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 ...

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 ...

George Harrison‘s “Got My Mind Set on You” was a cover of a song by another artist. Someone told George it sounded different from all of his other songs. George agreed and subsequently explained why ...

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 ...

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 ...