Cool film,great soundtrack
Harrison's soundtrack is great, particularly the track,'skiing'
shareyeah, that's Clapton playing that revolving riff.
I was pissed because for a while I thought the opening song, the rock one with the lyrics, was a George song. It sounds like him on vocals but the band Remo Four, who toured with the Beatles early on apparently, are performing it instead.
George apparently doesn't touch an instrument on the soundtrack (which I have on CD, the songs aren't that consistent, though the sitar bits are better than others).
But then consider this in the imdb George entry: "...the tracks featured Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Peter Tork (each performing under pseudonyms) and former Beatles rivals The Remo Four, from Liverpool."
and then:
"Harrison's band for many of the soundtrack recordings was the Remo Four, who were contemporaries of the Beatles from Liverpool. Learning they were about to break up, Harrison hired them for one last project. Other musicians on the non-Indian tracks (recorded at De Lane Lea Studios) included John Barham, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Peter Tork (playing a five-string banjo Paul McCartney lent him), and Harrison himself, mostly under pseudonyms."
and then:
"Virtually all the soundtrack music was instrumental, with only occasional voices (and those slowed down, or in a foreign language). One lyrical song, "In The First Place", was recorded but not submitted; Harrison didn't think it would suit Massot. (Harrison was mistaken, as it turned out; when the record turned up as the movie was being restored, Massot happily added it to the soundtrack, and a single was belatedly issued.)"
It is George singing "In the First Place" they are just the band.
"Oh!" she shrieks, "I told you, from my best side darlings." - Patricia "Kitten" Braden
Wrong, sorry it's my (late) dad, Colin Manley. Trust me on this....
With all due respect, it IS Harrison singing, but he chose to receive no credit for the song, other than as the sole producer, as a way of having the profits go only to your father and the rest of the four.
Here is a link to the story -
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/wonderwall.htm
"Though the song was produced by him, clearly features his lead vocal, and is heavily influenced by his Blue Jay Way eastern/psychedelic style of composition and arrangement - he was not actually the song’s composer. It had been written by two of his session players for the Wonderwall soundtrack. The composers were Colin Manley and Tony Ashton"
"Harrison first of all wanted to be sure that his fellow Liverpudlian musician pals were properly credited for their composition - and that the song was not erroneously represented as having been his composition. (He acknowledged having been the sole producer of the recording - and agreed to accept the official credit as producer"
"Secondly, Harrison did not want to be officially credited as the artist or as a vocalist on the record"
That having been said, I was a big fan of the Remo Four. Sorry for your loss.
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