George Harrison's Beatles Songs

Beatles Songs Written & Sung By Georgemusic experimentation. Not me. I dig it.
Harrison"Old Brown Shoe" - B-Side to "Ballad of John
What follows are all of the originally released& Yoko" (1969)
Beatles songs written and sung by the "quietYou can hear this on the Past Masters Vol. 2
Beatle" George Harrison. They are listedalbum or the "Blue" Greatest Hits. I recommend
alphabetically. Note that I am not counting asthe Past Masters collections so you aren't getting
Beatles songs - those which were originallya lot of the songs twice. The Past Masters
released on his solo albums and then were(volumes 1 and 2) collect all of The Beatles songs
included in the Anthology series (such as "Allthat were singles/EPs only and are not available
Things Must Pass" - evenough I love theon the official UK Beatles albums.
Anthology 3 version.)"Only a Northern Song" - Yellow Submarine (1968)
"Blue Jay Way" - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)Of the 4 new songs on the Yellow Submarine
This was one of the Beatles most overtlysoundtrack, 2 of them were George's. This one
psychedelic songs. This was when they were(which is OK) and "It's All Too Much" (which is
really throwing the "kitchen sink" into theirawesome.)
recordings in the studio. While this is, admittedly,"Piggies" - The White Album (1968)
not one of The Beatles greatest tunes - I doWonderfully weird, just like most of the rest of
enjoy it. Mostly because of the studioThe White Album which is, in my opinion, The
experimentation I am referring to.Beatles greatest album.
"Don't Bother Me" - With The Beatles (1963)"Savoy Truffle" - The White Album (1968)
Harrison's very first song on a Beatles album. NotIt actually took me a long time to get into this
particularly memorable, but not bad.song, but now I think it's pretty great. It's a
"For You Blue" - Let It Be (1970)grower.
A nice little song, although not one of my"Something" - Abbey Road (1969)
favorites.Frank Sinatra's favorite "Lennon/McCartney" song.
"Here Comes The Sun" - Abbey Road (1969)Yes he really said that. To this day I don't know if
One of The Beatles all time classics. During thethat was a dig at Lennon/McCartney or if he
late '60s Harrison was at his peak as a songwriter.really didn't know they didn't write it.
The evidence is there in songs like this one and in"The Inner Light" - B-Side to "Lady Madonna"
his great solo debut, 1970's All Things Must Pass.(1968)
"I Me Mine" - Let It Be (1970)Can be heard on the Past Masters, Volume Two.
Not one of my favorites, although it has someAll instrumentation was by Indian musicians on
interesting aspects to it.Indian instruements. The instrumental track was
"I Need You" - Help! (1965)actually recorded in Bombay, India.
I've always liked this song. In fact I'm a big fan of"Taxman" - Revolver (1966)
all of Harrison's songs in this era (Help!, RubberPaul McCartney actually plays the lead guitar part
Soul, & Revolver)on this. McCartney's fast noisy guitar solos were
"I Want to Tell You" - Revolver (1966)inspired by Jimi Hendrix who was still mostly
Another Harrison song I've always liked. It's gotunknown at the time.
this cool off kilter sound that makes it quite"Think for Yourself" - Rubber Soul (1965)
unique.Always seemed to me to be a bit of a brother
"If I Needed Someone" - Rubber Soul (1965)to Lennon's "The Word" from the same album.
The Beatles doing The Byrds."While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The White
"It's All Too Much" - Yellow Submarine (1968)Album (1968)
The best reason to buy the Yellow SubmarineFeatures Eric Clapton on lead guitar. One of
soundtrack (or even better the much improvedHarrison's
"songtrack" released in 1999.) This is one of the"Within You Without You" - Sgt Pepper (1967)
great lesser known Beatles songs. TrulyThe Beatles most fully realized song in this genre.
psychedelic. The production is awesome. There'sTo me it's an essential part of the Sgt. Pepper
no song that sounds quite like this one.album. This was Harrison's only songwriting/lead
"Long, Long, Long" - The White Album (1968)singing contribution to that legendary album.
The perfect followup to "Helter Skelter." The"You Like Me Too Much" - Help! (1965)
Beatles go from impossibly loud to impossiblyReasonably catchy song - I like some of the vocal
quiet, just like that. A beautiful song.parts, but the lyrics are pretty bad. Not a Harrison
"Love You To" - Revolver (1966)highlight.
A lot of people are down on Harrison's Indian