McCartney Times

In 1968 The Beatles were working hard on their ninth record, The White Album. It was released on November 22, 1968, and followed their hugely successful Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The triple-album included some incredibly iconic tracks, including Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter and Savoy Truffle.

While many of the album’s songs were written and recorded by the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership, Paul McCartney took on one all by himself when George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon were working on other tracks.

Starr and Harrison were putting the finishing touches to Savoy Truffle at the time on October 4, 1968, leaving McCartney with more recording time than he needed.

Before long, he had started composing a brand new track: Martha My Dear.

Martha My Dear was famously written about McCartney’s sheepdog, Martha.

With an entire recording booth at Trident Studios in London to himself, McCartney did what he did best and started working on the song that would become, essentially, a solo track.

Macca played every instrument on the track – except for the orchestral arrangements – as well as writing and singing the lyrics.

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Source: The Beatles: Paul McCartney left the band out on one track | Music | Entertainment – Verve times