GEORGE HARRISON (BEATLES) RARE ORIG '76 WHITE PROMO-ONLY MONO 7" w/UNIQUE SLEEVE

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·       GEORGE HARRISON (with BILLY PRESTON, PIANO) – THIS SONG (mono) c/w THIS SONG (stereo) –  VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1976 DARK HORSE/CAPITOL RECORDS PROMOTIONAL-ONLY MONO/STEREO SAME-SIDED 45rpm, 7-inch SINGLE DRC-8294 WITH CUSTOM PICTURE SLEEVE UNIQUE TO THE PROMO-ONLY SINGLE, NEVER COMMERCIALLY RELEASED IN THIS FORM) (SAME TRACK ON BOTH SIDES; IN MONO ON ONE SIDE,  IN STEREO ON THE OTHER)

·       MONO VERSION OF THE SONG ON ONE SIDE – UNKNOWN TO EXIST ON ANY OTHER U.S. RELEASE

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       UNLIKE THE DECEPTIVELY SIMILAR-LOOKING STOCK, COMMERCIALLY RELEASED COPIES OF THE PICTURE SLEEVE, PROMO-ONLY PICTURE SLEEVE FOR THIS SINGLE COMES WITH THE ELABORATE STORY ABOUT THE BIRTH OF "THIS SONG" ON ONE SIDE OF THE SLEEVE , WHICH CAME AS A RESULT OF A MORE THAN A DECADE-LONG LITIGATION WITH THE GIRL GROUP THE CHIFFONS, WHO ALLEGED THAT GEORGE HARRISON PLAGIARIZED THEIR 1962 HIT SINGLE 'HE'S SO FINE' AND INCORPORATED THEIR MOTIF INTO HIS 1970 HIT SINGLE 'MY SWEET LORD'.   "THIS SONG" IS THE SONG ABOUT HARRISON'S LEGAL AND PERSONAL WOES DURING THE LENGTHY LITIGATION.

·       ORIGINAL DARK HORSE LABEL WITH THE 'HORSE' LOGO, WHITE PROMOTIONAL VERSION

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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"This Song" is the fourth track on George Harrison's 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3. It was released as the first single from the album and reached number 25 on the American pop charts, although like all three singles from the album, it failed to chart in the UK.

"This Song" was written after the week Harrison spent in a New York courtroom, unsuccessfully trying to convince a judge that his 1970 song "My Sweet Lord" did not intentionally infringe the Chiffons' 1963 hit "He's So Fine". According to Harrison, the plaintiff got ridiculously in-depth, breaking "My Sweet Lord" down into several melody lines, or "motifs", as they referred to them. Apparently, the plaintiff also drew up several charts with large musical notes on it to prove their point. Harrison said in his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, that after several days, he "started to believe that maybe they did own those notes".

After he lost the case, Harrison wrote "This Song", which released his frustration of the infringement case in the form of an uptempo, piano-driven boogie. It features Billy Preston on piano and organ, and Monty Python's Eric Idle calling out a falsetto "Could be 'Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch' – No, sounds more like 'Rescue Me'!" interjection right before the instrumental break. The company Bright Tunes owned the copyright to He's So Fine, which inspired the line, "This tune has nothing Bright about it". Writing for Goldmine magazine in January 2002, Dave Thompson described "This Song" as "a brilliantly constructed commentary on Harrison's more recent travails".

The song also has a humorous music video (shown on the 20 November 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Paul Simon, in which Harrison was a special musical guest), which features George in a courtroom along with a cast of many of his friends (dressed up as the jury, bailiff, defense experts, etc.). Drummer Jim Keltner appears as the judge and the Rolling Stones's Ronnie Wood (dressed as a "Pepperpot" character) mimics Idle's aforementioned falsetto words. The video was directed by Michael Collins for Rosebud Films.

 (WIKIPEDIA)

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·       CONDITION:

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the normal room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          Same-sided mono/stereo White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released stereo version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 100:1.

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       PICTURE SLEEVE

THE SLEEVE IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VG++.

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the sleeve:

-        Sleeve  has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams and across both sides, front and back, notably on the opening side (nothing significant)

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.   (nothing significant)

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE SLEEVE:

-        No split seams

-        No cut-out holes

-        No cut-out corners

-        No drill marks or indents

-        No dirt or dust spots

-        No stains

-        No writing

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No stamps

-        No bar codes

-        No peel-off marks

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