chord harmonicas played in Being for the
> Benefit of Mister Kite.  Reading Pat Missin he's skeptical that George
> and John played them on the song even though there is an image of them
> with the harmonicas.  Pat may well be right that George and John were
> not the players on the session.  beatlesbible.com says Ringo Starr
> (harmonica}, George Harrison (harmonica) Neal Aspinall (harmonica) and
> Mall Evans (bass harmonica)  That said you can hear them being played on
> the intro.  You can also pick them out on the twirling middle parts.
> Then there are The Analogues a Dutch group of fanatic musicians
> recreating the Beatles catalogue using all original instrumentation.
> They aren't harmonica fanatics but they are completists of a very high
> order.  Here's their version of the song, you can see the harmonicas in
> the video which helps to locate them in the actual music.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fXY1YNaJig
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> Magical Mystery Tour has harmonica on Fool on the Hill.  George Harrison
> and John Lennon harmonica.
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