In the middle of the video, Harrison (through the use of a stunt double) performs a backflip from his chair and follows it with a dance routine before jumping back to his seat. As the song progresses, furniture and knick-knacks (including a stuffed squirrel, sentient chainsaw, a statue, and mounted stag and warthog), begin to sing or dance along with the song. The second video, inspired by the then-recently released comedy horror film Evil Dead II, depicts Harrison playing a guitar while seated in a study. He succeeds, but the ballerina somehow drops into Harrison's performance, to the girl's amusement.
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While the girl watches Harrison and his band (including Jeff Lynne) in a movie viewer, the young man tries to win a toy ballerina for the girl. The first features Alexis Denisof trying to win the heart of a girl in an amusement arcade. Two music videos were released for the single, both directed by Gary Weis. In 2010, AOL radio listeners chose "Got My Mind Set on You" as one of the 10 Best George Harrison Songs, appearing at number 4 on the list. The song was included in the Harrison compilation albums Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 (1989) and Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison (2009).Ī live version was recorded for his Live in Japan (1992) album. It was kept off the number 1 spot by T'Pau's " China in Your Hand" becoming the 5th best selling single of 1987. In the UK, the single spent four weeks at number two. The 12-inch version of the single also adds an extended version of "Got My Mind Set on You". The single's B-side is "Lay His Head", a remixed version of the unreleased song from Harrison's originally intended Somewhere in England album. 1 single in the US the week immediately preceding the induction of the Beatles into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making Harrison one of the few inductees to have an active single on the US record charts at the time of induction. 1 hit singles as solo artists (discounting Paul McCartney's work with Wings). 1, it broke a three-way tie between Harrison, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr, all of whom had two No. 1 hit by Harrison, but, as of 2022, the last from any of the ex-Beatles in the US. Of Harrison's three number-one singles in the US, it was the only song not written or composed by Harrison himself. One was James Ray's 1962 album that contained the song "I've Got My Mind Set on You." In January 1987, Harrison began recording the song at his Friar Park home studio, with Jeff Lynne producing and playing bass and keyboards, Jim Keltner on drums, Jim Horn on sax, and Ray Cooper on percussion. While there, Harrison visited record shops and bought a variety of albums.
His sister lived in the countryside of Illinois. The first time Harrison heard the song was during a visit to his sister in the United States in 1963–five months before the Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. album chart.Friar Park Studios, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire The success of “Got My Mind Set On You” drove Cloud Nine, Harrison's first album release in five years, to Number Eight on the Billboard 200 and to sales of more than a million copies.Ĭloud Nine hit Number 10 on the U.K. Gary Wright turned around and said, 'Hey! Doesn't that remind you of that song 'Got My Mind Set On You?' I was so surprised that anybody else had ever heard that tune!” “ Jim Keltner got this drum pattern going one day that was a cross between swing and rock. Harrison lit on the idea to do the song during sessions for his Cloud Nine album. “Clark and Ray's version of it was coming out of the old jazz/swing era, and it has these horrible screechy women's voices singing those backup parts.” “I've updated it and changed the chords, because I preferred it the way I heard it in my head,” he explained at the time. Harrison's version of “Got My Mind Set On You” is different from the original, however. The Beatles had previously played James Ray's “If You Gotta Make A Fool of Somebody” in their live shows. Harrison bought the album that featured “Got My Mind Set On You” while on a 1963 visit to his sister, who was living in the U.S. The song was written by a former mailman named Rudy Clark and first recorded in 1962 by American singer James Ray. Got My Mind Set On You” was ex- Beatle George Harrison's first hit single in five years, peaking at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1988. Jeff Lynne–guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals Recorded: Early spring 1987 at F.P.S.H.O.T. Producers: Jeff Lynne and George Harrison
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