Woman Don't You Cry for Me

"Woman Don't You Cry For Me" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3.

"Woman Don't You Cry For Me"
1977 UK single face label
Song by George Harrison
from the album Thirty Three & 1/3
PublishedOops/Ganga
Released19 November 1976
GenreFunk rock
Length3:18
LabelDark Horse
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)George Harrison with Tom Scott
Thirty Three & 1/3 track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "Woman Don't You Cry for Me"
  2. "Dear One"
  3. "Beautiful Girl"
  4. "This Song"
  5. "See Yourself"
Side two
  1. "It's What You Value"
  2. "True Love"
  3. "Pure Smokey"
  4. "Crackerbox Palace"
  5. "Learning How to Love You"

Background

Harrison started writing the song in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1969.[1] Along with his friend, fellow guitarist Eric Clapton, Harrison was on a European tour at the time with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.[2] Delaney Bramlett handed Harrison a bottleneck slide guitar, which he immediately began to play around with.[1] One of the first results of Harrison's discovery of this instrument was "Woman Don't You Cry For Me".[1] Harrison later said that the title of the song might have been suggested by Bramlett.[1] Harrison also stated that the song almost went on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, but did not actually appear until 1976 and Thirty Three & 1/3.[1] In May 1977, the song appeared as the B-side to the third single off the album in the UK, "It's What You Value".[3]

"Woman Don't You Cry for Me" was another creation in a seam of bottleneck-inspired Harrison tunes from the period[4] − "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", "I Dig Love", "Māya Love" and "Hari's on Tour (Express)" being others. The song is in open E.[1]

Re-release

In November 2011, an early take of "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" was included on the deluxe edition CD for the British DVD release of the Martin Scorsese-directed documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World. This version is included on Early Takes: Volume 1.

Personnel

References
  1. Thirty Three & 1/3 (CD booklet). George Harrison. Dark Horse Records. 2004. p. 2.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Alan Clayson, George Harrison, Sanctuary (London, 2003; ISBN 1-86074-489-3), p. 280.
  3. Keith Badman, The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001, Omnibus Press (London, 2001; ISBN 0-7119-8307-0), p. 209.
  4. George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002), p. 234.


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