[5][6][7] At the time, John Lennon and Ringo Starr were working on other White Album songs, and George Harrison was on holiday in Greece.

"[3] "Wild Honey Pie" was sequenced between "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", on side one of "the White Album".

[7] In his book on the White Album, David Quantick describes "Wild Honey Pie" as a "genuinely inferior" piece that, after Lennon's avant-garde "Revolution 9", is among the tracks that are most commonly omitted from listeners' single-album versions of the Beatles' 1968 double LP.

'Wild Honey Pie,' which followed it, simply assaulted the ear; it sounded like someone had taken a hammer to a giant pocket watch until the springs inside collapsed in heavy, discordant agony."

[9] In his contemporary review of the album, Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone wrote a one-sentence summary of "Wild Honey Pie": "[The song] makes a nice tribute to psychedelic music and allied forms.