The Captain & The Kid - Personnel

Personnel

  • Elton John – vocals, piano
  • Davey Johnstone – guitars, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, backing vocals
  • Nigel Olsson – drums, backing vocals
  • Guy Babylon – keyboards, arrangements
  • Bob Birch – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • John Mahon – percussion, backing vocals
  • Arthur – "woof-bells"

Producer Matt Still noted during an interview that in "Just Like Noah's Ark", Elton's black and white spaniel dog Arthur "barked in the middle of, because John Mahon was playing a cowbell, and the cowbell freaked him out. So he ran over to John and started barking at him right in the middle of a take. It's funny, just randomly he happened to hit the beats and he barked in time. So I recorded it and we actually kept him in there."

The sampled "woof-bells" can be heard in place of the cowbell on the track.

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