3 Songs George Harrison Wrote for Ronnie Spector Then Recorded on Two of His Solo

After working with co-producer Phil Spector on his third album, All Things Must Pass, George Harrison started working on the producer’s then-wife, the Ronettes’ Ronnie Spector‘s comeback album, which would be released on the Beatles‘ Apple Records. For her, Harrison contributed two songs he’d recorded during the All Things Must Pass Sessions.

Though Spector’s album was later abandoned due to her husband’s erratic behavior during recording, some of the songs they recorded were later revived by Harrison.

 George Harrison originally wrote “Try Some, Buy Some” during the All Things Must Pass sessions in 1970. By April 1971, another version was released as a single by Ronnie Spector. Co-produced by Phil Spector and Harrison, the new version features the former Beatle on guitar and peaked at No. 77.

“The song itself, I think, is really good,” Harrison told Record Mirror in 1972. “It’s so simple yet so complicated. It was the sort of thing I found myself playing over and over again and being amazed by the simplicity of the movement of the bass lines.”

Way back in time
Someone said, try some
I tried some
Now buy some – I bought some…
Oh oh oh
After a while
When I had tried them
Denied them
I opened my eyes and
I saw you

Not a thing did I have
Not a thing did I see
‘Till I called on your love
And your love came to me

Source: Tina Benitez-Eves/americansongwriter.com

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