Seamus (song)
| "Seamus" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Pink Floyd | |
| from the album Meddle | |
| Released | 5 November 1971 |
| Format | LP record |
| Recorded | May & August 1971 |
| Studio | Morgan Studios, AIR Studios, London |
| Genre | Country blues, novelty song |
| Length | 2:15 |
| Label | Harvest |
| Songwriter(s) | |
| Producer(s) | Pink Floyd |
"Seamus" is the fifth song on Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle. The group performs it in the style of a country blues, with vocals, an acoustic slide guitar in an open D tuning, and piano. The song is named after the collie dog (belonging to Humble Pie leader Steve Marriott) who howls throughout the 2:15 piece. Group biographer Nicholas Schaffner calls the tune "dispensable"; David Gilmour added "I guess it wasn't really as funny to everyone else [as] it was to us".
Film director Adrian Maben captured Pink Floyd's only live performance of "Seamus" (in a greatly altered form, excluding lyrics, and retitled "Mademoiselle Nobs") in his film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. To recreate the song, David Gilmour played harmonica instead of singing and Roger Waters played one of Gilmour's guitars. A female Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound) named Nobs, which belonged to Madonna Bouglione (the daughter of circus director Joseph Bouglione), was brought to the studio to provide howling accompaniment as Seamus did in the album version. There is also an audible bass guitar in this recording, likely overdubbed during mixing of the film soundtrack at another studio. Some sources believe that "Seamus" was also performed on the Charlotte Park Center as an encore, 23 March 1973 during the Dark Side of the Moon Tour, but this is false.
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