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Teardrops (George Harrison song)

January 01, 1970

"Teardrops" is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison from his ninth studio album Somewhere in England (1981). It was also issued as the second single off the album, in July 1981. As with the lead single, "All Those Years Ago", Harrison completed the song after Warner Bros. Records had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England in September 1980. In response to Warner's concerns, he wrote "Teardrops" as an attempt at a commercially oriented song.

"Teardrops"
UK picture sleeve
Single by George Harrison
from the album Somewhere in England
B-side"Save the World"
Released20 July 1981 (1981-07-20)
GenrePower pop
Length4:07 (album version)
3:20 (US single edit)
LabelDark Horse
Songwriter(s)George Harrison
Producer(s)
George Harrison singles chronology
"All Those Years Ago"
(1981) 		"Teardrops"
(1981) 		"Wake Up My Love"
(1982)
Somewhere in England track listing
10 tracks
Side one
  1. "Blood from a Clone"
  2. "Unconsciousness Rules"
  3. "Life Itself"
  4. "All Those Years Ago"
  5. "Baltimore Oriole"
Side two
  2. "Teardrops"
  3. "That Which I Have Lost"
  4. "Writing's on the Wall"
  5. "Hong Kong Blues"
  6. "Save the World"

Harrison recorded the song at his Friar Park studio in England with Ray Cooper as his co-producer. Despite some reviewers predicting it as a hit, the single failed to achieve commercial success. In the United States, it peaked at number 102 on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and number 88 on the Cash Box Top 100.

Background edit

George Harrison wrote "Teardrops" while on holiday in Hawaii in October 1980,[1] after Warner Bros. Records, the company that distributed his Dark Horse record label, had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England.[2][3] In need of a best-selling release to boost its revenue for the final quarter of 1980,[4] Warner's invoked its contractual right to demand that Harrison replace four of the songs.[5] The company deemed the album to be too laid-back,[6] not sufficiently contemporary-sounding,[5] and lacking commercial potential.[7][8][nb 1]

Harrison later said that Warner's had complained that the album lacked an obvious single, and others had told him that a hit song had to be about "love gained or lost, directed at 14- to 20-year-olds".[12][13] According to Derek Taylor, who presented Somewhere in England to the Warner's executives in late September,[14] and then had to relay their disapproval,[1] Harrison resolved to give the company the market-focused material they wanted.[5]

Composition and recording edit

 
Some commentators liken "Teardrops" to the work of Elton John – pictured performing live during his 1979 tour with Ray Cooper, who co-produced Harrison's song. (Photo: Eddie Mallin)

Whereas Harrison wrote "Blood from a Clone" as a riposte to Warner's intrusion,[15][16] "Teardrops" was his attempt to satisfy the executives' demand for a hit single.[17][18][nb 2] The song is in the key of D and set to a medium-fast rock beat.[21] Music journalist Jason Anderson describes it as a "mid-tempo shuffle".[22] In his lyrics, Harrison sings from the perspective of a grief-stricken lover.[23] Over the choruses, he states that, having cried "buckets full of teardrops", he appears to have "taken over from the rain".[24] Author Alan Clayson writes that the song has the same lachrymose theme as "Tears of the World", one of the submissions that Warner's had objected to, but without the socio-political context.[23]

Harrison recorded "Teardrops" at his Friar Park studio in Oxfordshire during the second period of sessions for the album, beginning in November 1980[1][25] and extending to mid January 1981.[26] Besides Harrison on guitars, the musicians were Herbie Flowers on bass, Ray Cooper on percussion, Dave Mattacks on drums and Mike Moran on keyboards.[18] Cooper also helped produce the song.[27][28] As on much of Somewhere in England, the track makes prominent use of synthesizer, a sound not commonly associated with Harrison's music.[29] Beatle biographers Chip Madinger and Mark Easter liken "Teardrops"' feel and melody to the work of Elton John,[30] as does author Ian Inglis, who highlights its resemblance to several of John's 1970s hits.[nb 3] Inglis partly attributes this to Cooper, who had worked extensively with John.[31] According to music journalist John Metzger, as on the three other new tracks – "Blood from a Clone", "All Those Years Ago" and "That Which I Have Lost" – the production had "the peppy, pop-oriented sheen" that Warner's deemed necessary.[32]

Release and reception edit

Somewhere in England was issued on 1 June 1981, with "Teardrops" sequenced as the first track on side two of the LP.[33] The song was then selected as the second single off the album, backed by "Save the World".[34] The release took place on 20 July in the United States[35] and 31 July in Britain.[36] The song's publishing was assigned to Harrison's company Ganga,[37] and subsequently to Umlaut Corporation.[38] For the US single, the track was shortened to 3:20 in length,[39] through the removal of a 41-second portion that begins at 2:31 on the unedited recording.[30]

In its issue dated 1 August, Record World magazine listed "Teardrops" first among its three "Hits of the Week" singles predictions. The reviewer wrote: "Mellifluous keyboards and a resounding title chorus that won't quit are an unbeatable combination on this follow-up to the top 5 'All Those Years Ago.' It's a natural for pop radio."[40] Billboard also identified the song as a top 30 chart contender, describing it as a "lilting midtempo tune" in a similar vein to recent hit songs by Cliff Richard. The reviewer added: "It's punchy and energetic, a far cry from [Harrison's] ponderous introspective ballads of the mid '70s."[39] In an otherwise highly unfavourable review of Somewhere in England, for Creem, Mitchell Cohen said that "Actually, 'Teardrops' is OK."[41] The Boston Globe critic James Simon likened it to Harrison's 1977 hit "Crackerbox Palace", as an example of "a simple pop ditty ... with his sincere voice cutting through a perky arrangement" and therefore one of the few interesting tracks on the album.[42]

The single failed to achieve commercial success.[30] It missed the UK top 75,[34] although Record Mirror included the song in the magazine's inaugural 25 "bubbling under" placings, on 15 August, compiled from the official BMRB/Music Week chart data.[43] On the rival chart compiled by the UK industry publication Record Business, the single placed at number 88.[44]

In the US, "Teardrops" was listed at number 102 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart[45] and peaked at number 88 on the Cash Box Top 100.[46] On Billboard's Rock Albums and Top Tracks chart, measuring radio airplay,[47] the song reached number 51.[48] In November 1981, "Teardrops" was issued on a new single in the US, as the B-side to "All Those Years Ago".[49][50]

Aftermath and retrospective assessments edit

Harrison said that 1980 was the year when he stopped enjoying being a recording artist and "couldn't relate" to contemporary pop music.[51] After completing his tenth studio album Gone Troppo (1982), he withdrew from music-making for over four years,[52] partly as a result of the compromises he was forced to make with Somewhere in England,[53] and partly because he had long found his role as a film producer with his company HandMade Films more rewarding.[54][55] With "Wake Up My Love", the lead single from Gone Troppo, Harrison returned to the pop formula of "Teardrops".[56][57] According to Alan Clayson, this was a gesture designed to satisfy Warner Bros. in advance, while Harrison otherwise had no interest in the album's commercial performance and, as with Somewhere in England, made no attempt to promote the release.[58]

Chip Madinger and Mark Easter say that "Teardrops" was "probably the best of the toe-tappers that George composed for the revised Somewhere in England", and they describe its commercial failure as "inexplicable".[30] Ian Inglis calls the song "a perfectly plausible piece of middle-of-the-road pop" that, through its origins as a purpose-written hit song to satisfy commercial considerations, "lacks Harrison's signature".[27] Harrison biographer Simon Leng similarly describes the track as a "perfectly pleasant ... well-produced power pop tune with a catchy hook and an attractive bridge", but he dismisses it as "hack work" and "the kind of forgettable pop fluff that Harrison had been trying to escape for years".[18] Clayson says that "Teardrops" has "an ebullient backing and an ear-grabbing melody" and deserved to be a bigger hit than "All Those Years Ago".[23] Writing in 2018 for Uncut's Ultimate Music Guide issue on Harrison, Jason Anderson complained that the song's "thin veneer of pep can't disguise its formulaic nature or its singer's indifference".[22]

In a 1992 interview coinciding with Harrison receiving the inaugural Billboard Century Award, Timothy White suggested "Teardrops" when asking him about his favourite, "overlooked" compositions. Harrison replied that it was "quite a nice song", adding: "That could be done by some black group, because you could make a good dance routine to [it]."[59]

Personnel edit

Per Simon Leng[60][page needed]

Chart performance edit

Chart Peak
position
US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[61] 102
US Billboard Rock Albums and Top Tracks[48] 51
US Cash Box Top 100[46] 88

Notes edit

  1. ^ Warner Bros. were also concerned that Harrison's album would suffer commercially when released beside John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy.[1][9] Distributed by the company on behalf of Geffen Records,[5] Double Fantasy was a highly anticipated release, as Lennon's first album in five years, and a work conceived for a contemporary pop audience.[10][11]
  2. ^ Around this time, Harrison also wrote "Wrack My Brain" for Ringo Starr, who had a top 40 hit with the song,[19] as a further attack on Warner's demands on its artists.[20]
  3. ^ Inglis cites John's "Crocodile Rock", "Philadelphia Freedom", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Part-Time Love" as examples.[27]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 459.
  2. ^ Clayson 2003, pp. 378, 381.
  3. ^ Ginell, Richard S. "George Harrison Somewhere in England". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  4. ^ Rodriguez 2010, pp. 387, 433.
  5. ^ a b c d Doggett 2011, p. 267.
  6. ^ Huntley 2006, p. 174.
  7. ^ Rodriguez 2010, p. 433.
  8. ^ Leng 2006, pp. 212–13.
  9. ^ Clayson 2003, pp. 377–78.
  10. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, pp. 130–31, 459.
  11. ^ Rodriguez 2010, pp. 191–93.
  12. ^ Huntley 2006, pp. 179–80.
  13. ^ Kordosh, J. (December 1987). "Fab! Gear! The George Harrison Interview (Part 1)". Creem. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
  14. ^ Badman 2001, p. 263.
  15. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone 2002, p. 179.
  16. ^ Kahn 2020, p. 322.
  17. ^ Inglis 2010, pp. 73, 76.
  18. ^ a b c Leng 2006, p. 223.
  19. ^ Rodriguez 2010, p. 33.
  20. ^ Inglis 2010, pp. 78–79.
  21. ^ "Teardrops". George Harrison Somewhere in England: Sheet Music for Piano, Vocal & Guitar. New York, NY: Warner Bros. Music. 1981.
  22. ^ a b Anderson, Jason (2018). "George Solo: Somewhere in England". Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: George Harrison. London: TI Media. p. 92.
  23. ^ a b c Clayson 2003, p. 378.
  24. ^ Harrison 2017, p. 424.
  25. ^ Badman 2001, pp. 263, 266.
  26. ^ Huntley 2006, p. 178.
  27. ^ a b c Inglis 2010, p. 76.
  28. ^ Badman 2001, p. 266.
  29. ^ Huntley 2006, pp. 182, 186.
  30. ^ a b c d Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 461.
  31. ^ Inglis 2010, pp. 76, 100.
  32. ^ Metzger, John (May 2004). "George Harrison The Dark Horse Years (Part Three: Somewhere in England)". The Music Box. Vol. 11, no. 5. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  33. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 636.
  34. ^ a b Harry 2003, p. 367.
  35. ^ Madinger & Easter 2000, p. 633.
  36. ^ Badman 2001, p. 286.
  37. ^ Somewhere in England (LP credits). George Harrison. Dark Horse Records. 1981.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  38. ^ Harrison 2017, p. 548.
  39. ^ a b Harrison, Ed (reviews ed.) (1 August 1981). "Billboard's Top Single Picks". Billboard. p. 67.
  40. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. 1 August 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  41. ^ Cohen, Mitchell (September 1981). "George Harrison: Somewhere In England". Creem. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
  42. ^ Simon, James (9 July 1981). "Records". Boston Globe. p. 73. Retrieved 5 November 2019 – via newspapers.com.
  43. ^ "Chartfile". Record Mirror. 15 August 1981. p. 35.
  44. ^ "Singles Top 100". Record Business. 10 August 1981. p. 7.
  45. ^ "Somewhere in England Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  46. ^ a b "Cash Box Top 200 Singles". Cash Box. 15 August 1981. p. 4.
  47. ^ Trust, Gary (23 March 2010). "Album, Rock Charts Celebrate Anniversaries". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  48. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2008). Rock Tracks 1981–2008. Hal Leonard. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-89820-174-1.
  49. ^ Harry 2003, pp. 87, 156.
  50. ^ Badman 2001, p. 290.
  51. ^ Harry 2003, p. 128.
  52. ^ The Editors of Rolling Stone 2002, pp. 142–43.
  53. ^ Huntley 2006, p. 188.
  54. ^ Clayson 2003, p. 387.
  55. ^ Leng 2006, pp. 229–30.
  56. ^ Huntley 2006, pp. 185–86.
  57. ^ DeRiso, Nick (12 November 2017). "35 Years Ago: George Harrison Looks Inward on 'Gone Troppo', Then Disappears". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  58. ^ Clayson 2003, pp. 391–92.
  59. ^ Kahn 2020, p. 511.
  60. ^ Leng 2006.
  61. ^ "Bubbling Under the Hot 100". Billboard. 15 August 1981. p. 30.

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External links edit

  • "Teardrops" at Discogs (list of releases)

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Teardrops is a song by the English rock musician George Harrison from his ninth studio album Somewhere in England 1981 It was also issued as the second single off the album in July 1981 As with the lead single All Those Years Ago Harrison completed the song after Warner Bros Records had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England in September 1980 In response to Warner s concerns he wrote Teardrops as an attempt at a commercially oriented song Teardrops UK picture sleeveSingle by George Harrisonfrom the album Somewhere in EnglandB side Save the World Released20 July 1981 1981 07 20 GenrePower popLength4 07 album version 3 20 US single edit LabelDark HorseSongwriter s George HarrisonProducer s George Harrison Ray CooperGeorge Harrison singles chronology All Those Years Ago 1981 Teardrops 1981 Wake Up My Love 1982 Somewhere in England track listing10 tracksSide one Blood from a Clone Unconsciousness Rules Life Itself All Those Years Ago Baltimore Oriole Side two Teardrops That Which I Have Lost Writing s on the Wall Hong Kong Blues Save the World Harrison recorded the song at his Friar Park studio in England with Ray Cooper as his co producer Despite some reviewers predicting it as a hit the single failed to achieve commercial success In the United States it peaked at number 102 on Billboard s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart and number 88 on the Cash Box Top 100 Contents 1 Background 2 Composition and recording 3 Release and reception 4 Aftermath and retrospective assessments 5 Personnel 6 Chart performance 7 Notes 8 References 9 Sources 10 External linksBackground editGeorge Harrison wrote Teardrops while on holiday in Hawaii in October 1980 1 after Warner Bros Records the company that distributed his Dark Horse record label had rejected his initial submission of Somewhere in England 2 3 In need of a best selling release to boost its revenue for the final quarter of 1980 4 Warner s invoked its contractual right to demand that Harrison replace four of the songs 5 The company deemed the album to be too laid back 6 not sufficiently contemporary sounding 5 and lacking commercial potential 7 8 nb 1 Harrison later said that Warner s had complained that the album lacked an obvious single and others had told him that a hit song had to be about love gained or lost directed at 14 to 20 year olds 12 13 According to Derek Taylor who presented Somewhere in England to the Warner s executives in late September 14 and then had to relay their disapproval 1 Harrison resolved to give the company the market focused material they wanted 5 Composition and recording edit nbsp Some commentators liken Teardrops to the work of Elton John pictured performing live during his 1979 tour with Ray Cooper who co produced Harrison s song Photo Eddie Mallin Whereas Harrison wrote Blood from a Clone as a riposte to Warner s intrusion 15 16 Teardrops was his attempt to satisfy the executives demand for a hit single 17 18 nb 2 The song is in the key of D and set to a medium fast rock beat 21 Music journalist Jason Anderson describes it as a mid tempo shuffle 22 In his lyrics Harrison sings from the perspective of a grief stricken lover 23 Over the choruses he states that having cried buckets full of teardrops he appears to have taken over from the rain 24 Author Alan Clayson writes that the song has the same lachrymose theme as Tears of the World one of the submissions that Warner s had objected to but without the socio political context 23 Harrison recorded Teardrops at his Friar Park studio in Oxfordshire during the second period of sessions for the album beginning in November 1980 1 25 and extending to mid January 1981 26 Besides Harrison on guitars the musicians were Herbie Flowers on bass Ray Cooper on percussion Dave Mattacks on drums and Mike Moran on keyboards 18 Cooper also helped produce the song 27 28 As on much of Somewhere in England the track makes prominent use of synthesizer a sound not commonly associated with Harrison s music 29 Beatle biographers Chip Madinger and Mark Easter liken Teardrops feel and melody to the work of Elton John 30 as does author Ian Inglis who highlights its resemblance to several of John s 1970s hits nb 3 Inglis partly attributes this to Cooper who had worked extensively with John 31 According to music journalist John Metzger as on the three other new tracks Blood from a Clone All Those Years Ago and That Which I Have Lost the production had the peppy pop oriented sheen that Warner s deemed necessary 32 Release and reception editSomewhere in England was issued on 1 June 1981 with Teardrops sequenced as the first track on side two of the LP 33 The song was then selected as the second single off the album backed by Save the World 34 The release took place on 20 July in the United States 35 and 31 July in Britain 36 The song s publishing was assigned to Harrison s company Ganga 37 and subsequently to Umlaut Corporation 38 For the US single the track was shortened to 3 20 in length 39 through the removal of a 41 second portion that begins at 2 31 on the unedited recording 30 In its issue dated 1 August Record World magazine listed Teardrops first among its three Hits of the Week singles predictions The reviewer wrote Mellifluous keyboards and a resounding title chorus that won t quit are an unbeatable combination on this follow up to the top 5 All Those Years Ago It s a natural for pop radio 40 Billboard also identified the song as a top 30 chart contender describing it as a lilting midtempo tune in a similar vein to recent hit songs by Cliff Richard The reviewer added It s punchy and energetic a far cry from Harrison s ponderous introspective ballads of the mid 70s 39 In an otherwise highly unfavourable review of Somewhere in England for Creem Mitchell Cohen said that Actually Teardrops is OK 41 The Boston Globe critic James Simon likened it to Harrison s 1977 hit Crackerbox Palace as an example of a simple pop ditty with his sincere voice cutting through a perky arrangement and therefore one of the few interesting tracks on the album 42 The single failed to achieve commercial success 30 It missed the UK top 75 34 although Record Mirror included the song in the magazine s inaugural 25 bubbling under placings on 15 August compiled from the official BMRB Music Week chart data 43 On the rival chart compiled by the UK industry publication Record Business the single placed at number 88 44 In the US Teardrops was listed at number 102 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart 45 and peaked at number 88 on the Cash Box Top 100 46 On Billboard s Rock Albums and Top Tracks chart measuring radio airplay 47 the song reached number 51 48 In November 1981 Teardrops was issued on a new single in the US as the B side to All Those Years Ago 49 50 Aftermath and retrospective assessments editHarrison said that 1980 was the year when he stopped enjoying being a recording artist and couldn t relate to contemporary pop music 51 After completing his tenth studio album Gone Troppo 1982 he withdrew from music making for over four years 52 partly as a result of the compromises he was forced to make with Somewhere in England 53 and partly because he had long found his role as a film producer with his company HandMade Films more rewarding 54 55 With Wake Up My Love the lead single from Gone Troppo Harrison returned to the pop formula of Teardrops 56 57 According to Alan Clayson this was a gesture designed to satisfy Warner Bros in advance while Harrison otherwise had no interest in the album s commercial performance and as with Somewhere in England made no attempt to promote the release 58 Chip Madinger and Mark Easter say that Teardrops was probably the best of the toe tappers that George composed for the revised Somewhere in England and they describe its commercial failure as inexplicable 30 Ian Inglis calls the song a perfectly plausible piece of middle of the road pop that through its origins as a purpose written hit song to satisfy commercial considerations lacks Harrison s signature 27 Harrison biographer Simon Leng similarly describes the track as a perfectly pleasant well produced power pop tune with a catchy hook and an attractive bridge but he dismisses it as hack work and the kind of forgettable pop fluff that Harrison had been trying to escape for years 18 Clayson says that Teardrops has an ebullient backing and an ear grabbing melody and deserved to be a bigger hit than All Those Years Ago 23 Writing in 2018 for Uncut s Ultimate Music Guide issue on Harrison Jason Anderson complained that the song s thin veneer of pep can t disguise its formulaic nature or its singer s indifference 22 In a 1992 interview coinciding with Harrison receiving the inaugural Billboard Century Award Timothy White suggested Teardrops when asking him about his favourite overlooked compositions Harrison replied that it was quite a nice song adding That could be done by some black group because you could make a good dance routine to it 59 Personnel editPer Simon Leng 60 page needed George Harrison vocal guitar Herbie Flowers bass Ray Cooper percussion Dave Mattacks drums Mike Moran keyboardsChart performance editChart Peakposition US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 61 102 US Billboard Rock Albums and Top Tracks 48 51 US Cash Box Top 100 46 88Notes edit Warner Bros were also concerned that Harrison s album would suffer commercially when released beside John Lennon and Yoko Ono s Double Fantasy 1 9 Distributed by the company on behalf of Geffen Records 5 Double Fantasy was a highly anticipated release as Lennon s first album in five years and a work conceived for a contemporary pop audience 10 11 Around this time Harrison also wrote Wrack My Brain for Ringo Starr who had a top 40 hit with the song 19 as a further attack on Warner s demands on its artists 20 Inglis cites John s Crocodile Rock Philadelphia Freedom Don t Go Breaking My Heart and Part Time Love as examples 27 References edit a b c d Madinger amp Easter 2000 p 459 Clayson 2003 pp 378 381 Ginell Richard S George Harrison Somewhere in England AllMusic Retrieved 3 January 2013 Rodriguez 2010 pp 387 433 a b c d Doggett 2011 p 267 Huntley 2006 p 174 Rodriguez 2010 p 433 Leng 2006 pp 212 13 Clayson 2003 pp 377 78 Madinger amp Easter 2000 pp 130 31 459 Rodriguez 2010 pp 191 93 Huntley 2006 pp 179 80 Kordosh J December 1987 Fab Gear The George Harrison Interview Part 1 Creem Available at Rock s Backpages subscription required Badman 2001 p 263 The Editors of Rolling Stone 2002 p 179 Kahn 2020 p 322 Inglis 2010 pp 73 76 a b c Leng 2006 p 223 Rodriguez 2010 p 33 Inglis 2010 pp 78 79 Teardrops George HarrisonSomewhere in England Sheet Music for Piano Vocal amp Guitar New York NY Warner Bros Music 1981 a b Anderson Jason 2018 George Solo Somewhere in England Uncut Ultimate Music Guide George Harrison London TI Media p 92 a b c Clayson 2003 p 378 Harrison 2017 p 424 Badman 2001 pp 263 266 Huntley 2006 p 178 a b c Inglis 2010 p 76 Badman 2001 p 266 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