'This Song' was the first single to be released from George's 1976
album Thirty Three & 1/3, and it peaked at No.25 in the US singles
charts.
It was written in humorous tongue-in-cheek response to a recent
court case where George had been sued over the similarity of his song
'My Sweet Lord' to The Chiffon's hit 'She's So Fine.'
After many days in
court listening to incredibly detailed excerpts of both songs George
wryly said that he "started to believe that maybe they did own those notes".
The song features Billy Preston on piano and organ, and Python Eric Idle calling out "Could be ‘Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch,” “No, sounds more like ‘Rescue Me’!”
This video was originally shown on the 20 November 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Paul Simon
in which George was a special musical guest. See if you can spot
various famous (Small) faces making cameo appearances including Ronnie Wood, drummer Jim Keltner and saxophonist Tom Scott.
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