Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week. By 1987, George Harrison was due for a comeback. After 1982′s commercial flop LP Gone Troppo, the only time we had heard from him was a tune he recorded for the Porky’s Revenge soundtrack in 1985 written by Bob Dylan called I Don’t Wanna Do It. George appeared from the woodwork in October of 1987 with a single to promote his upcoming Cloud Nine release due out in November. The song was a cover written by Rudy Clark called Got My Mind Set On You originally recorded in 1962 by an artist named James Ray. The James Ray version is quite good but George’s version souped it up quite a bit. In the UK, not only was a 45 released, but a twelve-inch single with an extended version that was a minute and a half longer, that we missed out on in the US. Because it wasn’t released in America and also because it is long out of print anywhere else, I thought a lot of people that haven’t heard it before may want to do just that – so here it is. The regular single version of the song went on to reach number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the US, and the Cloud Nine album which also featured Ringo Starr and Jeff Lynne, made the top ten in the US. This became the last solo album to be released by George in his lifetime.

George Harrison on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, 1987.

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