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ROCKOLLECTIONS: REMEMBERING GEORGE HARRISON PT.2 END

Dec 4, 2009 Rockollections, WLSO NEWS
Posted by Mike Pell

We will conclude our remembrance of George Harrison for this year, and we will continue to hear some rare and odd selections by him. Plus my very very tenuous geographic connection to him and John Lennon.
Then it is on to George’s LAST recording- a song he wrote and recorded for a Jools Holland album- his own last album, Brainwashed, was to be released later.
The next song, Poor Little Girl, sounds somewhat similar (alliteration alert!), yet could easily have fit on a Beatles album- even the title sounds right!
It was only released on The Best Of Dark Horse.
Then what I consider the centerpiece of this show.
I found the original version of James Ray’s Got my Mind Set On You.
Broken into 2 parts for both sides of a 45 rpm single by Ray, I put them together- but if you listen closely you can hear where the break was.
A song George loved so much he remembered and recorded it 20 some-odd years later.
I’ll play them back to back!
From the Beatle days, a demo for Piggies in which he hadn’t gotten all the words together yet.
So don’t be surprised when he gets to the familiar “eat their bacon”, and instead it is “cut their pork chops”.
After that, I have an intimate, acoustic rendering of the not-too-well-known Run Of The Mill.
We will close things out with the title track instrumental music from George’s Wonderwall album under and above me.
It may surprise some that George was the FIRST of the Beatles to release a solo album!
Hope you enjoy this one, and stay tuned as John Lennon will get the same treatment.

Mike

Tags: Beatles, Brainwashed, Got My Mind Set On You, James Ray, John Lennon, Jools Holland, Piggies, Poor Little Girl, Run Of The Mill, The Best Of Dark Horse, Wonderwall