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Discussion on: Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Earworm Edition 👂🐛)

 
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Michael Tharrington

Oh totally, I've read a good deal about George's struggles to get his tunes included! And when he became a solo artist, he quickly released a double album, I'm thinking either because he had some rejected songs banked and ready to go or was just so ready to let loose as a songwriter that the songs flowed from him... maybe both!

"Something" is one of my favorite Beatles songs. There are some wonderful cover versions of it too... apparently, George wrote it while thinking about Ray Charles (not Pattie Boyd, haha!) and he gave it to Joe Cocker (who actually put it out on an album before the Beatles did... I still count it as a cover, haha). Ray Charles ended up playing it too and did an amazing job with it!