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A home-made animation of “Only A Northern Song” a psychadelic song written by George Harrison and published on Yellow Submarine soundtrack

“Only A Northern Song” was recorded on 13 February, 1967, with overdubs added on 14 February and 20 April, during the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions. It was recorded using two 4-track tape machines, allowing eight tracks for the complex arrangement of the song, a method not common at the time in recording at Abbey Road. However, problems arose to getting both 4-track machines to begin playback at the exact same time, causing difficulties mixing in stereo.

Therefore only a “fake stereo”, or Duophonic mix was created from the mono mix to appear on the original stereo release of Yellow Submarine, and the song was one of only seven mono tracks released in the 2009 remastered Stereo Box Set (the only mono track released on the 2009 release of Yellow Submarine), instead of the unfavoured “fake stereo” mix. This complex arrangement involves an unconventional musical form and unusual instrumentation, including distorted trumpet played by Paul McCartney, Harrison’s reverbed organ, and a glockenspiel played by John Lennon.

Harrison himself described the song as “a joke relating to Liverpool, Holy City in the North of England. In addition the song was copyrighted to Northern Songs Ltd. which I didn’t own”.

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A funny animation for the classic George’s “Here Comes The Sun” from “Abbey Road”. Created by Nopsche: “I need to laugh, and when the sun is out I’ve got something I can laugh about…”

This is The UK’s Top Rock/Pop Comedy impressionst Stevie Riks imitating George Harrison singing “Old Brown Shoe”

Kaleidoscope video of “Love You To” from LP “Revolver”.
Created by Bob Whitaker.

“Love You To” was sung and written by George Harrison and featured North Indian classical instrumentation; tabla, a pair of hand-drums, sitar and a tambura providing a drone. “Love You To” was the first Beatles song that seriously attempted to incorporate classical Indian music and has even been hailed as the first pop song to emulate a non-western form in structure and instrumentation.

Harrison was learning the sitar from Ravi Shankar. As Harrison seldom had titles for his songs the working title was “Granny Smith.” Ringo Starr is the only other Beatle who plays on the song, contributing tambourine. Paul McCartney originally recorded background vocals for the song but these were left out of the final mix. There have been various accounts of uncredited personnel from the North London Asian Music Centre who contributed.

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“Sour Milk Sea” animation by McCartnee

Sour Milk Sea is a song written by George Harrison that surfaced during the White Album sessions. The song was recorded professionally by Jackie Lomax on The Beatles’ Apple Records label and released as a single in 1968.

In addition to Jackie Lomax, the single features George Harrison and Eric Clapton on guitars, Paul McCartney on bass, Ringo Starr on drums, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. The song is notable for being among the few non-Beatles songs to feature at least three members of the band.

This version is featured on all three versions of the 2009 Beatles bootleg album, “Now And Then.”

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Fantastic cover of George Harrison’s song “Here Comes the Song” sung by Sheryl Crow for the “Bee Movie” soundtrack.

SilverHamer teaching us how to play “If I Needed Someone”, a great song composed and performed by George Harrison

“In honor of the late great Mr. George Harrison, we covered this song. One of his finest”.

An amazing cover of “Something” by Joe Cocker

Directly after Woodstock, Cocker released his second album, Joe Cocker! (1969). Impressed by his cover of “With A Little Help From my Friends”, Paul McCartney and George Harrison allowed Cocker to use their songs “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” and “Something” for the album.

Complete version in Beatles 90’s reunion style, with the original George Harrison studio demo inside the backing track by Octavio Cavalli & Max Gonzalez.
These guys selected 15 songs (11 Lennon/McCartney never released or recorded compositions, plus 4 covers they used to play during early concerts or BBC sessions and never included in their official albums) and recorded them in a beatlesque 1964 style. Get it from our weblog: www.virtualbeatles.blogspot.com