George Harrison‘s “Got My Mind Set on You” is a cover of James Ray’s “I’ve Got My Mind Set on You.” While one song is based on the other, they are actually very different. For example, one is a ...

This week marks what would have been George Harrison’s 77th birthday. Back in February 1988, the Quiet Beatle marked the occasion with a bona fide hit record, “Got My Mind Set on You,” which was ...

After The Beatles split in 1970, George Harrison led a successful solo career. Here's the story behind his 1988 number one ...

George Harrison’s “Got My Mind Set on You” inspired a “Weird Al” Yankovic song about redundancy. Yankovic’s parody implies George wasn’t too creative ...

When George Harrison was working on his 11th album Cloud Nine, he decided to close it with a cover of a song he first heard nearly a quarter of a century early. Clark died nearly a year after ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Before the ...

In 1962, R&B singer James Ray, recorded and released the Rudy Clark-penned song “Got My Mind Set on You,” which followed the artist’s previous hit “If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody,” which had ...