Author: Bingo Ashworth

From his album Doggystyle. No wonder my ‘owner’ thinks music is going to the dogs.

We’ve already had George Thorogood and the Destroyers doing this; here’s the original from 1947.

Gypsy being a dog, Joe being a boyfriend.

Well make sure you know how to look after him. Three walks a day and lots of chicken.

Can’t believe I haven’t featured this before.

In which Miss Jones wisely chooses her dog over a man. Give that girl a chew treat!

Paul McCartney wrote this about his sheepdog, who he loved so much that after she died in 1981 he kept her entire litter of puppies.

Completing the Byrds’ doggy hat-trick. From 1971’s Farther Along.

Second Byrds song about dogs. Couldn’t they thought of a better name? From 1969’s The Ballad of Easy Rider.

First of three songs about dogs by the band. This is from 1969’s Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde.