Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow) JeffN727 Yoko Ono

“Cold Turkey” Single by The Plastic Ono Band B-side “Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)” by Yoko Ono Released24 October 1969 Format7″ Recorded28 September 1969 Genre Hard rock Length5:01 Label Apple Records Writer(s) John Lennon Producer John Lennon, Yoko Ono “Cold Turkey” is a song written by John Lennon, and recorded by The Plastic Ono Band. Its first public performance was recorded and released on the Live Peace In Toronto 1969 album by The Plastic Ono Band which included Lennon (vocal, guitar), Eric Clapton (lead guitar), Klaus Voormann (bass), Alan White (drums) and additional vocalizing by Yoko Ono. Yoko introduced it as the newest song written by John; John added that the band had never played the song together as a group before. The song was released as a single in October 1969, and was John Lennon’s second solo single (“Give Peace a Chance” being the first). According to Peter Brown in his book The Love You Make, the song was written in a “creative outburst” following Lennon and Ono going “cold turkey” from their brief heroin addictions.[1] Brown also states that Lennon presented the song to Paul McCartney as a potential single by The Beatles, but was refused and released it as a Plastic Ono Band single with sole writing credits to him.[1] “Cold Turkey” was the first song John Lennon wrote for which he took sole credit; his previous compositions, including his first single release, “Give Peace a Chance”,[2] were attributed to the …
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