According to Nick Mason's book Inside Out, this song was recorded with a dog named Seamus that David Gilmour was watching over. The dog would bark and howl every time he heard music, or if someone played the guitar.
Seamus belonged to Small Faces and Humble Pie lead singer Steve Marriott. The dog can also be heard barking in the background along with the vocalist's other pooches on the Small Faces single, "The Universal."
John Leckie was one of the Abbey Road staff engineers the day Gilmour recorded the canine blues of "Seamus." "Dave Gilmour comes in on a Saturday morning, and he had this dog with him," he laughed to Mojo magazine. "He goes, 'Hey listen to this.' He starts playing the harmonica and the dog's howling. 'Quick! Mic it up...' Seamus was done in minutes." "But I can't understand why they put that on the record, Leckie added. "No. I mean, what was the joke? I still haven't got the joke, really."
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