500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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The Beatles, 'Something'
Writer: George Harrison
Producer: George Martin
Released: Oct. '69, Apple
16 weeks; No. 3
Harrison wrote “Something” near the end of the White Album sessions (one placeholder lyric: "Something in the way she moves/Attracts me like a cauliflower"). It was too late to squeeze it onto the disc, so he gave it to Joe Cocker. The Beatles cut a new version the next year with a string section, which would become a standard recorded by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Ray Charles.
Appears on: Abbey Road (Apple)
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